Concurrent, a worldwide leader of on-demand technology that is shaping the future of television, today announced that Cox Communications has chosen Concurrent's MediaHawk 4000 On-Demand platform for the launch of VOD service in the cable operator's Cleveland, Ohio division.

Broadcast International Inc. ("Broadcast"), a leading provider of satellite and Internet enterprise multimedia networks, today announced that it has entered into a non-exclusive, license agreement with Sun Media Investment Holdings Limited ("SMIH"), the leading, privately held media company in China, for the distribution of its patented CodecSys technology. According to the terms of the agreement, SMIH is authorized to incorporate CodecSys in its electronic products and services for which it will pay royalties to Broadcast based on the number of electronic devices receiving video transmissions. The electronic devices include IPTV, cable and satellite set-top boxes, cellular telephones, personal computers, and other similar appliances.

Harmonic Inc. today announced that Telekom Austria is using Harmonic's industry-leading digital video solutions, including the high performance DiviCom encoders, for its aonDigital TV Service. Launched in Vienna and being rolled out nationally, the service offers viewers access to a full complement of broadcast television, radio and premium services such as video-on-demand. Telekom Austria joins the large group of top tier telco operators around the world who have selected Harmonic systems for their IP-based services; in Europe, Harmonic encoders power more IPTV channels than any other brand. The DiviCom encoders, in addition to Harmonic's ProView integrated receivers/decoders and widely implemented NMX Digital Service Manager, were deployed as part of a comprehensive IPTV solution delivered by Alcatel.

Harmonic Inc. today announced that new AES scrambling and bulk descrambling capabilities have been added to the versatile IP-based ProStream 1000 stream processing platform with ProCipher scrambling technology. The ProStream 1000 is the world's first system that can be configured to support a variety of video processing functions within an ultra-compact one rack-unit (RU) form factor. The new real-time bulk descrambler is capable of processing up to 128 services simultaneously for highly cost-effective and secure distribution of video services.

RADCOM, Ltd., a leading network test and service monitoring solutions provider, today announced it will unveil Omni-Q’s uniquely powerful IPTV monitoring and troubleshooting capabilities at Fall 2006 VON in Boston, Massachusetts on September 12, 2006. Omni-Q for IPTV monitors an entire IPTV network, end to end. This exclusive capability is made possible by the company’s award-winning R70 pure hardware probe which can deliver upper layer application analysis in real time. Implementing the power of the R70 for IPTV analysis enables operators to easily scale up to hundreds of GbE links. The system solution gives IPTV service providers a comprehensive, correlated view of IPTV service delivery, complete with service quality metrics, over a large IPTV network.

SeaChange International is putting Europe's network operators on the fast track to making a business of IPTV. The world's most experienced provider of IPTV systems now offers the SeaChange TV Platform, an end-to-end IPTV solution including modular client/settop, network and back office software options that empower operators to rapidly launch quad play services with a wealth of vastly differentiated IPTV services.

TV on the Internet Company, Narrowstep will launch its end-to-end IPTV system in partnership with set top box manufacturer Amino Communications at IBC 2006.

Detecon, Inc., a leading global telecommunications and information technology consulting firm, today announced the creation of three Centers of Excellence focusing on IPTV, Innovation and Digital Entertainment. These three initiatives will be led globally by Detecon’s US-based team, working in concert with Detecon’s internationally deployed consultants in major global markets.

Latens Systems, the leading provider of IPTV Conditional Access (CA), today announced that Eagle Broadband, Inc., a national provider of broadband, Internet Protocol (IP) and communications technology and services for the United States of America, has selected the Latens IP CAS Conditional Access solution to secure its advanced IPTV services. Eagle, a pioneer for IPTV and IP-based Set-Top Boxes (STBs) within the U.S., will offer its subscribers more than 200 channels of secured video services that include Pay-TV, high-definition (HD), personal-video-recording (PVR), video-on-demand (VOD) and subscription video-on-demand (SVOD).

ARRIS, a leading provider of broadband access for cable telephony, data and video solutions, and RGB Networks, a leader in network video processing, today announced that they will jointly demonstrate an IPTV Video Solution over the ARRIS M-CMTS (Modular Cable Modem Termination System) architecture at the IBC Conference and Exhibition in Amsterdam (September 8-12, Hall 5, Stand 211). ARRIS has integrated RGB’s Broadcast Network Processor (BNP) statistical multiplexer and video groomer with the ARRIS Cadant C4 CMTS and the ARRIS Keystone D5 Universal EdgeQAM to create a video over DOCSIS solution.

MSTAR, one of Utah’s largest and fastest-growing fiber-optic service providers, and the mtn. MountainWest Sports Network today announced they are teaming up to deliver the full action and excitement of Mountain West Conference (MWC) athletics to fans in Utah when the new network launches on September 1 on channel 40 on MSTAR.

Verizon has introduced FiOS TV to consumers in Tewksbury, making a broad range of programming choices and superior picture quality available to more than 10,000 households.

Digital Rapids - a leading developer of systems for content ingest, encoding, transcoding, protection and delivery - announced today that Digital Rapids (India) Pvt Ltd. has finalized an order with The New Media Group ("TNMG") for a major IPTV project based around high brand value content for diaspora communities around the globe. Initially, Digital Rapids is providing StreamZ media encoding and streaming systems for 28 channels, with further expansion following the launch of the service.

OpenTV Corp., a leading provider of enabling technologies for advanced digital television services, will showcase its latest technologies under the banner of “television is changing … open it up!” at the IBC show on stand 1.381 at the RAI Centre in Amsterdam, September 8 – 12, 2006.

This year at IBC MAYAH focuses on successful audio and video encoding solutions for MobileTV (DVB-H / DMB) and SD ipTV, as well as on further developments for mono, stereo and multichannel audio transmissions over variety of networks and protocols.