IRVINE, Calif. -- TelcoTV, the largest video conference and expo focused on the U.S. service provider market, today announced the winners of the fourth annual TelcoTV Vision Awards. The awards were presented earlier today at the conference General Sessions, which were streamed live from the Morial Convention Center in New Orleans. A distinguished panel of industry executives and analysts selected the winning technologies for demonstrating outstanding innovation and industry leadership.

“Looking at the considerable number of applications we received, there seems to be no shortage of innovation in the industry,” said Joseph Braue, SVP and Group Director of UBM TechWeb’s Light Reading division, which co-produces the event with the National Telecommunications Cooperative Association. “We are fortunate to have a dynamic group of vendors and service providers who are constantly bringing new technologies and products to the market. These types of contributions help everyone stay competitive and ultimately offer consumers a better video experience.”

The winners in each category are as follows:

Innovation in Broadband Access Networks:
Calix Networks Inc.: E3-48 sealed Ethernet Service Access Node (ESAN)

The E3-48 provides much more broadband capacity than any other node access product on the market. With 100MB per second delivered to each end user, simultaneously, through 10GE ports, it is nearly impossible to use up all of the bandwidth the E3-48 provides.

The Viaccess Content Security Solutions have been deployed by more than 85 pay-TV operators. Viaccess has developed a deep knowledge of its customers’ needs and a solid expertise in protecting their premium content with a ready, proven, globally recognized and integrated solution.

This low-cost, high-performance HD IPTV set-top box is engineered for today’s service provider. It’s capable of running multiple middleware platforms and is also compatible with multiple conditional access solutions.

This multi-screen video platform is a modular solution for service providers that enables TV and video content delivery to a broad range of connected devices. In addition to a content delivery network (CDN), multi-screen clients and integration services from Alcatel-Lucent, the solution includes cloud-based content management and publishing offered through a strategic alliance with thePlatform.

Witbe offers quality of experience testing and monitoring solutions for live and on-demand multi-screen content and multi-play bundles services. The company’s unique QoE technology is based on automated and active probes (“Witbe Robots”) that behave like real customers and measure the actual user experience on screen according to what is actually seen and heard, post-device.

The Omneon Media Application Server provides the foundation for the development and deployment of media-centric applications. By combining a single virtualized view of content across managed systems and fundamental media processing services, the server enables accelerated application development and minimizes the complexity of media management.

Minerva iTVFusion is a next-generation software platform that enables the delivery of television services over broadband networks. Operators worldwide are deploying this new platform to extend the reach of their television services, engage subscribers with compelling applications and services, and monetize them effectively while controlling deployment costs and operating expenses.

eVIA is the industry’s first-ever standards-based TV Everywhere solution, anchored by the company’s Video Multiprocessing Gateway (VMG) and its TransAct Packager. Working seamlessly together, these advanced products comprise the industry’s most complete, flexible and highly scalable IP-based solution for delivering and monetizing live and on-demand video to TVs, PCs, tablets and mobile devices.

Available to Verizon FiOS and DSL customers, this new service lets consumers remotely monitor their homes from a secure Internet portal. Customers can open door locks, see who's ringing the doorbell, call for help, turn lights on or off, and turn the thermostat up and down, either from a smartphone or a PC.

To qualify for a Vision Award, each entry must have been introduced to the market following last year’s TelcoTV 2010 event. The awards are open to video service providers, technology manufacturers and vendors participating in the TelcoTV 2011 conference.

A joint production of UBM TechWeb and NTCA, TelcoTV offers a unique venue for solution providers to showcase their new product and service offerings. The event takes place Oct. 25-27, 2011 in New Orleans. This year's theme, “Ten Years Transforming Telecom & Entertainment,” reflects the strides the industry has made since the inception of the tradeshow in 2001, along with the challenges it faces going forward. Visit http://www.TelcoTVonline.com for a complete conference and expo agenda.

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