Optibase, Ltd. announced that Perry-Spencer Rural Telephone Cooperative, PSC, headquartered in St. Meinrad, Indiana, is using its carrier-grade IPTV streaming platform, MGW 5100, for delivering local television channels to its subscribers.

A growing number of Verizon customers across Los Angeles and Orange counties and throughout the Inland Empire are now experiencing next-generation broadband Internet access as the company expands availability of its Verizon FiOS Internet Service to homes across Southern California.

By the end of this year, FiOS (FYE’-ose) will expand to parts of Ventura County, and the service will be available to Verizon customers in 22 Southern Californian cities. The majority of customers in Huntington Beach, Murrieta, Sun City, Malibu and Beaumont can already experience the FiOS difference.

Laurel Networks, Inc. announced its new "drop-in" IP Video Routing Solution ^TM designed to meet the needs of DSL access providers who want to offer video services. Based on Laurel's ST200 ^TM broadband services router, the new offering enables highly-reliable broadcast IPTV and Video on Demand services alongside high-speed Internet and voice services. Laurel's drop-in IP Video Routing Solution not only enables instant delivery of video over existing ATM-based DSL aggregation networks, it supports subscriber management and gigabit Ethernet port density to allow transition to higher-speed, Ethernet-based DSL network architectures.