Kasenna, The IPTV Company, announced a substantial multi-year deal to supply Cavalier Telephone with its full PortalTV product suite, including the Kasenna LivingRoom ^TM middleware platform and client SDK, MediaBase ^TM video servers, and vFusion ^TM video network management software. In addition, Cavalier will license major studio content from Kasenna's ViewNow division and will use ViewNow's ViewTrak monitoring software to gauge customer viewing habits. (See "Cavalier Telephone Selects ViewNow Content for VOD Rollout," also released today.)

Alcatel and Amdocs, a leading provider of software and services to enable integrated customer management and the intentional customer experience, announced they have signed a letter of intent designed to address the requirements of communications service providers (CSPs) looking to deploy Internet Protocol or IP-based television (IPTV) and other next generation broadband IP services. Through this arrangement, the two companies will work to deliver a joint end-to-end solution that will allow CSPs to offer "triple play" bundles of voice, data and video services, making deployments faster and easier, and reducing operational costs.

Discovery astronaut Steve Robinson was the first astronaut in the 24-year shuttle program to spacewalk to a shuttle's underside and, once there, the first to fix the heat shield while in flight. All of this was shown live on Internet station NASA TV. You can visit our Internet TV Listing to watch NASA TV.