Calix today announced that its customers have deployed more than one million fiber and copper ports throughout North America. The company's rapidly growing footprint now includes over 170 forward-thinking incumbent local exchange carriers (ILECs) that use the Calix C7 platform to deliver advanced, IP-based information, communication, and entertainment services to their subscribers. In addition to compelling, content-rich residential services, the 5,500 Calix C7 platforms deployed in service provider networks also deliver native Gigabit Ethernet services to business customers.

PixelPlay, the leading provider of entertainment and state-of-the-art technology for emerging platforms, and Israel's leading, multiplayer interactive TV channel, GOGO CLUB on HOT (Israel's cable operator) today announced a revolutionary new service enabling subscribers to play interactive games between iTV and mobile devices. The cross-platform service is the first of its kind, featuring dynamic leader boards, private rooms and prize tournaments for popular board games including Checkers, Master Chess and Backgammon.

IMAKE, the major provider of solutions and services that enable the seamless delivery and management of interactive and On Demand broadband services, announced that it reached a new company milestone this month. IMAKE's OpenVision software now ingests, or processes, and distributes more than 4,800 titles and over 2,500 hours of content each month.

XOS Technologies, the leading provider of sports technology solutions to professional and college teams, announced plans to launch College Sports Direct later this summer. College Sports Direct will be a college sports portal that delivers content across multiple platforms, including Internet, Video-on-Demand (VOD), digital cable, Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) and wireless. The portal, due to launch on August 8, will provide fans of college sports with streaming broadcasts of football, basketball and other sporting events.

Radium Ventures, Inc., a leader in Internet Protocol Television (IPTV), today announced that Interactive Television Networks, Inc. ("ITVN") has signed a licensing agreement with Academy Entertainment for the rights to over 1400 classic cinema titles featuring such stars as John Wayne, Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin and countless others. Based on this content, ITVN will launch the Silver Screen Network (SSN) in early September. The Silver Screen Network will offer its entire catalog of titles to subscribers for only $4.95 per month, with the first month free for existing ITVN subscribers. Because ITVN offers the flexibility and interactivity of the Internet, subscribers can receive Silver Screen titles programmed in channels, on demand by genre, actor or title, or by creating their own customized play lists to fit their viewing preferences.

Redback Networks Inc., a leading provider of next-generation broadband networking systems, today announced that China Netcom's Heilongjiang Communications Corporation is deploying a network of Redback SmartEdge(R) 800 Service Gateways to provide a new, scalable, converged platform for broadband access and advanced broadband services delivery in Harbin, the capital city of Heilongjiang province in North East China.

TVN Entertainment, the leading provider of on demand television programming, management and delivery solutions, and Music Choice, the pioneering, multi-platform music network, today announced that they have signed a Preferred Provider agreement for VOD services including encoding, distribution and asset management. This agreement also allows Music Choice to take advantage of TVNow, a rapid turn around service offered exclusively by TVN Entertainment.

Espial, a leading provider of client IPTV applications and middleware, today announced that Comtrend Corporation, a global manufacturer of telecommunications solutions, has selected Espial Escape(TM) for its new IPTV Triple Play box. The new set-top box will be demonstrated at Espial's stand at the China Broadband Triple Play & IPTV conference July 20-22, 2005.

Verizon is rolling out the industry's premier consumer broadband services to a growing number of residents in Pennsylvania. The company is offering three tiers of service with downstream (download) speeds of up to 5, 15 and 30 Mbps (megabits per second).

Strategy Analytics, the global research and consulting company, today released a new report titled "Broadcom Challenges STMicroelectronics For Leadership In 100M Advanced Video Codec Opportunity". This report from Strategy Analytics' Connected Home Service noted that while industry leader STMicroelectronics can benefit from established digital television relationships, Broadcom has made rapid advances and should gain significant traction by combining technology leadership with meeting service provider cost objectives.

Optical Solutions, Inc. has secured a contract with Buckland Telephone Company of Buckland, Ohio. Buckland is replacing its copper infrastructure with an advanced gigabit passive optical network that will feature IPTV as part of a triple-play service offering. The rural carrier selected Optical Solutions' leading FiberPath 500 GPON system to support its transition to IP-based services.

Zhone Technologies, Inc., the first company dedicated to building total-delivery solutions for voice, data and content services worldwide, and MetaSwitch, a leading provider of next generation switching solutions announced today that Newroads Telecom has selected and deployed Zhone's Multi-Access Line Concentrator and MetaSwitch's Class 5 Softswitch technology for its new service deployments.

Verizon is rolling out the industry's premier consumer broadband services to customers in Allendale, Franklin Lakes, Mahwah, Oakland, Ramsey, Saddle River and Upper Saddle River in Bergen County and Denville, Long Hill, Mendham Borough, Mendham Township, Rockaway Borough and Rockaway Township in Morris County. The company is offering three tiers of service with downstream (download) speeds of up to 5, 15 and 30 Mbps (megabits per second).

Analog Devices, Inc., a global leader in high-performance semiconductors for signal processing applications, and Netopia, Inc., a market leader in broadband gateways and service delivery software, announced that Netopia has adopted ADI's Fusiv^TM network processor and new ADSL2+ bonding reference platform as a foundation for Netopia's MiAVo bonded ADSL2+ gateways.

Calix announced that three additional service providers will deploy fiber to the premises (FTTP) using the company's standards-based broadband passive optical network (BPON) optical line terminal (OLT) line cards for the Calix C7 multiservice access platform. All three companies had previously deployed the C7 platform to deliver DSL and other services to their customers. The telcos include Bixby Telephone of Bixby, Oklahoma; Cambridge Telephone of Cambridge, Idaho; and Randolph Telephone of Asheboro, North Carolina.