Dilithium Networks’ Dr. Marwan Jabri, its co-founder and CTO, will speak at the Arabcom International Telecom Summit 2009. Dr. Jabri’s speech on “Video Traffic Optimization” will take place between 17:00–18:30 on Thursday 28th May at the Habtoor Grand Hotel, Beirut, Lebanon.

The Arabcom Group has pioneered the promotion of socio-economic development in the Arab States since 1993. The 11th annual Arabcom International Telecom Summit serves as a forum for government, operators, carriers, service providers and broadcasters to address the regions industrial policies, operations and technical issues.

With the NBA and NHL playoffs in full swing, and baseball season well underway, today's home media center experience is all about getting the most out of a man's home oasis for sports (or movies, or even reality TV) on their glorious HD TVs.

Digeo understands, and last week kicked off two "ManCave" sweepstakes to give away a total of five Moxi HD DVRs to help trick out a man's (or woman's) home entertainment refuge.

As demand for rich media and TV content continues to grow among consumers, the delivery of digital video at an acceptable quality of experience for the user becomes ever more important to service providers, content owners, and equipment vendors whose infrastructure underpins the networks, according to the latest report from Light Reading Insider.

Andrew Solutions invites attendees of Arabcom2009 Summit in Beirut, Lebanon to “Join The Evolution” in overcoming three critical challenges faced by wireless operators.

As a co-sponsor of the May 28-29 event, the 11th annual Arab International Telecom Development for Arab States, Andrew invites attendees to its exhibit #19.

Digitization today pervades every aspect of our lives and has transformed how we consume content. The mass consumer market is demanding content on demand, anytime, anywhere, on any device. Broadband proliferation has led to new channels of video distribution and an amazing array of business models that are trying tap in to the lucrative and growing market for next generation video services.

Along with this tremendous opportunity and promise there are many challenges. Rapid changes in the market have sent content owners, distributors, aggregators, and syndicators scurrying to find technology to enable them to fulfill consumer demand and support emerging business models. Lack of awareness about available product and service options has caused many companies to invest in multiple technologies that have been difficult to integrate or get a healthy return on investment.

Video competition has reached Michigan consumers in a big way, meaning more residents and their televisions can cut ties with cable. AT&T U-verse services are now available to more than 1 million living units across the state - just two years after launching in Michigan.

MOBISION will be participating in the 11th Arab International Telecom Development Summit for Arab States which is being held in Beirut – Lebanon on May 28 and 29 in order to demonstrate its ground breaking innovative business model dedicated to the multicasting of live video over connected and unconnected handheld devices.

Octoshape announces that their Infinite Edge technology has been selected to power the pause, replay and synchronization functionality of the Emmy Award-nominated TrackPass RaceView application available exclusively on NASCAR.COM. TrackPass RaceView is a subscription product that creates a 3D rendering of all 43 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series cars through live streaming GPS telemetry that tracks the position of the drivers.

TE Data, participates, for the first time, as a co-sponsor in Arabcom 2009, The 11th annual Arab International Telecom Development Summit to be held on the 28th and 29th of May, 2009 in the Lebanese Capital "Beirut" under the patronage of the Minister of Telecom In Lebanon, H.E. Eng. Jebrane Bassile.

Top telecommunications operators BT, Orange and Verizon have already welcomed yesterday’s announcement of the union between the Broadband Forum and the IP/MPLS Forum.

The news, which will see a “new” Broadband Forum emerge, was announced in Valencia, Spain, yesterday, where the two organisations came together for the first time. This consolidation in the standards and specifications community creates a Broadband Forum with more than 200 members, comprising service providers, vendors, chip manufacturers and regulatory bodies from across the world.

SeaChange is participating in next month’s CommunicAsia exhibition in Singapore to demonstrate and discuss an unparalled range of innovations and services, including its latest IPTV service launch with Smart Digivision’s MyWay TV in India. With a major research and development facility in Shanghai and significant regional operations in India, Japan, the Philippines and elsewhere, SeaChange has played a major role in the digitally driven evolution of Asia Pacific’s television industry for more than a decade.

Akamai will ensure the availability and performance of the destination site for the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, as well as deliver hours of HD video content on demand. During last year’s event, more than 1 million people visited the festival’s site, and organizers expect an increase in site visitors this year.

Orascom Telecom will participate in the 11th Annual Arab International Telecom Development Summit for Arab States which will be held in Beirut from May 28 to 29. Under the theme: “Broadband a necessity for Socio Economic development & growth”, the conference will be attended by Arab Telecom Ministers & operators CEOs, regulators, investors, industry leaders, experts, professionals and Telcos from around the globe.

ViewCast announces that Ambient Media is now an authorized distributor/importer of ViewCast products in Spain and Portugal. Under the terms of the agreement, Ambient Media will serve as a key source on the Iberian Peninsula for ViewCast's comprehensive portfolio of products, including the award-winning Osprey video capture cards and Niagara encoding systems, together with post-sales service and support.

IneoQuest will demonstrate its award-winning IQPinPoint and VeriFrame enabled solutions at Interop Las Vegas, May 17-21, 2009. IneoQuest will demonstrate its ability to enable enterprise networking providers and their vendors to meet the same video quality standards as top cable and IPTV providers across the globe.