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<p>Minerva (and Amino STB's) have been around the longest.<br>
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<p>We chose Minerva because they could support more than just Amino
STB's and at the time the support/ongoing costs were less than
Innovative Systems was, especially when factoring in the EPG guide
data costs from Tribune which seemed quite high for less than 1000
subs. <br>
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<p>Having started at Minerva 5.0 with Widgets and OTT, they have
finally merged into a single server approach.</p>
<p>Upside is the flexibility to customize the skins, plus you can
develop your own widgets. You can deploy high availability but the
basic install is with a cold spare.</p>
<p>Downside is bug issues, mostly memory leaks, some with Amino.
Feature development and trouble resolution are the weak points.
Have heard a few Minerva users report they like ADB as their STB.<br>
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<p>FYI, Entone and Amino have merged and expect the product lines to
also merge at some point.</p>
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<p>Innovative is a smaller shop and their first product had it's
issues but their in house R&D shined best once their 2nd gen
product was deployed. They work closely with Amino and take on
most of the testing burden, and seem to have the fewest bugs and
by far the most simple system to deploy as it all lives on a pair
of Linux based servers that offer redundancy.</p>
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<p>Most of the software used by middleware companies is Linux based
and generally works pretty well. However, we have seen bad/missing
EPG data cause issues, Verimatrix clients that had software bugs,
so nothing is bulletproof.</p>
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<p>If it were mine to do all over again, I would probably choose
Innovative.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 6/7/2016 11:16 AM, Justin Krejci
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#000000;font-size: 10pt;">Innovative Systems and Minerva are the
two main middleware vendors we've looked at with Amino and ADB
for STB boxes.<br>
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Currently we are looking at Innovative Systems for the solid
stability at the sacrifice of not being guinea pigs for new
features.<br>
<br>
Any other feature rich but more importantly stable vendors worth
investigating for a US IPTV deployment? Success stories welcome
too.<br>
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Thanks!<br>
Justin<br>
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