Amdocs announced the availability of its IP Convergence Solution for IPTV, a unique, comprehensive solution that allows service providers to offer digital content and entertainment services to solidify customer loyalty, while ensuring company growth. The solution combines Amdocs consulting and implementation services, the recently announced Amdocs 6 portfolio of integrated, modular products and solutions from an extensive IPTV partner ecosystem, including Bitband, Intel, Kasenna, NagraVision, NDS, OpenTV and Orca Interactive. Amdocs is already working with Microsoft on the implementation of a major IP convergence project for a Tier 1 Wireline service provider including the roll- out of IPTV services.

Optibase, Ltd. a leading provider of advanced digital video solutions today announced that the Company's MPEG MovieMaker 400 encoders are enabling TV over IP to the home streaming services in the Tangshan metropolitan area in China.

The Tangshan metropolitan area serves over 50,000 ADSL, Cable and optical LAN subscribers. In order to provide these subscribers with enhanced content, Tangshan Netcom and the Broadcast Television Authority have built a sophisticated TV head-end solution that will enable access to live and foreign television content as well as interactive services. The video head-end solution, which will enable triple play services (Voice, High-speed Internet and Video), will deliver dozens of live video channels and video-on-demand over an IP network designed to reach all of Tangshan's metropolitan subscribers.

Coaxsys Incorporated, the leader in delivering customer premise networking over existing wires, today announced that McDonough Telephone Cooperative of Illinois will be using Coaxsys' IPTV 7000 TVnet Network to deliver Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) to its customers. McDonough is the first member of the Western Illinois Video (WIV) group to achieve an in-home networking solution over existing wiring in the home.