ADB achieves DLNA and UPnP certification for ADB-5000 series set-top boxes

December 12, 2007 – Advanced Digital Broadcast (ADB) has announced that its latest home-networking enabled digital video recorder (DVR), the ADB-5000 series, has gained certification from the Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA), ensuring fast and simple networking of compatible devices in and throughout the home.

The ADB-5000 is powered by Osmosys HomeNet software, and has also received certification for Universal Plug and Play (UPnP), a standard specified by the DLNA to provide simple device networking in the home.

“We are delighted to be one of the first set-top box solution providers to achieve these important certifications and therefore able to offer standards based home networking,” said Karl Tempest-Mitchell, Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing for ADB.  “It is essential that ADB is in a position to offer solutions that provide operators with new methods of differentiating their services against their competition – the flexibility of standards-based, content sharing achieves this as we move forward to the advent of fully integrated home networks.  Consumers have already embraced the flexibility that new, soft media can offer and we believe that content sharing across a home network is the next step in this evolution.”

ADB intends to make DLNA-certified devices available to operators in the first quarter of next year.