Optibase, Ltd. announced that FPT communications, Vietnam's leading Internet Service Provider (ISP), has chosen the Optibase MGW 1100 Media Gateway to launch a new live television streaming service to its DSL subscribers.

Backspace Communications announced the release of Paradigm V1.4. Paradigm is the companys subscriber interface. This release opens the developing IPTV markets to small to mid-size Telcos and ISPs attempting to enter into the IPTV marketplace.

Orbit E-Commerce Inc., an IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) Development Company, announced that it has signed an agreement with Colebrooke Capital to assist in the strategic repositioning of the Company to include an evaluation of potential partnerships and or joint ventures that may be available to Orbit E-Commerce Inc.

The TV over Broadband services will be launched with residential and corporate customers in the National Capital Region of Delhi initially. Hotels and SOHO (small office home office) segments are also potential customers for the new offering.

In the first phase of the Euro 200 million project, known as netTV, more than fifty thousand subscribers in the National Capital Region of New Delhi will enjoy high quality video and TV channels, Internet and telephony services, all based on Internet protocol (IP) technology. Atlas plans a second phase later this year with rollout in 38 major cities in India, including Bombay, reaching millions of fixed phone subscribers.

HP has formed a close partnership with Orca Interactive to offer a complete triple play of broadband TV solutions to telecommunications carriers and service providers in Mainland China.

This announcement comes on the heels of Orca and HP's industry first, full scale IPTV benchmark for 500,000 subscribers as proof of the solution's high scalability for supporting large-scale commercial IPTV deployment.

Kasenna announced on March 9th that it has been awarded a core patent on an IPTV content distribution technique that allows large, decentralized IPTV networks to scale more cost-effectively. US Patent 6,859,840, titled "Prefix Caching for Media Objects," provides a general mechanism for distributing content from a content management system maintained at an origin server cluster to a set of edge nodes.

SupportSoft, Inc., a leading provider of Real-Time Service Management (RTSM(TM)) software, today announced SupportSoft ServiceVerify(TM) 2.0, a platform that enables digital service providers to automatically verify the successful installation and ongoing operation of triple play services, whether VoIP, video (IPTV) or broadband. ServiceVerify enables service providers to more accurately pinpoint and cost-effectively resolve problems associated with triple play service delivery within either the "last mile" of the provider's network or the customer premises.

Eagle Broadband, Inc., a provider of broadbrand, Internet and communications technology, teamed up with GlobeCast, a subsidiary of France Telecom to launch IPTVComplete TM, a turnkey IPTV services solution that provides a package of standard, premium and high-definition television programming with over 200 channels, together with video-on-demand, pay-per-view and digital music services with full multicast rights for distribution over data networks in America.

Autonomy Corporation (Nachrichten) a global leader in infrastructure software for the enterprise, today announced a suite of new products aimed at the Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) market, supporting the delivery of video on demand and bringing the power of Autonomy's award-winning enterprise technology to television, video and audio assets across the Internet. Autonomy's new IDOL IPTV Suite allows the automatic processing and retrieval of television, video and audio content, from any source including over-the- air broadcasts and free internet content, has already been successfully implemented by internet search specialist Blinkx in their internet TV service at http://www.blinkx.tv/.