IneoQuest has expanded its family of products for monitoring, analyzing, troubleshooting and reporting performance of Microsoft Mediaroom deployments with the addition of IQDialogue Mediaroom Platform Manager. IneoQuest has also added the IQDialogue IPTV probe to its line of products for monitoring, remote testing and analyzing traditional IPTV infrastructure. As the most comprehensive suite of solutions, IneoQuest's product line assists providers with the ability to offer superior, cutting-edge features and services while helping to improve their quality of service and quality of experience for subscribers.

SureWest has selected Comtrend's NexusLink as the ADSL2+ solution of choice for a new video services rollout over its copper-based network. SureWest's new IP video service is being marketed as Advanced Digital TV powered by Microsoft Mediaroom, and is available over both its existing fiber-to-the-home and copper networks.

Calix will demonstrate new interactive IPTV applications enabled by Microsoft Mediaroom at TelcoTV in Orlando (November 10-12, Orange County Convention Center, booth #501).

The Calix TelcoTV demonstration will include security monitoring and caller ID applications created by Microsoft Certified Integration Partner 180Squared using the Mediaroom application development platform, Mediaroom Presentation Framework. This demonstration will provide a clear vision of the differentiated user experience that Microsoft Mediaroom can provide. It will also highlight the deployment flexibility that the Calix Unified Access Infrastructure can deliver across any media type or protocol.

Motorola is accelerating the delivery of personalized media experiences for Farmers Telephone by supporting the delivery of IPTV services with Microsoft Mediaroom. Motorola will provide Farmers with its VIP1200 Series of IP set-tops and Microsoft’s Mediaroom video services platform, as well as systems integration professional services support.

IneoQuest announces the availability of two solutions that now bring complete monitoring and troubleshooting capabilities for Microsoft Mediaroom, from development and lab trials to full scale market deployment. IneoQuest's new IQDialogue IPTV Mediaroom Installer Edition enables service providers to easily verify turn-up and investigate issues in the field. In addition, IneoQuest has also upgraded its IQDialogue IPTV Mediaroom Advanced Edition for greater analysis and troubleshooting for Mediaroom development. With these products, IneoQuest is helping to improve Mediaroom QoS across the entire delivery chain and enable its customers to meet subscriber demands.

S3 has been selected as a Microsoft Mediaroom testing partner to provide STB testing services. This means that S3 will undertake testing work for Original Equipment Manufacturers to test new and derivative STB models for deployment by Mediaroom customers. S3 is in a position to increase testing capacity for Mediaroom, enabling faster time-to-market for OEMs and more choice of STBs for Mediaroom operators.

JDSU has extended its offering of communications test and measurement solutions used in support of Microsoft's Mediaroom platform for IPTV services. JDSU test solutions to ensure a high quality of Mediaroom-based services now also include NetComplete Home Performance Monitoring, part of JDSU's industry-leading service assurance system.

SureWest will deploy the award-winning Microsoft Mediaroom IPTV software platform to deliver an advanced TV service over its existing IP-based fiber-to-the-home and copper networks in the greater Sacramento, CA region. The innovative television service is expected to be available to new customers by the end of 2009 and, combined with other recent advances in technologies, will enable SureWest to offer enhanced video services to an additional 25,000 marketable homes that currently receive only the company's telephone and high-speed Internet services. SureWest will reach 15,000 additional homes with video services in December 2009 and an additional 10,000 by the second quarter of 2010 for a total of 25,000.

Microsoft launched Microsoft Mediaroom with virtualization, making Mediaroom the first IPTV platform to offer virtualization support. Mediaroom with virtualization can deliver up to a sixfold reduction in the number of physical servers required to support a full-featured IPTV service, significantly reducing hardware and management costs and speeding time to market for Mediaroom customers by up to three weeks.

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.

Microsoft and AT&T announce collaborative effort to use Microsoft PlayReady content access and protection technology to enable shared content and converged entertainment experiences across AT&T's TV, broadband and wireless services. As part of this collaboration, Microsoft intends to add support for PlayReady into its Microsoft Mediaroom IPTV software platform, enabling access to PlayReady-based content through AT&T U-verse TV set-top boxes.

Akamai announces the availability of AdaptiveEdge Streaming for Microsoft Silverlight, the service based on Microsoft Internet Information Services 7.0 Smooth Streaming technology, enabling a higher quality video experience for all viewers.

Microsoft announces that Guangzhou Digital Media Group has formally launched Zhujiang Digital, a connected TV service powered by the Microsoft Mediaroom IPTV platform. This is the first Mediaroom-enabled TV service to launch in China and the first time Mediaroom has been delivered over a cable network anywhere in the world.

The new service, available to residents in the Guangzhou region of China, also includes the first deployment of the Mediaroom Anytime feature set, which will take time-shifted TV to the next level in China. Announced at 2009 International CES, Mediaroom Anytime will let subscribers access previously aired shows from their Interactive Program Guide and immediately restart currently airing programs without any preplanning or prior digital video recording.

Microsoft unveils Mediaroom Anytime, a feature set for the Microsoft Mediaroom multimedia and IPTV platform that allows viewers to truly watch TV on their own time. In addition to existing Mediaroom features, such as video on demand, DVR Anywhere and Remote Digital Video Recording, the new Mediaroom Anytime features take time-shifted TV to the next level, enabling viewers to access previously aired shows directly from the Interactive Program Guide or immediately restart currently airing shows without any preplanning or prior DVR recording. In addition, Microsoft announced that the Mediaroom platform has reached nearly 2.5 million subscriber homes worldwide, an increase of more than 1.5 million new connections in the past year alone.

Calix will demonstrate advanced new IPTV and video service quality management solutions, including the latest Microsoft Mediaroom features, across the Calix Unified Access Infrastructure at TelcoTV 2008 (booth #501). Highlights will include delivery of high-definition video over Active Ethernet, GPON, VDSL2, and bonded ADSL2+, all transported via redundant 10 Gbps Ethernet rings, as well as multiple demonstrations of advanced video error-correction technologies, rapid problem-isolation tools, and TR-69 remote management solutions.