Laurel Networks, Inc. will demonstrate its new "drop-in" IP Video Routing Solution ^TM) at its Supercomm booth, June 6-9, McCormick Place, Chicago. Designed for DSL access providers who want to increase average revenue per user (ARPU) by offering video services, Laurel's IP Video Routing Solution enables highly-reliable broadcast IPTV and VoD (Video on Demand) services alongside high-speed Internet and voice services. Note: Laurel recently announced its pending acquisition by ECI Telecom. Laurel will become the Data Networking Division of ECI Telecom.

Luminous Networks ^TM announced new features for its award-winning PacketWave packet ring access platforms. These features, collectively called TLS-TE (Transparent LAN Service -- Traffic Engineered), directly address critical requirements that new telco IPTV services demand of the access network infrastructure to enable scalable, economical and secure services deployment. Critical factors for successful and profitable rollout of IPTV are efficient multicast, hard Quality of Service (QoS), sophisticated network resource management, and transport security.

ECI Telecom, a global provider of advanced telecommunication solutions to leading carriers and service providers announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Laurel Networks, an innovative provider of Next-Generation IP/MPLS Multi-Service Edge Routers. Laurel's products and technology will add edge routing and IP service capabilities to ECI' s broadband, optical, and core routing portfolio, enabling ECI to enhance its systems functionally and to create complete multi-service IP solutions for service providers.

Pixelmetrix, the global expert in Preventive Monitoring for digital television networks, has just launched the Pixelmetrix DVStor-IP, a cost-effective hard disk-based system that allows non-stop simultaneous recording of multiple channels of transmitted IP video.

Westell Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of broadband access products, gateways and conferencing services, announced UltraLine ^TMII, a new family of advanced home networking routers for delivering IPTV and video to homes across the country.

Aeon Digital International (ADI) unveils its new DV-280 Digital Video Recorder today at the 2005 Broadband World Forum ushering in a new era of IPTV Without Borders ^TM.

Alcatel will demonstrate its end-to-end triple play solution at the Broadband World Forum (booth nr 1601) in Yokohama, Japan. Real triple play applications will be shown live, running on Alcatel network infrastructure, demonstrating not just all the components but also the expertise needed to integrate them in an end-to end solution. As time to market is key for telecom operators, Alcatel has pre-integrated the complete solution as demonstrated live at the Broadband World Forum in Japan.

CAC Media, a leader in Linux-based consumer electronics software and VIA Technologies, foremost fabless supplier of market-leading core logic chipsets, partnership will be debuting a series of small, richly featured and inexpensive digital entertainment platforms at this years VIA Technology Forum (VTF) and Computex tradeshows. This combination of low cost / high performance hardware and software shows Original Design Manufacturers (ODMs) and Original Equipment Manufacturers VIA Technology's latest reference designs running CAC's MCSS platform.

Occam Networks Inc., a supplier of innovative Ethernet- and IP-based loop carrier equipment to telecommunications companies worldwide, introduced the BLC 6312 Optical Line Termination (OLT) blade for the company's BLC 6000 Broadband Loop Carrier System and the ON 2240, an Optical Network Terminal (ONT) the industry's first products to deliver up to one gigabit per second of bandwidth to the subscriber premise. The new products enable Telcos to build highly cost-effective active Ethernet FTTP networks for delivering bandwidth-intensive services such as high-speed data, video on demand (VOD), IPTV and high definition television (HD) to residential and business subscribers. Occam will demonstrate both products at Supercomm 2005 (Booth 73033), June 6-9, in Chicago, Ill. The company will begin field trials of the products in the third quarter of 2005, with initial product shipment expected in the fourth quarter of 2005.

Hitachi, Ltd. and Hitachi Telecom (USA), Inc. announced that Hitachi will demonstrate a broad range of real-world FTTP (Fiber-to-the-Premises) applications at Supercomm 2005, June 6-9 in Chicago, Illinois.

Falcon Communications, provider of network infrastructures for the telecommunications industry, has entered into an agreement with Entone Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of personal video content delivery solutions, to become a technology partner and reseller for Entone's comprehensive line of IP Television (IPTV) content delivery solutions.

Broadstream Communications, Inc., the industry leader in outsourced IP video head-end and content distribution and management services, and Lifetime Entertainment Services announce a comprehensive multi-year agreement through which Lifetime, Lifetime Movie Network and Lifetime Real Women are available through Broadstream's IPTVConnect ^TM Service -- the industry's first and most comprehensive IP content distribution platform.

Oregan Networks Ltd., a provider of IP media delivery software building blocks, and Sigma Designs Inc., a leader of digital media processing for consumer devices, announced availability of a multimedia reference design, based on the EM8620L, the first chip in the Sigma Designs' family of high-resolution video streaming silicon for digital, home entertainment devices.

Net Insight announced that Broadcast Service Denmark (BSD) has selected it for the Danish Digital Terrestrial TV (DTT) network. The network will be built with Net Insight's Nimbra platform and will reach all households in Denmark. The equipment will be delivered during the second quarter of 2005.

BigBand Networks, Inc., provider of network platforms for video, voice and data services, announced its offerings of AVC (advanced video coding) solutions for IPTV services. Content of any format can be converted to bandwidth-efficient AVC standards for network delivery to IP devices. The company's advanced functionality for these protocols spans local advertising, high-security conditional access, and enhanced reliability through automated redundant sourcing. The BigBand BMR ® (Broadband Multimedia-Service Router) and other platforms implement AVC solutions as software upgrades.