BigBand Networks announces the company’s completion of a number of key integrations that advance the delivery and availability of IP video, securely and to multiple devices. The company’s IP delivery products, including its recently announced vIP PASS, have been integrated with leading chipset, cable modem, and digital rights management technology providers. These integrations are designed to provide an end-to-end vIP PASS solution for delivery of IPTV that capitalizes on existing infrastructure to deliver video services to a broad range of customer devices and screens. BigBand works closely with diverse ecosystem and network partners, leveraging its experience in providing digital video networking and advertising solutions, to ease the transition from standard to high definition television.

Entering the IPTV arena just got easier for US Telcos. Conklin-Intracom and the National Telco Television Consortium have teamed up to simplify the IPTV content affiliate rights approval and implementation process. NTTC believes its relationship with Conklin-Intracom will accelerate a successful entry for Telcos and other operators looking to deploy IPTV solutions.

IneoQuest announces the availability of two solutions that now bring complete monitoring and troubleshooting capabilities for Microsoft Mediaroom, from development and lab trials to full scale market deployment. IneoQuest's new IQDialogue IPTV Mediaroom Installer Edition enables service providers to easily verify turn-up and investigate issues in the field. In addition, IneoQuest has also upgraded its IQDialogue IPTV Mediaroom Advanced Edition for greater analysis and troubleshooting for Mediaroom development. With these products, IneoQuest is helping to improve Mediaroom QoS across the entire delivery chain and enable its customers to meet subscriber demands.

JDSU has extended its offering of communications test and measurement solutions used in support of Microsoft's Mediaroom platform for IPTV services. JDSU test solutions to ensure a high quality of Mediaroom-based services now also include NetComplete Home Performance Monitoring, part of JDSU's industry-leading service assurance system.

Entone and Conklin-Intracom announce the interoperability of Entone’s Hydra IP Video Gateway and Amulet IPTV Receiver with Conklin-Intracom’s fs|cdn fully integrated IPTV solution. The product offering has been successfully deployed in multiple U.S. customer environments. One such customer is Delhi Telephone in Delhi, NY.

Digital Rapids announces support for Microsoft Silverlight 3 in Digital Rapids' comprehensive range of studio encoding, transcoding and live streaming systems. Silverlight 3 support further extends the proven abilities of Digital Rapids' award-winning solutions for delivering unparalleled, high-quality, live and on-demand online video experiences.

SeaChange announces the availability of a new universal session resource manager that will allow managed network operators to deliver the best possible video experience to consumers no matter the device they are using to watch or when. SeaChange’s uSRM will enable operators to guarantee quality of service across access, aggregation and edge networks for cable, IP and wireless delivery of video.

NXTV has begun deploying its IP over Coax solution to the market. The cost effective platform will provide hotels with cable only infrastructure the ability to offer IP entertainment services to their guests.

LG Powercom announces the commercial deployment of BigBand’s video IP solution, vIP PASS, to deliver cost effective IPTV services to personal computers and IP set-top boxes over DOCSIS 3.0 cable modems. LG Powercom is a telecommunications service provider and has the largest HFC Networks infrastructure in Korea with over 2.3 million subscribers, and offers IPTV and high-speed Internet data services via optical cable and HFC infrastructure. They have built more than 60,000 kilometers of HFC networks nationwide in Korea.

Cisco and Avail Media announce an agreement that will help enable service providers to easily, quickly and cost-effectively offer IPTV services to their subscribers using an innovative solution that combines the Cisco IP Next-Generation Network and IPTV platform with Avail Media’s IP-based video service.

Verimatrix announces that ZillionTV has deployed the Verimatrix Video Content Authority System for IPTV to secure its on-demand library of programs delivered over an IP connection and streamed directly to the television. Streaming content over an IP network presents a challenging environment to protect high-value entertainment. Software-based VCAS for IPTV provides the encryption required to protect the content from widespread piracy and enable a wide choice of consumer viewing options. Verimatrix is showcasing the advantages of VCAS for IPTV at NAB 2009, booth #C1754.

Envivio launched a new Mobile Streaming Trade-Up Program aimed at helping companies who pioneered mobile video streaming deliver more successful mobile TV services. From now through May 31, 2009, Envivio is offering discounts of up to 35 percent to mobile operators, content aggregators and others who replace their existing software video encoders, such as Helix Mobile Producer and pvAuthor, with the award-winning Envivio 4Caster C4 hardware encoding platform.

Optibase announces that a branch of the United States government deployed Optibase’s IPTV Solutions for strategic worldwide deployments. The solutions are based on Optibase MGW encoding and streaming platforms and the EZ TV video portal. MGW encoding and streaming platforms offer broadcast quality video in a wide range of products, which suit different deployment requirements. MGW 5100 and MGW 1100 are suitable for applications, which require multiple channels in one location. The MGW Micro is the smallest, professional grade, rugged H.264 encoder. Designed to operate under extreme temperatures, it is the ideal solution for portable and short-term mission critical deployments.

Broadcom and Adobe announce the integration of the Adobe Flash Platform into Broadcom's latest DTV and STB system-on-a-chip platforms. The collaboration paves the way for rich Flash based entertainment experiences on televisions that offer viewers new options for accessing web content on their TVs.

With Adobe Flash Lite 3 software supported in the Broadcom BCM3549, BCM3556, BCM7400 and BCM7405 SoC solutions, TV viewers will be able to view Flash based content and applications from popular online providers and entertainment sites. Broadcom DTV and STB platforms with integrated Adobe Flash support are expected to be available to manufacturers in the first half of 2009. Broadcom will demonstrate Adobe Flash support on its BCM7405 and BCM3549 solutions at this week's 2009 International Consumer Electronics Show.

BitBand introduces BitBand Vision Ti4, designed to provide maximum flexibility and performance to Service Providers deploying IPTV services. The new Vision Ti4, a part of BitBand’s Content Delivery Network solution, offers the advantages of rapid cost reductions in solid-state drives and the flexibility of using Commercial-Off-The-Shelf hardware. The Ti4 stands out against alternative solutions based on limited life-cycle proprietary hardware.