Envivio 4Caster C4 Encoder Passes Conformance Testing for Microsoft Mediaroom

The ultra-flexible compression platform expands the range of solutions available to operators deploying IPTV services using Microsoft Mediaroom

November 11, 2008 South San Francisco, CA.– Envivio Inc., the leading technology provider of IP video convergence encoding solutions from mobile to HD, today announced that its 4Caster C4 Three Screens multi-channel, multi-profile encoder for IPTV, Internet TV and Mobile TV applications has been qualified by the Microsoft Mediaroom Interoperability and Qualification Lab (IQ Lab) for SD video encoding. The thorough testing performed by the IQ Lab is designed to ensure long-term interoperability and compliance of encoders and other critical components intended to support deployments of the Microsoft Mediaroom IPTV platform.

"Our Interoperability and Qualification Lab was designed to give the world’s leading IPTV service providers the best choice of carrier-grade encoding platforms that are fully compatible with Microsoft Mediaroom", said Dan McCrary, director of the global partner ecosystem for Microsoft Mediaroom. "The commitment of key vendors like Envivio to this important quality assurance process is fundamental to the proven excellence of Mediaroom-powered services and their continued success with consumers."

Designed as an integrated solution for IPTV, Internet TV and Mobile TV applications, the 4Caster C4 supports digital, analog and MPEG-2 Transport Stream over IP inputs, and a range of video and audio encoding options to support efficient delivery of content to the Three Screens. The 4Caster C4 supports a wide range of encoding formats including the Chinese AVS video compression standard.

"As well as enabling us to work within the Microsoft Mediaroom ecosystem, this qualification is a strong general validation of the 4Caster C4's top-tier IPTV credentials" said Yuval Fisher, Chief Scientist at Envivio. "We are also confident that the extensive capabilities of the 4Caster C4 further strengthen the Mediaroom offering."

The 4Caster C4 can support one channel of high definition or multiple channels of standard definition encoding for IPTV. It also offers optional support for Picture in Picture, Internet TV encoding up to VGA resolution and multi-profile encoding for mobile TV streaming. For IPTV applications, 4Caster C4 can be delivered in either Premium Compression or Extreme Compression encoding configurations using Envivio's new flexible encoding core. For Internet TV applications, 4Caster C4 can deliver content for playback in Windows Media Player, QuickTime and VLC. For Mobile TV applications, 4Caster C4 can deliver 3GPP, 3GPP2 compliant streams for playback on a wide variety of mobile devices.

Envivio's unique high-availability hardware platform combined with an embedded software encoding core offers levels of service flexibility and encoding performance upgradeability not possible with traditional hardware-only compression platforms. Encoding performance can be upgraded with each software release with no need to buy and install new hardware. New services and features can be added in the same way.

About Envivio Inc. - Envivio Inc. is the leading technology provider of IP video convergence encoding solutions for telcos and broadcasters. Envivio is the only company to offer convergence solutions supporting the "Three Screens" of consumer video – TVs, PCs and mobile phones – making IP video a reality over any type of network and to any multimedia device from mobile to HD. Envivio solutions deliver industry leading AVC (H.264), AVS, and Windows Media Video (VC-1) compressed video quality at the lowest bit rate for mobile TV, Internet TV, IPTV, and broadcast applications. Service providers worldwide use Envivio solutions to reduce their operational costs while offering subscribers the most compelling and highest quality video services anytime and anywhere. Visit www.envivio.com for more information.

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