Orcadian Energy Share Discussion Threads

[britishbear] 09/8/2006 11:57

Plop, plop.

Is there no end to the madness.

Eli and BLZ have an uncanny knack of floating off dogs (ORCA and ADA) and now poor ZIP holders (including me).

[colinhy] 26/7/2006 14:25

PONG

Lucent has removed Orca from its web Page on IPTV.

Now reads

"Dynamically adapt and brand the scalable middleware Subscriber User Interface (SUI) from Lucent as you see fit - Maximizing the value of your brand with consumers."
"Middleware solutions for IPTV from Lucent provide customizable, and scalable user interface solutions for consumers."

was

"Dynamically adapt and brand the scalable middleware Subscriber User Interface (SUI) from Lucent and Orca Interactive as you see fit - Maximizing the value of your brand with consumers."
"Middleware solutions for IPTV from Lucent and Orca Interactive provide customizable, and scalable user interface solutions for consumers."

Also the Lucent press release today only refers to the Lucent "Imagenio" IPTV and not ORCA

"A strategic agreement to support Telefonica's IPTV service rollouts worldwide, assume responsibility for the future development and deployment of Telefonica's "Imagenio" IPTV middleware platform and market the platform to the broader, global service provider community. Lucent Worldwide Services will serve as the prime network integrator for Telefonica as it introduces Imagenio in additional markets."



Can't be long before ORCA goes "POP"

[colinhy] 05/7/2006 11:47

Lucent has re-instated ORCA on its web page for Lucent IPTV/IP Multimedia Solutions.


"Dynamically adapt and brand the scalable middleware Subscriber User Interface (SUI) from Lucent and Orca Interactive as you see fit - Maximizing the value of your brand with consumers."

"Middleware solutions for IPTV from Lucent and Orca Interactive provide customizable, and scalable user interface solutions for consumers."

[hotfinance14] 19/6/2006 15:08

Why no rns ?

[ericthecat] 19/6/2006 14:49

another announcement due?

[colinhy] 13/6/2006 07:57

12 June 2006
MUMBAI: Optibase Ltd., a provider of advanced digital video solutions, has announced that it will demonstrate its IPTV and digital video solutions at Broadcast Asia 2006, which will be held in Singapore from 20 - 23 June.


The company will showcase Optibase's flexible model design providing customers with future-proof video solutions to meet the evolving requirements of Telcos and service providers.


Visitors to the Optibase booth will see the following demonstrations:

A turnkey solution for IPTV with Optibase MGW-1100 integrated carrier grade TV streaming platform, Orca Interactive's middleware service delivery platform and BitBand video servers streaming MPEG-2 video. Optibase can deliver turnkey all-in-one solutions, in addition to its encoders or transcoders, by providing systems integration and bringing together components from IPTV ecosystem partners.

[colinhy] 08/6/2006 20:36

Orca Chief Executive appears to be wrong in thinking that the Alcatel/Lucent merger would take a year to complete.

"We believe the companies are close to flesh out the expense synergies of the merger, and expect them to begin to discuss these by early July... We expect Lucent and Alcatel to close the transaction in September, well ahead of street expectations, and ahead of Lucent's fiscal year-end."

[colinhy] 07/6/2006 14:53

Additional moves like these may be forthcoming. "I expect networking vendors such as Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) , Nortel and Lucent to move aggressively into the IPTV set-top box space," predicted ABI Research principal analyst Michael Arden. Many of the networking vendors already have reseller agreements with IP set-top box suppliers, such as Bitband, Entone Kasenna, Optibase, Orca Interactive, and 2Wire, and acquisitions could be the next logical step.

[admarky] 06/6/2006 16:36

is Orca just going to die a slow death and be discarded by the Emblaze group, the technolgy ending up in the hands of a competitor on the cheap?

[colinhy] 06/6/2006 14:40

HERZLIYA, Israel--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 6, 2006--Optibase, Ltd. (Nasdaq:OBAS), a leading provider of advanced digital video solutions, today announced that it will demonstrate its IPTV and digital video solutions at Broadcast Asia 2006, June 20-23, 2006 in Singapore. The company will showcase Optibase's flexible model design providing customers with future-proof video solutions to meet the evolving requirements of Telcos and service providers.


Visitors to the Optibase booth (8B3-01) will see the following demonstrations:

-- A turnkey solution for IPTV with Optibase MGW-1100 integrated carrier grade TV streaming platform, Orca Interactive's middleware service delivery platform and BitBand video servers streaming MPEG-2 video. Optibase can deliver turnkey all-in-one solutions, in addition to its encoders or transcoders, by providing systems integration and bringing together components from IPTV ecosystem partners.

[admarky] 05/6/2006 16:24

have you checked this with the company? perhaps Lucent are about to offer to buy Orca.

[colinhy] 04/6/2006 21:37

Looks like the Orca middleware partnership with Lucent has ended.

Until today the Lucent web page for Lucent IPTV and IP Multimedia Solutions for Service Providers included Orca, now the two references to Orca have been removed and the Lucent web page now only refers to Lucent middleware solutions.

[colinhy] 01/6/2006 14:58

Orca Shows Off

MAY 31, 2006

RA'ANANA, Israel -- Orca Interactive (LSE: ORCA ), a global market leader in developing middleware and applications for IPTV, will attend GLOBALCOMM 2006, June 4-8 at McCormick Place in Chicago, where the company will demonstrate its RiGHTv IPTV middleware service delivery platform (SDP) for IPTV and present a case study on the Asia Pacific IPTV market.

In the BitBand Technologies booth (#63094), Orca will demonstrate RiGHTv with BitBand Vision video servers and Maestro content management suite running on Amino's AmiNET110 set-top box to show a complete end-to-end IPTV solution. The demo will show streaming MPEG-2 video on services such as Network PVR (personal video recording), Start Over (allowing viewers to return to the beginning of a show already in progress), VOD (video on demand), EPG (electronic program guide) and Pay-per-view, as well as live broadcast channels.

The GLOBALCOMM demonstration shows how Orca's SDP serves as an integration hub for the third party application developers and IPTV value chain components such as video servers, CA/DRM and encoders, and the set-top boxes. By allowing operators to rapidly evolve their IPTV service, with minimum service integration overhead, the SDP reduces the cost of building and managing services on the IPTV network.

[ericthecat] 26/5/2006 11:45

There is no doubt that ORCA has one of the very best products on the market and if you look at other middleware providers they are winning contracts, but what they really need is a big deal to confirm its future. It looks to me that Microsoft, ORCA and Siemens are the 3 global players, if ORCA can bag telefonica's world roll out then there is hope that this will re-test highs later this year or next?

[ericthecat] 26/5/2006 11:14

hmmm........

[ericthecat] 26/5/2006 09:23

You never know?

[ericthecat] 23/5/2006 17:20

The competition is heating up, it will not be long before Microsoft catch up?



Good luck blind darts.

[blinddarts] 23/5/2006 13:28

Sold the last of my ORCA (and out now of any Emblaze stock)
Made a healthy profit on BLZ 25% ish (but nothing to write home about these days)
ORCA lost me about 20%.

I really can't see the revenue stream for ORCA but then I haven't tried look very hard, lost all hope with the parent management.

Good luck

[colinhy] 22/5/2006 20:19

I thought you would appreciate that and I agree ORCA would fit in perfectly.

[ericthecat] 22/5/2006 19:53

I like that article and the bit I really like is.......

First, service provider home-grown middleware platforms are likely reaching their scaleability, manageability, and service-differentiating thresholds, potentially opening up doors for significant middleware business. As the number of subscribers scales and the rate at which new services have to be added to stay differentiated, it is costly for service providers to maintain and further develop in-house designs. Not to mention, they are significantly challenged to keep pace with market-driven innovation. Lucent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: LU)'s newly-signed deal with Telefonica, for the future support and development of the Imagenio middleware, is the first example of this. Where Lucent magically comes up with IPTV middleware developers is a separate issue.

ORCA appears in position 1 for this

[colinhy] 22/5/2006 16:44

IPTV MiddleWARs: Far From Over

Those thinking that Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) has sewn up the IPTV middleware space should think again. Granted, it's nearly impossible to beat Microsoft at marketing, especially given its prominence in Tier 1 IPTV deals. But how do the other IPTV middleware players, who have built the market thus far, compete? In three ways: