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SEATTLE, April 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Isilon(R) Systems , the leader in clustered storage, today announced that Discovery Communications, Inc. is using Isilon IQ clustered storage as a central repository for media content, which is delivered to more than 100 networks, reaching 1.5 billion cumulative subscribers in more than 170 countries and territories. With Isilon IQ, Discovery is able consolidate its video-on-demand (VOD) and DVD content, as well as content restored from its tape archive, into one, easily expandable pool of always-online content storage, enabling instant, 24x7, configuration and delivery of media through its multiple distribution channels including broadcast, video on-demand and the Internet.

"As the number-one nonfiction media company in the world, Discovery Communications faces the ever-present challenge of managing and storing its vast library of digital media assets," said Tony Cole, Vice President, Engineering, Discovery Communications. "The nature of our workflow necessitates storage that can not only scale capacity and performance quickly and without any network interruption, but is also easy to manage. Isilon IQ delivered on all fronts."

"As the formats and delivery channels for media content continue to proliferate, so do the opportunities to maximize the value of media programming and create new revenue streams in parallel with the evolution of the media and entertainment delivery model," said Brett Goodwin, VP of Marketing & Business Development, Isilon Systems. "Isilon IQ is being selected by leading media and entertainment companies to maximize the potential of their digital content across the media value chain including creation, management, deliver and archival."

Powered by OneFS(R), Isilon IQ delivers the industry's first single file system that unifies and provides instant and ubiquitous access to the rapidly growing stores of digital content, eliminating the cost and complexity barriers of traditional storage architectures. OneFS is a unified operating system software layer that powers all of Isilon's award-winning IQ family of clustered storage systems including the Isilon IQ 200, 1920, 3000, 6000, Accelerator, and EX 6000. Isilon also provides a robust suite of software applications including SnapshotIQ(TM), SmartConnect(TM), MigrationIQ(TM) and SyncIQ(TM) that leverage OneFS and clustered storage, providing the highest levels of data protection and automated data management.

About Isilon Systems

Isilon Systems is the worldwide leader in clustered storage systems and software for digital content, enabling enterprises to transform data into information -- and information into breakthroughs. Isilon's award-winning family of IQ clustered storage systems combines Isilon's OneFS operating system software with the latest advances in industry-standard hardware to deliver modular, pay-as-you-grow, enterprise-class storage systems. Isilon's clustered storage solutions speed access to critical business information while dramatically reducing the cost and complexity of storing it. Information about Isilon can be found at http://www.isilon.com/.

About Discovery Communications, Inc.

Discovery Communications, Inc. is the number-one nonfiction media company reaching more than 1.5 billion people in over 170 countries. Through TV and digital media, Discovery's 100-plus worldwide networks include Discovery Channel, TLC, Travel Channel, Animal Planet and Discovery Health. DCI is owned by Discovery Holding Company , Cox Communications Inc., Advance/Newhouse Communications and John S. Hendricks, Discovery's founder and chairman. For more information please visit http://www.discovery.com/.

The names of companies mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners.

Isilon Systems

CONTACT: Lucas Welch of Isilon Systems, +1-206-315-7621,
lucas.welch@isilon.com

Web site: http://www.isilon.com/
http://www.discovery.com/

FFI Completes PEO Acquisition

INDIANAPOLIS, April 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Fortune Industries, Inc. announces that it has completed its acquisition of Employer Solutions Group (ESG) of Salt Lake City, Utah. This is the second PEO acquisition in the past 90 days by Fortune Industries.

ESG is a full service Professional Employer Organization (PEO) servicing small to mid-size businesses in the Salt Lake City and Loveland/Denver metropolitan markets. ESG provides human resource management services to approximately 375 clients and 6,700 worksite employees. Services include payroll and benefits administration, health and workers' compensation insurance management, human resource management and consulting, training, testing, development and assessment services and insurance brokerage services. ESG will retain its local headquarters in Salt Lake City and regional office in Loveland, Colorado.

"This acquisition affirms our strategy of redeploying cash flows, created by our recent cost reduction initiatives within certain other segments of our company, to acquiring PEO's," stated John Fisbeck, CEO. "The acquisition of ESG strengthens our position as one of the leading PEO providers in the nation and increases our total PEO worksite employees to approximately 16,000 participants and annual payroll to over $640 million."

Mr. Fisbeck commented, "Projected consolidated revenue for Fortune Industries is in excess of $200 million for our fiscal year 2008, which begins September 1, 2007. Our PEO segment revenue is estimated at $110 to $130 million or 55%-65% of consolidated revenue.

"With this acquisition we have the opportunity to create significant economies of scale through vendor discounts, diversification of risk pools, and increases in technological offerings," continued Fisbeck. "This will allow us to capture a larger percentage of this rapidly expanding market, with current historical annual growth rates of 20%."

Fisbeck further stated, "Based on several valuation models, taking our PEO segment by itself, our stock is significantly undervalued in the marketplace today as compared to our PEO peers. We will evaluate a spin-off of our PEO segment into a separate public company as one option to realize value for our shareholders."

The transaction value of $11.2 million will be paid in stock and cash. Capital Alliance Group served as the broker of record. Cash of $9.1 million will be financed out of the Company's existing line of credit. A portion of the stock is subject to future earning contingencies.

About Fortune Industries, Inc.

Fortune Industries, Inc. operates as a technology-based service company in the United States. It provides technology solutions to businesses in five segments: Wireless Infrastructure, Business Solutions, Transportation Infrastructure, Ultraviolet Technologies and Electronics Integration. The Wireless Infrastructure segment provides turnkey solutions directly to wireless carriers in 20 states and provides other specialty infrastructure services. The Business Solutions segment provides professional employment organization (PEO) services to small and medium sized businesses with up to 1,000 employees in over 44 states including human resource consulting & management, employee assessment, training, and benefits administration. The Transportation Infrastructure segment provides the installation of highway safety products and commercial structural steel. The Ultraviolet Technologies segment provides worldwide state-of-the-art UV ink technology solutions. The Electronics Integration segment provides sales and installation of commercial electronics.

Fortune Industries is based in Indianapolis, Indiana and is publicly traded on the American Stock Exchange under the symbol FFI. Additional information about Fortune Industries, Inc. can be found at http://www.ffi.net/.

This press release and other statements by Fortune Industries, Inc. may contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements are typically identified by words or phrases such as "believe", "expect", "estimate", "potential", or future/conditional verbs such as "will", "should", and "could" or the negative of those terms or other variations of them or by comparable terminology. The absence of such terms, however, does not mean that the statement is not forward-looking. Any such forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially. Factors that might cause or contribute to such differences, include, but are not limited to, the risks and uncertainties that are discussed under the heading "Risk Factors" and "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" within the Company's Form 10-K for the year ended August 31, 2006. The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward- looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. Readers should carefully review the risk factors disclosed within the Company's Form 10-K and other documents filed by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Fortune Industries, Inc.

CONTACT: Amy Gallo, Chief Financial Officer of Fortune Industries, Inc.,
+1-317-532-1374

Web site: http://www.ffi.net/

XM Satellite Radio Uses Isilon IQ to Help Power Broadcast OperationsIsilon IQ Provides Leading Satellite Radio Service with Unmatched Ease of Use and Scalability; XM Satellite Radio Delivers Mainstage Address on Best Practices in Storage at SNW

SEATTLE, April 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Isilon(R) Systems , the leader in clustered storage, today announced that XM Satellite Radio, the nation's leading satellite radio service with more than 7.6 million subscribers, is using Isilon IQ as the primary storage platform to help power its broadcast operations. XM Satellite Radio has deployed Isilon IQ to support the creation, management, delivery and archival needs of its entire catalog of entertainment content. Isilon also announced today that XM Satellite Radio will be presenting on the main stage at Storage Networking World (SNW), Manchester Grand Hyatt, San Diego, on April 18th, 2007. For more information on SNW, visit http://www.snwusa.com/.

"Our immense content delivery operations -- creating significant growth of our storage capacity needs -- necessitate a storage solution that provides unparalleled simplicity and scalability to ensure our critical media content is immediately available, at all times," said John Archer, VP of Operations, XM Satellite Radio. "Isilon clustered storage delivered above and beyond what we required."

From broadcast centers in Chicago, Nashville, New York, and Washington, DC, XM uses its geo-stationary, XM satellites to provide superior coverage for its all-digital platform, delivered across more than 170 channels, as well as through a variety of online outlets. To supply its vast programming network with content 24x7x365, XM utilizes hundreds of media production workstations, media processing servers and linear audio channels. This infrastructure supports continuous, unbuffered reads of several hundred media streams, creating the need for highly available, highly reliable storage.

Isilon IQ enables XM to store its ingested media directly onto Isilon clustered storage, where the music and media production systems access it for immediate, live or automatic playback. By using Isilon IQ, with its OneFS(R) operating system software, XM has unified its digital content into a single, highly scalable, shared pool of storage, enabling unmatched ease of use in data access to accelerate media delivery and reduce IT costs and complexity. Additionally, Isilon IQ's unique clustered architecture delivers unparalleled data availability and failover protection -- OneFS provides N+3 and N+4 levels of data protection -- providing XM with high reliability for live delivery of programming,

"At XM, we ingest and stream enormous amounts of content every day, creating the need for highly scalable and easy to use storage that can stay ahead of our capacity needs," said Damon Love, Principal Engineer, Broadcast Systems, XM Satellite Radio. "Isilon IQ has enabled us to simplify our workflow, maximize our resources and grow our content stores with the highest level of reliability."

"XM exemplifies how leading companies are deploying clustered storage to maximize the value of their digital content and transform this critical information into business breakthroughs," said Brett Goodwin, VP of Marketing & Business Development, Isilon Systems. "By implementing Isilon IQ with its OneFS operating system software, XM has been able to unify its vast collection of entertainment content into one, easy to manage and highly scalable shared pool of storage, increasing the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of its content delivery operations."

Powered by OneFS, Isilon IQ delivers the industry's first single file system that unifies and provides instant and ubiquitous access to the rapidly growing stores of digital content, eliminating the cost and complexity barriers of traditional storage architectures. OneFS is a unified operating system software layer that powers all of Isilon's award-winning IQ family of clustered storage systems including the Isilon IQ 200, 1920, 3000, 6000, Accelerator, and EX 6000. Isilon also provides a robust suite of software applications including SnapshotIQ(TM), SmartConnect(TM), MigrationIQ(TM) and SyncIQ(TM) that leverage OneFS and clustered storage, providing the highest levels of data protection and automated data management.

About Isilon Systems

The names of companies mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners.

Isilon Systems

CONTACT: Lucas Welch of Isilon Systems, +1-206-315-7621,
lucas.welch@isilon.com

Web site: http://www.isilon.com/

More Than 20 Companies Join With Isilon to Power Breakthroughs in Media and Entertainment IndustryAnystream, Agnostic Media, Artesia Digital Media Group, Aspera, EVS, Florical Systems, Force10 Networks, Front Porch Digital, Harris Corporation, IMAKE, Mellanox Technologies, Netia, Pharos Communications, SGL, Sony Electronics, Signiant, Spectra Logic, TANDBERG Television, Telestream, Venaca, VFinity, and Video Technics Work with Isilon to Advance Creation, Management, Delivery and Archival of Digital Media

SEATTLE, April 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Isilon(R) Systems , the leader in clustered storage, today announced more than 20 companies have joined Isilon's alliance ecosystem to power the next generation of media and entertainment by advancing the creation, management, delivery and archival of digital media. Spanning the entire digital media workflow, Isilon IQ delivers a record of up to one Petabyte of capacity and 10 Gigabytes per second of performance in one single file system; creating a single shared pool of easily scalable storage, accelerating media and entertainment companies' ability to create, access, deliver, and archive on consumer demands for next- generation digital video and audio content while minimizing the complexity of digital content storage.

"The landscape of broadcast has truly changed forever -- no longer is broadcast a single tape or a single channel. Rather, the broadcasting world has evolved and expanded into a truly expansive multimedia and content creation industry, marked by the massive amounts of digital content delivered to multiple devices and in multiple formats," said Brett Goodwin, VP of Marketing & Business Development, Isilon Systems. "Isilon recognized this tipping point was coming when we designed our IQ storage system specifically to meet the demands of this digital content explosion. Today, Isilon is joined by leading technology companies that, like Isilon, are at the forefront of helping media and entertainment companies capitalize on the many new opportunities emerging from the widespread growth and adoption of digital media formats and delivery methods."

Driven by the incredible surge in sales of high-definition flat screen displays, and the increasing ubiquity of high-speed Internet access across TVs, PCs and mobile devices, broadcast content is now being created, managed, delivered and archived digitally, end-to-end. This in turn is changing the ways in which content creators create, manage, deliver and store this content -- requiring high-performance, easy-to-use and scalable storage across their entire digital content workflow. By joining with leading-edge companies at all points on the digital content workflow, Isilon delivers a truly horizontal solution for digital content asset storage and access.

The companies joining with Isilon to take the media and entertainment industry into the next generation include Anystream, Agnostic Media, Artesia Digital Media Group, Aspera, EVS, Florical Systems, Force10 Networks, Front Porch Digital, Harris Corporation, IMAKE, Mellanox Technologies, Netia, Pharos Communications, SGL, Sony Electronics, Signiant, Spectra Logic, TANDBERG Television, Telestream, Venaca, VFinity, and Video Technics.

About Isilon Systems

The names of companies mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners.

Isilon Systems

CONTACT: Lucas Welch of Isilon Systems, +1-206-315-7621,
lucas.welch@isilon.com

Web site: http://www.isilon.com/

Isilon Systems Announces Multi-Year Agreement With NBC UniversalNBC Universal Deploys Isilon IQ to Archive and Access Growing Stores of Digital Media During Period of Profound Change in Media and Entertainment IndustryNBC Deploys Isilon IQ as Part of Its Broadcast Infrastructure for the 2008 Olympic Games

SEATTLE, April 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Isilon(R) Systems , the leader in clustered storage, today announced that NBC Universal, one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies, has chosen Isilon IQ to archive and access growing stores of media programming including entertainment TV and production, movies, news, and sports. Under the multi-year agreement with Isilon, NBC Universal plans to deploy multiple Petabytes of Isilon IQ clustered storage in its main production and broadcast operations to maximize the value of their media assets across NBC Universal's media properties. Isilon also announced today that NBC is deploying Isilon IQ to facilitate its coverage of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.

Additionally, Isilon announced today that NBC Olympics Vice President of Information Technology, Craig Lau, will deliver a main stage address at Storage Networking World (SNW) entitled, "Delivering the Unprecedented: How NBC Uses Clustered Storage To Help Transform Its Broadcast Coverage of the Olympic Games." NBC used Isilon IQ to create new breakthroughs in its coverage of the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens and the 2006 Olympic Winter Games in Torino.

"With the rapid move to digital media and broadband connections, the broadcast industry has forever changed," said David Evans, Director, Storage Solutions, Global Operations NBC Universal. "This shift in the broadcast paradigm -- multiple distribution channels, formats, and consumption models -- has resulted in massive increases in the amount and importance of archived media. It is not enough to simply store this content; it must also be always on-line and instantly accessible. Isilon IQ is uniquely architected to address the business needs of NBC Universal, enabling us to transform our digital media assets into new breakthroughs in the creation, management and delivery of high-quality programming."

Isilon is being deployed to complement and, in some cases, replace traditional tape based technology which allows for faster access times and increased reliability. With major deployments of Isilon IQ, NBC Universal's multiple broadcast and production units now have instant access to the vast libraries of media programming regardless of physical location, enabling NBC Universal to enhance live broadcasts or create new breakthroughs in the delivery of programming through NBC Universal's multiple media distribution networks.

Next summer in Beijing, NBC is primed to deliver the first-ever television broadcast of the Olympic Games available completely in High Definition. Following NBC's successful use of Isilon IQ for the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens and the 2006 Olympic Winter Games in Torino, NBC is storing the majority of the 2008 Beijing Games proxy and broadband content on Isilon clustered storage, providing NBC producers with unprecedented, highly reliable access to critical content for rapid review, identification and selection operations necessary to quickly produce and deliver groundbreaking coverage of Beijing Olympics in the United States.

"The Olympic Games are the single biggest event on earth, necessitating coverage that effectively captures the passion and unscripted drama of the Olympics to our millions of viewers," said Craig Lau, VP of Information Technology, NBC Olympics. "In order to deliver the unprecedented coverage of the Beijing Olympics, we need a storage solution that can reliably deliver unparalleled access to content for our broadcast team, both on-site in Beijing and at our multiple broadcast centers in the United States. Having used Isilon IQ for each of the past two Olympic Games, we know it will once again provide all we need to successfully execute our broadcast in Beijing."

"As the formats and delivery channels for media content continue to proliferate, so do the opportunities to maximize the value of these assets and create new revenue streams in parallel with the evolution of the media and entertainment delivery model," said Brett Goodwin, VP of Marketing & Business Development, Isilon Systems. "From traditional television broadcast and syndication, to High Definition and broadband delivery, NBC is a perfect example of how the shift to multiple delivery channels and digital formats can enable media and entertainment companies to maximize the value of their digital assets and grow their business."

About NBC Olympics

NBC, "America's Olympic Network," owns the exclusive U.S. media rights to the Olympic Games, television's most powerful property, through 2012, which includes Beijing, China in 2008, Vancouver in 2010 and London in 2012. In August 2008, NBC Universal will present the 2008 Olympic Games from Beijing, China (August 8-24, 2008). In August 2004, 203 million viewers watched as the networks of NBC Universal-NBC, MSNBC, CNBC, USA, Bravo, Telemundo, and NBC's HD affiliates-offered a record 1,210 hours of Olympic coverage from Athens.

About Isilon Systems

The names of companies mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners.

Isilon Systems

CONTACT: Lucas Welch of Isilon Systems, +1-206-315-7621,
lucas.welch@isilon.com

Web site: http://www.isilon.com/

Amdocs Receives 'Very Strong' Ranking in Leading Analyst Firm's BSS and OSS Market ReportsAmdocs is only vendor to receive 'very strong' rankings in two reports evaluating the customer- and network-facing solutions for service providers

ST. LOUIS, April 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Amdocs , the leading provider of software and services to enable integrated customer management and the intentional customer experience(TM), today announced that it is has received a "Very Strong" overall viability rating in two Gartner market reports: "Dataquest Insight: BSS Market Overview and Strategic Scorecard for Vendors, 2007"(1), and "Dataquest Insight: OSS Market Overview and Strategic Scorecard for Vendors, 2006"(2). "Very Strong" is the highest possible rating in the reports.

Gartner evaluated vendors on the scope of their products, market understanding, offering strategy, geographic strategy, sales strategy, market responsiveness and track record and overall viability. Nine vendors were evaluated in the Business Support Systems (BSS) report and 11 vendors were evaluated in the Operations Support Systems (OSS) report.

Amdocs is the only company to offer a combined BSS and OSS solution that delivers complete visibility of the customer, the network and the service. The combination helps facilitate service providers' transition from legacy to next-generation networks and systems, and helps them rapidly launch new converged services that quickly turn network investment into service revenue.

"We believe Amdocs' ranking in these reports reinforces the fact that we continue to deliver a market leading portfolio of BSS and OSS solutions designed to support true convergence and reduce the risk of transformation, while ultimately improving the overall customer experience," said Michael Matthews, chief marketing officer at Amdocs. "In addition, we think the 'Very Strong' ranking in the OSS report demonstrates the strength of Cramer, Amdocs OSS Division, and its ability to meet the strategic needs of service providers that are embarking upon OSS transformation initiatives."

About Amdocs

Amdocs combines innovative software and services with deep business knowledge to accelerate implementation of integrated customer management by the world's leading service providers. By delivering a comprehensive portfolio of software and services that spans the customer lifecycle, Amdocs enables service companies to deliver an intentional customer experience TM, which results in stronger, more profitable customer relationships. Service providers also benefit from a rapid return on investment, lower total cost of ownership and improved operational efficiencies. A global company with revenue of $2.48 billion in fiscal 2006, Amdocs has over 16,000 employees and serves customers in more than 50 countries around the world. For more information, visit Amdocs at http://www.amdocs.com/.

Cramer, Amdocs OSS Division, enables service providers to manage the transformation of their OSS and profit from the convergence of business support systems (BSS) and OSS systems. Service providers benefit from the automation of critical customer-centric processes -- such as fulfillment and assurance -- from the customer to the network, which allows them to accelerate revenues from new service offerings.

Forward-Looking Statement

This press release includes information that constitutes forward-looking statements made pursuant to the safe harbor provision of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements about Amdocs' growth and business results in future quarters. Although we believe the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are based upon reasonable assumptions, we can give no assurance that our expectations will be obtained or that any deviations will not be material. Such statements involve risks and uncertainties that may cause future results to differ from those anticipated. These risks include, but are not limited to, the effects of general economic conditions, Amdocs' ability to grow in the business segments it serves, adverse effects of market competition, rapid technological shifts that may render the Company's products and services obsolete, potential loss of a major customer, our ability to develop long-term relationships with our customers, and risks associated with operating businesses in the international market. Amdocs may elect to update these forward-looking statements at some point in the future, however the Company specifically disclaims any obligation to do so. These and other risks are discussed at greater length in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including in our Annual Report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2006, filed on December 13, 2006 and in our quarterly 6-K furnished on February 6, 2007.

(1) Gartner, "Dataquest Insight: BSS Market Overview and Strategic Scorecard for Vendors, 2007" by Norbert J. Scholz, February 19, 2007.

(2) Gartner, "Dataquest Insight: OSS Market Overview and Strategic Scorecard for Vendors, 2006" by Martina Kurth, March 22, 2007.

Media Contacts: Amdocs Eleanor Giles Text 100 for Amdocs Tel: +44 207 846 0739 E-Mail: eleanor.giles@text100.co.uk Runi Krishnamurty Access Communications for Amdocs Tel: +1-917-522-3507 E-Mail: rkrishnamurty@accesspr.com

Amdocs

CONTACT: Eleanor Giles of Text 100, +44 207 846 0739,
eleanor.giles@text100.co.uk, or Runi Krishnamurty of Access Communications,
+1-917-522-3507, rkrishnamurty@accesspr.com, both for Amdocs

Web site: http://www.amdocs.com/

Foldera Delivers Breakthrough Web-Based Filing System With Isilon IQNew Online Collaboration Service Uses Isilon Clustered Storage to Deliver Unprecedented Real-Time Sharing, Collaboration and Organization of Files

SEATTLE, April 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Isilon(R) Systems , the leader in clustered storage, today announced at Storage Networking World in San Diego, CA that Foldera, Inc. is using Isilon clustered storage to address massive data growth projections resulting from the rapid adoption of its intuitive, web-based filing system for business messaging, collaboration, and organization. Foldera enables its users to instantly sort and file all related communications including incoming and outgoing emails, documents, tasks, comments and calendar events. Using Isilon IQ as the primary repository for immense amounts of rapidly growing information uploaded by users, Foldera has been able to consolidate its critical data storage requirements into one, easily scalable, shared pool of storage for around-the- clock access and collaboration.

"With Foldera, users' work is organized automatically, in real time. There is no sorting, filing, or organizing to be done when new information is created -- it is already done," said Blake Hunnel, CIO, Foldera. "Our unique, web-based application makes communicating easier and more productive for small and medium-sized businesses as well as consumers, but also results in rapid and unpredictable data growth, which we found traditional storage was simply unable to keep pace with. Isilon IQ delivers seamless scalability of performance and capacity, as well as the ease of management we require to ensure our users' information is always online and available."

Isilon IQ's unique "pay as you grow" clustered architecture and industry- leading economics enable Foldera to effortlessly expand capacity and performance by adding nodes to their existing cluster -- creating additional capacity in less than 60 seconds without disrupting its 24x7x365 worldwide service. Additionally, with Isilon's SyncIQ(TM) replication software, Foldera is able to deliver real-time data replication for disaster recovery, providing its users with unmatched levels of data reliability and availability for their valuable business information.

"Foldera's new service delivers breakthrough productivity benefits to small and medium-sized businesses," said Brett Goodwin, VP of Marketing & Business Development, Isilon Systems. "Isilon's combination of intelligent software and industry-standard hardware is the perfect complement to Foldera's unique offering, delivering the ease of use, network transparency, 'on the fly' scalability and industry-leading reliability required for Foldera to enable anyone, anywhere, to communicate, collaborate, and manage shared files using its service."

Powered by OneFS(R), Isilon IQ delivers the industry's first single file system that unifies and provides instant and ubiquitous access to the rapidly growing stores of digital content, eliminating the cost and complexity barriers of traditional storage architectures. OneFS is a unified operating system software layer that powers all of Isilon's award-winning IQ family of clustered storage systems including the Isilon IQ 200, 1920, 3000, 6000, Accelerator, and EX 6000. Isilon also provides a robust suite of software applications including SnapshotIQ(TM), SmartConnect(TM), MigrationIQ(TM) and SyncIQ that leverage OneFS and clustered storage, providing the highest levels of data protection and automated data management.

About Foldera

Foldera combines web-based email, calendaring, document, task and contact management, and permission-based file sharing into a unified productivity suite available from any web browser. Foldera enables its users to instantly sort and file all related communications including incoming and outgoing emails, documents, tasks, comments and calendar events. New users can sign up for a free Public Preview Beta Account at http://www.foldera.com/.

About Isilon Systems

The names of companies mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners.

Isilon Systems

CONTACT: Lucas Welch of Isilon Systems, +1-206-315-7621,
lucas.welch@isilon.com; or Hugh Dunkerley of Foldera, +1-714-766-8737,
hdunkerley@foldera.com

Web site: http://www.isilon.com/
http://www.foldera.com/

Scopus and Neotion Team To Provide Advanced H.264 Decoding Solution

NAB Show, LAS-VEGAS, Booth SU 5408 and SU 15807, April 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Scopus Video Networks , a provider of digital video networking solutions, and Neotion (ALTERNEXT:ALNEO), a leading technology provider for digital TV, today announced that Neotion's MPEG-4 Conditional Access Module (CAM) has been integrated with Scopus' IRD-2900 professional Integrated Receiver Decoders. The plug-in module, a unique version of Neotion's MPEG-4 CAM, enables operators utilizing Scopus' MPEG-2 IRD-2900s to make a quick and easy field upgrade to H.264 scheme without having to resort to the acquisition of separate platforms.

The future-proof decoding solution targets broadcasters, cable, terrestrial, Telco and satellite operators, and is immediately available to the large customer base of Scopus' IRD 2900s worldwide. Several of its applications include re-encoding, format conversion monitoring and content distribution. The solution also enables cable and Telco operators to distribute H.264 content to edges where a full decoding to analog is performed, thereby saving up to 50 percent in bandwidth over satellite and IP infrastructures.

Neotion CEO, Laurent Jabiol, commented, "The combination of our dedicated CA module developed to meet Scopus' specific stringent requirements, provides the absolute solution for operators moving to the next generation with as little disruption as possible. Together with Scopus, we are committed to the professional broadcast industry. Our joint effort fits our strategy of providing smart solutions for digital television."

According to Scopus IRD Product Marketing Manager Dov Litmanovitz, "This solution with Neotion furthers our system capabilities and delivers the answers our clients require. Having similar interests with professional operators worldwide and vast knowledge of compression technologies, the decision to team together was natural. We will continue to offer innovative systems to the market and engage the industry with leading digital video solutions."

About Neotion:

NEOTION SA is a French high-tech company specialized in the digital television market. NEOTION designs, develops and deploys a wide range of products and services dedicated to both the consumer space, and the corporate customers involved in the Media business. In February 2004, through the acquisition of XEOLE, NEOTION, quickly became a major player of the MPEG-4 AVC video compression. Then, in February 2006, NEOTION has successfully launched the credit card format NEOTION Pocket dTV: the smallest MPEG-4 digital TV receiver in the world (already used by a top-tier French Pay TV Operator).

Its products are overlapping several booming Markets: - the Market of secured digital transmission and reception,

- the Market of video compression and digital recordings for TV, PC and DVD,

- the Market of Home Networking and PC-TV Convergence.

NEOTION is a public company listed on the Alternext market of Euronext (Paris).

Website: http://www.neotion.com/ About Scopus Video Networks:

Scopus Video Networks develops, markets, and supports digital video networking solutions that enable network operators to offer advanced video services to their subscribers. Scopus' products support digital television, HDTV, live event coverage, and content distribution.

Scopus provides a comprehensive digital video networking solution offering, including intelligent video gateways, encoders, decoders, and network management products. Scopus' products are designed to allow network operators to increase service revenues, improve customer retention, and minimize capital and operating expenses.

Scopus' customers include satellite, cable, and terrestrial operators, broadcasters and telecom service providers. Hundreds of network operators use Scopus' solutions worldwide.

For more information visit: http://www.scopus.net/ Contacts: Neotion' Corporate Contact- Mr Christophe DEPERNET Tel. +33-4-42-98-07-70, cdepernet@neotion.com Scopus' Corporate Contact - Rinat Yeffet Tel. +972-3-9007767, rinaty@scopus.net PR Agency Americas: Wall Street Communications Tel. +1 631-423-4128 peggy@wallstcom.com PR Agency (ROW): Shuman & Associates Tel. +1-812-272-2596, joshs@shumanpr.com

This press release contains forward-looking statements concerning our marketing and operations plans. All statements other than statements of historical fact are statements that could be deemed forward-looking statements. All forward-looking statements in this press release are made based on management's current expectations and estimates, which involve risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause results to differ materially from those expressed in forward-looking statements. These statements involve a number of risks and uncertainties including, but not limited to, risks related to the evolving market for digital video in general and the infancy of the video-over-IP in particular and the ability to successfully demonstrate to service providers integrated solutions such as the one described here, general economic conditions and other risk factors. Scopus does not undertake any obligation to update forward-looking statements made herein.

Scopus Network Technologies Ltd

CONTACT: Press Contact: Mr Christophe DEPERNET - cdepernet@neotion.com
+33-4-42-98-07-70; Contacts: Neotion' Corporate Contact- Mr Christophe
DEPERNET, Tel. +33-4-42-98-07-70, cdepernet@neotion.com; Scopus' Corporate
Contact - Rinat Yeffet, Tel. +972-3-9007767, rinaty@scopus.net; PR Agency
Americas: Wall Street Communications, Tel. +1 631-423-4128
peggy@wallstcom.com; PR Agency (ROW): Shuman & Associates, Tel.
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SST Communications Introduces Industry's Most Advanced Wireless Audio SolutionNew MelodyWing Boards Enable High-Fidelity, Pop-Free Wireless Audio for Digital Home Theater Surround Sound and Multi-Room, Multi-Channel Broadcasting

SUNNYVALE, Calif., April 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SST Communications, a developer of RF integrated circuits for a wide range of wireless and multimedia applications, and a subsidiary of SST (Silicon Storage Technology, Inc., Nasdaq: SSTI), a leader in flash technology, today announced the MelodyWing SP advanced wireless audio solution. The MelodyWing SP advanced wireless audio solution offers uncompressed, wire-equivalent sound quality for home theater surround sound and multi-room audio broadcasting found in a growing number of home entertainment applications; including HDTVs, home theaters, set-top-boxes, headsets, game consoles, home gateways, multimedia PCs and audio streaming. The new solution enables each transmitter to wirelessly stream high-quality sound to two full-range speakers and a sub-woofer. MelodyWing SP Smart Channel automatically selects the un-congested industrial, scientific and medical (ISM) radio bands at both 2.4GHz and 5GHz, to avoid interference with other wireless equipment and realize pop-free sound effects.

"The consumer electronics market has seen tremendous growth over the past few years fueled primarily as a result of greatly enhanced video quality in large-screen displays. However, still lacking in the market is the superior sound effects that can match the high-definition video experience," said Bing Yeh, president and CEO of SST. "The MelodyWing SP offered by SST perfectly addresses the needs of the home entertainment market by delivering customers unprecedented sound effects for both multimedia and multi-room music streaming without the need for wires. MelodyWing SP will revolutionize home entertainment by redefining the excellence in audio quality for next-generation A/V products."

Daniel Chow, president of SST Communications, added, "Existing wireless audio solutions mostly operate at the congested 2.4 GHz radio bands and often exhibit poor audio quality in the form of distortion and noticeable breaks in the audio. As a result, consumer demand for wireless surround sound and multi-channel, multi-room audio streaming for digital home entertainment systems have been slow to develop. Now, with the introduction of the dual-band 2.4 and 5 GHz MelodyWing SP audio solution with Smart Channel, consumers will be able to enjoy high-quality, pop-free sound effects from wireless surround speakers and high fidelity audio streaming for multi-room broadcasting."

MelodyWing SP Chipset's Key Features

The MelodyWing SP supports two standard digital audio interfaces, the Sony/Philips Digital Interface (S/PDIF) and I(2)S, offering flexibility in supporting a variety of existing and future consumer electronic audio/video products. Support for factory programmable worldwide ISM 2.4 and 5GHz radio bands (2.4GHz and 4.9-5.8 GHz) and output power allows a single product design to meet the certification requirements of multiple markets. The unique Smart Channel feature permits the solution to select an uncongested channel in the available ISM bands to avoid collision with other co-site wireless equipment. As part of a wireless digital home entertainment system, the MelodyWing SP chipset can be configured in four flexible solutions. These include:

-- The Single Link wireless configuration mode allows a single wireless S/PDIF or 2.1 channel I(2)S connection between the audio source, such as a digital TV, and a 2.1 multi-channel speaker system comprised a subwoofer and left and right speakers with a wired connection to the subwoofer. -- The Triple Link wireless configuration mode allows three simultaneous wireless connections between the audio source and a 2.1 multi-channel speaker system comprised of a sub-woofer and left and right channel speakers. -- The Hextuple Link wireless configuration mode allows six simultaneous wireless connections between the audio source and a 5.1 multi-channel speaker system comprised of a center speaker, a sub-woofer, left and right front speakers and left and right rear speakers. -- The Multi Link wireless configuration mode allows multiple simultaneous wireless connections between the audio source and multiple 2.1 multi- channel speaker system located in multiple rooms.

The physical distance supported is 20 meters for single-room applications. The distance supported for Multi Link solution can be further extended according to customer needs.

The MelodyWing SP is the only wireless audio solution capable of supporting up to 24-bits per channel for stereo (also compatible with 16-bit stereo), 90dB dynamic range and IEC support for MP3, AAC, AC3 and DTS modes. The consumer-friendly MelodyWing SP solution requires no firmware drivers or additional hardware for set-up. The embedded SuperFlash memory provides flexibility for system configuration and 48bit security code for privacy protection.

Pricing and Availability

The MelodyWing SP wireless audio boards are comprised of the transmitter board SST11SC03 and the SST11SC04 receiver board. Pricing for the devices is $21.62 for the SST11SC03 and $21.62 for the SST11SC04, each in 10K unit quantities. Evaluation kits are currently available. For more information about SST Communication's wireless audio boards, contact your local SST sales representative or visit the company's Web site at http://www.sst.com/.

About SST Communications

SST Communications, a subsidiary of SST (Silicon Storage Technology, Inc.) is a fabless semiconductor company, providing RF solutions to enable wireless multimedia and broadband networking system applications. SST Communications designs RF power amplifiers and other RFICs with a system oriented approach. The company provides optimized chip/module/board sets with a high level of integration, high performance, and superb production readiness to facilitate high yield and low overall cost for wireless module/system manufacturing. The company has offices in Los Angeles, California and operates as a business unit under SST.

About Silicon Storage Technology, Inc.

Headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, SST designs, manufactures and markets a diversified range of memory and non-memory products for high volume applications in the digital consumer, networking, wireless communications and Internet computing markets. Leveraging its proprietary, patented SuperFlash technology, SST is a leading provider of nonvolatile memory solutions with product families that include various densities of high functionality flash memory components and flash mass storage products. The Company also offers its SuperFlash technology for embedded applications through its broad network of world-class manufacturing partners and technology licensees, including TSMC, which offers it under its trademark Emb-FLASH. SST's non-memory products include NAND controller-based products, smart card ICs, flash microcontroller and radio frequency ICs and modules. Further information on SST can be found on the company's Web site at http://www.sst.com/.

Forward-Looking Statements

Except for the historical information contained herein, this news release contains forward-looking statements regarding flash memory and non-memory market conditions, SST's future financial performance, the performance of new products and SST's ability to bring new products to market that involve risks and uncertainties. These risks may include timely development, acceptance and pricing of new products, the terms and conditions associated with licensees' royalty payments, the impact of competitive products and pricing, and general economic conditions as they affect SST's customers, as well as other risks detailed from time to time in the SST's SEC reports, including the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2005 and on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended March 31, June 30 and September 30, 2006.

For more information about SST and the company's comprehensive list of product offerings, please call 1-888/SST-CHIP. Information can also be requested via email to literature@sst.com or through SST's Web site at http://www.sst.com/. SST's head office is located at 1171 Sonora Court, Sunnyvale, Calif.; telephone: 408/735-9110; fax: 408/735-9036.

NOTE: The SST logo and SuperFlash are registered trademarks, and MelodyWing is a trademark of Silicon Storage Technology, Inc. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective holders.

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International Organization Licenses Microsoft's New Multicolor Bar Code Technology for Identifying Audiovisual WorksConsumers and businesses alike expected to benefit from information-bearing capability of new bar code format.

REDMOND, Wash. and GENEVA, April 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Microsoft Corp. and the International Standard Audiovisual Number International Agency (ISAN-IA) today announced an agreement whereby ISAN-IA has licensed Microsoft's new High Capacity Color Barcode (HCCB) technology developed by Microsoft Research to assist in the identification of commercial audiovisual works such as motion pictures, video games, broadcasts, digital video recordings and other media.

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The ISAN-IA, which coordinates a globally recognized identification system for audiovisual works, will make the Microsoft(R)-developed bar code available to other organizations for use in tracking, helping protect and manage their audiovisual content. The new multicolor bar code is expected to start appearing on DVD media toward the end of 2007. ISAN-IA also said several of its registration agencies will use the innovative technology to help their customers derive more accountability and value from their media asset libraries.

"The capability of these new bar codes to store more data in a smaller space should provide a rich resource for the industry and consumers alike," said Gavin Jancke, director of engineering for Microsoft Research and inventor of the HCCB format. "The new code offers several advantages over existing black-and-white bar codes most people are accustomed to seeing on product packages, enabling new consumer experiences, more visual appeal where aesthetics are important and the ability to incorporate advanced security features."

Current ISAN codes allow an audiovisual work to be uniquely distinguished from other works through a simple identification system, but they do not allow additional features or functions to be incorporated. Microsoft's new multicolor bar code will enable the inclusion of more data in the code itself, as well as the ability for consumers to interact with it by scanning the code with webcams and, eventually, cell phones with color cameras.

For audiovisual publishers, identification and tracking technologies will provide detailed data that can aid in royalty payments, anti-counterfeiting efforts, market analysis and a host of other business functions. For consumers, the new bar codes can be combined with Web services to offer enhanced information such as product versioning, ratings identification, parental control, product availability, special releases, contests, pricing and promotions. Software to be made available from Microsoft and ISAN-IA will interpret the bar codes and will be integrated with Web services to enable these interactions.

The services enabled by HCCB are expected to become more prevalent as lens quality advances in cell phones to capture these small bar codes. For existing cell phones to read a black-and-white bar code, a practice that is widespread in Japan, the code must be larger than 1.5 by 1.5 inches in size. The use of those codes is impractical in small spaces or where visual appeal is important. Eventually, consumers should be able to scan the new, smaller bar codes directly from television, phone or PC screens; movie posters; DVD and CD jewel cases; magazine ads; billboards; and a host of other platforms to retrieve additional information.

New security features can also be incorporated into Microsoft's multicolor bar code. DatatraceDNA plans to provide technology for anti-counterfeiting security protection features through nanotechnology that is invisibly embedded within the material and ink of the Microsoft bar code and product packaging.

This unique combination of technologies will allow ISAN-IA to offer media publishers the ability to connect to consumers using interactive services and provide counterfeit protection in a single package.

"The capabilities enabled by this combination of bar code technology and supporting software are important for everyone," said Patrick Attallah, chief executive officer of ISAN-IA. "This includes content owners tracking the use of their work and media publishers seeking to connect to consumers using interactive services and provide a combination of DatatraceDNA counterfeit protection in a single package. This technology provides a way to identify commercial programming and improve the consumer's experience. Secure Path Technology LLC, our Hollywood-based ISAN registration agency, will be the first organization to implement the HCCB format to deliver content identification, management and distribution capabilities to its customers in the entertainment industry across a variety of media."

Through this agreement, Microsoft continues to contribute to the innovation ecosystem by deploying new research technologies outside its products and services via its various licensing programs. More information about Microsoft intellectual property licensing programs is available at http://www.microsoft.com/IP.

About ISAN International Agency

The ISAN International Agency has the responsibility for the overall ISAN system maintenance and administration. As a service organization its mission is to implement ISAN, the ISO standard (15706-1 & 2), and ensure full compliance by itself and all Registration Agencies with the ISO norm. With thirteen international agencies and over 500,000 registered works, ISAN-IA is the world's leading registration system for commercial audiovisual works. More information is available at http://www.isan.org/.

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SEC SERVIZI Goes Live With Data Warehouse Solution Based on Microsoft Technology to Enable Credit Risk Analysis

MILAN, Italy, April 16 /PRNewswire/ --

- Microsoft and leading financial IT outsourcing consortium collaborate to implement Basel II solution for the Italian and European banking and financial services market.

Microsoft Corp (Nasdaq: MSFT) today announced that SEC SERVIZI, a leading IT outsourcing consortium to the Italian banking and financial market, has gone live with a new data warehouse solution in compliance with the Basel II directive, fully meeting the deadline set by the Bank of Italy.

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The solution, which is based on Microsoft(R) SQL Server(TM) 2005 and was developed in collaboration with Microsoft's partner, RDB & Open Systems, will allow customer banks to run credit risk analysis, provide certified data and reports to their risk management desks, and collect and manage all the required information to comply with the EU financial markets directive.

The project, which started in May 2006, is part of SEC SERVIZI's corporate strategy to invest continually in the development of information technology systems to ensure the highest level of customer service to both its partner and customer banks.

"We are extremely delighted with the results of this project, and we are already looking at new ways to apply the data warehouse solution and bring further benefits to our customers," said Luciano Gitti, CEO of SEC SERVIZI. "It is our intention to carry on developing this architecture which, in time, will allow us to widen our offerings to include business intelligence and other types of dimensional analysis. We are also very pleased with all the support received from Microsoft's consultants during this period, and we look forward to continuing working with them in the near future."

Anders Abrahamsson, managing director for Microsoft EMEA Financial Services Industry, said, "More than ever we are witnessing exciting times for the European financial market, with technology and regulations changing the landscape and promoting cross-borders operations and expansions. With the new data warehouse solution, SEC SERVIZI has now in place a flexible architecture that will help customer banks to comply not only with the current Basel II directive, but also to adopt a proactive approach towards other market regulations. With this new, easy-to-use technology, people will be able to carry out their tasks faster and better, further contributing to the company's success."

About Microsoft in Financial Services

Microsoft's Financial Services group helps financial firms leverage technology to amplify the impact their people can deliver to drive business success. We help our customers in banking, capital markets/securities, and insurance achieve four business outcomes: develop relationships, drive innovation, improve operations and build connections. To do this, we focus our products and technologies, and our work with leading solutions, services and hardware partners, on key areas where we believe we and our partners can deliver exceptional value; those areas include advisor platforms, channel renewal, core banking, enterprise risk management and compliance, insurance value chain, and payments. More information can be found at http://www.microsoft.com/financialservices.

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SEC SERVIZI en ligne avec une solution d'entrepôt de données basée sur la technologie de Microsoft pour permettre l'analyse du risque de crédit

MILAN, Italie, April 16 /PRNewswire/ --

- Microsoft et un consortium leader de l'infogérance financière collaborent pour la mise en place de la solution Bâle II pour le marché des services bancaires et financiers italiens et européens.

Microsoft Corp (Nasdaq: MSFT) a annoncé aujourd'hui que SEC SERVIZI, un consortium leader de l'infogérance sur le marché bancaire et financier italien, est désormais en ligne avec une nouvelle solution d'entrepôt de données qui met en oeuvre la directive Bâle II, en respectant parfaitement les délais imposés par la Banque d'Italie.

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La solution, qui est basée sur le Microsoft(R) SQL Server(TM) 2005 et est développée en collaboration avec le partenaire de Microsoft, RDB & Open Systems, permettra aux banques clientes de procéder à des analyses de risque de crédit, de fournir des données et des rapports certifiés à leurs bureaux de gestion des risques, ainsi que de rassembler et de gérer toutes les informations nécessaires à la mise sur pied de la directive sur les marchés financiers de l'UE.

Le projet, qui a débuté en mai 2006, fait partie de la stratégie d'entreprise de SEC SERVIZI d'investir de façon continuelle dans le développement de systèmes de technologie de l'information afin de garantir le meilleur niveau de service à la clientèle possible, à la fois pour ses banques partenaires et clientes.

<< Nous sommes extrÃªmement ravis des résultats de ce projet, et nous pensons déjà à de nouvelles manières d'appliquer la solution d'entrepôt des données afin d'apporter encore plus d'avantages à nos clients >>, déclare Luciano Gitti, PDG de SEC SERVIZI. << Nous avons l'intention de continuer à développer cette architecture qui, avec le temps, nous permettra d'élargir nos offres et d'inclure la veille stratégique et d'autres types d'analyse dimensionnelle. Nous sommes également très satisfaits de tout le soutien que nous avons reçu des conseillers de Microsoft au cours de cette période, et nous attendons avec impatience de continuer à collaborer avec eux dans un proche avenir. >>

Anders Abrahamsson, directeur de l'Industrie des services financiers de Microsoft EMEA, a déclaré : << Nous vivons plus que jamais une époque excitante pour le marché financier européen, la technologie et les règlementations modifient le paysage et font la promotion des opérations et des expansions hors frontières. Avec la nouvelle solution d'entrepôt des données, SEC SERVIZI a dorénavant une architecture flexible en place qui aidera les banques clientes à répondre non seulement à la directive actuelle de Bâle II, mais également à adopter une approche proactive des autres règlementations du marché. Avec cette nouvelle technologie facile à utiliser, les gens pourront réaliser leurs taches mieux et plus rapidement, et contribuer ainsi à la réussite de la société. >>

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March Networks and BT Redcare Offer Advanced Video Surveillance Solutions in the U.K. Market

OTTAWA, April 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- March Networks(TM) (TSX:MN; AIM:MNW), a leading provider of Internet Protocol (IP)-based digital video surveillance solutions, announced today that it will work with BT Redcare Group, a division of BT Group plc, to offer advanced digital video solutions to organizations in the United Kingdom.

Digital video surveillance and sophisticated video analytics are important business applications that can be added to an organization's IP network - allowing video services to extend beyond traditional physical security and into asset management, risk mitigation, and operations management. As leading network service providers continue to enhance their product and service offerings, networked video and video analytics are logical extensions that provide significant value to customers.

BT Redcare and March Networks will jointly market and sell integrated security, network, and business solutions in the U.K. Target customers will initially include those in the retail, logistics and financial sectors.

"Our aim is to enable clients to work in a more secure environment, as well as make better business decisions, using world-class digital video solutions," said Chet Patel, CEO of BT Redcare Group. "We look forward to working with March Networks to drive further business value for our clients in the U.K."

"The emergence of a multi-billion dollar industry for IP-based digital video solutions has seen a rise in the interest levels of network service providers from around the world," said Peter Strom, President and CEO of March Networks. "Combining industry-best networking video solutions from March Networks with BT Redcare's extensive offerings will be of tremendous value to our joint customers and prospects."

About March Networks

March Networks(TM) (TSX:MN; AIM:MNW) is a leading provider of innovative video and data applications used for security surveillance, monitoring, analysis, and business optimization. The company's software and IP-based hardware solutions allow businesses to increase operational efficiencies, address risk, and manage assets with an integrated set of video-based intelligence tools and business intelligence applications. The ISO 9001:2000 certified company serves the needs of leading financial institutions, retailers, transportation authorities, commercial/industrial organizations and government/homeland security agencies in approximately 50 countries throughout the world. For more information, please visit http://www.marchnetworks.com/.

About BT Redcare BT Redcare Group is a division of BT Group plc.

BT Redcare provides a comprehensive range of secure monitoring and tracking solutions to consumers, businesses, government and corporate organizations. BT Redcare's capabilities includes single and dual path alarm signaling; CCTV transmission (fixed and wireless); digital image storage and retrieval; RFID tagging; vending and telemetry; and secure mobile data networks.

BT Redcare is a leader in the U.K. Fire & Security market. It currently monitors and manages over 400,000 customer connections in the U.K., including over 66,000 alarm connections using the BT Redcare GSM system. BT Redcare works with the U.K.'s leading Alarm Receiving Centres and accredited installers.

BT Redcare is the U.K. leader in public space CCTV transmission services. It has relationships with 80% of U.K. local authorities and police forces.

BT Auto-ID (a division of BT Redcare) offers complete RFID solutions, from consultancy to help customers establish a business case for introducing RFID and estimate return on investment, to providing a fully managed service to implement and run RFID systems. BT Auto-ID's customers include Marks & Spencer.

For more information on BT Redcare Group please visit www.redcare@bt.com. Forward-Looking Statements

This release contains certain forward-looking information, including expectations of future business. This information is based on the company's current expectations and assumptions that are subject to a variety of risks and uncertainties that are difficult to predict and that may be beyond March Networks' control. Actual results could differ materially from those expressed in any forward-looking statements due to factors such as customer demand and timing of purchasing decisions, increased levels of competition, technological changes and the successful development of new products, dependence on third-party manufacturers, risks relating to intellectual property infringement claims, and other risks and factors identified in March Networks' public filings with regulatory authorities in Canada. March Networks assumes no obligation to update these forward-looking statements as a result of new information or future events.

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Texas Instruments and Techwell Collaborate on Video Security Technology Based on DaVinci(TM) Platform Offering OEMs Robust Solution for Low-Cost DVRsSee Demo of DVR Security Technology at SecuTech Expo

TAIPEI, Taiwan, April 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Bringing more flexibility and features to low-end video security applications, Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) and Techwell, Inc. , have collaborated to create technology for low-cost digital video recorder (DVR) security systems. The solution, which combines TI's TMS320DM6446 digital video processor based on DaVinci(TM) technology with the four-channel video and audio controller from Techwell, will help manufacturers of video security systems realize the implementation of their next generation, low-cost DVR products. The TI-Techwell DVR solution will be demonstrated in booth number C306/C308 at the SecuTech Expo, April 16-18 in Taipei, Taiwan. (See http://www.ti.com/secutech)

"Techwell is pleased to collaborate with TI on the development of this video security technology," said Tom Krause, director of business development, Techwell. "Our demonstration proves how robust an inexpensive DVR security system can be, by combining Techwell's TW2835 with TI's DM6446 DaVinci technology."

The DVR security demo provides a basis for the development of security applications using video recording and multiple camera sources. The demo is based on TI's high-performance DM6446 digital media processor, which adapts TI's industry-leading digital signal processing technology to the data- intensive requirements of video applications. The demo connects the DM6446 evaluation module (EVM) to Techwell's TW2835 Video and Audio decoder, which produces four channels of video output at CIF resolution (352Ã—288 pixels). In order to minimize bandwidth and storage requirements, each channel is compressed using the MPEG-4 algorithm at 30 frames per second. The TW2835 multiplexes the four channels as an input for the DM6446, which reads and processes the information through a single, high-speed video port.

"The TI-Techwell demo ensures OEMs that they can build their next- generation, low-cost DVRs with extended digital video security functionality," said Danny Petkevich, video security business manager, TI. "The high performance of the DM6446 digital media processor enables them to design multiple-source video and recording systems quickly and cost-effectively.

"The DM6446 processor leverages DaVinci technology to meet the networked media encode and decode application processing needs of embedded devices. Tuned for video encode and decode applications, the DM6446 adds video encoding capabilities through a dedicated video processing front end capable of capturing various digital video formats. The processor enables manufacturers to quickly bring to market devices featuring robust operating systems support, rich user interfaces, high processing performance and long battery life through the maximum flexibility of a fully integrated mixed processor solution.

DaVinci technology from TI makes the next generation of digital video and audio end-equipment applications possible. The portfolio of products based on DaVinci technology includes processors, software, tools and support, addressing digital video requirements across a range of applications. For more information on TI's DaVinci technology, please see http://www.thedavincieffect.com/.

About Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments Incorporated provides innovative DSP and analog technologies to meet our customers' real world signal processing requirements. In addition to Semiconductor, the company includes the Education Technology business. TI is headquartered in Dallas, Texas, and has manufacturing, design or sales operations in more than 25 countries.

Texas Instruments is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol TXN. More information is located on the World Wide Web at http://www.ti.com/

About Techwell, Inc.

Techwell is a semiconductor company that designs, markets and sells mixed signal integrated circuits for multiple video applications in the security surveillance, automotive and consumer electronics markets. Techwell designs both general purpose and application specific products that enable the conversion of analog video signals to digital form and perform advanced digital video processing to facilitate the display, storage and transport of video content. Headquartered in San Jose, CA, Techwell currently has over 90 employees in the U.S., Korea, Taiwan, China and Japan. Please visit http://www.techwellinc.com/ for more information.

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