Bivio Raises $16.5M for Gigabit Packet Handling

Bivio Networks, a start-up based in Pleasanton, California, raised $16.5 million capital in venture funding for its new line of multi-gigabit packet handling appliances. Bivio has developed an enterprise-class networking appliance that features a uniquely scalable architecture for advanced packet handling of network applications in the areas of security, VoIP, multimedia, wireless and IPv6. Bivio's multi-gigabit architecture, which leverages off-the-shelf processors and programmable FPGAs, is specifically optimized for wire-speed execution of...

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Kasenna Previews its Latest IPTV Server

Kasenna is showcasing its latest IPTV application suite at this week's NAB 2005 show in Las Vegas. Kasenna's "LivingRoom" IPTV includes broadcast TV, pay-per-view, video-on-demand, network PVR, and a commercial music jukebox-all from the same application server. In addition, LivingRoom v1.2 supports easy integration of more advanced services such as Internet access, e-mail, chat, interactive gaming, and traffic watch using web services APIs.LivingRoom clients are available in easily portable, thin client, browser-based configurations as well as...

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Altera and Gennum Develop 3 Gbps Video Interface for Coax

Altera and Gennum, a silicon company based in Burlington, Ontario, announced a serial video interface that supports a 3-Gbps signal over a coax. The solution uses Altera's Stratix GX FPGAs and Gennum's cable equalizer and driver products. This enables a multi-rate link that supports Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) protocols 259M-C (270 Mbps) and 292M (1.485 Gbps), and twice the SMPTE 292M data rate (2.970 Gbps)."The movement in the broadcast industry toward 1080-line progressive video formats is creating demand for...

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Liberty Alliance Addresses EU Privacy Concerns

The Liberty Alliance Project, a global consortium for open federated identity standards and identity-based Web services, released "Circles of Trust: The Implications of EU Data Protection and Privacy Law for Establishing a Legal Framework for Identity Federation". The document is a guide for a federation of organisations implementing the Liberty specifications under the rigorous requirements of European privacy law. The Circle of Trust is a concept central to the Liberty Alliance Project. A Circle of Trust is a federation of service providers...

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Club iT and Alcatel Supply Gaming-on-Demand in Cyprus

Club iT Corporation, a subsidiary of SOFTBANK Broadmedia Corp., partnered with Alcatel to supply an on-demand gaming solution for CYTA, the incumbent telecommunications organisation in Cyprus.Club iT's G-cluster solution is fully integrated with Alcatel's Open Media Platform (OMP) IPTV middleware suite. Customers are able to play the latest console and PC games on their set-top boxes (STBs). The games are hosted and executed in one of 6 miVision server centers. G-cluster servers stream the video and sound output to the STB. User input (jump,...

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Distributel Licenses DCL's Messaging and Conferencing Technology

Distributel, a Canadian provider of competitive telecommunications services, has licensed both Data Connection's MailNGen platform for voicemail, email, fax and unified messaging and also Data Connection's MeetingServer platform for integrated audio/video/web conferencing. This gives Distributel a single source for two key services, both of which are becoming increasingly important differentiators in the hugely competitive telecommunications market. MailNGen offers email, voicemail and fax, all through a single inbox. This allows Distributel to...

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Eagle Broadband Appoints CEO

Eagle Broadband, a supplier of broadband solutions including IPTV, promoted David Micek to the posts of president and CEO, succeeding Dave Weisman. In addition, Jim Reinhartsen, who is currently a member of the company's board of directors, will succeed Dave Weisman as chairman of the board. Weisman will continue to serve as a member of the board of directors. Micek has previously served as the company's COO. Most recently, Micek was president at Internet search company AltaVista where he led a restructuring and sale of the company's enterprise...

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Conax Provides Encryption for IPTV

Conax, a subsidiary of the broadcast operation of Norway's Telenor, introduced a product that enables operators and content providers to encrypt streamed IP television content, distribute the stream via open networks, and selectively determine the receivers who will be able to decrypt and utilize the content. Conax offers a complete video DRM enforcement solution for IPTV, addressing both the point-to-point on-demand and the multicast push content modes. http://www.conax....

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Streaming Media Consortium Announces Downloading Spec

The Internet Streaming Media Alliance (ISMA) made publicly available the final version of its next generation specification, ISMA 2.0. The specification incorporates advanced codec technology for audio and video applications, Internet protocols for streaming and file formats for storage. ISMA 2.0 defines a standards-based approach to developing products for the streaming multimedia market. For video, ISMA 2.0 has adopted MPEG-4 part 10, also known as ITU H.264 or AVC. AVC guarantees greater quality at various bit rates and over multiple connection...

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Skype Offers Inbound PSTN Calls, Voicemail

Skype announced the public beta launch of two commercial services: inbound calls to a Skype users from the PSTN and voicemail. Separately, Skype announced an agreement with TDC Song to provide call termination services and numbering allocations for Skype premium offerings. TDC Song joins previously announced carriers, including B3G Telecom, Cable and Wireless, COLT, HGC, iBasis, Level3 and Teleglobe, in providing global termination and premium services. SkypeIn provides customers with a regular telephone number so that they can receive inbound...

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Skype Offers Inbound PSTN Calls, Voicemail

Skype announced the public beta launch of two commercial services: inbound calls to a Skype users from the PSTN and voicemail.SkypeIn provides customers with a regular telephone number so that they can receive inbound calls to their Skype client from ordinary fixed telephones or mobile phones. The Skype software client receives the call from any location where the user has broadband access. Users may purchase up to three numbers from their home country in Denmark, Finland, France, Hong Kong, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States during...

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