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

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

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

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

Kasenna's MediaBase XMP video on demand platform now supports Microsoft Windows Media 9 compression. MediaBase XMP, which supports MPEG-2, MPEG-4 and H.264 compression, streamlines content management, software clustering, content distribution and Web service-based interfacing for application development. Supporting th

Charter Communications has deployed Kasenna MediaBase XMP video servers in response to the popularity of Charter OnDemand, its VOD library of movies, premium channel hits, sports, music and more. Previously, Charter installed MediaBase servers to support the initial rollout of VOD services in Malibu, Calif. last