Vancouver, Canada-based Even Technologies, along with its U.S. partner Infinite Video Corp. will deliver their jointly developed IPTV system to Freedom, Wyo.'s Silver Star Networks.

Silver Star will use its existing network facilities to deliver broadcast television to all of its customers while using only 750Kb/s. The company has been providing telecom services for nearly six decades and broadband video since 2004. It is moving from an MPEG codec scheme to PSI_V.

“They’ve been playing with video, but simply couldn’t make any money at it. By being able to deliver full-screen video at 750 kb/s, they have a business model that will work for them now,” said Nick Ringma, president and CEO of Even technologies.

The solutions from Even Technologies and Infinite Video uses a patented PSI_V standard and high-definition video compression engine.

Even Technologies CEO Nick Ringma, said the contract with Silver Star signifies the beginning of a series of commercial relationships between his nine-year-old company and the telecommunications industry.

Now telcos can immediately enter the IPTV market and capitalize on triple-play revenues and prevent losing subscribers to other service providers."

Silver Star President Allen Hoopes also is past chairman of the OPASTCO Broadband and Video Committee and is big on the PSI_V solution. He said in a statement that the revolutionary technology will change the economics of IPTV delivery forever and that impressive field trials convinced him to move from MPEG to PSI_V.

“The existing outside plant for most telcos has about 18,000-foot loop lengths. So the question was, ‘How do we design a technology that can deliver over that infrastructure at a capital cost that will get service providers a pay back in under three years?' That became the economics of the business,” Ringma said.

Even Technologies specializes in advanced digital image and video coding techniques. It has developed next-generation general-purpose still image (PSI_X) and video (PSI_V) coding engines as well as a number of commercial systems including a facial image coding system, a digital media coding studio and an IP-network television content dissemination system. Infinite Video was founded in 2003 to create solutions for IPTV delivery using existing facilities.

Silver Star Communications provides voice, mobile wireless services, high speed Internet, long-distance and video services to western Wyoming and eastern Idaho. It also is a competitive local exchange carrier in the Afton, Wyo., exchange competing directly with Qwest Communications. The telco's broadband network has approximately 745 miles of fiber-optic cable.

While this is Even’s first telecom customer, Ringma said his company has another eight or 10 in the works. “Silver Star is a wonderfully appropriately sized opportunity and a technologically forward-looking group of companies,” he said.

He added that the target market for Even will be the independent telcos initially, however the company is talking to carriers around the world.