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.

VUDU and Brightcove partner to enable Brightcove customers to distribute their content directly to the living room television via VUDU. The first feature available in the VUDU Labs area of the VUDU service will be the MyPlay application, which offers current Sony Music videos through Sony Music's MyPlay Video Network affiliate program.

Mirror Image Internet announces its partnership with Wowza Media Systems to deliver high-performance streaming via Wowza Media Server Pro Advanced. Wowza Media Server Pro Advanced is a high-performance, extensible and a fully interactive multi-protocol media server for live and on-demand streaming, chat, and recording. The product enables companies to use streaming protocols that work with Microsoft Corporation’s Silverlight, Apple Incorporated’s iPhone, RTMP for Flash, RTSP/RTP for QuickTime, and MPEG-TS for IPTV set-top boxes.

Brightcove announces a partnership with sevenload to enable Brightcove customers to distribute online video content to sevenload's social media platform. This partnership will also introduce new monetization opportunities for Brightcove customers that are expanding their advertising inventory through distribution into the sevenload network. Brightcove customers already taking advantage of this new distribution opportunity include SPOX.com, a popular sports Web portal in Germany.

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.

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.

Edgeware announces ioko has recently completed a successful lab trial with the Edgeware Web TV server. This trial was part of ioko's assessment of caching and serving technologies for a range of new web video distribution services.

Edgeware's Web TV Servers cache and deliver up to 32,000 concurrent video streams over the open Internet and can be cost effectively distributed in operator networks or co-location facilities as they require just 1U form factor, max 85W power and virtually no maintenance.

TANDBERG Television announces that Starz Entertainment selected the next generation MediaPath Secure Content Delivery System to deliver the content for its on demand services. The upgrade provides Starz with DVB-S2 satellite delivery and other enhanced features, enabling Starz to deliver more content to its affiliates at faster rates.

Sonaecom has selected Cisco's Visual Quality Experience technology for its Clix SmarTV IPTV service. Sonaecom currently offers IPTV services to subscribers across Portugal via an ADSL network and plans to reach 1 million homes via an optical fiber-to-the-home network by 2010.

GTel Teleconnections has selected Verimatrix Video Content Authority System for IPTV to secure its new IPTV service. VCAS for IPTV is fully integrated with the Falcon IP/Complete IPTV delivery system, which encompasses content aggregation and delivery from satellite, router, and DSLAM on past the middleware where other systems end. Capitalizing on the comprehensive IP/Complete platform, GTel is able to roll out its triple-play services in Q2 of 2009 with an impressive channel lineup and advanced functionality, including more than 200 SD and HD channels.

Wowza announces the availability of Wowza Media Server Pro Subscription Edition, featuring friction-free monthly subscription licensing for its industrial-strength media server that makes it both painless and irresistibly cost-effective for any CDN, streaming service or hosting provider to offer lucrative Flash media streaming services to their customers.

Verimatrix is the exclusive sponsor of the "Chinese Content Security in the New Digital Media Era" seminar on Friday, Nov. 7 in Beijing. The half-day seminar is being held in conjunction with BIRTV, China's most prestigious exhibition in the industry of radio, film and TV and a key part of the China International Radio Film & Television Exposition.

Verimatrix enhances the value and security of pay-TV networks with advanced technologies designed to address the content protection challenges of today, and those of tomorrow. The Verimatrix 3-Dimensional Content Security approach provides a framework to enhance operator competitiveness and the consumer experience in the new world of pay-TV.

DIRECTV has selected the latest TANDBERG MPEG-4 AVC HD encoding solutions for its local HD channel expansion. The move builds on a pioneering HDTV relationship between DIRECTV and TANDBERG Television and further extends both companies’ HDTV market lead. In early 2005 DIRECTV chose TANDBERG Television’s first-to-market MPEG-4 AVC HD platform, and became the first North American satellite DTH provider to launch HD services.

PeerApp adds six new ISP customers in China, Brazil, Central America and the Middle East. Faced with the rapidly increasing levels of video traffic, these ISPs selected PeerApp’s UltraBand products to manage P2P and HTTP application traffic growth, reduce network infrastructure and bandwidth costs, and deliver a great consumer experience. UltraBand systems are now producing these benefits for 50 ISP networks in more than 25 countries.

One of PeerApp’s newest customers, Guangzhou Radio and Television, is a cable operator serving more than 600,000 broadband subscribers in China’s Guangzhou Province. As a leader in the fastest-growing broadband market in the world, GZ CATV has experienced a rapid increase of P2P and HTTP-based video streaming traffic.