Aruba Networks, Inc. [NASDAQ: ARUN] has been named a VoIP Leader by FierceVoIP. This is an honor that recognizes the top 10 companies of the constantly evolving VoIP industry. Winners are singled out for leading the industry as it expands beyond service providers and into the fields of enterprise and unified communications. FierceVoIP is a bi-weekly email newsletter distributed by FierceMarkets that covers news and insights on the emerging VoIP industry, providing more than 35,000 subscribers a quick, authoritative briefing on the week’s top VoIP stories and marketplace developments. Aruba’s user-centric networks securely deliver the enterprise network to users by integrating adaptive wireless LANs, identity-based security, remote access, and fixed mobile convergence solutions into a cohesive, high-performance system. Adaptive wireless LANs deliver follow-me connectivity to roaming users, support standard Wi-Fi clients -such as Apple Macintosh and Intel Centrino – and deliver toll-quality WPA2 encrypted voice and streaming video. Aruba’s identity-based security associates policies with users instead of ports, delivering follow-me security that provides extended mobility for users without compromising security. Remote access and enterprise fixed mobile convergence solutions deliver follow-me applications and toll-quality voice to users wherever they work or roam—Sunnyvale, California
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Public Television stations across the country will soon be available in high-definition (HD) to DIRECTV customers, thanks to a landmark agreement reached by DIRECTV, Inc., the Association of Public Television Stations (APTS) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). DIRECTV viewers will have access to other Public Television content as well. DIRECTV will include the local HD feeds of Public Television stations in its HD rollout plans, starting in 2008. DIRECTV currently offers local HD programming in 68 markets, representing more than 72 percent of U.S. TV households. DIRECTV, APTS and PBS will also work together to develop new video on demand (VoD) offerings, which will be made available to local and national public television programming for DIRECTV’s customers. In addition, DIRECTV will carry two national standard-definition channels of Public Television programming, further expanding its commitment to high-quality educational programming. The terms of the deal were unanimously approved by the APTS Board of Trustees yesterday and are pending approval by the PBS Board of Directors. The agreement must also be ratified by local Public Television stations—El Segundo, California
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ICO Global Communications (Holdings) Limited [NASDAQ:ICOG] and Alcatel-Lucent [Euronext Paris and NYSE:ALU] will demo North America’s first video broadcast based on the DVB-SH (Digital Video Broadcasting—Satellite services to Handhelds) mobile broadcasting standard at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) next month in Las Vegas, Nevada. This demonstration is a key milestone for ICO’s initiative to deploy a fully-integrated DVB-SH hybrid satellite/terrestrial network in North America. Alcatel-Lucent, as the end-to-end network integrator for the project, is supplying the system architecture, design and installation for the network.
In the demonstration, ICO and Alcatel-Lucent will deliver mobile high-resolution live television programming to display terminals located in a moving vehicle outfitted with DVB-SH receivers. In addition, ICO will demonstrate high-resolution DVB-SH video reception by delivering pre-encoded content to portable monitors in ICO’s exhibit suite at the Venetian hotel. ICO and Alcatel-Lucent will also be demonstrating at the CES “ShowStoppers” press event on Monday, January 7 from 6:00 until 10:00 pm at the Wynn Hotel. These standards-based demonstrations are the first displays of the cutting-edge solution being developed for the ICO alpha trial of mobile interactive media (mim) services, which will take place in 2008 in Las Vegas, Nevada and Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina—Reston, Virginia and Paris, France
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In yesterday’s digiGO! news, we mentioned the Times Square Alliance for the presentation of the Times Square 2008 New Year’s Eve event. Further information was received today from Countdown Entertainment, TSA and GlobeCast detailing the actual coverage times… important info if you wish to enjoy the Times Square celebrations and cannot attend them in person. Here are the broadcast breakdowns:
FEED #1: BEHIND-THE-SCENES B-ROLL OF TIMES SQUARE 2008 Pre-New Year’s Eve footage featuring the arrival and installation of the “2008” sign at the top of One Times Square; and the assembly and testing of the new LED Crystal New Year’s Eve Ball, celebrating its 100th birthday this year; and other preparations for the festivities.
TIMES AND COORDINATES: B-ROLL FOOTAGE
- Friday, Dec. 28, 2007; 3:00 to 3:30 p.m. EST and 6:30 to 7:00 p.m. EST (re-feed)
- C Band: Galaxy 26, /Transponder C-15; Orbital Position 93’ West; Downlink Frequency 4000 V, Audio 6.2/6.8 MHz
- Ku Band: Galaxy 11, /Transponder 20K; Orbital Position 91’ West; Downlink Frequency 12100 H, Audio 6.2/6.8 MHz
- The New York Switch: PL3B
- Via Fiber: Hand-off at the New York Switch—Monday, December 31, 2007; 5:45 p.m. to 12:15 a.m. EST
- Via Satellite: Monday, December 31, 2007; 5:45 p.m. to 6:15 p.m. EST and 10:00 p.m. to 12:15 a.m. EST
- C Band: Galaxy 26, /Transponder C-15; Orbital Position 93’ West; Downlink Frequency 4000 V, Audio 6.2/6.8 MHz
- Ku Band: Galaxy 11, /Transponder 20K; Orbital Position 91’ West; Downlink Frequency 12100 H, Audio 6.2/6.8 MHz
- The New York Switch: PL3B
- Via Satellite: Monday, December 31, 2007 – 11:45 p.m. to 12:15 a.m. EST (Monday, January 1, 2008 0445-0515 GMT)
- EUROPE: Atlantic Bird-1, K-Band, Orbital Position 12.5’’ West; Downlink Frequency 12633.75 MHz Horizontal, FEC 3/4, Symbol Rate 6.1113 MS/s; Video Standard PAL
- LATIN AMERICA: NSS-806 C Band, Orbital Position 40.5’ West; Downlink Frequency 3803 LHCP, FEC 7/8, Symbol Rate 26.86 MS/s; Video Standard NTSC
- ASIA: Asiasat 2 C Band, Orbital Position 100.5’ East; Downlink Frequency 3886.5 H, FEC 3/4, Symbol Rate 6.1113 MS/s, Video Standard NTSC
- AFRICA: PAS-10 C Band, Orbital Position 58.5’ East; Downlink Frequency 3931.5 V, FEC 3/4, Symbol Rate 6.1113, Video Standard PAL
FEED #2: LIVE NEW YEAR’S EVE COVERAGE OF TIMES SQUARE 2008
Live coverage of the Times Square 2008 festivities with exclusive panoramic views of Times Square and the new LED Crystal New Year’s Eve Ball from proprietary camera locations and the ambient and natural sounds of the revelers. This clean, uninterrupted feed will be provided free of charge to media organizations around the world on a non-exclusive basis, solely for their use in creating television programming relating to the event. The feeds are also available to mobile phone providers; and user generated content sites, encouraging Times Square revelers to upload their own accounts of the evening’s festivities in Times Square. Additional information, including a detailed schedule of events and talent, will be announced shortly at this link.
NORTH AMERICAN TIMES AND COORDINATES
NEW YEAR’S EVE LIVE COVERAGE
INTERNATIONAL TIMES AND COORDINATES
NEW YEAR’S EVE LIVE COVERAGE
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At the upcoming ISE 2008 Exhibition, TV One will be debuting several new products. First up is a product that uses the same CORIO technology that is behind all of the C2 products available from the company. The C2-3360 is an 8 Universal Input Video and Audio Processor with features that include Genlock, PiP, Seamless Switching, Edgeblending, Chroma & Luma Keying and Program & Preview outputs. Universal inputs are available via HD-15 connectors, with the two program outputs via a universal HD-15 connector and a DVI connector. These outputs can be used simultaneously. Plus, the C2-3360 includes an integral audio processor capable of processing up to 8 channels of Balanced Stereo Audio inputs via terminals and also has standard features such as Audio Follow Video and Audio Breakaway.
The C2-7310 addresses the needs of the Pro AV and Broadcast markets and supports virtually every bi-directional analog-to-HDTV conversion, all within a 1 RU enclosure. Users can mix, route and delay any of the 16 HD-SDI or 16 AES3-id stereo audio channels, process them, and output them as AES3-id stereo audio, or embed into the HD-SDI output.
The A2-7302 and the A2-7342 Audio Expansion units will also debut and visitors to ISE 2008 can view them working in conjunction with the aforementioned CS-7310 video/audio processor. Connected as AES3-id audio on an HD-44 connector, the A2-7302 adds a further 8 inputs and outputs to the C2-7310 video/audio processor of Digital Balanced AES Audio via XLR connectors. Plus, the audio channels can also be sync’d to a DARS using the BNC connector on the back of the unit.
Visitors to the booth will also be able to see a single DVI single coming from a TV One CORIOflex system split into two, with one being transmitted over 300m of Cat.5 cable before being fed into a C2-7200 Dual Channel Scaler. The second signal will be input straight into the C2-7200 from the DVI splitter and, acting as a dual picture in picture (PiP) device, the C2-7200 will be used to place the tow inputs into windows and place them side by side onto one 42-inch LCD—Kent, United Kingdom
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Wegener Corporation [NASDAQ: WGNR) has announced a large U.S. cable programmer is using WEGENER satellite receiver equipment to distribute its hi-def video programming service to its cable and satellite affiliates. The network launched recently and is currently distributed to millions of television subscribers nationwide through agreements with major cable multiple system operators and satellite direct to home services. As part of its daily broadcast operations, the network will employ a full complement of WEGENER linear video distribution solutions, including Unity(R: 45.34, -0.27, -0.59%) 4600 satellite receivers, COMPEL(R: 45.34, -0.27, -0.59%) network control system, and COMPEL encryption. The Unity 4600 receiver is a professional-grade device that provides digital reception of SD and HD television signals. COMPEL Control(R: 45.34, -0.27, -0.59%) will provide the network with the ability to support multiple live programs, regionalize commercial insertions and remotely control and re-tune WEGENER receivers—Duluth, Georgia
Additionally, the company has also received orders totaling more than US$1.4m from one of its largest customers for their new Unity 552 Enterprise Media Receiver. This unit has bandwidth-efficient MPEG-4/H.265 video coding for standard and hi-def video, digital and analog outputs, as well as DVB-S2 demodulation. The orders are expected to be the first of a series of orders from the customer for a complete network upgrade to Unity 552—Duluth, Georgia
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