Siemens and Widevine Cooperate on IPTV

Siemens Communications will offer Widevine Technologies' content protection and digital forensic solution as part of the Siemens SURPASS Home Entertainment solution.Widevine said it now enables more than 90 global operators to acquire and license premium broadcast and video-on-demand (VOD) content from major broadcasters and studios. htt://www.usa.siemens.com/communicationshttp://www.widevine....

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Verimatrix Updates Content Authority System

Verimatrix introduced the second generation of its Content Authority System (VCAS, which protects against theft of paid content. Theft of service prevention from Verimatrix is a proactive, multifaceted approach to eliminate revenue loss due to service piracy, such as cloned set-top boxes (STB) and attacks on the software downloading platform. "The advances in VCAS 2.0 represent a breakthrough in smart card-less content security solutions," said Bob Kulakowski, CTO, Verimatrix. Highlights of VCAS 2.0 include:VideoMark is a robust and invisible content...

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HomePlug Issues Call for BPL Specification

The HomePlug Powerline Alliance issued an open "Call for Submissions" to the Broadband over Power Line (BPL) industry for technical submissions in several key areas related to the alliance's Access BPL Specification. The HomePlug Access BPL working group expects to address such topics as repeating, redundancy, network management, provisioning and others for inclusion into the specification. This invitation is open to all who are interested and those who submit will have the opportunity to present at the upcoming Broadband over Power Line - Specification...

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D-Link Develops HomePlug IPTV Solution for Taiwan's Chunghwa

D-Link has designed a new HomePlug home networking solution to address the emerging IPTV market for Chunghwa Telecom, the incumbent telecom operator in Taiwan. D-Link is using Intellon's HomePlug with Turbo chips to provide connectivity between access modems and IPTV set-top-boxes using existing power lines in homes.http://www.intellon.comhttp://www.dlink....

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Globalstar Announces $400 Million Financing

Globalstar, a provider of mobile satellite voice and data services, raised $400 million in debt and equity financing. The financing consists of $200 million of debt in the form of a five-year term loan and a four-year revolving credit facility, both underwritten by Wachovia Securities. The $200 million in equity capital is being invested by affiliates of the Thermo Companies. Minority shareholders in Globalstar will be provided an opportunity to participate in the equity financing.Globalstar said it plans to use the proceeds of the financing, as...

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Extreme Networks to sell Campus Headquarters

Extreme Networks agreed to sell its corporate headquarters campus in Santa Clara, California at a price of $70 Million. Completion of the transaction is contingent upon successful rezoning of the property for residential development, and is expected to close in 15 to 21 months. The company will proceed with its plans for the relocation of its corporate headquarters to a separate campus in the area. http://www.extremenetworks....

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Alcatel Offers Gigabit Ethernet and PoE Stackable Switches

Alcatel unveiled its new OmniSwitch 6850 family of stackable 10/100/1000 and 10/100/1000PoE workgroup switches, which are 10 Gigabit capable workgroup switches. The OmniSwitch 6850s are the first Alcatel switches to provide Gigabit power-over-Ethernet (PoE) capabilities, as well as offer extensive port diversity, full Alcatel Operating System (AOS) support, gigabit to the desktop, 10 Gigabit uplinks, and enhanced performance for a flexible, intelligent and highly available network.The OmniSwitch 6850L models provide Fast Ethernet to the desktop...

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Cavium Offers High Performance Accelerator Cards for Network Appliances

Cavium Networks introduced a line of PCI/PCI-X accelerator cards designed for handling security and other processing intensive applications in networking platforms. Currently, many network appliances, L4-L7 switches, application gateways, and storage systems have been built using x86-based motherboards with PCI/PCI-X connectivity. The PCI/PCI-X cards accelerator cards offer a ready-to-deploy solution to rapidly add multi-gigabit acceleration for compression/decompression, pattern-matching (RegEx), IPsec/SSL processing, and TCP termination. Specifically,...

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JDSU Adds VoIP Analysis to IP Test Platform

JDSU has enhanced its exiting IP network troubleshooting and data analysis platforms, JDSU's DA-3400 and DA-3600A, with VoIP call quality monitoring capabilities. The DA-3400 is able to support 8,000 simultaneous calls and the DA-3600A can support 64,000 VoIP calls.The DA-3400/3600A's new VoIP features also include the ability to show signaling details of VoIP calls using a graphic display that captures signal/packet set-up and tear-down during a VoIP call exchange. This feature also details the timing and response code, delivering prompts that...

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Broadcom Ships 802.11n Wi-Fi Chipsets

Broadcom began shipping its "Intensi-fi" wireless LAN chipsets to several top manufacturers of wireless networking gear. Broadcom's Intensi-fi chipsets are compliant with the draft-802.11n specification, offering real world throughput of greater than 180 Mbps. Broadcom said its Intensi-fi products are not only interoperable with a wide variety of 802.11a/b/g and draft-802.11n devices, but feature unique enhancements that can improve the performance of legacy Wi-Fi products. The Intensi-fi routers employ a "good neighbor" mode that ensures optimal...

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Verizon Business Enhances Digital Media Platform

Verizon Business unveiled a new version of its digital media platform to enable broadcast and entertainment companies to more efficiently manage, edit and deliver digital media content. The new version supports the National Television System Committee (NTSC) signal, the standard for North America, Central America and Japan. As a result, broadcast and entertainment companies in those regions can now use the platform.Earlier versions of Verizon Business' ICF Media Platform support the Phase Alternate Line (PAL) broadcast standard commonly used in...

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SeaChange Introduces New MediaLibrary 6000

SeaChange International introduced its new MediaLibrary 6000 -- a transmission storage system providing a low-cost entry point for small and mid-sized broadcasters and other content producers. With IP network capability, like the Broadcast MediaLibrary 24000e, the ML 6000 provides centralized, online access to every video/audio file, helping to streamline on-air operations. The ML 6000 scales incrementally from 730 gigabytes to as high as 12 terabytes. SeaChange's MediaCluster 'single-copy' technology provides fault-resilience without mirroring....

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Nokia Opens Research Center at M.I.T.

Nokia and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announce the opening of the Nokia Research Center Cambridge. The new research facility, which is a collaboration between Nokia Research Center and MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), aims to explore and develop technologies that will be available in the marketplace in five to ten years.The center is currently focusing its research on several projects, each part of a larger vision where mobile devices become elements of an "ecosystem" of information, services,...

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Amino Announces High Definition H.264/ AVC Set-top Box

Amino introduced a new IPTV set-top box that supports High Definition, H.264 (MPEG4/AVC) video streams and is modeled on the same design as previous AmiNET generations. The AmiNET130 can deliver HD as multicast, on-demand video and multi-room IPTV services. The company expects to announce the first customer deployment of the new unit in Q3 2006. In anticipation of consumer expectations for H.264 HD services, the AmiNET130 supports Dolby Surround Sound (5.1) and is also compatible with adapters for home networking over the existing infrastructure....

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