TANDBERG Television will provide IBC visitors with a clear picture of the technologies that improve the quality, choice and economics of digital TV. The company will highlight developments in its first-to-market, fully integrated video compression systems for SD and HD. IBC will also see the debut of TANDBERG Television 's newly integrated N2 On-Demand Solutions with systems for broadcast and dynamic content management and delivery, as well as broadband cable and IPTV VoD.

Teknovus GEPON Solves Challenging Problems in IPTV and Triple-Play Services

Teknovus, the leading provider of EPON chipsets for the deployment of IPTV in broadband access networks, announced another industry first with the completion of third-party IEEE 802.3ah standards compliance testing for two Teknovus Gigabit EPON (GEPON) chipsets that are used in the deployment of triple-play communications, which includes the simultaneous delivery of IPTV/video, data, and voice. According to Dr. Rex Naden, CEO for Teknovus, a series of standards compliance tests were conducted by the prestigious University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL). "Our intense focus on developing industry leading EPON technology has paid off," said Dr. Naden. "This testing complements the robust performance and capabilities of the Teknovus GEPON to enable superior roll-out of Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) networks with dramatic impact to the bottom line of telecom company operations."

OmniReach Fiber Distribution Terminals Designed to Support IP Video Services in FTTX Networks

ADC, a leading supplier of infrastructure solutions for fiber-to-the-x (FTTX) networks, announced that CC Communications of Fallon, Nev., has installed OmniReach(TM) Fiber Distribution Terminals (FDT) for its passive optical network (PON).

UTStarcom, Inc., a global leader in IP-based, end-to-end networking solutions and services, announced that the company provided its mVision end-to-end IPTV solution for a recently completed trial of triple play services in Brazil with Telemar, which will make IP-based television and multimedia services available to its customers utilizing the IP protocol. Today, Telemar offers 15 million fixed lines of telephony service, 8.1 million cellular lines and almost 700,000 Internet lines to the Brazilian market.

INTRACOM S.A. offers Full Service Content Distribution Network platform (fs|cdntm), a solution which enables the delivery and management of Video, Voice & Data services, thus allowing Telecom operators to offer "Triple-Play" services in a cost-efficient way, reducing customer churn and enhancing their ARPU.

Alcatel announced Hubei Telecom, a subsidiary of China Telecom, has selected the Alcatel IP service routing solution to expand and optimize its metropolitan area network for delivery of high-quality IP-based data services in Hubei Province, China. This contract was won through Alcatel Shanghai Bell, Alcatel's flagship Chinese company.

Ikanos Communications, a leading developer of Fiber Fast(TM) broadband solutions, announced that its CleverConnect 600 chipset has been selected by Netopia, a market leader in broadband equipment and service delivery software, to power Netopia's VDSL gateway products. Specifically, the Ikanos chipsets will power Netopia's MiAVo 3396PC-VGx Gateway and MiAVo 3397GP-VGx Gateway for IP-based VDSL2 networks, and MiAVo 3397 GA-VGx Gateway for ATM-based VDSL2 networks.

Kasenna, The IPTV Company, announced a substantial multi-year deal to supply Cavalier Telephone with its full PortalTV product suite, including the Kasenna LivingRoom ^TM middleware platform and client SDK, MediaBase ^TM video servers, and vFusion ^TM video network management software. In addition, Cavalier will license major studio content from Kasenna's ViewNow division and will use ViewNow's ViewTrak monitoring software to gauge customer viewing habits. (See "Cavalier Telephone Selects ViewNow Content for VOD Rollout," also released today.)

Alcatel and Amdocs, a leading provider of software and services to enable integrated customer management and the intentional customer experience, announced they have signed a letter of intent designed to address the requirements of communications service providers (CSPs) looking to deploy Internet Protocol or IP-based television (IPTV) and other next generation broadband IP services. Through this arrangement, the two companies will work to deliver a joint end-to-end solution that will allow CSPs to offer "triple play" bundles of voice, data and video services, making deployments faster and easier, and reducing operational costs.

GPON market leader Optical Solutions Inc. will support its newest customer, Pinnacle Communications, in deploying the state of Arkansas' first FTTH network in the city of Lavaca. The fast-growing river valley community - 15 miles east of Fort Smith - is being completely refurbished with an all-fiber infrastructure, enabling a range of state-of-the-art communication and entertainment services powered by Optical Solutions' FiberPath system.

Netopia, Inc., a market leader in broadband equipment and service delivery software, announced three new gateways designed for cost-effective delivery of IPTV, video, voice-over-IP (VoIP) and data across VDSL networks. Part of Netopia's MiAVo line of "triple play products," the new gateways will be available to carriers and service providers in late August and include Netopia's VGx quality-of-service (QoS) technology and TR-069 remote management functionality to ensure that voice, video, and data can coexist and be delivered reliably on the same network. VDSL (Very high bit rate Digital Subscriber Line) is a version of DSL with throughput up to 100 Mbps -- enough bandwidth to support multiple IPTV channels, high-speed data, and a nearly unlimited number of simultaneous phone calls -- all delivered over copper telephone lines.

Conexant Systems, Inc., a worldwide leader in semiconductor solutions for broadband communications, enterprise networks and the digital home, announced that Netopia, Inc., a market leader in broadband gateways and service delivery software, has selected the company's Accelity VDSL/VDSL2 customer premises equipment (CPE) chipset for its new MiAVo 3396PC-VGx VDSL gateway. Netopia's "media in, audio and video out" gateway is targeted at IP-based networks that use high-speed VDSL technology in the last mile to deliver triple-play voice, video and data broadband services. Subscribers can then use the MiAVo gateway to route content to various devices on their local area network (LAN). Accelity chipsets provide operators and manufacturers with the lowest total system cost available today. Conexant is the only semiconductor provider to deliver production quantities of VDSL chipsets that comply with the recently consented VDSL2 standard.

Calix today announced that its customers have deployed more than one million fiber and copper ports throughout North America. The company's rapidly growing footprint now includes over 170 forward-thinking incumbent local exchange carriers (ILECs) that use the Calix C7 platform to deliver advanced, IP-based information, communication, and entertainment services to their subscribers. In addition to compelling, content-rich residential services, the 5,500 Calix C7 platforms deployed in service provider networks also deliver native Gigabit Ethernet services to business customers.

Redback Networks Inc., a leading provider of next-generation broadband networking systems, today announced that China Netcom's Heilongjiang Communications Corporation is deploying a network of Redback SmartEdge(R) 800 Service Gateways to provide a new, scalable, converged platform for broadband access and advanced broadband services delivery in Harbin, the capital city of Heilongjiang province in North East China.

Optical Solutions, Inc. has secured a contract with Buckland Telephone Company of Buckland, Ohio. Buckland is replacing its copper infrastructure with an advanced gigabit passive optical network that will feature IPTV as part of a triple-play service offering. The rural carrier selected Optical Solutions' leading FiberPath 500 GPON system to support its transition to IP-based services.