Amino Communications will showcase at TelcoTV 2012 in Las Vegas a new breakthrough version of its Live media gateway that delivers a powerful combination of pay-TV security and exciting Android-based OTT content delivery.

The Live media gateway is the first hybrid/OTT media gateway to be powered by the new Intel Atom CE 5300 media processor. This combines dual core processing power with a range of new enhanced transcoding and encoding capabilities with multi-screen distribution to deliver content seamlessly to TVs, smartphones and tablets around the home.

Now the product has been enhanced – with a secure Linux environment, based on Amino’s proven Aminet software stack, for the delivery of payTV video, and a controlled Android virtual machine to support a wide range of OTT applications and services. The device will utilise the unparalleled hardware virtualisation features available in the Intel CE5300 SoC to run multiple virtual machines at full speed.

Ericsson will provide a range of video processing solutions and support services to NBC Olympics, a division of the NBC Sports Group, during its coverage of the 2012 London Olympic Games from London, England July 27 – August 12, 2012. The announcement was made today by David Mazza, Senior Vice President, Engineering, NBC Olympics, and Staffan Pehrson, Vice President and Head of TV, Ericsson.

The Ericsson solution is helping to deliver NBC Olympics’ HD content across both contribution and distribution feeds to ensure the highest picture quality from the Olympic venues to millions of viewers in the United States. Ericsson is providing a range of products including MPEG-4 AVC encoders, professional receivers, multiplexers and satellite modulators as well as a team of support engineers in both London and New York. These engineers will assist in equipment/system set-up, maintenance and troubleshooting ensuring no great sporting moments are lost in transmission.

Harmonic announced that Ben Lomand Telephone Cooperative of McMinnville, Tenn., has selected the Harmonic ProStream 1000 with ACE high-density, real-time transcoder to power HD and SD video for its 200-channel HD and SD IPTV service.

The ProStream 1000 with ACE real-time transcoding solution provides Ben Lomand Telephone Cooperative with "any-to-any, any-to-many" support for HD and SD, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) video and audio transcoding of up to 20 HD or 60 SD channels, as well as ASI to IP multiplexing, in a compact and power-efficient one rack unit (1 RU) chassis. The platform's high density enables Ben Lomand to meet growing demand for digital TV services, while lowering capital and operating expenses through reduced power consumption and rack space.

Building IPTV specialist, Exterity, debuted its new AvediaStream Transcoder, which use High Definition (HD) video streams to create lower bitrate alternatives, enabling video content to be streamed to the widest possible range of screens and devices. The new additions to Exterity’s portfolio aid organizations across a wide variety of industries (broadcast, corporate, hospitality, stadiums or education) to distribute video content easily and efficiently, regardless of the viewing size or the bandwidth available for transmission.

Digital Rapids announces new dual-channel models in the StreamZ and StreamZHD families of studio encoding systems; StreamZHD Live ABR adaptive streaming encoder; and Flux family of video capture and pre-processing hardware. The new models combine Digital Rapids' long-standing ability to output multiple formats, resolutions and bit rates simultaneously in real time with the capability to capture and encode from two distinct sources concurrently.

Dual-channel, standard-definition StreamZ models feature SDI video input support with embedded audio. High-definition, dual-channel models of StreamZHD and StreamZHD Live ABR support HD-SDI, dual-link HD-SDI, 3G-SDI and standard-definition SDI video inputs. Real-time down-conversion of dual-link and 3G-SDI inputs leverages new facility infrastructures and allows easy repurposing of such sources without the workflow inconvenience and expense of external format converters.

Pixelmetrix is set to launch its Consolidator, its new generation Network Management System, StationView for Simple, Effective Monitoring and the Electronic Couch Potato Video Quality Index for video quality verification.

Consolidator provides centralized access and visibility of key network fault and performance information. Scalable to thousands of probes and millions of data points, it tracks all parameters in real time, through a combination of push notifications and information pull mechanisms, enabling faster fault resolution, thus improving Quality of Service.

Consolidator can also give an aggregated view for display on a video wall. This view combines data collected from different monitoring points within the network. Role-based views and access permissions allow creation of different views based on application – including drill-down screens for troubleshooting and executive dashboards.

The Spanish TV station "V Televisión" – Grupo Voz is using encoder and decoder products from Teracue IPTV Systems.

The products are being used for live TV contribution and for the connection of the different broadcast sites. With the ENC-200 encoders and DEC-200 decoders it is possible to send and to transmit video/audio signals in H.264 format over an IP connection.

For the contribution and live links a dedicated 3Mbps network connection is being used. Over this network V Televisión is transmitting SDI broadcast signals and video feeds.

Bridge Technologies is launching the VB330, the latest addition to its VideoBRIDGE series of digital media probes, at the IPTV World Forum in London. The VB330 offers the highest performance to form-factor ratio available in a monitoring and analysis probe. With three blades fitting in a single 1RU chassis for a total of six 10GB interfaces, the VB330 delivers a massive monitoring and analytics capability.

Designed for extremely high-density applications at points of maximum data throughput in today's 10GB core networks, the VB330's enormous capacity offers telcos, network operators, and digital media organizations a monitoring solution with the potential for scaling to match any level of traffic.

Harmonic announces that U.S. cable operator Midcontinent Communications has deployed Harmonic's Narrowcast Services Gateway 9000 universal edgeQAM for its new DOCSIS 3.0-based service. Harmonic's edgeQAM technology provides the flexibility, scalability, and output density to enable Midcontinent Communications to bring faster internet speeds -- up to 50 Mbps -- to its residential and business customers in North and South Dakota and Minnesota.

Harmonic's NSG 9000 comes with a Mass Configuration Tool that Midcontinent Communications used to facilitate and simplify the simultaneous configuration of multiple NSG 9000 systems. MCT also enables Midcontinent Communications to perform easily firmware upgrades and remote configuration as well as backup and restoration for multiple devices.

OKI participated in the ITU-T1 IPTV Interoperability Event2 held in Geneva, Switzerland, demonstrating the compatibility of the OKI Networks "OKI MediaServer" IP video delivery system with H.721, part of the IPTV H.700 series standards. Held for the first time, the IPTV Interoperability Event is intended to serve as a demonstration and testing event addressing interoperability among the ITU-T's recommended products. OKI demonstrated its "OKI MediaServer", the only IPTV-compatible video delivery server at the event, and demonstrated its compatibility with IPTV devices from other manufacturers. The Event is scheduled to take place in Singapore (September) and in India (December) which OKI plans to participate.

Occam Networks announces that its technology is being installed as part of a major refurbishment of a prestigious resort in Kuwait. Khiran Resort, located 120km from Kuwait City, will deploy Occam’s GPON solution for a phased renovation of the resort’s chalets. The resort will offer fibre to the premise capability and offer guests IP telephony, IPTV and RFTV (Radio Frequency TV) services.

Occam’s technology partner in Kuwait, Gulf Systems, will remove legacy hardware in phases and migrate to the Occam BLC 6000 in five stages of renovation works.

Pixelmetrix has entered into a strategic partnership with Rep Channel Management to build up and strengthen its sales network in North America.

Danny Wilson, President & CEO, Pixelmetrix said, "We are pleased and excited about this new partnership with Rep Channel Management. RCM brings a great depth of experience, contacts and customer relationships across North America, and we are sure they will expose our innovation, ease-of-use and deep feature set to a wide range of Cable and IPTV operators wanting to improve QoS/QoE and reduce OPEX.

Digital Rapids announces two new additions to the Flux family of video capture and pre-processing hardware. Complementing high definition models introduced earlier this year, the new Flux-3510 and Flux-3550 cards offer the power of the Flux hardware platform for top-quality encoding and streaming applications requiring only standard definition video input.

All Flux hardware cards feature Digital Rapids' highly acclaimed video pre-processing capabilities, enabling unparalleled visual quality and compression efficiency. This advanced, real-time pre-processing 'grooms' the input signal to be more 'compression-friendly', resulting in superior quality in any compression format while leaving the host system's CPU free to encode more simultaneous multi-format outputs. Additional hardware features common to SD and HD models of Flux include video adjustments and graphic overlay, enabling refinement of incoming video sources and the addition of branding such as logos. All Flux cards are based on the PCI Express computer bus standard.

Harmonic strengthens its edgeQAM leadership position with the introduction of the NSG HectoQAM (NSG 9000-40G), the world's first universal edgeQAM solution to deliver up to 648 QAMs per two-rack unit chassis. In addition to its pace-setting density, the groundbreaking NSG 9000-40G incorporates pioneering new technologies that significantly improve efficiency and ease of operation, including Harmonic's new EQAM Virtualization software technology and frequency agility for flexible placement of QAMs across the spectrum.

GAO Comm has announced the release of its rugged IPTV tester supporting a variety of video compression formats, stream transportation protocols and network protocols. It is an ideal solution for maintaining IPTV services. The versatile IPTV tester tests network performance metrics and verifies network configurations in xDSL networks. The tester provides many kinds of test patterns including simulation, interception, series connection and straight connection.