Zhone Technologies, Inc., the first company dedicated to building total-delivery solutions for voice, data and content services worldwide, and MetaSwitch, a leading provider of next generation switching solutions announced today that Newroads Telecom has selected and deployed Zhone's Multi-Access Line Concentrator and MetaSwitch's Class 5 Softswitch technology for its new service deployments.

Analog Devices, Inc., a global leader in high-performance semiconductors for signal processing applications, and Netopia, Inc., a market leader in broadband gateways and service delivery software, announced that Netopia has adopted ADI's Fusiv^TM network processor and new ADSL2+ bonding reference platform as a foundation for Netopia's MiAVo bonded ADSL2+ gateways.

Calix announced that three additional service providers will deploy fiber to the premises (FTTP) using the company's standards-based broadband passive optical network (BPON) optical line terminal (OLT) line cards for the Calix C7 multiservice access platform. All three companies had previously deployed the C7 platform to deliver DSL and other services to their customers. The telcos include Bixby Telephone of Bixby, Oklahoma; Cambridge Telephone of Cambridge, Idaho; and Randolph Telephone of Asheboro, North Carolina.

Eagle Broadband, a leading provider of broadband, Internet protocol (IP) and communications technology and services, and GlobeCast, a subsidiary of France Telecom, and the world's leading satellite services provider, announced today that they have signed a national licensing agreement to resell and make Minerva Network's iTVManager a key middleware option for customers of IPTVComplete ^TM, Eagle and GlobeCast's turnkey solution for broadband providers to deliver high-quality video and entertainment services to subscribers over broadband networks.

Alcatel and Shanghai Media Group (SMG), one of the most prestigious media groups in China, today announced the two companies have jointly set up an IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) lab in Shanghai to drive the commercialization of IPTV services in China. The initiative is the first of its kind in China, combining the strengths and expertise of a content provider and a telecom equipment supplier. The lab has become an integral part of Alcatel's Asia Pacific IPTV Solution Center managed by Alcatel Shanghai Bell, Alcatel's flagship company in China.

"What we have is the Internet TV equivalent of half-time at the Super Bowl and millions of traditional TV viewers suddenly running water and using the phone," says Robert Winters, co-founder of Shenick Network Systems.

"In our case, an Internet TV (IPTV) provider can have hundreds of thousands of customers using the system in various ways, 24 hours a day. The quality of experience the users enjoy has always been a major concern and it is even more so, now that telecom companies are offering so-called triple play services - high-speed Internet, video (IPTV) and voice applications, such as delay-sensitive VoIP. Zhone Technologies of Oakland, California, provides the industry with superb triple-play infrastructure, and I am happy to announce that they are now using Shenick's diversifEye as a prime quality testing tool."

Netopia, Inc., a market leader in broadband equipment and service delivery software, announced the Netopia MiAVo product line of high-performance gateways, designed for cost effective delivery of triple play services such as IPTV and voice-over-IP (VoIP) across fiber, VDSL2, and bonded ADSL2+ networks. Netopia's new family of MiAVo triple play customer premise equipment will deliver more bandwidth to the home or office, while providing the same TR-069 remote management functionality, VGx quality of service, security, and 3-D Reach® Wi-Fi coverage as Netopia's award-winning products do today.

NDS Group plc highlights:

-- Auna to use Synamedia ^TM solution - incorporating NDS VideoGuard® content protection

-- NDS strengthens relationship with Auna to provide leading content protection for its IP television offering and Video-on-Demand service.

-- Auna VOD Service to be secured using NDS VideoGuard encryption for both Broadband ADSL and Cable TV deployments

NDS Group plc, a leading provider of technology solutions for digital pay TV, announced that Auna, Spain's leading broadband and cable TV operator, has selected Synamedia, the NDS secure broadband TV & VOD architecture.

mPhase Technologies today announced that Beyaz Holding Company, owner of Turkey's leading television news and entertainment station, has aired a segment on its "The Economy Today" series, describing the benefits of a planned digital television service over the privatized national telephone network.

Beyaz Holding and mPhase have formed a joint venture, mPhase Teknoloji, which is awaiting a license to deliver the Internet television (IPTV) service targeted for delivery via Turk Telecom, the soon-to-be privatized national telecommunications company.

Eagle Broadband, Inc., a leading provider of broadband, Internet protocol (IP) and communications technology and services, and GlobeCast, a subsidiary of France Telecom and the world's leading satellite services provider, announced today that All Access Technologies has selected the companies' IPTVComplete ^TM video solution to deliver advanced video and entertainment services to residential subscribers in Florida, Texas and Nevada.

UTStarcom, Inc., a global leader in IP-based, end-to-end networking solutions and services, announced that Softbank BB, the leading provider of broadband services in Japan, has chosen UTStarcom's mVision ^TM end-to-end IPTV system to support its new "BBTV" IPTV service, which launched on July 1, 2005.

China Mobile, the country's largest wireless carrier, has selected Nortel to upgrade its optical backbone network in Zhejiang province to address accelerating subscriber growth and prepare for migration to third generation (3G) services. Zhejiang Mobile, a provincial affiliate of China Mobile, operates the province-wide network.

Symmetricom, Inc., a worldwide leader in precise time and frequency products and services, announced an upgraded TimeProvider edge clock system that increases network performance for services such as Internet Protocol TV (IPTV) and voice over IP (VoIP). Symmetricom's precise clock and timing distributor now features integrated Global Positioning System (GPS), making it a standalone primary reference source (PRS) and eliminating the need for small and remote central office customers to purchase or use separate PRS equipment. Also added to the TimeProvider is a rubidium option on the input-output-clock (IOC) card providing a quality level exceeding industry holdover requirements.

Innovative IPTV Solution Provides IOC with More Channels and Video Streams While Using Less Bandwidth

Occam Networks Inc., a supplier of innovative Ethernet- and IP-based loop carrier equipment to telecommunications companies worldwide, and Infogate Online Ltd., a leader in software solutions for IPTV, video on demand (VOD) and games on demand over broadband networks, announced that the two companies have deployed Windows Media Video 9 (Microsoft's implementation of VC-1, the proposed SMPTE standard) in the IPTV access network of Virginia-based Citizens Telephone Cooperative to provide the independent operating company (IOC) with a more efficient means to deliver additional TV channels and video streams with less bandwidth. This is the first deployment that combines Windows Media Video 9 for video on demand (VOD) and MPEG-2 on the same middleware platform in a live telco access network.

Wave7 Optics Inc., the world's leading supplier of IP video and point-to-multipoint Ethernet PON FTTP (fiber-to-the-premises) systems for residential and business services, announced that the Wabash Mutual Telephone of Celina, Ohio has selected Wave7's "Last Mile Link" (LML) fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) network equipment to deliver a high-quality triple play of IP-based voice, television and data services to residential and business customers in areas outside of their Celina "central exchange" area. WMT currently has 1300 access lines in its service region.