Sumitomo Electric Network licensed an additional application of Espial Group’s Evo IPTV Service Platform for use with its IPTV set-top boxes. The broadband-access-equipment supplier said the new Evo application -- which cannot be disclosed due to customer-confidentiality reasons -- enables Japanese service providers to deploy next-generation digital-TV functionality, meeting a critical requirement for continued wide-scale adoption of IPTV in Japan.

Shipments of Sumitomo set-tops with licensed Espial software have already exceeded 250,000 units to leading Japanese service providers, including NTT Group.

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• TechniSat will use MaxLinear’s MxL5003S DVB-T silicon tuner in its TeleStreamer 2TW hybrid IPTV/DVB-T set-top box.

• Media Excel reached a licensing agreement under which it will implement On2 Technologies’ TrueMotion VP6 digital-video-encoding solution as an added feature in its DSP-based transcoder-acceleration module, the basis for its HERA appliance family.

• Eagle Broadband announced that its leading hospitality customer placed its seventh order in the past 10 months within the framework of a $6.4 million contract signed earlier this year, requesting 950 MediaPro IP3000HD set-top boxes.

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