Envivio has secured $15 million in a mezzanine investment from venture capital and banking sources enabling the company to extend its position in the video over IP market. Driven by record unit orders delivering unrivaled numbers of video channels worldwide, Envivio is experiencing 100% year-over-year sales growth.

Sales of Blu-ray players in Europe are set to reach a new record high in 2010. Around 4.6 million units will be sold in EU member states, more than doubling the previous figure (+110%), according to the European Information Technology Observatory (EITO). It predicts that sales of Blu-ray players will rise by 49% to 770 million Euros. EITO believes that the upward trend will continue into 2011.

GlobeCast has announced that its international fibre network, newly renamed the GlobeCast Backbone Network, now offers broadcasters the ability to not only reach new markets, but to connect to major bouquet operators, broadcasters, playout facilities, media centers and teleports worldwide. The network now reaches 32 points-of-presence around the globe including, most recently, Johannesburg and Sao Paulo.

Latens and Viditec S.A have signed a partnership agreement. The focus of this partnership agreement will be that Viditec will represent Latens Systems software CAS for all networks and ECO middleware with pre-integrated CAS in Argentina.

Snell has announced the opening of a new, state-of-the-art manufacturing facility dedicated to the company's rapidly growing line of professional broadcast routing switchers. The new plant is located in close proximity to the router research and development team in Reading, UK, to better leverage Snell's base of expertise in router technology and expedite new product launches.

Quantel has announced that Thomas Birner, director of sales for Central Europe, has also been appointed director of sales for the Middle East. In his newly expanded role, Birner is responsible for building Quantel's market presence throughout the Middle East alongside his existing responsibility for Central Europe.

Following on from the project to broadcast the Winter Olympics in HD on the NRK1 channel, NRK, the Norwegian government owned radio and television public broadcaster, has contracted Abit to upgrade its automation system. The software upgrade to Abit's installed HD ready Present-it automation system, will now provide the capability for the additional channels NRK2 and NRK3, to transmit in HD.

Dynamics processing specialist Jünger Audio has appointed Qvest Media FZ LLC to handle the distribution of its entire product range in the Middle East.

OmniBus Systems has announced that Sky Racing in Australia has further expanded its OmniBus iTX multi-platform transmission system with the addition of new international channels, bringing the total iTX channel count at Sky Channel in Sydney to nine. Sky Channel Australia first went live on 16 March 2010 with an iTX system configured for an initial four television channels, one online and two mobile TV channels.

Multimedia Research Group, Inc. (MRG) has announced that its updated report on global annual growth shows IPTV subscribers will reach 102 million in 2014, a 25% CAGR. Despite economic hardship in some countries, robust broadband and IPTV investments have been driving growth as a means to meet and outperform cable and satellite competition.