IPTV World Series Awards 2008 – shortlisted nominees announced

The IPTV World Series Awards 2008, in its second year running, have announced three shortlisted products and services for each category from a record 100 entries.  The winners will be announced at a ceremony held at 6pm on 12th March at the IPTV World Forum conference and exhibition (www.iptv-forum.com).

IPTV World Series Awards 2008 Shortlist

Best interactive TV/advanced advertising
• Harmonic, Inc. - Integrated digital ad insertion solution
• ARRIS - Advanced Advertising Technology
• Neptuny - ContentWise™

Best IPTV customer premise equipment technology
• ADB – 5810TWX
• Amino - AmiNET530
• Conexant Systems Inc. - CX2427x Dual Decode HDTV MPEG-2/H.264/VC-1 Video Decoder with PVR Support

Best IPTV platform/middleware/application
• Latens Systems  - Latens ECOsystem
• NDS - NDS Metro
• THOMSON - SmartVision IPTV Service Platform

Best cable IPTV technology
• Motorola, Inc.  - DSR 6000 Series IRDs
• Harmonic, Inc. - Harmonic Direct-to-Edge Cable IPTV Solution
• Appear TV - Appear TV DeCore 1000 (DC1000) and FM radio module

The best Internet TV technology/solution
• Harmonic, Inc. - Rhozet Carbon Coder 3.0
• Widevine Technologies - Widevine Cypher® for Internet Digital Media
• Brightcove - Brightcove's Internet TV Platform

Best IPTV distribution/transport/delivery
• Cisco Systems, Inc. - Cisco IP Next-Generation Network (IP NGN)
• VeriSign, Inc. - VeriSign® Kontiki Delivery Management System (DMS)
• BitBand - BitBand Auto-CDN

Best IPTV test & Quality of Service/Experience technology or solution
• Tektronix - GeoProbe Video Monitoring Solution
• Witbe - Witbe’s triple-play & TV QoE monitoring solution
• Juniper Networks/Intelliden Inc. (joint solution) - Dynamic Network Automation (DNA)

Best IPTV content protection/rights management solution
• Nagravision SA - Nagra Cardless System
• SecureMedia  - The Encryptonite ONE™ CA/DRM System Release 2
• Irdeto – Irdeto SoftClient IPTV solution

Best IPTV headend & video processing technology
• Envivio Inc - Envivio® 4Caster™ C4 Multichannel Real Time IP Video Encoder
• Harmonic, Inc - Electra 7000 HD H.264 encoder with 1080p24/25
• TANDBERG Television - MPEG-4 AVC UltraCompression transcoder for HD and SD

Best Mobile TV technology
• Envivio Inc - Envivio® 4Caster™ M2 Mobile TV Encoder
• EXPWAY - FastESG v3.0 Mobile TV Platform & Engine
• Telstra - Mobile FOXTEL and BigPond TV

For details to attend the ceremony or for further information on the awards, please contact Justin Lebbon  jlebbon@junction-group.com

To attend the ceremony you must register for a free exhibition pass – please CLICK HERE

Justin Lebbon
Head of Strategic Development
Junction Ltd
tel: +44 (0) 203 3773 216
mob: +44 7771890908

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About the IPTV World Series Awards

The IPTV World Series Awards provide a showcase for the most important technologies and the finest talent in today’s IPTV industry. They will be judged by a panel of independent experts taken from the IPTV sector and are open to any organisation that is active in this marketplace, including IPTV service providers and technology vendors. The awards are free to enter, and are held each year at the IPTV World Forum event in London.