* Envivio licenses Microsoft VC-1 technology
By Brian Santo

Envivio has licensed the new Microsoft VC-1 Encoder so that its IPTV headend can support the Windows Media Video (VC-1) format. Envivio’s Convergence Generation headend is based on the company’s 4Caster C4 multichannel IP encoder for IPTV and Internet TV applications.

* Digital Fairway updates telecom cost tracking product
By Brian Santo

Digital Fairway has updated its Provergent Communication Services Management Suite, a product that gives a business the ability to allocate telecommunications costs across its various operations. Version 3.2 adds enhanced workflow and reporting capabilities as well as the ability to allocate the costs associated with communication services to an organization’s general ledger.

 “Keeping track of cost center assignments and cost allocations for communication services in a spreadsheet are time consuming and error prone tasks,” says Digital Fairway CEO Joe Warnement.

“With Provergent V3.2, enterprises can now associate a communications service and its cost to a general ledger code within the application, allowing the service costs to be accurately allocated to the cost center consuming that service. This can be done at the point the service order is entered into the system, or as a workflow task in the order approval or completion process.”

Other new features provided in the Provergent Communications Services Management Suite V3.2 include: MPLS support, expanded workflow roles, enhanced reporting, and Microsoft Vista support.

* Juniper appoints VP of U.S. enterprise sales
By Brian Santo

Juniper Networks named Hayley Tabor as vice president, U.S. enterprise sales. Tabor joins Juniper from Computer Associates, where she served in several management positions over 14 years, culminating with the post of senior vice president and general manager of CA’s Europe, Middle East and Africa sales and service organization.