Minerva Networks, Inc. is an American company based in Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley

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 that develops video compression technology and broadcast systems used for delivery of video services over broadband IP networks

Professional video over IP

Professional video over IP systems use some existing standard video codec to reduce the program material to a bitstream , and then to use an Internet Protocol network to carry that bitstream encapsulated in a stream of IP packets...

, interactive television

Interactive television

Interactive television describes a number of techniques that allow viewers to interact with television content as they view it.- Definitions :...

(iTV) services, and video conferencing.

It was founded in 1992. Minerva also makes data compression hardware used to transmit video over Internet protocol

Internet Protocol

The Internet Protocol is the principal communications protocol used for relaying datagrams across an internetwork using the Internet Protocol Suite...

 (IP) networks.

In 2006, Nortel Networks and Minerva announced that they would jointly develop an Application Interface (API) enabling the integration of real-time IPTV services with Minerva's iTVManager software, allowing it to interoperate with Nortel's IMS service delivery platform

Service Delivery Platform

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As of June 2008, Minerva Networks changed focus to IPTV

IPTV

Internet Protocol television is a system through which television services are delivered using the Internet protocol suite over a packet-switched network such as the Internet, instead of being delivered through traditional terrestrial, satellite signal, and cable television formats.IPTV services...

 middleware

Middleware

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 and applications software with over 220 telco deployments worldwide. In the same month, the company also announced ten significant new IPTV installations, including Mt. Horeb Telephone in Wisconsin

Wisconsin

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, Tullahoma Utilities in Tennessee

Tennessee

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, and GTA TeleGuam in Guam

Guam

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