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Stockholm – At NAB 2012, Net Insight, a leading provider of efficient and scalable transport solutions for media, IP and broadcast networks, will demonstrate its unique MSR functionality that provides service-centric network management, QoS (Quality of Service) Enhanced Links and lossless routing. This functionality enables Net Insight to deliver 100 percent QoS and enhances the service integrity and performance of IP networks.

Video-over-IP transport has inherent QoS challenges. These challenges are becoming more prominent as the industry landscape rapidly evolves. Broadcasters and media companies are embracing networked production models and tapeless production to significantly reduce their operating expenses and streamline their automation processes. In addition, with a dramatic increase of Internet video traffic and new premium OTT services, very high-capacity media CDNs are emerging. This creates huge opportunities for telecom and media operators, but they need valid networks to capitalize on emerging media and video opportunities.

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Targeted Ad Insertion Demonstrations on iPad Featured at International CES This Week

LAS VEGAS (Jan. 11, 2012) – Advanced advertising leader SeaChange International (Nasdaq: SEAC) has expanded its relationship with Envivio to offer SeaChange’s Infusion advanced advertising platform with the Envivio 4Caster™ C4 Gen III encoders, providing further options for multi-screen operators to monetize video delivered to Apple devices. The open Infusion platform enables targeted advertisements to be dynamically inserted into linear and on-demand video streams. Demonstrations with Envivio at the International CES 2012 this week (SeaChange booth 25126) feature demographically targeted ad insertion into live program streams on Apple iPad.

Infusion enables video operators to manage centralized ad operations and scale to 150,000 insertable channels and millions of ad assets as they migrate to consolidated regional and national advertising systems that are managed from increasingly web-centric and virtualized datacenters. Leveraging SCTE 130 and IAB VAST specifications, more

Sandefjord, Norway and Oxnard, California, December 15, 2011 – Nevion chairman Per Otto Dyb has announced the appointment of technology and business development veteran Geir Bryn-Jensen as Nevion CEO. Bryn-Jensen, who previously served as executive vice president of sales and marketing, joined Nevion in 2010.
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden – Net Insight, a leading provider of efficient and scalable transport solutions for media, IP and broadcast networks, has delivered the Nimbra platform to Velister Ltd, the commercial DVB-T operator in Cyprus for a new all-IP DTT network.

Velister Ltd, a private broadcast operator in Cyprus selects Net Insight for a new all-IP Digital Terrestrial network. The network covers the whole of Cyprus and has been live since the 1st July 2011.

The DTT network carries three MUXes and consists of end-to-end provisioning, full-path protection architecture with multiple levels of redundancy from the head-end site to the individual transmitter sites. The network provides both contribution and distribution services based on the Nimbra platform, including the network management system, Nimbra Vision.

This order was won in partnership with Net Insight’s partner in Cyprus J&D Dynamic in June.

“We have selected Net Insight thanks to the more

STOCKHOLM, Sweden – Net Insight, a leading provider of efficient and scalable transport solutions for media, IP and broadcast networks, today announces that its network of business partners and resellers has been extended with Brilliantel in South Africa.

Brilliantel, based in South Africa is a new premium partner for Net Insight to handle media business in the telco and network enterprises market. Brilliantel offers superior systems integration and maintanance for various ICT Products and Services. Brilliantel boast many years of proven success in rapid deployment and providing customers with best-of-breed technology integration solutions. The customer base spans from mobile and fixed line operators to goverment agencies and corporate clients and has resulted in proven expertise and unrivalled industry understanding.

“Brilliantel partners with global companies who are leaders in their fields to offer comprehensive integrated solutions that increase our clients’ productivity and Return On Investment (ROI).We have invested heavily more

Multi-screen technology innovator partners with the leading cloud platform to enable TV without boundaries

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, November 22, 2011 – Envivio Inc., a leading provider of live and on-demand multi-screen IP video processing and delivery solutions, today announced its membership in Akamai’s NetAlliance Partner Program, which was recently expanded to cover the Akamai Digital Media ecosystem. Envivio’s software-based 4Caster™ appliances perform a variety of functions—including encoding, transcoding, packaging, encryption and publishing—that enable digital content providers to implement a converged headend for delivery of video to any screen, anytime, anywhere via Akamai’s leading cloud platform.

Envivio’s membership in Akamai’s NetAlliance Partner Program and close collaboration with Akamai means that digital media companies can benefit from optimized workflows and tools, ultimately providing their end-users with superior quality video services and high reliability. Envivio encoders are fully certified and compliant with the Akamai HD Network for HTTP streaming formats including more

Envivio Muse™ Multi-Screen Transcoder on HP BladeSystem and ProLiant Servers Allows Large-Scale Operators to Combine the Headend and IT Infrastructures

ATLANTA – November 15, 2011 (SCTE Cable-Tec Expo Booth 326) – Envivio, a leading provider of live and on-demand multi-screen IP video processing and delivery solutions, today extended its portfolio with the introduction of a dense and high quality transcoder that meets the most demanding IT and headend requirements. The solution, built on HP BladeSystem c7000 and ProLiant BL460c series servers and powered by Envivio Muse™, the multi-screen software architecture at the heart of the market-leading Envivio 4Caster™ platform, has been selected by a leading tier 1 US carrier to power a new, large-scale multi-screen service.

Envivio offers a unique software-centric approach to video compression and processing that increases flexibility, improves scalability and reduces time-to-market for service and content providers. Operators can use Muse on the enterprise-class more

4Caster™ C4 Gen III Encoders Power Nationwide HTTP Streaming Service

LONDON – November 15, 2011 (OTTtv World Summit Stand 9) – Envivio, a leading provider of live and on-demand multi-screen IP video processing and delivery solutions, today announced that Altibox, a leading telecom service provider in Norway, has deployed Envivio 4Caster™ C4 Gen III encoders to power the new Altibox Chill multi-screen streaming service. Chill delivers 40 channels of video as well as the Altibox library of VOD content to PCs, Macs, iOS and Android devices using HTTP adaptive bit-rate (ABR) streaming in Microsoft Smooth Streaming format. Altibox plans to expand the service to more devices in coming months.

“We wanted to go beyond our existing IPTV, voice and data services and enable video content to any device in order to provide a better experience to our 270,000 subscribers throughout Norway,” said Per André Rykhus, VP of markets, more

November 9, 2011 — Markham, Ontario: Digital Rapids announced today that Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. is using a large-scale deployment of Digital Rapids’ StreamZHD multi-format encoding systems and the Digital Rapids Transcode Manager automated transcoding software to transform live feeds and on-demand content for delivery to multiple viewing platforms in support of Turner’s multi-screen video offerings and the pay television industry’s “TV Everywhere” initiatives.

An array of StreamZHD encoders are used by Turner’s Network Operations group for ingest and encoding of live sources, while a distributed, multi-node Digital Rapids Transcode Manager deployment transcodes high volumes of mezzanine source files into a wide range of output formats for VOD and viewing on devices from PCs to mobile phones and tablets. more

Nevion to present managed video services solutions at CAPER 2011
VideoIPath solutions for IP and optical video networks lower the cost of remote production

Buenos Aires, Argentina, October 26, 2011 – Nevion, a leading provider of managed video services for broadcasters, service providers and government entities worldwide, will showcase its new VideoIPath managed video services solutions at CAPER 2011, the international trade fair for broadcast, cable, cine and multimedia. Nevion will be exhibiting alongside its distributor Sistemas de Video Comunicacion (SVC) at booth C11 in hall 5 at Centro Costa Salguero, Buenos Aires, Argentina on October 26 – 28.
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