LONDON — Fujitsu Laboratories of Europe Limited is unveiling a number of new technologies at its third annual Technology Forum in Europe, taking place in central London. The event combines a high level conference and technology showcase, opened by Dr Kazuo Murano, President of Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd of Japan, and a gala dinner hosted by Richard Christou, Chairman and Chief Executive of Fujitsu EMEA PLC, for an invited audience of around 150 CEO, CTO and CIO-level business guests.

The event’s theme reflects Fujitsu Laboratories’ principal areas of research, across energy efficiency and green IT, business transformation, and security. Dr Murano expands on the European Technology Forum’s message:

“In planning our research programmes, Fujitsu has... Read more

PHOENIX — Radyne Corporation

(Nasdaq:RADN) announced the signing of a definitive merger agreement with Comtech Telecommunications Corp (Nasdaq:CMTL) pursuant to which Comtech has agreed to acquire Radyne in an all-cash transaction.

Under the terms of the merger agreement, unanimously approved by both companies’ Boards of Directors, Comtech will make a first step cash tender offer at $11.50 per share, which represents a premium of approximately 33.0% over Radyne’s average closing price over the last ninety trading days. Once the first step cash tender offer is completed, it will be followed by a merger at the same price. The acquisition has a transaction equity value of approximately $223.6 million and an enterprise value of $195.0 million. As of March 31, 20... Read more

COLOGNE, Germany — Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) and regional telecommunications operator NetCologne are joining forces to bring broadband speeds up to 200 megabits per second (Mbps)* with live streaming of high-definition Internet Protocol (IP) video to the ANGA Cable trade fair. The ultra-high-speed service is delivered over NetCologne’s hybrid fiber coaxial (HFC) network using Euro-DOCSIS® 3.0 standard compliant technology from Cisco. Visitors to NetCologne’s and Cisco’s showcase will be able to experience the future in broadband entertainment services, with access to multiple live streams of high-definition video and lightning-fast downloading of multimedia content.

“We are demonstrating up to 200 Mbps today but we know that we can achieve double that bandw... Read more

OSLO, Norway — T-VIPS AS today announces at NAB, that it will demonstrate an extended leadership in the design and supply of advanced transport solutions for the backhaul of broadcast quality video signals over fiber, local loop and wireless networks. Live demonstrations on the T-VIPS booth (SU7730) will include the complete range of T-VIPS Video Gateways, which are ideal for sports and news backhaul over IP and 270 Mbps video circuits.

The T-VIPS Video Gateways are advanced solutions for the backhaul of HD and SD video over IP and ASI networks. The range includes:

TVG410 – backhaul of uncompressed SDI over IP networks

TVG415 – standard definition backhaul utilizing JPEG2000

TVG420 – MPEG-2 transport streams over Gigabit Ethernet links

TVG430 ... Read more

LAS VEGAS — Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT - News) today announced it is working with DIRECTV, Inc. (Nasdaq: DTV - News) on a deployment to offer local TV channels for its viewers in selected cities across the U.S. Using Motorola’s multiplexing and video compression technology, DIRECTV will process and transmit TV signals with advanced MPEG-4 technology.

DIRECTV has implemented Motorola’s encoders in each of seven cities to receive signals from local TV stations. Each encoder features a terrestrial receiver so that TV signals are received and converted to MPEG-4 in a single unit. The encoder transmits its signals to a Motorola multiplexer in DIRECTV’s Broadcast Center, where the signals from various encoders are packaged together and dispersed via satellite to DIR... Read more

OSLO, Norway — Appear TV, a global provider of next-generation head-ends for broadcast and IP television, today announced that it will demonstrate its leading range of streaming, multiplexing, decoding with TV and FM radio, scrambling and descrambling solutions at ANGA Cable 2008 (stand: K36). The show will also see the European debut of the company’s award-winning ‘always on’ intelligent redundancy software, which provides unmatched service availability with minimal network set-up requirements.

The Appear TV ‘always-on’ software solution is unique, being the only redundancy solution in the IP television market to take a holistic view of operation and network management, thus simplifying the process, automating it, and significantly reducing operational demands. Alth... Read more

HERZLIYA, Israel — Horizon Semiconductors, a leading provider of highly integrated silicon solutions that enable secure video and audio compression & transmission for the consumer electronics and broadcast markets, announces the immediate availability of industry’s smallest form-factor, multi-standard high definition stand-alone transcoder reference platform for cable, satellite, IPTV and terrestrial distribution, broadcast, home media server and set-top box markets.

Based on Horizon’s Hz4010 multi-channel multi-standard high definition transcoder SoC, the new HzR4010 stand-alone platform is designed both for professional and consumer applications. HzR4010 enables real-time transcoding of HD or multiple SD video streams, as well as faster than real-time transc... Read more

LAS VEGAS — Harmonic Inc. (NASDAQ: HLIT) today announced that SES AMERICOM has certified the use of the DiviCom® Electra® 7000 high definition (HD) MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) encoders and the Ion™ AVC standard definition (SD) encoders for compression of local channels in the IP-PRIME® IPTV distribution platform. The multi-channel encoding systems from Harmonic offer a cost-effective solution for telcos across the United States utilizing the IP-PRIME service to seamlessly add high quality, low bit-rate local broadcast SD and HD TV channels for distribution to subscribers.

IP-PRIME is a fully-featured broadcast and on-demand television service designed for telco and broadband service providers of every size. Architected by SES AMERICOM, IP-PRIME incorporates best-in-class IPTV tech... Read more

COLOGNE, Germany — Harmonic Inc. (NASDAQ:HLIT - News) today announced further enhancements to the highly advanced feature set of its IP-enabled ProStream™ 1000 stream processing platform, with the addition of support for MPEG-2 standard definition (SD) digital program insertion (DPI). Harmonic’s ProStream™ 1000 with new DPI technology is easily incorporated as part of any digital turn-around (DTA) architecture and offers operators around the world a cost-effective and time-saving solution for integrating national, targeted and local advertisement insertion capabilities into their video services.

The ProStream 1000 with DPI technology supports standard digital ad insertion protocols (SCTE 30 and SCTE 35) and is designed to interoperate with third-party systems. Combined w... Read more

MENLO PARK, Calif. — GoBackTV, the innovative supplier of digital video headend and edge solutions, today announced that the A Group has begun taking subscription orders for Cable IPTV service in Ishøj, Denmark, in preparation for its commercial launch early next month. The service uses GoBackTV’s GigaQAM® IP to extend FastTV IPTV services over the Ishøj “antenna society” facilities, and currently includes up to 50 standard definition and 2 high definition channels.

“A and officials of the Ishøj community are very happy with the new services,” said Henrik Lind, A CEO. “Integration with existing network and FastTV components was done quickly, and GoBackTV was very responsive to our needs during installation and network optimization.”

GoBackTV’s Cab... Read more