iBAHN has been selected as a preferred vendor of IPTV for Omni Hotels & Resorts. Launched with iBAHN's largest IPTV installation in North America in Omni's property, the 1,001-room Omni Dallas Hotel, guests at the new hotel can experience an expansive roster of HD channels on any television in their room, including the HD screen embedded in their bathroom mirror. iBAHN completed the installation in less than 90 days and continues to support the property with ETVi, its IPTV service.

Guest room technology includes LCD HDTVs as well as TV monitors within the bathroom mirrors, all powered by iBAHN's ETVi platform. ETVi delivers IPTV programming, including 82 channels – with a majority in high definition - premium programming and on-demand videos. The proprietary iMEDIA platform further expands entertainment options, allowing guests to access the nearly limitless content of the Internet, delivered in high definition to the television. In addition to providing a vast array of entertainment options, iBAHN's platform integrates with the property management system and allows for a truly interactive experience between the guest and the hotel. Through ETVi, guests can access property restaurants and activities, make reservations, and request services such as spa appointments.

Envivio announces a new deployment with Maxcom, a leading integrated telecommunication services operator in Mexico. Maxcom selected Envivio’s 4Caster C4 Gen III encoders to power Yuzu, its new live and on-demand over-the-top streaming service. Yuzu currently offers 24 live channels and 1,300 on-demand assets to PCs, Macs, iPads and iPhones. Maxcom plans to nearly double the number of channels and video-on-demand assets by the end of this year.

Envivio offers the industry’s leading encoding/transcoding solutions developed specifically for multi-screen delivery. The versatile 1-RU 4Caster platform performs a variety of functions including: multi-profile encoding, transcoding, packaging, encryption and publishing within a single system that delivers broadcast-quality TV, HTTP streaming and 3GPP mobile video. The Envivio Muse software on the 4Caster platform allows Maxcom to easily add support for new devices and formats as they expand their services.

Harmonic announced that Ben Lomand Telephone Cooperative of McMinnville, Tenn., has selected the Harmonic ProStream 1000 with ACE high-density, real-time transcoder to power HD and SD video for its 200-channel HD and SD IPTV service.

The ProStream 1000 with ACE real-time transcoding solution provides Ben Lomand Telephone Cooperative with "any-to-any, any-to-many" support for HD and SD, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) video and audio transcoding of up to 20 HD or 60 SD channels, as well as ASI to IP multiplexing, in a compact and power-efficient one rack unit (1 RU) chassis. The platform's high density enables Ben Lomand to meet growing demand for digital TV services, while lowering capital and operating expenses through reduced power consumption and rack space.

Pioneer Telephone Cooperative is to deploy Amino’s Aminet A540 DVR IPTV/OTT set-top boxes as part of its Pioneer DTV IPTV service. Headquartered in Kingfisher, Oklahoma, Pioneer serves over 40,000 customers across more than 74 communities in Western Oklahoma and has been at the forefront of IPTV deployment in North America.

Under the Pioneer DTV brand, the cooperative offers up to 161 entertainment channels as part of a “quadplay” service including voice, broadband and cellular services.

The Aminet A540 DVR is a high performance HD set-top box which uses new SoC processors and recently enhanced OTT features. These include HTML5 audio and video tags to support the new generation of televisual web sites plus HTTP live streaming adaptive streaming technology. HTTP upgrade and recovery is also included – enabling remote firmware updating.

Consolidated Communications has launched CloverLeaf's AppDaily TV apps solution. CloverLeaf's television apps solution includes an app store, a personalized quick-access dashboard, and a full suite of over 40 localized news and information apps, social networking apps and CloverLeaf's DashDaily community publishing apps.

With AppDaily, providers of IPTV and other managed television services have an easy-to-launch comprehensive solution for offering an app store and apps to their video subscribers. AppDaily is available on major television platforms, and reflects CloverLeaf Digital's continuing commitment to providing independent service providers with the interactive services they need to compete in a changing market.

Consolidated Communications launched AppDaily to all of its IPTV subscribers in Illinois, Pennsylvania and Texas.

Espial announced that KPU Telcommunications is now delivering premium on-demand video services to its IPTV subscribers in Ketchikan, Alaska using Espial MediaBase and Nokia Siemens Networks IPTV Middleware. KPU Telecommunications is one of three divisions of Ketchikan Public Utilities. KPU delivers some of the most advanced communications products available in the marketplace, including high-definition digital television, video on demand, extensive local television content, broadband internet, business communication systems and local phone service. KPU offers services over an active fiber to the home network capable of up to 1 Gigabit per second speeds in addition to it’s copper based network.

AT&T announced the expansion of its AT&T U-verse services to more than 500,000 living units across Sacramento. U-verse services include AT&T U-verse TV, AT&T U-verse High Speed Internet and AT&T U-verse Voice. The introduction of these new services to more living units across metro Sacramento is part of AT&T's ongoing expansion of AT&T U-verse availability. AT&T U-verse first launched in Sacramento in August 2007.

AT&T, WGN America, and WGN-TV are giving Chicago Cubs fans across the country a chance to sit in the director's seat and control how they watch the team compete at Wrigley Field.

AT&T U-verse TV announced the nationwide launch of Chicago Cubs Multiview, an interactive TV app that lets U-verse customers view up to four different camera angles of the Chicago Cubs home games at one time, choosing from the main WGN America game broadcast and six alternate camera angles. The app was popular with Chicago viewers last season, and this is the first time AT&T has made multi-camera angle functionality available to U-verse TV customers nationwide.

Entone announces that Granby Telephone Company is deploying Entone’s Amulet IPTV Receivers and Janus Media Hubs for its HD IPTV service rollout.

GTC Broadbandis a full service telecommunications company based in Granby, Missouri. For over 100 years, GTC Broadband has been offering state-of-the-art services such as telephone, broadband Internet, and video services to residences and businesses throughout southwestern Missouri. GTC Broadband prides itself on first-class customer support and is committed to delivering advanced services to its local community.

Reservation Telephone Cooperative announces its plan to deploy Mariner’s award-winning IPTV service assurance platform, xVu.

Serving the North Dakota rural market, RTC will rollout xVu to monitor the quality of IPTV services, and deliver Quality of Experience insight that will enable RTC to rapidly confirm and isolate network issues before they negatively affect the end user’s experience.

By reducing unnecessary dispatches and STB swap outs, xVu helps operators to control operating costs and remain cost-competitive, while consistently ensuring high QoE which improves overall customer retention levels.

Telefonia Bonairiano selected Amino’s A140 HD next generation IPTV set-top boxes for the deployment of high definition television services.

The first provider in the Caribbean to deliver leading edge TV services across a mixed xDSL and Fiber network, Telbo is transitioning to HD services to enable its current and new customers with the highest possible quality TV experience.

The company, which also offers fixed line telephony and broadband Internet, launched IPTV services in 2007

Telefonia Bonairiano has selected the MiriMON solution from Mirifice to monitor its “mitv” IPTV service, delivered over ADSL2+, in the Dutch Caribbean.

The “mitv” Digital TV service offering has around 110 live quality channels and also includes 50 Audio Channels, Pay-Per-View and Video-on-Demand. MiriMON will give Telbo visibility of service delivery into every customer home.

KyLinTV announces the official launch of CCTV Documentary Channel as part of its expanded Great Wall package in North America, Europe and Singapore.

Launched on January 1st of this year, CCTV Documentary Channel is the first Chinese-language documentary channel with a worldwide footprint. The bilingual channel and its highly reputed production team offer audiences worldwide top-notch documentaries positioned to overcome language, ethnic and cultural barriers and tell China's story to the world within the context of globalization. At the same time, the channel will serve as a platform to boost the development of the documentary sector in China.

GoBackTV is pleased to announce that systems integrator Goldfield Telecom has completed a rapid cable IPTV system installation at Citizens Telephone Cooperative, using GoBackTV’s patented GigaQAM IP.

Citizens Telephone Cooperative is a member-owned telecommunications company, founded in 1914, and headquartered in Floyd, VA. It offers telephone, broadband data, IPTV, cable IPTV, and analog cable services to consumers across several counties.

Espial announces they have partnered with Conklin-Intracom to upgrade the IPTV system for Oneida Telephone Exchange. Conklin-Intracom addresses the North American IPTV service provider customer base with fs|cdn, an integrated middleware and conditional access solution. Oneida Telephone Exchange is an independent telephone company serving triple play services to the City of Oneida, Illinois and its rural areas as part of the Western Illinois Video consortium of eight rural telephone service providers.