Nortel is showcasing IPTV and Video solutions that are blurring the boundaries across TV, Internet, consumer devices and mobile phones by integrating services like text messaging, VoIP, media sharing, and interactive applications into the entertainment experience. Nortel is demonstrating these capabilities at TelcoTV 2008 from November 11 to 13.

RGB Networks and TANDBERG Television are demonstrating their advanced integrated ad insertion solution for telecom carriers, which enables them to earn additional advertising revenue by inserting local ads into MPEG-4 AVC HD programming. The demonstration in the RGB booth shows RGB’s carrier-class Modular Video Processor performing frame-accurate ad splicing into MPEG-4 AVC streams encoded by the market-leading TANDBERG EN8090 Series MPEG-4 AVC HD encoder.

IneoQuest announces the development of VeriFrame, a new baseband content verification technology. Comprised of IneoQuest’s new iCMS (content management software) and Cricket FrameGrabber hardware probes, VeriFrame’s distributed video verification technology empowers telecom, cable and satellite operators, content providers, network equipment manufacturers and broadcasters to efficiently capture, monitor, audit and verify baseband content to validate the subscriber experience.

Codenomicon launches its DEFENSICS for IPTV solution. Based on the unique Codenomicon DEFENSICS Robustness and Security test platform and designed to work with all existing IMS & non-IMS IPTV platforms that are part of the Global MSF Interoperability 2008 event.

With double the installed base of any security vendor, Codenomicon DEFENSICS is the market leader providing cutting edge testing solutions for the Telecom and Data networking industry. Born from research conducted by the Secure Programming Group at the University of Oulu, the DEFENSICS for IPTV solution uncovers various deployment issues including Distributed Denial of Service, Zero day, Content source & Channel zapping attacks - all prior to deployment, thereby enabling service providers to ensure the successful market launch of their IPTV services.

TANDBERG Television's MPEG-4 AVC compression and IP multiplexing solutions are being used by Telenor Satellite Broadcasting to provide IP video contribution and direct-to-consumer IPTV services in Scandinavia. TANDBERG Television is providing encoding and multiplexing from six locations across northern Europe and Scandinavia, with all video distributed across an IP transport network for IPTV consumer services in Sweden, Norway and Denmark.

NetCracker announces its enhanced IPTV service delivery solution at IPTV World Forum North America. NetCracker’s IPTV solution, combined with its Services Ecosystem approach, enables CSPs to meet IPTV’s scalability, infrastructure diversity, and offer management challenges.

To support the diversity of services and devices required by IPTV and to realize the promise of high-quality, user-controlled entertainment, information, and communications, CSPs must address fundamental fulfillment, assurance, and content management issues. NetCracker’s enhanced IPTV solution gives CSPs proven techniques to manage those issues.

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.

Singapore’s RICO to show case an HD IPTV solution for vessels and cruise ships by Hong Kong based IP solutions provider BNS at the Asia Pacific Maritime trade show held this week at Singapore Expo.

The BNS showcase is based on the company’s Multi Dwelling Unit IPTV solution, which is a carrier-grade IPTV solution that can be deployed without stringent requirements and costs usually attached to Telco IPTV services.

RICO’s demonstration of BNS’s solution will showcase system features that are specifically tailored to the MDU/Hospitality market, including HD broadcast channels, VOD services, Personal Messaging, Interactive Room Service and TV games.

NXP Semiconductor's low-cost STB solution, STB222 has been selected by ChangHong to deliver AVS-compliant IP STB platform to manufacturers and Pay TV operators in Asia. ChangHong provides the AVS decoder technology to enable high-quality video over IP networks to deliver a better viewing experience for consumers through the enjoyment of services such as video-on-demand, recording and pausing live TV, and enhanced interactive services.

A flexible, advanced platform targeting IP, Digital TV and hybrid set-top boxes, the STB222 supports advanced video standards, including MPEG-4AVC, H264, VC-1 and MPEG-2. The optional HDMI support also enables standard-definition content to be up-scaled to 1080p. As OEMs and operators seek to cater to a variety of broadcast standards and global markets, the STB222’s dual channel support allows you to easily create hybrid IP STB solutions, combining the IP channel with terrestrial, satellite or cable DVB reception.

HP enhanced network platform helps telecom operators provide services to millions of customers. HP Service Delivery Platform 2.0 enables operators to offer their customers greater access to convergent, multimedia and “Web 2.0” services on their mobile devices. The platform also addresses the need for operators to increase revenue from convergent services while simultaneously reducing the cost and risk of creating such services.

HP SDP 2.0 incorporates software technologies for governance, management and quality that help service providers take full advantage of the platform’s service-oriented architecture. This approach creates a unified resource layer through which multiple services communicate with underlying wireless or wired networks, third-party applications and innovative combinations of web services known as Web 2.0 mash-ups.

Rim Semiconductor has entered into an agreement to evaluate the next generation Cupria IPSL solution in the service network of Monroe Telephone of Monroe, Oregon. Rim Semi’s Cupria IPSL solution allows service providers to effectively increase the bandwidth and extend existing copper plant beyond current technologies. Cupria adheres to the framework established by the IPSL SIG, is optimized for today’s Internet Protocol-based networks and is ideal for high bandwidth, high quality-driven applications such as Internet protocol television over existing copper networks.

Pixelmetrix announces the launch of its IP110 at TelcoTV Conference & Expo 2007 in Atlanta, Georgia. IP110 presents a comprehensive solution suite for detailed MPEG over IP analysis to its award-winning DVStation-210 and DVStation-Remote product family.

A unique feature of the IP110 solution is the support for End-point, Tap mode and IP forwarding. The IP forwarding allows the channeling of the selected transport stream to any remote location over the IP network for confidence monitoring. The Tap mode and End-point modes provide users the flexibility to place the monitoring station in between two locations, to sniff and pass through complete traffic to the destination or place it at the end of a point-to-point link. The Interface also supports a full implementation of the IGMPv3 protocol to Join/Leave multicast IP traffic along with source address specification.

IMAKE is pleased to announce it has partnered with systems integrators Electronic Data Systems and Tech Mahindra to deliver a highly scalable IPTV solution based on IMAKE's OpenVision product suite with Sun Microsystems' newly released Sun Streaming server. EDS and Tech Mahindra will bring advanced service management and delivery expertise to the partnership and enable accelerated time to market for deploying an IPTV solution.

IMAKE's solution is the most scalable and open providing EDS and Tech Mahindra the ability to immediately roll out next generation IPTV solutions around the world. IMAKE's solution suite for IPTV is being installed at Tech Mahindra's lab in Pune, India, and at EDS's lab in Plano, TX. IMAKE's open systems design, innovative workflows and Offer Management, targeted advertising, and the ability to easily scale to millions of customers are key factors supporting the solution.

Streaming21 announces its award-winning IP broadcasting solution, Media Relay Server 2.0, which provides a full suite of functionality for broadcasting reliable live TV channels and live events to televisions over public Internet with broadcast video quality in standard and high definitions. The new solution is an excellent alternative to satellite delivery of live video - it helps broadcasters to save huge cost on video transmission by using IP networks.

Unlike traditional IPTV or cable TV services which rely on expensive managed networks and only serve a limited geographic area, Streaming21 Media Relay Server enables reliable real-time video delivery to televisions through open networks and accepts subscribers from any ISP. Also, in contrast to popular live video channels over the Internet that user often see on the PC, Streaming21's solution can deliver high-quality, full-motion video playback to TV over the Internet. This unique technology not only ensures stable streaming delivery over unmanaged networks but also allows delivering live channels to televisions over non-multicast networks.