The broadcast, cable, and telco TV segments
of worldwide video server markets are all growing at a healthy pace, and total revenues
are expected to reach $1.5 billion in 2013. Of the three, the telco TV market is showing
the strongest growth, with a compound annual growth rate of 28% over 2007-2013. Cable
will experience a CAGR of about 13.5%, while broadcast markets show the slowest growth
at 8%.

After a slow start in North America, telco TV is now growing quickly there as it is
in the rest of the industrialized world. As the latecomer to the television distribution
game, telco TV has the advantage of employing the most current technology and the
least legacy infrastructure. This, in part, explains the stronger growth in this segment.
The hardware side of the equation is largely commoditized; vendors aim for differentiation
via the accompanying software applications.

Most video server vendors address at least two out of these three markets, and increasingly
their goal is to offer an end-to-end platform. This plays to the advantage of some
of the newer, larger, entrants to the market, such as Cisco, Sun, Motorola and Arris.
They have the resources to fit these servers into larger, more comprehensive solutions.
However Aima notes that, “Even the smaller, more specialized video server vendors
are doing well in this buoyant market.”

A new study from ABI Research, “Video
Server Market Analysis” examines current trends in the video server market, identifies
market drivers and inhibitors, and profiles key players and their product offerings
in the cable, telco and broadcast segments. Market share and pricing trend data are
accompanied by regional and market segment forecasts.

It is a component of two ABI Research Services, Multi-Channel
Video, and Digital
Media.

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Video Server Markets to Reach Revenue of $1.5 Billion in 2013

Ericsson
ranked at the top of the latest Vendor Matrix released by ABI Research, maintaining
the position it held in the last edition of this Matrix. Alcatel-Lucent and Nokia
Siemens Networks claimed the second and third spots in the company’s new evaluation
of worldwide IP Multimedia Subsystems infrastructure vendors. Alcatel-Lucent showed
a stellar rise compared to its #6 rank in the previous Matrix, while Nokia Siemens
held its previous position.

The Vendor Matrix is an analytical tool developed by ABI Research to provide a clear
understanding of vendors’ positions in specific markets. Vendors are assessed on the
important parameters of “innovation” and “implementation” across several criteria
unique to each vendor matrix.

For this particular matrix, under “innovation,” ABI Research examined the system vendors’
R&D budgets and the number of their IMS industry partnerships; their support of wireline
and wireless networks; and the number of innovative services.

Under “implementation,” ABI Research scrutinized the following criteria: how well
each vendor is equipped to supply a complete system (either alone or with partners);
its announced orders or trials; its abilities as a system integrator; the number of
Tier 1 operators that are customers; the number of elements provided; and the number
of applications provided or supported.

To view a list of the “top ten” firms in this Vendor Matrix, please visit “IMS
Vendor Matrix” . Registration on the ABI Research website (free) is required.
Access to the rankings and profiles of all companies surveyed is available to clients
of ABI Research.

This Vendor Matrix forms part of ABI Research’s Mobile
Networks Research Service. For a list of all ABI Research Vendor Matrices, please
visit The
ABI Research Vendor Matrix.

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TANDBERG
Television launches its new MediaModeler Content Management System, an advanced
solution designed to enable telco operators to increase customer satisfaction and
retention as well as monetize their web portals with a compelling online video experience.
With the new powerful application tool-kit operators can provide subscribers with
a more personalized user experience, and richer search and discovery features, enabling
converged services across TVs, PCs and mobile devices. The system will be demonstrated
at NXTcomm (Las Vegas, June 17-19, 2008) in booth SU7416.

According to recent research from The Diffusion Group, Pay TV viewers are spending
more time watching broadband ‘over the top’ video. Specifically, 40% of broadband
users are watching at least an hour of video per week on the Internet. Of those, approximately
30% are watching 25% or more of their TV online. Web-based video portals enabled by
the MediaModeler Content Management System will provide those broadband users with
enhanced search, discover and scheduling capabilities in a video-enabled environment
that blends content from their television service operator as well as the open web.

The MediaModeler Content Management System is uniquely designed with a flexible database
structure that supports fully customizable metadata profiles. In addition, the system
is capable of automatically enhancing metadata associated with ingested video assets
by interfacing with a range of 3rd party metadata services and Web 2.0 sources. These
two features form the core of the MediaModeler system and allow operators to build
rich search and discovery video portals by simply adding support for new sources of
metadata. Easily integrating the rapidly expanding universe of metadata that characterizes
Web 2.0 is essential to developing new, innovative video features.

The demonstration at NXTcomm will focus on the following features of the MediaModeler
system: asset creation, content and feed ingest, library management, custom metadata
definition, metadata enhancement from 3rd party sources, line-up management, search
and filter, and video playout. A sample consumer web portal will highlight the best
practices of a converged video experience, including end-user features that subscribers
will increasingly demand be part of their Internet TV, IPTV or Mobile TV services.

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RGB
Networks announces that its Modular Video Processor has won a coveted NXTcomm
Eos Award in recognition of its advanced IPTV capabilities, which enable telecommunications
carriers to deliver high-quality, IP-based video services. The MVP beat out multiple
contenders and was selected as winner of the ‘Content Delivery and Management’ category
by a panel of 15 consultants, technical journalists and service providers from the
communications industry.

The MVP is a complete IPTV solution, combining RGB’s proven video processing capabilities
with a highly-reliable chassis to enable telecom carriers to offer a full range of
digital video services, including HDTV. The MVP has been designed specifically for
telecom carriers, combining support for MPEG-2 and MPEG-4/H.264 advanced processing,
switching and ad insertion in a highly reliable chassis.

The MVP utilizes all of RGB’s proven video processing capabilities, enabling telecom
carriers to: aggregate content, groom channel line-ups from multiple sources, transrate
programs to enable the delivery of more programming without impacting picture quality
and deliver advanced advertising solutions. By combining all these capabilities within
a single, carrier-grade chassis, the MVP dramatically reduces the start-up costs for
telecom carriers to begin delivering video services.

The MVP is also ideal for telcos with existing MPEG-2 infrastructures. Its transrating
and grooming capabilities enable MPEG-2 telcos to deliver more programming with their
existing bandwidth, while also providing a much easier, less complex and more economical
path for migrating to MPEG-4.

RGB will demonstrate the MVP in its booth (#SL2224C) at the upcoming NXTcomm tradeshow,
June 16-19 at the Las Vegas Convention Center.

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InterVision
Network Corporation announces that the company will begin offering its revolutionary
solution for Live Streaming Global Broadcasting. The company expects the solution
to change the face of multimedia delivery by allowing the dissemination of live streaming
content to computers and to Internet Protocol-enabled cell phones and televisions.

The backbone of the solution is IVNet’s custom-built, globally-distributed servers,
which are built from the ground-up to be, first and foremost, a streaming network.
This means that IVNet can support a live stream that is broadcast across the globe
to potentially tens of millions of users with minimal signal degradation and no buffering.

IVNet has collected several individuals with the computer engineering expertise to
change the game as far as live multimedia is concerned. “The sine qua non for evaluating
multimedia delivery companies going forward will be the amassed engineering talent
present,” said Richard A. Luthmann, EVP of Marketing and Development for IVNet. “Our
engineers have made it possible to offer something that will allow for live Internet
protocol cross-platform multimedia content delivery. What we have can be likened to
the H.264 of live streaming global broadcasting.”

Luthmann continued, “Going forward we will be happy to deliver live streaming global
multimedia in our own right for our clients, but we really see the market opportunity
in enhancing the existing offering of so-called traditional CDNs. If the other guys
could deliver live multimedia content simultaneously to tens of millions world-wide,
don’t you think they would be doing it right now? We are the group that can make the
Superbowl, the Olympics or the World Cup final available live via IPTV to the entire
planet, and we can do it on computers, cell phones and televisions.”

IVNet plans on applying their proprietary technology both to traditional live broadcasting
as well as to several other several other broadcasting and telepresence opportunities
in media, business and elsewhere in the marketplace.

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