Wowza announces a partnership with Digital Rapids. The collaboration is designed to streamline infrastructures for businesses eager to stream video at the highest quality to all digital screens – mobile, desktop and IPTV. Together, the Wowza Media Server 2 and Digital Rapids’ multi-format encoding and live streaming systems enable content creators, distributors and broadcasters to efficiently bring content to multiple viewing platforms and player technologies. Digital Rapids’ latest release, the StreamZHD Live ABR adaptive streaming system, encodes and streams live HD and SD content with unparalleled quality and performance using the latest in adaptive bitrate delivery technologies. Combined with the Wowza Media Server 2, the unified solution enables simultaneous streaming to multiple players and devices using a single multi-bitrate encoder source — freeing organizations from the traditional financial and resource burdens of deploying and operating separate client-specific encoder and server infrastructures.

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Wowza and Digital Rapids Partner to Refine Streaming Media Infrastructures for Desktop, Mobile and IPTV Video

In the details of its “Recommendation 4.12” of the National Broadband Plan, the FCC is taking an unnecessarily adversarial position with pay-TV operators (MVPDs, or multichannel video programming distributors in its parlance), who are forecast to deploy more than 30 million open-standard without the FCC’s intervention.

Stephen Froehlich, a senior analyst with IMS Research’s consumer electronics research group, notes that “Without intervention from the FCC, many US pay-TV operators are already moving to adopt the pay-TV gateway model for whole-home DVR services. In my interactions with them, major US operators have expressed positive reactions to partnering with established CE companies to reduce their set-top box costs or eliminate set-top boxes entirely.

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First Media is proud to announce that it has been awarded the prestigious 2010 IPTV World Series Awards for ‘Best Client Software / Intellectual Property Solution’. First Media gains this honor for the innovative Xpertis Agent product developed by them. Xpertis Agent is part of Xpertis product family that provides real-time, end-to-end, QoE management capability over IP based multi-play networks. Xpertis product family provides industry’s most comprehensive solution covering Head-End, Core Network, Aggregation network, Access Network, and Customer Premises to measure Quality at Transaction, Transport Stream, Transmission and Content layers.

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First Media wins IPTV World Series Award for its Xpertis Agent Software

Informa Telecoms Media announces the winners of the IPTV World Series Awards.

The Awards were held at the Royal Garden Hotel in Kensington, London and were hosted by TV and radio personality, Paul Ross. Ross is the co-presenter with Gabby Roslin on BBC London 94.9FM’s flagship breakfast show and has fronted the police appeals show Crime Monthly for ITV and presented numerous game shows including All Over The Shop and No Win No Fee for the BBC and Jeopardy for Sky One. He is also currently the showbiz correspondent and film critic for This Morning.

The IPTV Awards Gala Evening took place on the first evening of the IPTV World Forum (http://www.iptv-forum.com/) on Tuesday, 23rd March 2010 at 7pm. They recognise excellence in embedded client software or intellectual property across all network types, including terrestrial, satellite, cable, IPTV and mobile. They also cover technologies and services relating to internet-based video over any access network.<

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IPTV World Series Awards 2010 Winners Announced

EchoStar Europe has secured the highly coveted ‘Best Hybrid Broadcast-IP Video Delivery Solution or Service’ award at the IPTV World Series Awards in London. The award recognises customer premise equipment that caters to the convergence of IP and non-IP delivered video services. The IPTV World Series elite judging panel, comprising of leading industry journalists and market analysts, selected EchoStar Europe from six other candidates.

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EchoStar Europe Wins Award for Hybrid SlingLoaded Technology