P2P-Next Project presents at IBC 2008 World's First video end-to-end streaming distribution of professional content to low-cost STB hardware

P2P-Next, a pan-European conglomerate of 21 industrial partners, media content providers and research institutions, is releasing its first version of NextShare, an Open Source P2P (Peer-to-Peer) video delivery platform today at IBC 2008. NextShareTV is a STB (Set-Top-Box) implementation of the NextShare content delivery platform running on a low-cost embedded hardware.

P2P-Next, a pan-European conglomerate of 21 industrial partners, media content providers and research institutions, has received a €19 million grant from the European Union. The grant will enable the conglomerate to carry out a research project aiming to identify the potential uses of peer-to-peer (P2P) technology** for Internet Television of the future. The partners,* including the BBC, Delft University of Technology, the European Broadcasting Union, Lancaster University, Markenfilm, Pioneer Digital Design Centre Limited and VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, intend to develop a Europe-wide “next-generation” internet television distribution system, based on P2P and social interaction.

AG Projects launches its SIP Presence system based on SIP SIMPLE standards.

AG Projects has launched a set of Open Source software components needed for the implementation of scalable Presence services based on SIP SIMPLE suite of protocols. The software is available at http://openxcap.org while the free SIP service with Presence features is provided at http://sip2sip.info