Kasenna: As Kasenna's PortalTV Ushers in the Third Generation of IPTV Middleware, Its VOD Server Software Achieves Ranking of #2 In The Industry by MRG; Kasenna Further Extends its Leadership with the Industry's First One-Million-Subscriber IPTV Benchmark Test, Conducted in Conjunction with Hewlett-Packard and Intel Corporation

M2 PRESSWIRE-April 20, 2007-Kasenna: As Kasenna's PortalTV Ushers in the Third Generation of IPTV Middleware, Its VOD Server Software Achieves Ranking of #2 In The Industry by MRG; Kasenna Further Extends its Leadership with the Industry's First One-Million- Subscriber IPTV Benchmark Test, Conducted in Conjunction with Hewlett-Packard and Intel Corporation (C)1994-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD

Kasenna, the IPTV Company(tm), announced today that Multimedia Research Group (MRG), a leading research firm for the IPTV industry, has ranked Kasenna's MediaBase XMP(tm) VOD server the number #2 server deployed globally, based on successful deployments in 2006.

With more than 60 new service provider deployments in 2006, Kasenna has captured the second highest share of the video server, up from its #3 rank in 2005.

In several other broad-ranging announcements made at the NAB 2007 show in Las Vegas, the company also announced:

* Results of the industry's first one-million-subscriber IPTV benchmark test that it conducted in conjunction with Hewlett- Packard (HP) and Intel Corporation.

* Strategic partnership with Amino Systems, one of the leading IPTV STB providers, and with ANT Software, provider of a leading browser and other TV application software, to showcase its PortalTV software suite, which leverages its browser-based, smart-client application running on STBs, to rapidly deploy new, customizable...