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Avail Media Provides MPEG-4 IPTV Content Aggregation and Transport Capabilities to Nortel Solution

Reston, VA - October 25, 2007 - Avail Media is working with Nortel* to provide enhanced programming options for operators that offer IPTV services. The solutions are designed to provide greater entertainment and communications options for consumers and to accommodate future value-added applications as the roll-out of new, video-based services and multimedia communications continues to accelerate.

Specifically, the solution brings Avail Media's MPEG-4 IPTV content aggregation and transport services to the Nortel IPTV solution. Working with Nortel, and collaborating with other IPTV equipment providers, the companies are bringing to market a comprehensive IPTV solution that is pre-integrated and pre-tested to help ensure deployments of IPTV are reliable, scalable and secure.

"Our leadership in voice, video and data networking, along with our pre-tested, end-to-end IPTV solution combined with Avail Media's leading video content, delivers a compelling and cost-effective IPTV system," said Sameer Sheth, General Manager, Video Solutions, Nortel.

Ramu Potarazu, CEO of Avail Media, explained, "Avail Media has worked to ensure that our solution integrates with multiple ecosystems to maximize customer choice. The Nortel and Avail Media IPTV collaboration brings customers a clear choice for ease of use today along with future opportunities for tomorrow."

Avail Media delivers hundreds of live TV channels, encoded in MPEG-4, IP encapsulated, encrypted and ready for IPTV distribution by broadband operators of all types. Avail Media also offers an integrated VOD product which is in use today by customers throughout the U.S.

Avail Media is the only company today to deliver a combined MPEG-4 linear IPTV and Video On Demand (VOD) IPTV solution. Avail Media, the nation's premier provider of content aggregation and IPTV transport services, delivers to its customers a full line-up of live television programming with hundreds of channels, all quality encoded in MPEG-4, IP encapsulated, encrypted, combined with VOD and designed for future value-added services. Avail Media's system has been designed for use by broadband network operators of all types. Whether triple-play, quad-play, or pure video play, Avail Media offers the broadest and deepest set of IPTV services, technologies and solutions available in the marketplace today. For more information, please visit www.availmedia.com.


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