Alcatel-Lucent, Concurrent Team on TV Everywhere

At IBC, Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE:ALU) and Concurrent (NASDAQ:CCUR) are introducing a joint offering designed to enable cable TV companies to expand the number and variety of on-demand videos they can offer for TV Everywhere.The joint offering integrates Alcatel-Lucent's Velocix CDN solution and Concurrent's MediaHawk VX origin and edge streaming solution using standardized interfaces. The two companies have been promoting adoption of an open standards approach to cross-service interconnection by implementing the C2 interface, which is part of the ATIS IPTV Interoperability Forum. The two companies also say they have already completed a trial of the joint architecture with a tier 1 cable MSO.