Dreampark, one of the leading providers of IPTV Middleware systems on the European market, today announced that its product has been selected by Dansk Bredbaand, a Danish IPTV operator.

Orca Interactive, a global market leader in developing middleware and applications for IPTV, is exhibiting at IBC 2006, Sept. 8-12 in Amsterdam, where the company will showcase its latest advanced IPTV solutions.

Dreampark, leading provider of IPTV Middleware systems in the Nordic region, today announced that its product has been selected by iVisjon, a Norwegian IPTV operator with services in Norway and Denmark.

Kasenna, The IPTV Company, today announced that Cavalier Telephone and TV, an innovative provider of telecommunications services serving over 250,000 homes, has gone live with the United State's first MPEG-4-based (H.264) Broadband TV service, powered by Kasenna's PortalTV solution. With a complete Triple-Play package including advanced features such as on-screen caller ID, Broadcast TV and Video-on- Demand, Cavalier has immediately moved to the forefront of the IPTV industry.

IPTV technology leaders Orca Interactive, BitBand and Danish system integrator DigiEyeZ announce that ComX, a Danish broadband services provider, has selected the three companies to launch IPTV services in Denmark. The services, planned for expansion across Denmark, will initially include live Digital TV channels and Video On Demand (VOD), allowing subscribers to enjoy high quality entertainment packages in the comfort of their own homes.

Orca Interactive, a global market leader in developing middleware and applications for IPTV, announced today the launch of its Interactive Alliance to promote cooperation among IPTV industry leaders and provide comprehensive future-proof solutions.

Orca Interactive, a global market leader in developing middleware and applications for IPTV, announced today that it will exhibit at CommunicAsia with demonstrations that include a preview of its new RiGHTv IPTV middleware and presentations by company executives on strategies for IPTV and the user interface.

Kasenna today announced an agreement under which it will license its PortalTV suite (including Kasenna LivingRoom and MediaBase XMP), to Ericsson AB for integration with Ericsson's broadband access products. Together, Ericsson’s networking products and Kasenna’s Portal TV suite will provide a fully-integrated, one-stop IPTV solution for service providers. The combined solution will provide an integrated network and IPTV infrastructure carriers need to deliver advanced TV services such as video-on-demand, network PVR, StartOver TV, and customizable electronic programming guides (EPGs).

NDS, the leading provider of technology solutions for digital pay-TV, today announced Synamedia Metro, a complete IPTV middleware solution for telecommunications companies (telcos) and broadband operators. The new full-feature product brings the world’s leading television technologies to the telecommunications industry, enabling telcos to offer the power of IPTV to their subscribers. The solution debuts this week at GlobalComm 2006.

Kasenna today announced the release of LivingRoom 2.0 -- a new IPTV middleware suite that updates Kasenna's PortalTV with an unrivaled viewer experience along with features that make IPTV easier than ever to deploy and manage. Kasenna's LivingRoom 2.0 provides a highly advanced and efficient IPTV delivery and management solution in a deployment-ready package and is the core component of Kasenna's PortalTV, the Telco industry's only pre-integrated IPTV solution -- offering applications, video streaming & network recording, element & content management, and premium content. LivingRoom 2.0 includes software for the consumer STB - the LivingRoom 2.0 Client - and for the backend service creation, management and delivery - the LivingRoom 2.0 Application Server.

Broadbus Technologies, Inc., the leading provider of technology solutions for Television on Demand (TOD), and NDS, the leading provider of technology solutions for digital pay-TV, today announced that NDS has selected the Broadbus B-1 Video Server as the first on-demand video platform for the NDS Synamedia Metro IPTV middleware. Synamedia Metro is an integrated IPTV middleware solution that enables telecommunications providers and broadband operators to quickly and easily offer the power of IPTV to their subscribers. The NDS solution will incorporate the Broadbus B-1 Video Server, a 100% solid-state, carrier-class solution for the delivery of IPTV and on-demand video services.

Infineon Technologies AG, a leading provider of communication ICs, announced a revolutionary plastic optical fiber (POF) to Ethernet transceiver solution that enables mass deployment of Video Home Networking driving IPTV and HDTV services. As opposed to other wired and wireless solutions for broadband connectivity POF makes for highly flexible, secure and stable solutions with virtually no bandwidth limitations. Infineon’s POF transceiver provides better economics, high reliability due to dedicated high bandwidth for each connection and can be easily installed without any need for special equipment.

Premiere, the leading pay TV operator in Germany and Austria, has chosen the NDS MediaHighway middleware solution to set-up an interactive platform paving the way into advanced digital TV services. The agreement has been announced today by Premiere and NDS Group plc, the leading provider of technology solutions for digital pay TV. The middleware-based TV platform will enable customers to interactively use innovative add-on-services – all with the ease of using their remote control via a return channel over the Internet. Based on the world’s renowned NDS MediaHighway middleware, Premiere will launch this innovative platform that will offer an unprecedented range of TV services to Premiere subscribers from August 2006.

Imagine Communications, Inc., a new digital video technology company, today announced it has developed the broadband industry's most advanced PersonalizedTV platform for system operators, and has completed a $9.2 million first round of venture funding from Carmel Ventures and Columbia Capital.

Accedo Broadband, a leading aggregator of TV-centric applications distributed over broadband, and Espial, a leading provider of client IPTV middleware and applications have collaborated to deliver Accedo’s Application Portfolio to Espial’s software solutions including the Espial Escape browser and Espial Evo middleware and applications.