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Parks Associates announces new speakers for CONNECTIONS
Europe, featuring executive expertise in IPTV, connected CE, and advanced video
services. The Summit, hosted by Parks Associates on November 4, 2009, at the Movenpick
Hotel in Amsterdam, addresses consumer demand and business strategies for connected
consumer electronics.

CONNECTIONS Europe panelists will address key industry issues:

• The development roadmap for digital lifestyle technologies and applications

• Adoption and revenue forecasts of key connected device and service categories

• An examination of the business models for video and entertainment content and applications,
  online services, and communications

Pierre Francois Dubois, VP Very High Broadband & Digital Home Products, Technocentre,
Orange, will present the opening keynote. Other participating speakers include:

Ronald Brockmann, Managing Director, ActiveVideo Europe

Richard Bullwinkle, Chief Evangelist, Rovi Corporation

Wim Bus, SVP, Product Management & Operations, Civolution

Fabrizio Caffarelli, CEO, TVBLOB

Bill Correll, VP, Marketing & Business Development, Eyecon Technologies

Keith Donovan, Sales & Marketing Director, Intamac Systems

Jon Finegold, Co-Founder & COO, Thinking Screen Media

Matthew Huntington, VP, Product Marketing, OpenTV

Art Lancaster, CTO, Affinegy

Christer Larsson, CEO & Co-founder of Makewave; VP EMEA, OSGi Alliance

Wouter Leibbrandt, Manager Advanced Systems Lab, NXP Semiconductors

Rob Lewis, CEO, Omnifone

Theodore May, VP Content & Value Added Services, Synacor

Trond Neergaard, Founder & Managing Partner, Cloudberry Associates; Member, CTAM Europe
Board

Patrik Nilsson, Director, Adobe

Paolo Pastorino, Business Development & Marketing Manager, Loquendo

Kurt Scherf, VP, Research, Principal Analyst, Parks Associates

Neerav Shah, VP, Business Development, Verimatrix

Stuart Sikes, President, Parks Associates

Peter Smyth, CEO, RedMere

Bill Stanley, Executive Director, Operations Solutions, Telcordia

Geof Todd, Director, Sales & New Business Initiatives, NDS

Frederic Van Durme, Head, Product Management, Thomson

Ian Walsh, VP, Business Development, ProVision Communications/AXAR Media

Andrew Wajs, CTO, Irdeto Group, Irdeto/Cloakware

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A month before ALL-OVER-IP
Forum opens, the event is joined by all the leading global vendors and Russian
manufacturers and distributors of IP solutions for security, IT and telecom applications.

The composition of exhibitors and seminar organizers shows the global market trend
– IP video surveillance. It is enough to mention that ALL-OVER-IP Forum is chosen
as a communication venue by three out the three ONVIF founding members: Axis Communications,
BOSCH Security Systems and Sony.

Who else takes part in ALL-OVER-IP Forum:

• ONVIF full members – Milestone Systems, Panasonic, Samsung, Everfocus and VERINT;

• most authoritative IP Security brands – Mitsubishi Electric, Mobotix and Xtralis;

• brands offering an option to Russian CCTV customers – Smartec and Microdigital;

• leading Russian video surveillance suppliers – Axxon/ITV, DSSL, Byterg, ELVEES, Stilsoft,
  Itrium;

• suppliers of nonIP security solutions – Aktiv-SB (supplied brands: Polyvision, Vision
  HiTech, Ademco, AlarmCom, Ganz-Computar, Crow, DSС, Inter-M, System Sensor, Texecom,
  Sun Kwang, KT&C, Computar, Watec, Tokina, Sanyo, Lilin, Videotec, Hi Sharp, etc.),
  VIDAU Systems (supplied brand: Everfocus), SMP;

• key developers and distributors of telecom and I solutions – NATEX, Sigrand, UNI Corporation
  (supplied brands: Fujitsu-Siemens, General Electric, Hitachi, IBM, Cisco, Netgear,
  Nokia, Oracle, Sun, RAD Data Communications, Check Point), Laud Link (supplied brand:
  Telrad), Promise Technology and Profiseti (supplied brands: Samsung, AVAYA, LG-Nortel,
  Siemens, Panasonic, Microsoft, MCAFEE, ESET, 3Com, Acer, Allied Telesis, APC, ASUS,
  CA, Cisco, D-Link, Fujitsu, HP, IBM, Intel, Lenovo, Toshib, Zyxel, etc.);

• developers of information security solutions – Halon Security, EVRAAS.IT, RAD Data
  Communications, Check Point Software Technologies;

• major Russian system integrators and distributors – ARMO-Systems (supplied brands:
  Abloy, American Dynamics, Arecont Vision, Axis Communications, BOSCH, CBC/Ganz, Cisco,
  Computar, Dedicated Micros, Fujinon, GE Security, Gunnebo, HID, Hirsch Eletronics,
  Honeywell, Ikegami, KAC, Lenel, Nedap, Pelco, Pentax, Sagem, SANYO, Satel, Sensormatic,
  Smartec, Tamron, Videotec, Watec, etc.), ID Systems Group, ABRON Holding (supplied
  brands: AV Tech, Acumen, American Dynamics, Arecont Vision, Computar, Dallmeier, Dedicated
  Micros, EverFocus, GANZ, GE Security, Ikegami, JVC, KT&C, NVT, Optex, Panda, Pelco,
  Polivision, Sanyo, Tamron, Winlan, etc.), AAM Systems (supplied brands: APOLLO, HID
  Global, Gunnebo, RISCO Group, VICON, IQinVision, INDALA, NEDAP, etc.), Baltika Region
  (supplied brands: BOSCH, GE Security, Ikegami, Bewator, Pentax, Synetics, etc.), Layta
  (supplied brands: PERCo, Axis Communications, Computar, Came, Daiwon, Panasonic, Merit
  Lilin, Smartec, Geovision), ON.Com (supplied brands: ACTi, Axis, SeeTec, Sony, Panasonic,
  Polyvision, Netavis, Avenir, etc.), Softronic (supplied brands: 3Com, Axis, Allied
  Telesis, Cisco, Inelt, Netgear, TRENDnet, ZyHEL, etc.), Teleinkom-PC (supplied brands:
  Atera Networks, CERAGON, PacketLight, RADWARE, RADWIN, Telco Systems, VegaStream,
  Grandstream Networks, Alcatel-Lucent и др.), Spetsvideoproject (supplied brand: BOSCH),
  AVS Electronics (supplied brands: TOA, Phoebus, Close Talk, Audico, etc.);

ALL-OVER-IP Forum is the only non-fair type event in Russia where all of the mentioned
global and Russian companies get together and and represented by key persons. It is
only ALL-OVER-IP where Russian end-users, system integrators and installers can negotiate
with such a number of leaders.

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As more telcos in the Middle East and Africa prepare to launch IPTV services, and
yet others move beyond phase 1 of their deployment, the region’s pay-TV industry appears
to be undergoing a considerable change.

While cable and IPTV remain youthful platforms in the MEA region at present, many
telcos are investing substantial amounts in their broadband networks, in line with
government drives to keep ahead of the ICT curve, and regulatory barriers are starting
to fall and content production values to increase.

According to a recent report from the Arab Advisors Group, there were six countries
in the MENA region offering IPTV services as of May 2009 (Algeria, Jordan, Lebanon,
Morocco, Qatar and the UAE), compared to four service providers in three countries
in August 2007. There are also thought to be ongoing or planned projects by service
providers and/or governments in seven other countries in the region which would enable
the future launch of IPTV – Bahrain, Egypt, Kuwait, Oman, Tunisia, Yemen and Saudi
Arabia.

Another recent report from Informa Telecoms & Media states that while IPTV is
at present a “minor” platform in the MENA region, it is growing quickly, assisted
by a number of factors: an ongoing overhaul of outdated media legislation, a youthful
demographic skew in many countries, which minimises the barriers to new technologies
being accepted, and the rise of devoted media zones such as Dubai Media City, which
is having a favourable effect on content production values in the region.

To this we can add the readiness of many telcos to invest in their broadband networks:
UAE telco Etisalat meanwhile was recently reported as nearing completion of its city-wide
Fibre-to-the-Home network in Abu Dhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirates. Meanwhile,
fellow UAE telco du recently concluded an AED 100mn (US$ 27.23mn) investment in upgrading
its IP-based core network, enabling the telco to offer some of the fastest Internet
speeds in the Middle East, as well as high-definition IPTV services.

As these and other developments pick up speed and weight, the IPTV
Forum Middle East & Africa event will once again tackle the big issues facing
the region’s IPTV industry, as well as giving regional players the chance to learn
from each other and from other IPTV operators from further afield.

This year’s IPTV Forum MEA will be held in Dubai’s Jumeirah Hotel once more, on November
15th-16th. The exhibition will be free to attend for all visitors, while delegates
from Asia and Africa will also gain free entry to the conference sessions.

There will additionally be a focus on the Indian IPTV market on Day 2 (November 16th)
of the event, featuring speakers from Indian IPTV operators such as MTNL and Bharti
Airtel, and from the IPTV India Forum.

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