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September 4, 2007

TOP STORY: Verimatrix Dishes Up IPTV for Cable
FiOS: Verizon Expands TV Service in Tampa Area
On the Front Lines
· Nsight Telservices Turns Triple Play With Nortel IPTV
· GekTV Uses SecureMedia Content-Protection Platform
One-Liners

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Top Story Verimatrix Dishes Up IPTV for Cable

Verimatrix is betting that some small and midsize cable operators will be interested in diving into Internet Protocol TV, a technology that to date has been associated with telephone companies.

The San Diego-based provider of content-security technologies has struck a partnership with GoBackTV, a startup that has developed a system to let IP video traffic bypass a cable-modem termination system. This creates an "IPTV overlay" on the cable network that doesn’t burden the CMTS with bandwidth-intensive video traffic, according to Verimatrix.

Verimatrix’s pitch: Using IPTV on existing cable plant could provide a cost-effective option for operators that have not yet introduced digital video to offer a premium tier of new channels or video-on-demand.

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FiOS Verizon Expands TV Service in Tampa Area

Verizon Communications’ FiOS TV service is now available to more than 17,000 households in north Pinellas County, in the communities of St. George, Palm Harbor and Tarpon Springs, going up against cable providers Bright House Networks and Knology.

In July, Florida’s Department of State approved Verizon’s application for a state-issued video franchise. Verizon said it has deployed nearly 1.4 million feet of fiber in Pinellas County to date, and more than 51 million feet of fiber in its Florida service territory. FiOS TV is available to more than 520,000 households in Hillsborough, Pasco, Sarasota, Manatee and Pinellas counties.

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Brief Nsight Telservices Turns Triple Play With Nortel IPTV

Nsight Telservices, a regional telecommunications provider in Northeast Wisconsin, has deployed an IPTV solution from Nortel Networks. Nsight Digital TV, to be available to subscribers in September, provides television programming and local content through the phone company’s broadband network.

The IPTV solution includes the Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch 8600 and Application Switch 2424, Avail Media’s content-provisioning platforms, Minerva Networks' iTVManager middleware and Widevine Technologies' content-protection technology.

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Brief GekTV Uses SecureMedia Content-Protection Platform

GekTV Entertainment, a U.S.-based IPTV broadcaster specializing in Asian programming, is deploying SecureMedia's Encryptonite One System conditional access and digital rights management.

San Francisco-based GekTV will commercially launch its service Sept. 16. The company has exclusive U.S. broadband-distribution rights for Television Broadcast Limited (TVB) of Hong Kong, and its channel lineup also includes Hong Kong’s i-Cable News and i-Cable Entertainment News, Fashion TV-Asia, Setanta Sports Channel and China’s Pearl River Channel.

SecureMedia was acquired last month by competitive local exchange carrier Cavalier Telephone.

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One-Liners

• AT&T launched CoolerThanCable.com, a blog maintained by the telco’s corporate communications group to promote U-verse TV.

• IPTV middleware vendor Orca Interactive is delivering Web TV technology to Blockbuster Israel, which plans to provide an IPTV-ready set-top box to enable TV connectivity from the PC and other services in early 2008.

• AT&T U-verse was named “best business strategy” for multichannel video programming distributors in 2007 by Stratecast, a subsidiary of consulting company Frost & Sullivan. Stratecast said AT&T's strategy of deploying IPTV over a predominantly fiber-to-the-node architecture “will yield the greatest return for stockholders and maximum value for customers.”

• Accedo Broadband, a distributor of interactive applications and content based in Sweden, has integrated games, karaoke and video-art applications with Amino Communications’ AmiNET130 IPTV set-top box.

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