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Giraffic and Vuser Bring Enhanced High Quality and HD Streaming Innovation to China's Over-the-Top MarketTEL AVIV, Israel --(Business Wire)-- Giraffic announced today that Vuser Electronics, a developer of software and hardware systems for IP-based set-top boxes (STBs) and high quality DLP Pico Projector (WiPao™), has selected and integrated Giraffic's Adaptive Video Accelerator™ (AVA) technology into its unique all-in-one "over-the-top" (OTT) TV system. 
Videos on WiPao are accelerated by Giraffic's Adaptive Video Acceleration™ (AVA) (Photo: Business Wire) Vuser's IP-based set-top box is an innovative Android (News - Alert) media-streaming device, which connects via Wi-Fi to the Internet, and offers a broad selection of content - from Hollywood blockbusters to hundreds of linear TV channels. Vuser's box plugs into any monitor via HDMI but is also equipped with a high quality DLP Pico Projector. This enables users to beam the content on to the wall, making it a portable, all-in-one high performance "Smart TV." By using Giraffic's AVA, Vuser is poised to deliver more consistent and higher viewing quality, offering true HD playback. "With Giraffic's Adaptive Video Accelerator, we can now deliver HD-quality content in our products that are well positioned to support China's Next Generation Broadband (NGB) initiative," said Gordon Lou, CEO of Vuser. "AVA is extremely easy to integrate and deploy, and is a disruptive solution that enables us to deliver the ultimate over-the-top TV user experience to the challenging Chinese broadband market." Giraffic's AVA technology is an easy-to-deploy client-side solution that maximizes TCP throughput by combining real-time analytics and playback shaping to virtually elimiate rebuffering, and ensure consistent quality-of-service for all HTTP based playback and media downloads. AVA runs on all popular operating systems and any class of streaming media device, including IP set-top boxes, smart TVs, smartphones and tablets. It accelerates connection performance by 300%, on average, delivering HD video and enabling 4K streaming, regardless of the content source or connection. "Our partnership with Vuser helps us reach the largest CATV and OTT market in the world," said Yoel Zanger, CEO is Giraffic. "Thanks to our AVA, Chinese users will receive seamless digital TV broadcasts directly in their homes like never before." The companies' collaboration was recognized by both Israeli and Chinese governments and was granted strategic governmental support under the Israel-Jiangsu Bi-National cooperation agreement. For further information about AVA, including side-by-side live demo and benchmarks, please visit http://www.giraffic.com. About Giraffic Giraffic is the inventor of Adaptive Video Acceleration™ (AVA) - a new client-side network throughput optimization technology that offers consumers High Definition video, without re-buffering pauses or streaming resolution reduction. With millions of users worldwide enjoying accelerated high-quality video via Giraffic AVA, and thousands of Giraffic-enabled devices or Apps being deployed daily, Giraffic's ground-breaking technology has been validated and benchmarked by some of the world leaders in Consumer Electronics and OTT TV, to provide dramatic Internet throughput increase. Giraffic provides its video acceleration software to OTT Video Apps Providers, as well as to Consumer Electronics Device Manufacturers such as Smart TVs, Set-Top-Boxes, Tablets and Smartphones. About Vuser Vuser has more than six years of experience in designing DLP and has introduced the first Android DLP Pico Projector/OTT STB in China, which is known as WiPao™. It has an outstanding performance for its compact form factor with brilliant brightness and contrast ratio that would provide users an immersive experience. With an integrated cloud service, users can readily share videos and pictures with their friends on WeChat. The videos on WiPao are accelerated by Giraffic' s Adaptive Video Acceleration™ (AVA) where the performance is three times faster.
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