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[IPTV Press Releases] This report defines and describes the software category known as IPTV middleware and provides a comprehensive view of the status of this important technology category, and in-depth views of the vendors participating in the category and their products. It also provides trends and conclusions about the “four generations” of IPTV middleware, ranks category leaders by a variety of criteria, and recommends best practices for service providers evaluating these platforms as the foundation of their IPTV deployments.

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[telecom- general feed from realwire] RealWire | SeaChange To Highlight Asian Market Success ...: “SeaChange is rooted throughout Asia Pacific,” said Lincoln Owens, director of broadband for Asia Pacific, SeaChange.  “Our years of experience and commitment to the special requirements across the region enable us to continue to help operators innovate with IPTV, VOD and advertising.  Our CommunicAsia effort will focus on proven progress and opportunities in digital television.”

[IPTV News] IPTV Middleware Strategies: An IPTV expert with extensive experience since the beginnings of the industry, Ariely has been a speaker at numerous events over the past years. He has held a succession of positions in the company during the last 8 years and has recently assumed the responsibility to lead a consolidated Sales and Marketing department that will focus efforts on expanding Orca's customer base and strengthening the competitive edge of these customers by equipping them with an expanding array of well-defined services.

[Everyone's Posts - Trender Researchâ™] Podcast: TVBLOB Aims to Put “Life Back In TV”” the Web Way ...: While working for one of the leading IPTV middleware providers (Espial), I saw how difficult it can be to implement the various manifestations of Internet and web-enabled IP set-top boxes being deployed in the market.

[Alcatel-Lucent RSS] Alcatel-Lucent confirmed as global IPTV access and middleware ...: “Once again, Alcatel-Lucent is at the top of the middleware and access categories due to its strong showing in residential IPTV deployments in North America and Europe,” said Jose Alvear, IPTV Analyst with MRG, and lead author of the .

[TVover.net] Vestitel Launches Partnership IPTV Model Using Orca Interactive’s ...: The operator launched its own IPTV service two years ago and decided to leverage the investment in IPTV by launching a managed service to other Bulgarian service providers. The choice of Orca’s RiGHTv platform was based on offering the best price/performance value, combined with the flexibility to customise it to fit the needs of customers and third party operators.

[itvt] Orca’s Compass IPTV Content Discovery Solution Integrated with ...: Orca bills the Compass recommendation platform as blending user profiles, popular choices and personal usage history to build a personalized set of viewing recommendations for linear and on-demand TV content, thus allowing viewers to avoid “having to navigate their way through the confusing array of channels and programs via their EPG.” The solution’s integration with the Trusted Opinion portal “provides the added value of leveraging recommendations from the most trusted of sources–our friends,”

[The Briefing Room] St. Mary's Medical Center Turns to Adtec Digital for Total IPTV ...: Adtec Digital is a leading developer of digital and IPTV products and solutions including encoders, decoders, multiplexers, ad servers and management servers. With over 23 years experience in media distribution and control, Adtec offers customers rock solid engineering, powerful features and the ability to generate unmatched bottom line revenue.

[Get Elastic Ecommerce Blog] Multichannel 2.0: Are You Ready for the Next Generation of ...: The nice thing about OCAP being an open source standard is you don’t have to worry about buying licenses or developing for different platforms/formats. Really innovative retailers can find creative ways to offer shopping widgets or perhaps explore partnerships with television programs.

[itvt] IPTV Specialists, Amino and Minerva, Team on Whole-Home DVR Solution: The solution consists of Amino’s AmiNET530 DVR-equipped IP set-top box, integrated with Minerva’s new whole-home DVR control module. The companies say that it will allow service providers to offer advanced DVR services throughout a subscriber’s home, using a single DVR set-top box, and will allow end-users to independently play, pause, rewind and fast-forward programming stored on the DVR set-top from any TV in their home, via other set-tops (including boxes without a hard drive).

[PR Hub] Flexibility is Key to Managing Through Economic Rollercoaster: NORRKOPING, Sweden - Dreampark, one of the leading IPTV middleware providers on the Europeanmarket, announced today that it will exhibit at the 2009 IPTV World Forum,March 25-27 in London, and demonstrate how the new Scalable Vector Graphics(SVG) technology in its Dreamgallery(TM) middleware is able to bring the IPTVuser experience to a new level. "With SVG we are getting very close to the user experience provided by embedded devices like Apple TV and high-end game consoles, without compromising flexibility and standards compliance," said Dreampark CTO Bjorn Lang.

[itvt] New Over-the-Top Service, ZillionTV, in Deals with Verimatrix, Inlet: In other ZillionTV news: Encoding specialist, Inlet Technologies, said Monday that ZillionTV is using its Armada automated encoding workflow management platform as its backend infrastructure to support the encoding handled by ZillionTV’s third-party encoding company partners. According to Inlet, the Armada platform helps ZillionTV’s encoding partners to quickly and efficiently transcode large volumes of content from a variety of sources into multiple digital media formats.

[Satellite Blog] Dream Park: The first customer in Ireland: Irish IPTV expanded its services to Dreampark’s IPTV Middleware. It is a new operating system for settop boxes and the IPTV subscribers Irish and get the new software.

[PR Hub] WH Ireland Ltd. Selects FinScan Hosted Compliance Solution: NORRKOPING, Sweden - Dreampark, one of the leading IPTV middleware providers on the Europeanmarket, today announced its first customer in Ireland as Irish IPTV and ISPprovider Magnet Networks has upgraded their existing middleware solution toDreampark's Dreamgallery(TM), further strengthening the company's position asthe leading IPTV middleware provider in Europe. Magnet Networks, the largest provider of broadband and IPTV services onthe Irish market, has chosen to change their current middleware solution toDreamgallery after an extensive selection process that tested its speed,flexibility and user-friendliness.

[itvt] Ericsson Unveils IMS-Integrated IPTV Middleware: According to the company, the middleware forms the core of an end-to-end solution that is aligned with specifications set by the Open IPTV Forum, and is the first IPTV middleware solution to be pre-integrated with IMS (it also operates across traditional networks, the company says). Ericsson bills the end-to-end solution as combining various of its own products–including the new IMS-enabled IPTV middleware, IPTV network infrastructure technologies, video processing solutions and VOD technologies–with third-party products from such companies as Accedo Broadband, Agama Technologies, Amino, HP, SecureMedia, Sun Microsystems, Tilgin, Verimatrix and ZyXEL (note: earlier this month, Viaccess announced that it had signed a security software and services agreement with Ericsson that will see it supporting the latter’s IMS-integrated IPTV solution).

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