Anevia has deployed its innovative products within Ina. With 70 years' experience in TV, 50,000 programmes added each year, 3 million hours archived and receiving a hundred of 24/24 TV channels for copyright registration, becoming a leading company in the field of VOD and TV archiving.

Ina requires first-rate reliability, availability and storage capacity. In this respect, it chose Anevia's expertise to take the technological leap towards quality of service and mass archiving for professional users as well as the general public.

Bright Systems announces that SingTel has purchased a BrightDrive media recording system. The new system will provide the primary workflow infrastructure for a new data-centric postproduction facility for SingTel`s IPTV service, mio TV.

BrightDrive`s media sharing technology is central to the facility`s new tapeless postproduction workflow. SD or HD source tapes are captured into BrightDrive using dedicated ingest stations. A range of systems, including 11 Final Cut Pro/Kona systems, are able to access multiple real-time streams of 2k media simultaneously across the network. This allows processes such as editing and encoding to take place at the same time. The final encoded files are pushed across to mio TV`s streaming servers.

Agilent Technologies introduced its Audio/Video Coding Standard (AVS)-IPTV analysis and monitoring solution. Designed for the Agilent Triple Play Analyzer platform, this software empowers service providers and network equipment manufacturers to accelerate the development and deployment of AVS-based IPTV networks and ensure the acceptable Quality of Service.

AVS is one of the advanced audio/video coding standards for delivery of Internet protocol television (IPTV) services developed by the AVS Workgroup of China. Service providers and manufacturers are faced with numerous network-related challenges including network element interoperability, proactive measurement of video media transport, service delivery optimization, ensuring Quality of Experience (such as video quality and channel zapping), and balancing IP network performance for real-time services.

Shenick announces the general availability of its servicEye, IPTV monitoring system. With servicEye, Shenick adds to its converged IP network test portfolio. IPTV service providers can now proactively address quality issues, reduce customer churn and confidently scale IPTV services delivery.

servicEye provides IPTV monitoring and service assurance from the video head end right through to the end viewer. IPTV service providers can now secure and grow fixed line revenue by delivering a high quality TV viewing experience. They can now boost competitive advantage by proactively reducing and rapidly isolating quality issues saving on repair costs and increasing productivity rates through efficient resource allocation. In addition, they can manage content provider quality issues and establish reliable mechanisms to guarantee content service level agreements.

Alcatel-Lucent has signed a frame agreement with du, the UAE’s second telecom operator, for its upcoming IPTV deployment based on the award-winning Microsoft Mediaroom IPTV and multimedia platform. In addition, Alcatel-Lucent will act as the end-to-end network integrator of a complete IPTV solution comprised of network infrastructure, Microsoft Mediaroom, services fulfillment and OSS/BSS integration, subscriber data management, and content asset management integration and implementation.

Ixia's IPTV test solution has been certified for use with video servers from SeaChange International. SeaChange has a global customer base of television operators providing VOD and IPTV services to millions of homes. Ixia is a leading supplier of IPTV test solutions with more than 200 customers for its IxLoad IPTV testing application. SeaChange has now certified Ixia’s IxLoad for compatibility with its video servers, thereby enabling operators to test their IPTV networks under triple-play traffic conditions.

Vidanti is showing a live demonstration of integrated Definition satellite TV, video-on-demand over IP, web browsing and Voice-over-IP at its booth in IPTV world sector at IBC. Dramatic sales of HD Ready television sets are not matched by a corresponding take-up of HD programming, with the result that many more consumer homes have the means to watch HDTV than are actually watching it. One of the factors behind this is the bandwidth required.

Skyline Communications announced that ATEME has signed a DataMiner Strategic Partnership agreement. This follows ATEME's decision to include Skyline's flagship DataMiner multi-vendor network management platform throughout its product portfolio as the company's standard network management solution.

DataMiner provides monitoring and remote control of the ATEME products and a wide range of advanced functionality. This includes:

• long-term trending
• professional reporting via e-mail triggered by system events or time schedule
• advanced automation for applications such as N+M redundancy switching
• intelligent alarm correlation
• intuitive bubble-up and drill-down UI's
• comprehensive service and SLA management
• real-time KPI dashboards,

Media Excel & WebTV announced general availability of the Hera 3200f file transcoder appliance tailored for broadcasters, content owners and aggregators VOD systems. The Hera 3200f was designed following customer's dissatisfaction of the performance, scalability, and complex licensing structures of available software file transcoding solutions in the market today. To satisfy these needs, Media Excel developed in-house embedded software and DSP hardware components, resulting in a highly scalable system that provides multi-codec broadcast-level video quality, an order of magnitude performance improvement, simplified pricing structure, plus unmatched flexibility to meet individual customer needs.

B2Digital announces an agreement with Multiband Subscriber Services to provide their Hotelguide television guide channel to B2Digital's customers and properties in the hospitality industry.

"This new service, the delivery of an IP based content management system for digital information, offers us a valuable testing platform for digital content management and categorization technologies. It provides us an important step in our pursuit of the complete implementation of IPTV services, including our plans to acquire, catalogue and deliver digital content to our customers," stated B2Digital's CEO, Robert Russell. "One of the great benefits of IPTV is its ability to offer the viewer an endless number of viewing options. This immense availability of content poses an issue in managing and cataloging the infinite content available. We believe this technology will be directly applicable to the categorization and management of information offered through our IPTV technology. This system should provide the end user the ability to wade through the vast amount of IPTV programming offered and efficiently browse, categorize and choose the content they wish to view."

Syndesis has announced their new IPTV service fulfillment solution, Syndesis IPTV Express, which manages IPTV service content and connectivity across telecommunications networks.

IPTV Express offers fulfillment for both content and connectivity, with capabilities for automatic orchestration between the two. The solution integrates into existing processes, systems and infrastructure and can be deployed on its own for end-to-end fulfillment management or in conjunction with existing systems. The IPTV Express solution can be extended to support fulfillment of multiple IP services -- including IPTV, VoIP, Triple Play, Quad Play and others -- over a converged next-generation network.

Convergin announced that its Accolade WCS Service Capability Interaction Management (SCIM) product, now enables the integration of IPTV and telecom services in converged networks. Wireless, wireline, and cable operators, can horizontally integrate IPTV services with their current service offerings, and control the way these services interact. This enables service providers to deliver a quadruple-play user experience.

Amdocs launched Amdocs 7, the first industry-specific software suite that allows service providers to offer their customers the benefits of access to any service, over any network, at any time and on any device, which is made possible by the move to next-generation networks and the convergence of voice, video, data, content, and entertainment. Results of a survey commissioned by Amdocs, indicate that providers expect big revenue jumps from such convergent services and plan to boost spending to deliver a superior customer experience.

Motive Inc. has announced its Home Device Manager (HDM) product is now interoperable with 33 customer premises equipment (CPE) vendors, including IPTV set-tops from Motorola, Inc. The support for these additional CPE devices demonstrates how Motive can help service providers deliver seamless triple-play services including voice, high-speed Internet and television services.

SupportSoft, Inc., a leading provider of software and services that automate the resolution of technology problems, will share insights on how broadband service providers can effectively manage IPTV complexity in order to increase service adoption and customer satisfaction, while reducing operational costs.