Exterity announces the enhancement of its industry leading AvediaStream c1110 IPTV headend chassis with the addition of a system monitoring blade. The AvediaStream c1110 is the IPTV headend of choice for organisations demanding the highest levels of reliability and redundancy. The high levels of robustness of the AvediaStream c1110 can now be further enhanced with the new monitoring blade. By enabling monitoring of the chassis fan speed, power supplies and blade health and temperature, it will provide early warning of any issues which may impact the reliable delivery of the IPTV services supported by the AvediaStream c1110.

Exterity and Cilutions announced a partnership that will make Cilution’s signage applications available on Exterity’s range of receivers. The partnership will enable Exterity customers to easily include comprehensive digital signage into their existing IPTV solutions. The integrated offering will be demonstrated for the first time at Infocomm in Las Vegas from 13th – 15th June on Exterity’s booth: N1755.

Cilution’s software offers users a feature rich, fully configurable digital signage solution that can be used for everything from meeting room signs and menu board displays in restaurants, to advertising and security messaging in airports and public venues. These features can now be easily integrated with Exterity’s range of receivers by simply plugging a flash drive loaded with the Cilutions software into the receiver’s USB port. No other equipment apart from the Exterity head-end solution is needed, meaning it can be deployed easily, takes up very little space and requires almost no maintenance.

Teracue IPTV Systems will be showcasing its new products for professional IPTV/DVB headend design, broadcast IP video-networking and for system integration at the ANGA Cable Show in CologneJune 12 - 14, on stand P39.

MC-SCREEN Screen Encoder: MC-SCREEN now supports combined installations with 3rd party Digital Signage software. The application is to install MC-SCREEN HD encoder directly on a Digital Signage player, and thereby turning the workstation/server into a cost-effective Digital Signage IPTV channel. Some system integrators are also using this setup to create info-, tourist-, weather- and advertisement-channels for DVB-C and DVB-T playout.

The Mercedes-Benz Arena, home of VfB Stuttgart, is currently turning into one of the most modern and imposing sports facilities in Germany, with space for 60,000 spectators. As part of its modernisation, VfB Stuttgart is now using a combination of IPTV and digital signage as a flexible information system.

Over 105 LCD flatscreens have been installed in the 21 business boxes, in the event boxes, in the Fan-Treff meeting point and in the large SoccerLounge. Initially, a pure IPTV television system was required to transmit the stadium’s internal live broadcast signals and also external television programmes in HD and SD on the displays. In addition, the screens needed to be able to show digital signage, i.e. advertising, information and sponsorship content, as the demands placed on the screen output vary greatly depending on the event.

Anevia announces a new WebTV feature for its Flamingo range of IPTV head-end products. The Anevia Flamingo 660 and the recently released high-density Flamingo XL are rack mountable IPTV head-end units. The Flamingo 660 and Flamingo XL capture live TV & radio content from satellite, cable, digital terrestrial and analog sources before streaming it over IP networks to set-top boxes, PCs, or other IP connected devices.

The new Flamingo WebTV feature allows hotels, hospitals, and other hospitality service providers to receive and re-transmit Web-based television content including special interest and foreign language television channels not available locally. The WebTV channels are streamed across the local network as any other channel and can be integrated into existing middleware and mosaic generation platforms.

Canal+ Overseas has begun a migration to Thomson Video technology for its digital headend serving Indian Ocean territories. The newly equipped platform, located in Boulogne, France, near Paris, will be rolled out by November 2011, transmitting 90 SD and HD channels, all encoded in MPEG-4 format.

Canal+ Overseas is replacing its existing infrastructure with a combination of Thomson Video Networks products, including ViBE EM2002 dual-channel SD encoders, ViBE EM3000 HD encoders, and NetProcessor 9030 multiplexers. In 2012, Canal+ will upgrade to Thomson's new ViBE EM4000 multichannel HD encoder.

ViXS Systems announces that Antik Technology has chosen the XCode 4125 processor for their Juice Ember professional encoder/transcoder. The cost effective Juice Ember offers the most optimal solution for HD video compression while having the highest image quality and lowest bit rate - features especially attractive in the fast booming OTT market.

Juice Ember professional H.264 transcoder for headend applications has been developed to specifically meet the challenges of an IPTV system. Juice Ember integrates the latest advancements in MPEG2 and H.264 video encoding and transcoding offered by the ViXS XCode 4125, which results in the most advanced feature set available today for an IPTV encoder/transcoder system. Juice Ember also features real-time encoding / transcoding of multiple HD streams simultaneously.

Harmonic announces that Post and Telecommunications of Kosovo has deployed Harmonic's IP-based digital video headend solutions for its new IPTV service. PTK selected an integrated Harmonic solution -- ProView integrated receiver/decoders, Electra 8000 dual-channel SD/HD encoders, Ion AVC encoders, and NMX Digital Service Manager -- based on performance, video quality, and scalability.

Harmonic's ProView 7000 IRDs are used to receive and decode digital content sources, and Harmonic's Electra 8000 encoders enable PTK to efficiently deliver up to four full-resolution, HD services within a single 1-RU chassis. The Electra 8000 also provides advanced features such as simultaneous secondary output, up/down-conversion, and automatic audio level adjustment. The Ion AVC solution provides up to four encoders in a single chassis, providing PTK with an effective solution for expanding digital video services while minimizing capital and operating expenses. The NMX Digital Service Manager offers PTK an easy-to-use yet powerful solution for network configuration and management.

Pixelmetrix displays its IP Headend and Viewer Experience Monitoring Solutions at the SCTE Cable-Tec Expo, Booth 2101. Products on demo include the Electronic Couch PotatoT for Remote Viewer Quality Monitoring, DVStation-Mini² QAM for HFC Last Mile Monitoring and DVStation-IP³ for IP Headend Monitoring.

The ECP connects after the STB and provides feedback on various service quality parameters to a central site. It can emulate an end-user changing channels on a STB via a built-in infrared transmitter. Service plan verification, channel switching and multiple measurements on service quality for each channel reported to a central management console, give service providers valuable insight into the viewer experience and confirms the availability of subscribed-to channels.

ATEME announces that Telekom Malaysia Berhad has chosen ATEME to deploy its new IPTV Video head-end services aptly called “HyppTV’. In March 2010, TM announced its IPTV rollout, which bundled as part of its triple-play offering via its high-speed broadband service, UniFi. Currently, TM’s IPTV service includes Live channels, Video-on-Demand and other interactive services, with more expansion underway.

The ATEME Kyrion AM2101 solution is the third generation High Definition MPEG-4/H.264 encoder targeting a broad range of DTV applications, featuring the Ultra Efficiency Mode enabling perfect HD below 5Mbps for IPTV services.

Envivio announces that Seans Media has used an Envivio video head-end to launch India's first digital cable service featuring high-efficiency H.264 video encoding. Compared to traditional MPEG-2, the Envivio head-end reduces the amount of bandwidth Seans Media needs to deliver each of its channels to subscribers, freeing capacity for the service to expand its HD and SD channel lineup, while maintaining the highest quality video to satisfy its discriminating customers.

FetchTV has selected Envivio's Three Screens solution as the delivery platform for its subscription TV offering. The FetchTV service employs Envivio 4Caster-C4 video encoders, featuring Extreme-codec technology, to deliver visually stunning standard and high definition content over capacity restricted broadband networks without degradation. The 4Caster C4 allows FetchTV to create a high quality alternative to incumbent services that can be delivered by Australian ISPs over consumers' existing broadband connections. The systems have been deployed at two head-ends located in Melbourne and Sydney.

StarHub has installed the Envivio Mobile TV head-end featuring the 4Caster C4 Three Screens encoder/transcoder, from Envivio, to extend the reach of the "StarHub TV on Mobile" service to more 3G mobile customers, including those using the iPhone. The encoding solution has also enabled StarHub to further enhance the efficiency of network resources in delivering its mobile TV service, which offers 25 premium branded channels of news, lifestyle, documentary and entertainment programs.

RGB Networks has been selected to upgrade the Indiana Video Network, a state-of-the-art video headend that enables eight regional telecom carriers to provide their subscribers throughout Indiana with video services. The IVN headend is located in Greenfield, Indiana at the headquarters of Hancock Telecom, one of the eight original carriers that partnered in 2004 to build the headend. The IVN delivers SD and HD programming to the carriers using Internet Protocol, with the SD programming in the MPEG-2 format and the HD programming in MPEG-4/H.264 for greater bandwidth efficiency.

BH Telecom has begun the rollout of its new “Moja TV” IPTV service using a complete IPTV headend from Envivio. Built by systems integrator and middleware vendor Smart Com, the deployment enables BH Telecom to offer a full suite of live and on-demand channels complete with electronic program guide, PVR and other interactive features to its more than 2 million subscribers.