Open Box Technologies announces the availability of SesameVault 2.0, a platform for businesses of all shapes and sizes to cost effectively integrate web and mobile video with their core business, marketing, and communications initiatives. With recent IDC research showing video use within the enterprise growing at an annual compounded rate of nearly 50 percent over the next five years, it’s clear businesses are turning to video and other rich media to help them keep in regular contact with employees, partners, and customers.

UTStarcom has been selected as the only technology supplier for the first Mobile Television system across Hainan province, driven by China Telecom's Hainan branch. This is the first large-scale Mobile TV system in China to adopt UTStarcom's end-to-end RollingStream platform. The deployment is scheduled to go live on May 17, 2009, as an extension of the existing IPTV service that Hainan Telecom and UTStarcom have been delivering since 2006.

JumpTV announces the launch of JumpTV Latino an online destination for Latin American television with prominent new features. JumpTV Latino is a subscription-based service that provides the largest selection of live and on-demand Latin American television channels available via the Internet, providing viewer's one central place to access leading Latino entertainment.

TANDBERG Television announces the start of a new chapter in video compression, once again setting the standard for best quality encoding. The video compression market leader will launch its latest innovation, the EN8100 MPEG-2 SD encoder, at NAB 2009 (booth SU5108). The new system delivers a host of performance and operational benefits for DTH satellite, cable and terrestrial operators, as well as for content aggregators and distributors

The MPEG Industry Forum announces that 16 member companies will be exhibiting at NAB2009, taking place in Las Vegas, NV between Monday, 20 April and Thursday 23 April 2009. MPEGIF will present the MPEGIF Master Class titled “The New World of Digital Television” on Sunday, 19 April 2009. Organized in conjunction with the National Association of Broadcasters, this special event will explore how new technologies are changing the way digital multimedia is created, compressed, delivered and monetized.

ZTE recently clinched a large-scale commercial IPTV contract from CANTV in Venezuela. Considered as the largest IPTV project in the whole South America region, CANTV is investing about $400 million in line with its aim of developing 1.26 million IPTV subscribers in the next six years.

Pixelmetrix will showcase its Electronic Couch Potato (ECP) and Consolidator Engine to illustrate Remote Viewer Quality Monitoring at booth SU6007. The Electronic Couch Potato is an after the network probe that measures and reports the end-users’ experience for delivered video services. Collecting telemetry from multiple ECPs distributed across a wide network and presenting it effectively is essential to the value proposition of the product. A population of the ECPs deployed throughout the network are configured, managed and controlled by the Consolidator Engine, which also provides intelligent presentation of information reported by the ECPs.

REACH is extending its HD satellite capabilities with a comprehensive Contribution & Distribution solution from TANDBERG Television that includes encoding, multiplexing, modulation and professional receivers. The equipment is being used at Asia’s largest commercial teleport in Hong Kong and at satellite earth stations in Sydney and Perth. Using the TANDBERG Television C&D equipment, REACH provides video contribution circuits for TV networks and Pay TV operators covering SD, HD and DVB-S2 capabilities.

180SQUARED announced a new Mediaroom solution geared towards smaller carriers. While working with Microsoft to support existing Mediaroom customers with their Software and extensive Mediaroom Services knowledge, 180SQUARED has also been working towards developing an end-to-end solution: the goal being to help smaller carriers in the US to sharpen their business case around IPTV and support Mediaroom as the middleware of choice.

Sigma Designs highly integrated SMP8654 media processors will be used to power Celrun’s TD-1100 STB which has been selected by telecom provider LG Dacom to be deployed throughout Korea. As part of this collaboration, Sigma’s chips have been integrated into Celrun’s TD-1100 set-top box and will support real-time IPTV streaming along with VOD services.

NeuLion and the American Hockey League announce extended coverage of the AHL 2008-09 season to deliver live streaming of the 2009 Calder Cup Playoffs. As part of AHL Live, a newly designed Calder Cup video portal will showcase live action from the various rounds of competition. The Calder Cup playoff coverage through AHL Live is the only way fans can watch all four rounds of competition live online. The video portal showcases an enhanced viewing experience with interactive features such as live chat, live stats, pre and post-game coverage and much more. As an end-to-end managed service, NeuLion also provides support of advertising and sponsorship placement for AHL Live.

Optibase and Amino Communications announce they have partnered to integrate the Optibase EZ TV System with Amino AmiNET STB. With the newly enhanced EZ TV STB Module, users can access the system’s live or on-demand content on standard-definition or high-definition TVs and plasma screens in addition to PCs and Mac systems.

Verimatrix has been ranked the global number one provider of IPTV content protection for the sixth consecutive reporting period by Multimedia Research Group. In the analyst firm's latest semi-annual IPTV Market Leader Report, Verimatrix demonstrated its sustained growth in the worldwide IPTV industry, and retained a significant margin in market share above its competitors. In addition, Verimatrix was again the only company to rank in the top four in each region.

CBSSports.com, in partnership with CBS Sports, CBS College Sports Network and the NCAA released final traffic figures for the NCAA March Madness on Demand video player in 2009. In total, there were 7.52 million unique visitors to the NCAA March Madness on Demand video player, a 58% increase over 2008 figures. Additionally, there were 8.6 million total hours of video and audio consumed, a 75% increase over 2008 figures.

MRG announces new leaders in the Global IPTV Market Leaders Report -- March 2009, tracking the top 100 IPTV vendors in 24 regional sub-segments based on the installed base of 6 video systems products in over 700 IPTV Operations. Continued growth of IPTV subscribers is occurring in Europe, Asia, Rest of World, and especially in North America.