Opera and Orca Interactive partner to enhance solutions for the IPTV market

Opera Software, a global leader in Web browser technology, today announced its partnership with Orca Interactive, a world-leading developer of middleware and applications for IPTV. Orca Interactive will now support Opera 8.5 for Devices with its RiGHTv(â„¢) open middleware platform for delivering and managing interactive TV services. Operators and service providers choosing Orca’s RiGHTv solution can now include the full-featured and fast Opera Web browser and its advanced support for Web technologies on their devices.

Orca Interactive selected Opera for its high performance execution of advanced Web applications, such as AJAX, and for its leading standards compliance to ensure interoperability and superior browsing speed on devices. As a complement to RiGHTv’s Service Delivery Platform architecture, Orca Interactive seeks to partner with best-in-breed solutions such as Opera to accelerate delivery of advanced IPTV applications and services and minimize integration overhead, thereby reducing the costs for operators building and managing services on their IPTV network.

“The combination of Opera and Orca is excellent for operators looking to deliver the highest quality end user experiences and accelerate time to market,” says Scott Hedrick, Executive Vice President, Opera Software. “Opera’s high performance, TV optimized support for the latest Web standards enables powerful and flexible IPTV set-top box solutions such as Orca’s RiGHTv.”

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