Kasenna has purchased the business of ViewNow, a video-on-demand (VOD) programming, management, and marketing services company for cable and telco providers.

Harmonic Inc., a provider of broadcast and on-demand video delivery solutions, has agreed to acquire Rhozet Corp., a privately-held company based in Santa Clara, Calif., for $15.5 million.

French-based telco giant Alcatel is purchasing Canadian-based telco TV company iMagicTV for $30 million. Alcatel, which currently owns 16 percent of iMagicTV, will get all outstanding shares of iMagicTV that it doesn't currently own in exchange for Alcatel Class A American Depository Shares. iMagicTV expects the deal t

Tandberg Television has announced it plans to acquire Atlanta-based N2 Broadband , a provider of on-demand technology for the cable industry. The agreement, expected to be completed within the first quarter of 2005, is valued in the range of $110M to $130M. The two companies have agreed to a $3M mutual break-up fee

This is the seventh patent awarded to Kasenna for technologies related to content delivery.

Harmonic --a digital video, broadband and IP delivery systems provider-- has completed the acquisition of Broadcast Technology . Harmonic will integrate the technology from U.K.-based Broadcast Technology with its Convergent Systems Division, expanding its reach into the cable, satellite, terrestrial broadcast

H.I.G. Capital, a private equity and venture capital investment firm and Telecorps Communications, an acquisition company, have acquired Wexler Video LLC, a Los Angeles video production and post-production rental firm.

Kasenna Inc. will make its MediaBase XMP "eXtensible Media Platform" available on March 31. Targeted for developers, broadband service providers and enterprise users, the platform enables advanced VOD services through a software framework that addresses the major aspects of video delivery. The platform is built on Kas