Istanbul, 11 July 2011 – AirTies, the innovative wireless networking and set-top box vendor today announced that the company has been shortlisted in two of this year’s Cable & Satellite International’s awards – now in its ninth year as one of the most comprehensive and competitive technology awards, designed to reward technical and product marketing excellence in the cable, satellite, terrestrial broadcasting, IPTV, online/internet video and mobile TV sectors.

AirTies has been shortlisted for:

• Best Customer Premises Technology for the Air4420
• Best IPTV Technology for the Air7120

AirTies’ Air7120 is a wireless IP set-top-box, which offers High Definition video along with multichannel audio with a single button, self-service set-up offering the ability to show live TV channels, Video-On-Demand and Internet applications.  This IPTV STB offers a wireless option via an external dongle, which connects to a wireless IP Gateway to offer interference-free, audio and video transmission that streams video even through thick walls and around the whole house, eliminating the need to run Ethernet cables at home.

The Air4420 is a wireless video streaming access point and media server that connects an IP Gateway and any network-enabled TV/BluRay Player, games console, IPTV or Hybrid Sat/Cable/DTT STB wirelessly to the Internet and home network.  Fully self-provisioning at the push of a button, users can download 3D, HD and SD movies from the Internet and stream multiple channels simultaneously to PCs, STBs, Connected TVs or games consoles.  Adding a USB device, such as a portable hard drive, to the USB port enables the device to be shared on the network and for multimedia content to be streamed wirelessly around the home using the UPNP AV/DLNA media server.

Featured on Cable & Satellite International’s website, the winners will be exclusively announced at the CSI awards ceremony during this year’s IBC in Amsterdam, on Friday 9 September 2011.

Bülent Çelebi, Chairman and CEO at AirTies commented, “We are delighted to be shortlisted in two separate categories.  Our distinct technology allows IPTV or OTT service providers to offer seamless wireless video distribution at home without the user losing video quality and we look forward to a successful year.”