Corinex announces that Bell Aliant selected its home networking technology to aid in the deployment of Aliant TV. Corinex’s AnyWire Connectivity product line solves the in-home wiring problem plaguing IPTV service providers by connecting the DSL modem to multiple set top boxes. It provides an easy set up that reduces the installation time of Aliant TV.

Aliant TV offers customers 240 channels of full digital content, all starting at $29 per month for the first 12 months. The service has been successfully deployed to Aliant TV customers with category-5 Ethernet cabling being installed for in-home connectivity. Now with Corinex’s AnyWire Connectivity products, adapters which utilize existing coaxial cabling (or electrical wiring) in the home are reducing the install times for in-home connectivity for Bell Aliant installers and customers.

Velocix is working with MediaCorp, the National Broadcaster of Singapore, to provide viewers with live, on-line, bi-weekly episodes of the prime-time talent search program, Star Search and the top international game show, Deal or No Deal.

Koh Peck Kheng, AVP, MediaCorp, says: "We are seeing exponential growth and increased demand from viewers watching live on-line episodes of our hit TV programs, as well as our subscription VOD service MOBTV. Velocix provides us with proven experience and delivery capabilities, allowing us to provide a premium service to our on-line viewers with multiple live video feeds from both stage and backstage areas."

Symmetricom released its 2007 Cable Operator Video Quality Study, an independent survey conducted by Multimedia Research Group assessing cable operators’ requirements for video quality test, measurement and monitoring solutions. A similar independent study released in February, the 2007 IPTV Video Quality Study, assessed telecommunications service providers’ requirements for IPTV test, measurement and monitoring solutions with somewhat parallel results.

The Cable Operator Video Quality Study confirms that video quality monitoring continues to be central to cable operators who were pioneers in video, yet they don’t feel they currently have the right tools implemented to accurately measure video quality from the customers’ perspective. In addition, cable operators indicated that service quality problems are one of the main reasons for customer support calls, resulting in a significant reason for customer churn. With millions of customers across the country, end-user video quality monitoring is an integral part of a cable operator’s business.

Sogetel has purchased Occam’s Broadband Loop Carrier 6000 solution to complete a significant upgrade to its network, enabling the service provider to offer VoIP and IPTV services to its subscribers. Sogetel maintains offices in Nicolet, St. Paulin, Lac Etchemin, St. Liboire and other locations in the province of Quebec.

Sogetel maintains 26,000 access lines and offers subscribers landline and wireless local and long distance phone service and high-speed broadband services. Engineers are deploying Occam equipment at more than 35 sites across Sogetel’s service area, with a plan to offer VoIP and IPTV over Occam BLC blades. Sogetel has purchased Occam’s BLC 6252 POTS and ADSL2Plus combo blade and BLC 6214 ADSL2Plus blade. Sogetel is also using BLC 6450 blades to accommodate 10G transport rings to accommodate IP traffic increases.

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.

AT&T and MediaFLO announce the launch of AT&T Mobile TV with FLO, a mobile television service featuring high quality live programming. The mobile TV service will launch in May 2008 on two new exclusive handsets, the LG Vu and the Samsung Access. AT&T Mobile TV will also feature two exclusive channels, which will be announced soon.

AT&T Mobile TV will deliver full-length television content and sporting events from top networks, including programming from leading entertainment brands CBS Mobile, Comedy Central, ESPN Mobile TV, FOX Mobile, MTV, NBC 2GO, NBC News2Go and Nickelodeon.

The AT&T Mobile TV service will be launched on two stylish devices: the Vu from LG and the Access from and Samsung.

As vendors and service providers worldwide look to maximise revenues, the lack of common remote management capability across all access technologies is a major stumbling block as they look to lower management complexities, minimise truck rolls and introduce new revenue generating services.

The DSL Forum has taken steps to resolve this problem with the approval of Technical Report 142 “Framework for TR-069 enabled PON and fibre related devices”. Developed by the Forum’s DSLHome Technical Working Group, TR-142 defines how Auto-Configuration Servers in the network can remotely configure, troubleshoot and manage a Passive Optical Network optical network termination with layer 3 capabilities using the Forum’s existing CPE LAN management protocol, TR-06

The All England Club and BBC Sport announced a new five-year contract giving the BBC the rights to broadcast The Championships, Wimbledon, the world's most prestigious tennis tournament, for a further five years from 2010 to 2014 inclusive.

The new contract sees coverage of Wimbledon come of age – the digital age – as BBC Sport provides audiences with unprecedented access to the tournament via cutting-edge digital services, across all platforms.

Specifically, for the first time, people will be able to catch all the key matches via BBC iPlayer, for up to seven days after broadcast, and have the opportunity to watch Wimbledon on mobile.

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Singapore’s RICO to show case an HD IPTV solution for vessels and cruise ships by Hong Kong based IP solutions provider BNS at the Asia Pacific Maritime trade show held this week at Singapore Expo.

The BNS showcase is based on the company’s Multi Dwelling Unit IPTV solution, which is a carrier-grade IPTV solution that can be deployed without stringent requirements and costs usually attached to Telco IPTV services.

RICO’s demonstration of BNS’s solution will showcase system features that are specifically tailored to the MDU/Hospitality market, including HD broadcast channels, VOD services, Personal Messaging, Interactive Room Service and TV games.

Private launched its content for VOD on the Neuf Cegetel IPTV platform in France as part of Neuf's Triple-Play offer. Neuf TV offers more than 200 TV channels, including all leading French and international channels, and a library of 5,000 VOD/SVOD titles, featuring news, series, movies and documentaries. With respect to Private, Neuf VOD will provide access to hundreds of titles from Private's extensive proprietary movie library, including both new releases as well as classic blockbuster titles.

Digital Rapids has been selected to provide media encoding, transcoding and streaming systems to NBC for the network's Internet coverage of the 2008 Olympic Games from Beijing, China, August 8-24. The announcement was made by Rab Mukraj, Director of Digital Media Delivery at NBC Universal and Brick Eksten, President of Digital Rapids Corporation.

Digital Rapids' DRC-Stream encoding and streaming solutions will enable NBC Olympics' unprecedented live and on-demand online coverage of the Beijing Olympics. 2200 hours of video will be streamed live on the Internet at NBCOlympics.com, primarily encoded from video feeds into web-friendly streams through the DRC-Stream systems. Streams will be encoded in the VC-1 compression format for a viewing experience powered by Microsoft Silverlight technology. The encoded live streams will also be archived for viewers to watch on-demand. Digital Rapids Transcode Manager, the enterprise-class solution for scalable, high-volume media file transcoding, will be used to convert affiliate-provided content between compression and file formats for U.S. domestic distribution.

Team Lightbulb announces the full schedule for Telecom2008 at the NAB Show. Telecom2008 will focus on the technologies, issues and benefits of IPTV and broadband video ecosystems and deployments in four tracks: The Business of IPTV, Telecom Technology Papers, IPTV - It's about the Content, and Telecom Crash Course.

"This year's conference reflects a new level of maturity for IPTV in terms of services and deployments," said John Abel, Partner with Team Lightbulb. "For example, we have speakers looking at new advertising models and how the web and IPTV interrelate -- characteristics that differentiate IPTV from traditional broadcast, satellite and cable.

Streaming video and music distributed across the Internet, an IPTV network, or a mobile handset will generate $70 billion in network-derived and content-derived revenue into the US markets over the next six years, according to a new market research study from The Insight Research Corporation. Streaming media refers to the transmission of digital audio and video files over an IP network or wireless network in real time or on-demand, while prohibiting users from storing the files locally.

Velocix announces the addition of a complete family of Live Video Streaming solutions to its current product portfolio. The Velocix Live Streaming product family includes: Velocix Live Video Streaming for Adobe Flash & Microsoft Windows Media, together with Velocix Live Audio Streaming.

Velocix Live Streaming also includes a revolutionary new hybrid-P2P live streaming option, which provides scalability to the largest global audiences for online video and audio events and broadcasts, with compelling delivery costs and economics. With these new services, Velocix further extends its lead in the provision of digital delivery services for large digital assets, such as video, software and games, offering the widest variety of online delivery options available on the market today.