RealPage's IPTV service, StarFire, is having an IPTV equipment garage sale to offload some headend, encoding, satellite, and set-top box gear. Below is the entire list of model numbers and quantity.

If you're interested in any of the equipment, please call Patti Pinkerton at 1-972-820-3900 to negotiate prices. Serious inquires only.

RealPage's IPTV service, StarFire, is having an IPTV equipment garage sale to offload some headend, encoding, satellite, and set-top box gear. Below is the entire list of model numbers and quantity.

If you're interested in any of the equipment, please call Patti Pinkerton at 1-972-820-3900 to negotiate prices. Serious inquires only.

Concurrent announces the latest advancement in time-shifted television. The Real Time Pitcher 2000, using resilient real-time content distribution, now ensures no loss of video captures due to network or component failures, enabling content ingest success rates up to 99.999%.

This latest enhancement to Concurrent’s time-shifted television products has already generated significant interest with cable operators, particularly Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks, both of which offer Start Over utilizing Concurrent equipment and software. Jeff Chen, senior vice president, Advanced Technology, Bright House Network stated, “When we launched Start Over in our Tampa division in January, we partnered with Concurrent specifically because of its superiority in time-shifted television technology. From the very beginning, we have always planned to build Start Over as a fully resilient service. Now with the launch of the RTP2000, we can further enhance our customer experience by ensuring no loss of Start Over content when any component fails.”

Cisco and NetCologne are joining forces to bring broadband speeds up to 200 Mbps with live streaming of high-definition Internet Protocol video to the ANGA Cable trade fair. The ultra-high-speed service is delivered over NetCologne's hybrid fiber coaxial network using Euro-DOCSIS 3.0 standard compliant technology from Cisco. Visitors to NetCologne's and Cisco's showcase will be able to experience the future in broadband entertainment services, with access to multiple live streams of high-definition video and lightning-fast downloading of multimedia content.

TANDBERG Television's HD and SD MPEG-2 encoders have been chosen by Journal Broadcast Group for an over-the-air ATSC broadcasting solution. The system has been sold by systems integrator Heartland Video Systems, Inc., a long standing TANDBERG Television business partner. TANDBERG Television’s MPEG-2 encoding systems offer ATSC broadcasters newly expanded solutions for the digital transition, including AFD signaling capabilities for downstream analog conversion. The first of Journal Broadcast Group's stations to use the encoders has selected a multi-pass statistical multiplexing solution, which increases the bandwidth efficiency when simultaneously broadcasting multiple streams of HD and SD.

Corinex announces that Bell Aliant selected its home networking technology to aid in the deployment of Aliant TV. Corinex’s AnyWire Connectivity product line solves the in-home wiring problem plaguing IPTV service providers by connecting the DSL modem to multiple set top boxes. It provides an easy set up that reduces the installation time of Aliant TV.

Aliant TV offers customers 240 channels of full digital content, all starting at $29 per month for the first 12 months. The service has been successfully deployed to Aliant TV customers with category-5 Ethernet cabling being installed for in-home connectivity. Now with Corinex’s AnyWire Connectivity products, adapters which utilize existing coaxial cabling (or electrical wiring) in the home are reducing the install times for in-home connectivity for Bell Aliant installers and customers.

TANDBERG Television is launching a new professional integrated receiver decoder range which will be on display in its booth #SU4210 at the NAB Show (Las Vegas, April 14-17, 2008). Optimized for specific high volume video distribution applications, the new RX8300 series will simplify content acquisition for cable, satellite and telco operators in the all-digital future of TV broadcasting.

Both the RX8310 Distribution Receiver and the RX8320 ATSC Broadcast Receiver include a mixture of standard features to meet the majority of needs in their target applications, with the flexibility to add advanced features should the operator require them. Each variant provides an RF demodulator combined with industry standard ASI transport stream input, for network delivery flexibility. Transport stream output is provided as a standard feature for content turnaround into digital cable, satellite and telco broadcast networks. The RX8300 range has the capability to provide single or multi-service descrambling, as well as multi-format MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 AVC 4:2:0 video decoding. Additionally, HD services are down-converted and output as SD video; providing a simple and cost-effective route to video distribution into analog broadcast systems or for service monitoring.

Entone's award-winning Hydra IP video gateway is deployed with Minerva's iTVManager middleware platform. This fully integrated solution offers service operators a more efficient and cost-effective IPTV solution that can be quickly and easily deployed to enable advanced IPTV services, such as MPEG-4 (H.264/AVC), digital video recorder, pay-per-view and video on demand.

Entone's Hydra IP video gateway enables service operators to distribute video signals throughout the home without the costs or installation complexities of putting a set-top box in every room or rewiring the home. Hydra dramatically improves the business case for IPTV services by reducing the CAPEX and OPEX associated with IP video deployment.

Entone's award-winning Hydra IP video gateway is being deployed by HickoryTech for its IPTV rollout in Minnesota. HickoryTech offers integrated communication products and services to business and residential customers over a regional fiber network. Their telecom sector, with facilities in Minnesota and Iowa, offers local voice, long distance, high-speed Internet, digital TV and IP networking services to residential and business customers. Their Enventis sector provides IP-based voice, data and network solutions to businesses across a five-state region.

TANDBERG Television provided a combination of compression products and managed services to NBC Universal for the launch of its new high definition channels, including Bravo HD, USA HD, Sci-Fi HD and CNBC HD, which premiered October 3rd. The deal enabled NBC Universal to expand its program offerings to cable, satellite and IPTV service providers throughout the United States.

TANDBERG Television supplied its DVB-S2 8PSK modulators with Prekor to distribute programming to service providers. The DVB-S2 modulation standard is designed to increase the throughput of a satellite transponder, or increase downlink margins for better reception. Prekor, which recently won the award for best satellite contribution/distribution/transmission solution at the Cable & Satellite International Product of the Year Awards during IBC 2007, optimizes the use of DVB-S2 8PSK modulation by pre-correcting for distortions that can greatly reduce the maximum transmitted bit rate.

Spirent announced the ability to conduct IP video quality testing on its Tech-X Plus. With this new feature, Spirent enables field technicians to verify IPTV subscribers’ Quality of Experience by measuring both the transport network and video content. This provides a more thorough service quality measurement and an accurate indication of the subscribers’ viewing experience.

Agilent Technologies announces a new software option for its handheld Ethernet performance tester, FrameScope Pro. The new option simplifies the deployment and troubleshooting of IPTV services and enables service quality tests at the residential gateway. Validating network integrity and transport quality of service are critical to ensuring a high quality of experience to new video-service subscribers. Technicians of telecom service providers who deploy Ethernet-based video need appropriate tools to analyze the network and service conditions at a residential gateway. Visual and aural inspections of the delivered content are less reliable methods to detect marginal network conditions; analysis of the transport stream and service transactions can reveal undesired network behavior before artifacts and drop-outs become visible and audible.

Calix announces the general availability of the 700G gigabit passive optical network optical network terminals. This expansion to the Calix 700-Series family of ITU G.984-compliant 2.5 Gbps GPON ONTs adds Gigabit Ethernet subscriber-side interfaces, enabling telcos to trump cable operators in terms of the bandwidth they can deliver to their customers. The 700G ONTs allow telcos to offer peak downstream rates of up to one thousand megabits per second, compared to 160 megabits per second for the as-yet-undeployed DOCSIS 3.0. Measured in terms of average or sustained bandwidth—a much more relevant comparison—telcos can deliver up to 80 megabits per second per subscriber in typical configurations versus a pedestrian 640 kilobits per second for DOCSIS 3.0-enabled cable operators using 250-home nodes. This represents an enormous 122-to-1 downstream bandwidth advantage for telcos with a similar differential in terms of increasingly important upstream bandwidth.

SeaChange is introducing another innovative new storage solution, this time addressing broadcasters’ requirements for massive amounts of video storage to fit within a dramatically low-profile footprint. The SeaChange Drawer of Drives supports up to 72 terabytes of storage (3,300+ hours of High Definition content at 50 Mb/s) in a remarkably compact 10-inch-high chassis, giving broadcasters a core storage system that can accommodate today’s demands, particularly as broadcasters shift to HD video workflows.

Tzero Technologies revealed today its new ZeroWire chipset (TZC7200), a WiMedia standards-based, ultra wideband (UWB) semiconductor solution optimized for real-time delivery of high-definition video, wirelessly and over wires. The chipset gives consumer electronics manufacturers the ability to create new classes of wireless video devices – HDTVs, digital video recorders, and more – that are easier and less expensive to install.

ZeroWire allows service providers to expand next-generation broadband and IPTV services. It delivers the performance and sustained throughput to support multiple high-definition video streams. Because it works over existing coax cabling, it significantly reduces the cost of installation.