India/China: Zee Announces Programme Exchange Deal With CCTV
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Text of report by Indian broadcast industry website Indiantelevision.com on 18 September  The Zee Network today announced an agreement with Beijing based China Central Television, China's largest national TV network.
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India&#39;s one-day series against South Africa to be played in Britain and Ireland next month will go ahead after the Indian Cricket Board signed a fresh television deal on Thursday.
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Zee Telefilms is expected to file a petition in the Supreme Court today against the Board of Control for Cricket in India&#39;s (BCCI) decision to cancel a tender awarded to it to telecast Indian cricket team&#39;s matches over the next four years.
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(InfoWorld) - IBM and Cisco Systems have "soft launched" an IPTV (Internet Protocol TV) with HD, video on demand, and other capabilities at a demonstration center at the IBM Industrial Solutions Center in La Gaude, outside Nice, France. The demo facility, aimed at telecommunications and cable TV operators and other network operators, such as municipal fiber networks and power utilities, was opened Monday, ahead of Cisco's European-wide networkers event in Cannes. Olli Patja, an IBM Finland executive, described the modular IPTV offering during an unscheduled presentation at an all-day event for IBM and Cisco customers from the Nordic region and Baltic States. The package from IBM and Cisco will consist of six modules: the "head end" feeding digital TV and HDTV satellite signals into the network supplied by Cisco subsidiary Scientific-Atlanta; "conditional access" provided by Verimatrix and IBM; video on demand by Kasenna and IBM; the "core network" by Cisco; the "metro" (citywide or district-wide) network by Cisco, and the access or "last mile" DSL or fiber to the home from Cisco. The IPTV package will be officially launched in March, so IBM and Cisco officials were reluctant to be quoted by name regarding details. However, Henning Glegg-Sorensen, manager of IBM's Nordic Network Services said it would be fair to describe the opening of the demo facility as comparable to the distribution of beta software to testers and selected customers. The IPTV package, which can be integrated piecemeal with some existing cable and IPTV services, is aimed as an end-to-end product at operators who are upgrading or switching their networks to IP-based platforms. "This can be a major revenue source resulting from such an upgrade if you can deliver HDTV to households who are buying ever-cheaper flat TVs that are HD ready and capable," said one IBM executive. The demo center, when fully functional, will show how the package works during normal operations and under various sets of extraordinary conditions of concern to potential customers, such as fiber breaks, network congestion, and various critical equipment and software failures. IBM and Cisco representatives said reliability will be a key selling point as a study in Norway showed that breaks in cable TV broadcasts generated heavy complaint traffic to call centers much faster than electric power failures or interruptions of Internet service. The IPTV package to be presented in March is not the first time IBM has been involved in IPTV in Europe. In 2005, local IBM officials in Latvia together with Ericsson presented an IPTV offering at about the time the incumbent national telco Lattelecom was examining IPTV. Lattelecom later launched its own service based on Microsoft software and a high-speed ADSL2+ network.
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Asian giants India and China agreed  to broaden their budding friendship through a new security and  foreign policy dialogue they launched Monday and said this had  boosted trust between the two sides.
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EVEN as Zee Telefilms chalks out its strategy for the cricket rights, legal experts are of the opinion that the Bombay High Court&#39;s suggestion for a fresh round of bidding could open options for the other broadcasters who had lost out in the first round.
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Zee Telefilms chief Subhash Chandra accused the BCCI of conspiracy on Tuesday after the board cancelled the contract it had awarded the network for the telecast of international cricket matches in India.
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EMC's security division RSA will acquire Indian security software company Valyd for an undisclosed sum.
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The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has agreed a deal with pay-TV operator Sky Sports for all home Test matches, one-day internationals, Twenty20 and county action.
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(InfoWorld) - EMC has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Valyd Software, a Hyderabad, India, vendor of software for securing enterprise data. EMC did not disclose the sum it will pay for Valyd, a privately held company. Valyd's software will be brought into RSA, the security division of EMC that was set up last year to integrate products from itsÂ acquisition of RSA SecurityÂ andÂ Network Intelligence. The acquisition is expected to close in the first quarter, the Hopkinton, Massachusetts, vendor of storage management and security software said Tuesday. Valyd's technology for encrypting and securing data at the database and file system level will lead to the introduction of two new products from the RSA division, after the acquisition is complete, said Manoj Chugh, president of EMC India, on Wednesday. RSA Database Security Manager will address security of data on a variety of database management systems, while RSA File Security Manager will secure data security at the file and folder level, Chugh said. A focus of the RSA division is on products that manage and secure enterprise-wide information assets regardless of where they resides on the network, Chugh said. Valyd's technology, which runs on a large variety of operating systems and database systems, fitted well into the strategy of the RSA division, he added. Valyd Software was set up in 1998 to develop software to secure enterprise data. The company has over 50 staff in Hyderabad, which will be increased to 100 by the end of this year, Chugh said. The Hyderabad operation will focus on the development and enhancement of the new security products, he added. Indian product companies have emerged as acquisition targets for multinational companies. Oracle Corp., for example, has acquired a majority stake in Indian financial software company, i-flex Solutions Ltd. "India was until now perceived as a low-cost location for outsourcing work, rather than as a place where you could find top quality innovation and intellectual property," Chugh said.
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MUMBAI, SEPTEMBER 14: Zee TV has refused to accept the Bombay High Courtâs suggestion to call for fresh bids for cricket telecast rights, setting the stage for a legal battle.
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Zee Telefilms has opened yet another flank in its legal battle with ESPN-Star Sports over the issue of cricket telecast rights for the next four years.
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Popular global TV shows will soon be available in the UK under a deal between internet provider Tiscali and broadcaster JumpTV.
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German industrial conglomerate Siemens  AG may withdraw from the Internet TV market in China, a local  newspaper reported on Friday. Siemens has dismissed its team in  charge of Internet Protocol Television in China, the Shanghai  Securities News said, citing industry sources saying that it  was a "failure" for Siemens after the company had lost a bid to  cooperate in the launch of IPTV services in Shanghai.
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China launched a new communications satellite into orbit early Friday to provide broader radio and television signal coverage across the country, state media reported.
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(InfoWorld) - MicrosoftÂ and newly merged Alcatel-LucentÂ have partnered to deliver Internet-based television technology to Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel), the companies said Thursday. But it's not business as usual: the two partners could be headed to court over alleged patent infringements and, depending on the outcome of their dispute, may choose to go their separate ways. SingTel is the second Asian carrier to test Microsoft's IPTV (Internet Protocol television) software, bringing the total number of operators either trialing or commercially deploying the technology to 16. The deal is part of a partnership agreed in 2005 through which Alcatel-Lucent sells the Microsoft IPTV platform to smaller network operators, according to Ed Graczyk, director of marketing in the Microsoft TV unit. "We're selling our platform directly to around three dozen tier-one carriers and partnering with Alcatel-Lucent to sell to the tier-two and tier-three operators," Graczyk said in an interview on the sidelines of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Telecom World conference and exhibition in Hong Kong. The continued scope of that partnership, however, is now as fuzzy as the initial IPTV technology that Microsoft delivered to the first carrier customers of its early adopter program. In November,Â Alcatel filed lawsuits against MicrosoftÂ for several alleged patent infringements. The IPTV patents in question stem from the work of Oracle engineers who had developed fast-forward and rewind features for its video server technology. The patents were sold to a company Alcatel later acquired. Alcatel now maintains that some of the technology developed by the Oracle engineers has resurfaced in Microsoft TV IPTV Edition software as a result of several members of the original development team joining the U.S. software company. Both Alcatel and Lucent had developed IPTV expertise prior to their merger. Together, they now appear keen to stake their own claim. "We can offer carriers choice," John Giere, chief marketing officer at Alcatel-Lucent, said during an interview in Hong Kong. "We can provide the Microsoft solution if that is what carriers want. But with our technology, we can also provide an open system with open interfaces. Many operators don't want to be overly dependent on Microsoft, which offers a proprietary system." Even after forming its partnership with Microsoft in 2005, Alcatel continued to fund its Open Media Platform (OMP), which it acquired from iMagicTV Inc. The technology is deployed by a number of operators including Free in France and Telecom Italia. Another IPTV system in the Alcatel-Lucent camp is the MyViewTV platform developed in conjunction with Spain's TelefÃ³nica SA. Around 400,000 consumers are currently using the company's IPTV systems. The SingTel project is based on a combination of Alcatel-Lucent's services integration system and the Microsoft IPTV platform. It will include testing of broadcast TV and VOD (video on demand), with content featuring high-definition quality picture resolution.
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New Delhi: Zee TV on Wednesday moved the Supreme Court challenging the decision of the BCCI to cancel the telecast rights awarded to it and interestingly dragged the Centre into the controversy.