IneoQuest has expanded its family of products for monitoring, analyzing, troubleshooting and reporting performance of Microsoft Mediaroom deployments with the addition of IQDialogue Mediaroom Platform Manager. IneoQuest has also added the IQDialogue IPTV probe to its line of products for monitoring, remote testing and analyzing traditional IPTV infrastructure. As the most comprehensive suite of solutions, IneoQuest’s product line assists providers with the ability to offer superior, cutting-edge features and services while helping to improve their quality of service and quality of experience for subscribers.

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IneoQuest Expands Exclusive Line of Microsoft Mediaroom Quality Assurance Solutions

Calix will
demonstrate new interactive IPTV applications enabled by Microsoft Mediaroom at TelcoTV
in Orlando (November 10-12, Orange County Convention Center, booth #501).

The Calix TelcoTV demonstration will include security monitoring and caller ID applications
created by Microsoft Certified Integration Partner 180Squared using the Mediaroom
application development platform, Mediaroom Presentation Framework. This demonstration
will provide a clear vision of the differentiated user experience that Microsoft Mediaroom
can provide. It will also highlight the deployment flexibility that the Calix Unified
Access Infrastructure can deliver across any media type or protocol.

Calix customers are now widely deploying the Microsoft Mediaroom IPTV platform across
North America, providing a clearly differentiated home entertainment experience for
subscribers. Microsoft Mediaroom includes differentiated features like instant channel
change and multiview capabilities that allow consumers to see multiple channels and
programs on one screen.

Calix will also demonstrate an advanced home entertainment experience enabled by Microsoft
Mediaroom for Xbox 360 and Cisco set-top box consoles, across its Unified Access Infrastructure.
This powerful home entertainment experience features content access and control across
the home network, including broadcast, on-demand, recorded, and streamed content,
as well as gaming, music, and digital photography assets. It will also be the first
public demonstration of the Calix E7 Ethernet Service Access Platform.

Calix has worked closely with Microsoft to implement the full extent of current and
emerging Mediaroom features and map them to the realities of communications service
provider deployments. The Calix C7 and E7 platforms have been specifically optimized
to support many of the unique features enabled by Mediaroom:

1. For service providers transitioning from legacy middleware environments to Microsoft
Mediaroom, the Calix Unified Access Infrastructure can support dual middleware environments
and has the capacity to handle the duplication of extensive channel line-ups.

2. Calix supports video service quality management functionality, which seamlessly
manages the subscriber experience in situations where the breadth of Microsoft Mediaroom
functionality may exceed the total bandwidth available in bandwidth-constrained deployments.

3. Network address translation (NAT) support across the Calix Unified Access Infrastructure
enables a home gateway model, allowing Microsoft Mediaroom to deliver robust media
sharing functionality throughout the subscriber home environment.

4. Comprehensive support for advanced Microsoft Mediaroom services and features across
the Calix Unified Access Infrastructure, including virtually any wireline protocol
(ADSL2+ and VDSL2, including bonding, GPON, and Active Ethernet) and any physical
media (copper or fiber).

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Calix to Demonstrate Advanced IPTV Applications for the Microsoft Mediaroom Platform

SureWest will
deploy the award-winning Microsoft Mediaroom IPTV software platform to deliver an
advanced TV service over its existing IP-based fiber-to-the-home and copper networks
in the greater Sacramento, CA region. The innovative television service is expected
to be available to new customers by the end of 2009 and, combined with other recent
advances in technologies, will enable SureWest to offer enhanced video services to
an additional 25,000 marketable homes that currently receive only the company’s telephone
and high-speed Internet services. SureWest will reach 15,000 additional homes with
video services in December 2009 and an additional 10,000 by the second quarter of
2010 for a total of 25,000.

The deployment of Microsoft Mediaroom, with its intuitive on-screen Guide and user
interface, will enhance SureWest’s current broadband triple-play offering. Mediaroom
supports advanced features like:

• Whole Home DVR for watching recorded shows on any TV in the house
• The ability to watch and record up to four channels at one time
• Third party applications such as DVR remote scheduling and Caller ID on TV
• HD VOD, lightning-fast channel change and multiview capabilities
• Media-sharing to link photos and music from a PC to the TV
• The ability to offer cutting-edge TV applications that support rich interactivity
  and seamless blending of Web content and services with broadcast TV

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SureWest to Deploy Microsoft Mediaroom IPTV Software Platform

Microsoft
launched Microsoft Mediaroom with
virtualization, making Mediaroom the first IPTV platform to offer virtualization support.
Mediaroom with virtualization can deliver up to a sixfold reduction in the number
of physical servers required to support a full-featured IPTV service, significantly
reducing hardware and management costs and speeding time to market for Mediaroom customers
by up to three weeks.

Mediaroom with virtualization is designed to provide a cost-effective yet full-featured
IPTV platform for smaller operators, for operators launching new services as they
scale their subscriber base, and for operators who want to extend an existing service
into new markets to serve lower-density communities.

With virtualization support, it is possible to deploy and operate a full Mediaroom-powered
TV service for up to 30,000 subscriber homes per market using fewer than 10 physical
servers. Even for deployments of greater than 30,000 subscriber homes, a mix of virtualized
and dedicated servers can still provide efficiency benefits.

Mediaroom with virtualization offers the full functionality of Microsoft’s award-winning
IPTV platform including video on demand, DVR Anywhere for viewing and managing recorded
shows in any room, and Mediaroom Anytime for viewing of previously aired programs
or restarting currently airing shows without any preplanning or prior digital video
recording. Other capabilities include high-definition video for live and on-demand
content, multiview, instant channel zapping, and TV applications that support rich
interactivity and seamless blending of Web content and services with broadcast TV.

To power virtualization in Mediaroom, Microsoft is using Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V,
Microsoft’s hypervisor-based server virtualization technology. Windows Server 2008
Hyper-V enables multiple virtual servers to be hosted on the same physical server.
Virtual servers share the physical server’s resources, such as memory, disk access
and CPU cycles. Sharing these resources efficiently can result in a dramatic reduction
in the number of physical servers that are needed to deliver services.

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Microsoft Mediaroom First to Bring Virtualization to IPTV

180SQUARED announced
a new Mediaroom solution geared towards smaller carriers. While working with Microsoft
to support existing Mediaroom customers with their Software and extensive Mediaroom
Services knowledge, 180SQUARED has also been working towards developing an end-to-end
solution: the goal being to help smaller carriers in the US to sharpen their business
case around IPTV and support Mediaroom as the middleware of choice.

Some of the Key Features of the 180SQUARED “Mediaroom in a Box” solution encompass
the following components;

--  Services
    --  Full Architecture and Deployment Services for Mediaroom
    --  B/OSS Integration Service
--  Software
    --  180SQUARED Framework B/OSS Package
        --  Global Operations Manager
        --  B/OSS Interfaces and Work Flow Engine
        --  Basic STB Management
    --  Caller ID
    --  Remote (Web) PVR

180SQUARED’s Mediaroom in a Box solution takes advantage of these efforts in Microsoft
to develop a single end-to-end solution that works in Partnership with smaller Carriers.

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Microsoft Mediaroom Alumni Develop ”Mediaroom in a Box” Solution