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Product News 9-2-2010

Concurrent Preps for Multi-Screen Video at IBC | ActiveVideo to Showcase Two-Way VOD, Interactivity at IBC | Pixelmetrix to Demo Monitoring Solutions at IBC | ARRIS EMTA EuroDOCSIS 3.0 Certified | Harmonic Intros High-Density Edge QAM | Zappware to Highlight ITV at IBC | Clearleap, RCDb Turn Blu-ray Player into Cable VOD Box | Bridge Tech Upgrades CPE Probe | UEI to Demo Remotes for Connected TV and 3D at IBC | BLANKOM Intros Digital Headend System
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EXFO Ups Optical Spectrum Analyzer Speeds

EXFO (www.exfo.com) has announced a processing speed increase for its FTB-5240S Optical Spectrum Analyzer, which is purpose-built for fast and accurate DWDM network commissioning and high-speed network upgrades up to 40G. The module now operates 10 to 20 times faster, depending on the application being run. When equipped with in-band optical-signal-to-noise-ratio (OSNR) measurement capabilities, the FTB-5240S [...]
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Draka Debuts Indoor MDU Drop Cable

Draka Communications Americas (www.draka.com/communications) has introduced a line of indoor drop cables intended for use in multi-dwelling units and multi-tenant units. The Draka Indoor MDU Drop fiber drop cable is designed to meet the installation conditions of apartments, condominiums, high rise buildings and business retail centers. It uses the company’s portfolio of bend insensitive fibers. It [...]
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BelAir Wins “Best New Product Idea” at CableLabs Confab

In the Innovation Showcase at this week’s CableLabs Summer Conference in Keystone, CO, BelAir Networks‘ BelAir100SP Strand Picocell was voted the best new product idea likely to succeed.
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Sandvine Upgrades Traffic Management Software

Sandvine (www.sandvine.com) has released the latest version of its Fairshare Traffic Management for fixed and mobile broadband customers. The new release, version 3.2, is in beta trials in four tier 1 cable service provider networks in North America and Europe. Fairshare Traffic Management release 3.2 includes broadened capabilities in advanced cable networks, including interoperability with DOCSIS [...]
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Inlet Presents Ad Insertion

At the CableLabs Summer Conference, Inlet Technologies‘ (www.inlethd.com) presented automated ad insertion capabilities for live streaming, via its Spinnaker solution. The Spinnaker is designed to reduce the complexity and cost of media preparation for “TV Everywhere” and reach a set-top box, PC or iPhone, iPad, Droid or any 3GPP device with one solution. The company’s adaptive [...]
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BigBand Shows Latest IPTV Advances

At the CableLabs Summer Conference, BigBand Networks (www.bigbandnet.com) demonstrated managed IP video delivery using its vIP PASS to enable cable operators to deliver and monetize video to IP-enabled consumer devices in the home leveraging existing network infrastructure. The company’s demonstration featured managed video services delivery to a range of out-of-the-box IP-enabled consumer electronic devices such as [...]
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Concurrent Showcases iTV, Ad and Data Management

At the CableLabs Summer Conference, Concurrent (www.ccur.com) demonstrated its end-to-end advanced advertising and media data collection and management solutions. The fully managed services are designed to support industry-wide efforts to deliver a standardized platform for advanced advertising and interactive programming. At the heart of Concurrent’s MDAS solution is the Centralized Data Warehouse (CDW) – a source [...]
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Infinera Showcases Optical Transport

Infinera (www.infinera.com) showcased its ATN metro edge platform and DTN digital ROADM at the CableLabs Summer Conference. The ATN metro edge platform is designed to interwork seamlessly with the company’s DTN platform to provide ease of use and point-and-click end-to-end service provisioning across any cable network. The integrated ATN-DTN networks are intended to eliminate back-to-back [...]
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Openet Demos Fulfillment, Subscriber Data Management

At the CableLabs Summer Conference 2010, Openet (www.openet.com) showcased its Subscriber Data Management architecture and Interactive Services Fulfillment solution, demonstrating how cable operators can utilize both to increase ARPU through value-added interactions and extend EBIF and tru2way-based standard applications to offer subscribers a complete set of “subscriber aware” personalized promotions and offers. The company believes that [...]
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Sonus Aims for Phone Convergence

Sonus Networks (www.sonusnet.com) introduced a solution for cable operators to add value to their existing home line services, dubbed “Fixed – Smartphone Convergence.” Cable operators can use new capabilities in the company’s ASX Telephony Application Server to allow cable subscribers with home phone service to combine their existing phone line with up to five [...]
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BackChannelMedia, TelVue Showcase EBIF Infomercial System

BackChannelMedia (www.backchannelmedia.com) and TelVue (www.telvue.com) this week demonstrated an end-to-end interactive multichannel snfomercial system at the CableLabs Summer Conference in Keystone, CO. The system is designed to provide operators with a suite of products for managing and deploying infomercial channels that leverage the emerging EBIF platform and allow consumers to click once with their existing [...]
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Bridge Technologies Upgrades VideoBRIDGE

Bridge Technologies (www.bridgetech.tv) has released version 4.5 of the VideoBRIDGE monitoring and analysis software for cable, terrestrial, and satellite media delivery operations. Version 4.5 adds enhancements and upgrades for the company’s IP probes and VBC server, designed to extend real-world versatility, at-a-glance monitoring, and integration capabilities with third-party management systems. New features have been added [...]
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Universal Electronics Gears up for IBC

At IBC2010, Universal Electronics (www.uei.com) will demonstrate its selection of wireless control devices. All feature connectivity via XMP (eXtensible Multimedia Protocol), simple control using QuickSet on-screen device programming, advanced navigation platforms, and energy efficiency. The company’s Dolphin advanced interface control enables 3-D navigation by incorporating the Freespace motion-detection technology developed by Hillcrest Labs. It translates [...]
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XFTP by Trilithic Intros Triple-Play Analyzer

XFTP by Trilithic (www.trilithic.com) has released the TPNA-1000 Triple Play Network Analyzer. The TPNA-1000 offers analog and digital test functions as standard features including: Tilt, C/N & HUM, Depth of Modulation, Spectrum Scanning Analysis, Channel Power, MER & BER, QAM, QPSK, COFDM and Return Path Noise. Also included as standard with the embedded DOCSIS 2.0 modem [...]
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ACCESS Aims to Make Digital Living Seamless

At IBC 2010, ACCESS (www.access-company.com) will showcase TV browser and DLNA-based (Digital Living Network Alliance) solutions designed to enable its customers to provide the consumer with seamless connectivity across all devices, including the TV set and the set-top box. The company’s TV-centric solutions include NetFront Living Connect, a next-generation DLNA Certified software solution for home networking; [...]
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Alca-Lu Focuses on TV Everywhere–Even in the Car

Alcatel-Lucent’s (www.alcatel-lucent.com/mso) CableLabs demo included some expected things–such as how subscribers can get access to pay TV services from a variety of smartphones, PCs and an iPad tablet–and something rather unexpected: a 4G connected car. High bandwidth connectivity in a mobile environment was based on a prototype Toyota Prius developed by Alcatel-Lucent and its ngConnect partners. [...]
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Alticast Demos ETV, tru2way Apps

At the CableLabs Innovation Showcase, Alticast (www.alticast.com) demonstrated a range of ETV and tru2way application solutions including application templates, viewer behavior measurement and remote system monitoring along with its tru2way middleware. The company also introduced its AltiConnect Social Media platform, designed to allow cable subscribers to interact with sponsored Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare campaigns, from their [...]
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Digital Keystone Takes Aim at the Digital Home

Digital Keystone’s (www.digitalkeystone.com) Maelstrom uses a distributed broadcast/broadband architecture designed to enable delivery of content services throughout the digital home–on TV sets, PCs, tablets, smart phones, and game consoles. It consists of a Maelstrom-enabled gateway and an online synchronization server. The gateway performs transcoding and transcrypting, thereby taking advantage of the native streaming, security and networking [...]
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Pace Shows Content Sharing, Online TV Apps

Pace (www.pace.com) showed its Home Content Sharing Multiroom DVR solution, which is designed to push the bandwidth limitations of MoCA 1.1 and use advanced video processing and routing technology. The architecture is designed to enable nine simultaneous HD streams within the home, including six simultaneous recordings, making every TV set in the home a fully [...]
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