SeaChange International, Inc. announced a new solution to capture advertising opportunities in on-demand television including targeted advertising delivery with unprecedented "ZIP-plus-four" precision.

Laurel Networks, Inc. will demonstrate its new "drop-in" IP Video Routing Solution ^TM) at its Supercomm booth, June 6-9, McCormick Place, Chicago. Designed for DSL access providers who want to increase average revenue per user (ARPU) by offering video services, Laurel's IP Video Routing Solution enables highly-reliable broadcast IPTV and VoD (Video on Demand) services alongside high-speed Internet and voice services. Note: Laurel recently announced its pending acquisition by ECI Telecom. Laurel will become the Data Networking Division of ECI Telecom.

Motive, Inc. introduced two new additions to its Digital Home Management Platform, an integrated suite of software products that enables broadband providers to effectively deliver, manage and support next-generation broadband services. The Fully Automated Service Technology (FAST) modules for IPTV and Security give broadband providers packaged offerings that help them accelerate the rollout of new services. The modules include service specific functionality that helps them manage all aspects of a broadband service, while delivering an integrated and simple user experience for subscribers.

Acterna announced its NetComplete ^TM Service Assurance solution for IPTV that enables communications service providers to meet and exceed their customers' expectations of receiving high-quality and reliable IPTV services, improving network efficiency and reducing customer churn. Deploying IPTV, which must meet the high quality expectations consumers have for video services, requires sophisticated service assurance tools and procedures, such as those found in NetComplete, to quickly identify and prevent sources of degradation.

Nagravision, the world's leading independent provider of value-added content protection solutions, announced it will provide Germany’s first content protection solution for video-on-demand over IP on cable operator ish’s network. Ish will be carrying out a technical trial to explore the possibilities of IPTV services over a cable network.

Luminous Networks ^TM announced new features for its award-winning PacketWave packet ring access platforms. These features, collectively called TLS-TE (Transparent LAN Service -- Traffic Engineered), directly address critical requirements that new telco IPTV services demand of the access network infrastructure to enable scalable, economical and secure services deployment. Critical factors for successful and profitable rollout of IPTV are efficient multicast, hard Quality of Service (QoS), sophisticated network resource management, and transport security.

TANDBERG Television announced that it has commenced the installation of an end-to-end IPTV delivery system for the commercial roll-out of the Swisscom/Bluewin triple play service. Swisscom has chosen the TANDBERG Television professional hardware encoding solution for Windows Media Video 9 (Microsoft's implementation of VC-1, the proposed SMPTE standard) following a competitive tender process. As part of the new contract TANDBERG Television will provide a number of its EN5920 encoders, TT1260 MPEG-2 professional receivers and an nCompass control and monitoring system and also support Swisscom’s engineering team with the integration of the video head-end with the Microsoft TV IPTV platform, set-top-boxes and other third party equipment.

"Understanding the content business and not falling for common myths and misconceptions is paramount for telecommunication operators' success at IPTV", Jeffrey Soong, CEO of Hong Kong based IPTV solutions provider Broadband Network Systems (BNS) said at the Broadband World Forum in Yokohama.

ECI Telecom, a global provider of advanced telecommunication solutions to leading carriers and service providers announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Laurel Networks, an innovative provider of Next-Generation IP/MPLS Multi-Service Edge Routers. Laurel's products and technology will add edge routing and IP service capabilities to ECI' s broadband, optical, and core routing portfolio, enabling ECI to enhance its systems functionally and to create complete multi-service IP solutions for service providers.

SkyStream, a leader in IP video delivery solutions, announced that Eagle Broadband and GlobeCast have selected the company's Mediaplex-20 ^TM and iPlex ^TM headend systems to power their IPTVComplete ^TM turnkey video solution that enables telephone companies, municipalities, real estate developers and other broadband providers to deliver high-quality video and entertainment services to subscribers.

Alcatel announced that it has been selected by Auna as its IP Triple Play turnkey project integrator, and as the supplier for most essential network components and service delivery platforms. Auna is the second largest operator in Spain, with its own fixed telecommunications network.

Pixelmetrix, the global expert in Preventive Monitoring for digital television networks, has just launched the Pixelmetrix DVStor-IP, a cost-effective hard disk-based system that allows non-stop simultaneous recording of multiple channels of transmitted IP video.

Westell Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of broadband access products, gateways and conferencing services, announced UltraLine ^TMII, a new family of advanced home networking routers for delivering IPTV and video to homes across the country.

The telecommunications measure that would have enabled phone companies to obtain a single statewide franchise license instead of many municipality agreements to enable delivery of Internet Protocol TV (IPTV) died in the Legislature Saturday night after all-night negotiations failed to break an impasse between the House and Senate.

"It's over; it's over," Rep. Phil King, R-Weatherford, the chief advocate of the proposal, said Saturday night realizing that the legislation would not reach the House before the midnight deadline.