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Strategic Partners
 Akamai is the leading global service provider for accelerating content and business processes online. Thousands of organizations have formed trusted relationships with Akamai, improving their revenue and reducing costs by maximizing the performance of their online businesses. Leveraging the Akamai EdgePlatform, these organizations gain business advantage today, and have the foundation for the emerging Web solutions of tomorrow. Akamai is "The Trusted Choice for Online Business." For more information, visit www.akamai.com.
 Advanced Micro Devices is a leading global provider of innovative microprocessor solutions for computing, communications and consumer electronics markets. Solutions based on the proven design of Dual Core AMD Opteron™ processors and open, PC standards provide high performance-per-watt, low latency, high scalability, and lower power consumption, making it the ideal choice for companies large and small in the digital media industry. Founded in 1969, AMD is dedicated to delivering superior computing solutions based on customer needs that empower users worldwide. For more information visit www.amd.com.
 Aspex Semiconductor is a fabless semiconductor company developing ultra-high performance, software programmable "Extreme Processors". Aspex’s Accelera HD video compression solutions are "plug-and-play" accelerators to boost productivity. Harnessing the power of Aspex’s ultra-high performance Linedancer Extreme Processors, Accelera cards deliver high quality, faster-than-realtime HD video compression and accelerate encoding within Digital Rapids StreamZ and StreamZHD platforms, providing real-time HD performance at the highest quality rates. For further information visit the Aspex Semiconductor website at www.aspex-semi.com
 Digital Fountain™ develops and licenses advanced technologies that enable reliable, high-quality transmission of digital media. Digital Fountain’s patented DF Raptor™ technology improves multimedia streaming quality, ensures timely delivery of data, and enables the creation and development of new communications services. DF Raptor is used today in a variety of enterprise, military and consumer devices and applications, supporting both wired and wireless telecommunications networks. Digital Fountain technologies have been adopted by several international standards bodies, including the 3rd Generation Partnership Project’s (3GPP) Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service (MBMS) specification, and Digital Video Broadcasting’s DVB-H specification for wireless networks.
 With 20 years of pay media experience, Entriq Inc. provides a single managed service to major media companies enabling them to securely monetize and manage the distribution of their content across broadband, mobile and IPTV platforms. The Entriq digital media business solution enforces digital rights and enables content owners to take full advantage of the distribution and syndication capabilities offered by these new platforms. Entriq is based in San Diego, CA and is a division of MIH Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Naspers.
 Highwinds has been a leader in the development of content replication and delivery software and services since 2002. The Highwinds CDN leverages best-in-class hardware and software to quickly and successfully move content at a global level. The company's high-performance RollingThunder™ network and user-friendly StrikeTracker™ content management and reporting dashboard enable clients to deploy and manage content, file downloads and streaming media. Highwinds is headquartered in Winter Park, Fla., and maintains data centers in 13 North American and European cities.
 HP is a technology solutions provider to consumers, businesses and institutions globally. The company's offerings span IT infrastructure, global services, business and home computing, and imaging and printing. HP’s digital media services are built upon the scalable and adaptable HP Digital Media Platform, a unique service-oriented architecture that supports end-to-end, digital-network-based storage, processing, management and distribution of digital media assets. The DMP, in combination with specialized application software provided by industry leading technology partners, delivers the core technologies and services needed to manage the transition to digital processes and content flows.
 With 80 years of leadership in helping businesses innovate, IBM is the world's largest information technology company. Over the past 45 years, IBM has extended its business solutions into entertainment and professional sports by combining real-time scoring, digital asset management, virtualization, and autonomic computing technologies with the expertise of the world's largest IT consulting services organization. In 2005, IBM received an Emmy award for technical achievement in broadcasting. For more information on IBM, please visit: http://www.ibm.com
 Philips Content Identification offers world-class watermarking and fingerprinting solutions for content owners, broadcasters and other businesses that want to control their content. Backed by a strong technology-oriented research environment, we are able to offer top-line products in combination with excellent service. Philips CompoTrack forensic digital video watermarking technology is integrated into Digital Rapids’ StreamZ CP family of encoding solutions, enabling content owners to protect their intellectual property rights by identifying the source of violations through unique identification.
 Sample Digital Inc. provides a range of digital media services from digitization to asset management and distribution, including the Digital Dailies® system. Sample Digital specializes in developing digital media technologies which enable clients to take advantage of new efficiencies in the production process and maximizing the value of their media assets.
 Secure Path is the premier provider of asset registration and data management solutions across the digital media supply chain. The company is the primary North American ISAN Registration Agency for the media, entertainment and technology industries and the only standards-based content identification and metadata services company in North America. Secure Path's MediaDNS provides ISAN registration and querying services which simplify identification, syndication and distribution of metadata.
 Sun Microsystems develops the technologies that power the global marketplace. Guided by a singular vision -- "The Network is the Computer" -- Sun drives network participation through shared innovation, community development and open source leadership. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the Web at http://sun.com
 SyncCast is a leading provider of digital media technology and content delivery solutions. SyncCast has over a decade of experience throughout the interactive digital media community with extensive experience in application development, system integration, hosting, managed services, connectivity and content distribution solutions. SyncCast is an expert in the development and integration of complex digital rights management solutions, placing specific emphasis in working with the entertainment and broadcast industries for the secure delivery of their digital media assets.
 Tarari, the award-winning acceleration company headquartered in San Diego, Calif., USA, designs and develops Content Processor silicon to allow original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to accelerate and offload compute-intensive, complex algorithms used in XML/Web Services, Network Security and Digital Media environments. The result of a joint effort between Tarari and Microsoft, the Tarari Encoder Accelerator uses Tarari's acceleration technology to offload and accelerate the most processor-intensive algorithms – such as motion estimation – in Windows Media Video (VC-1) encoding.
 Headquartered in Seattle, thePlatform is an industry-leading provider of digital media publishing solutions. The company’s flagship product, thePlatform Media Publishing System™ (MPS), is a comprehensive solution for media, entertainment and enterprise customers. With thePlatform MPS, customers can publish digital media anywhere – over any network, to any device. Leading customers include Bank of America, CNBC, Comcast, CSTV, Microsoft, Scripps Networks, The Wall Street Journal Online and Verizon Wireless. Custom feature enhancements and seamless systems integration are a simple matter using thePlatform’s Web services MPS-SDK.
 VitalStream is the world leader in delivering audio and video streaming media to a global audience. Our services combine innovative MediaConsole® management software with an award-winning content delivery network to streamline the process of broadcasting Macromedia® Flash™ Video and Microsoft® Windows Media® over the Internet. VitalStream serves a broad customer base including Fortune 500 corporations, movie studios, news broadcasters, music and radio companies, advertising agencies and educational institutions. VitalStream Small Business Services (formerly PlayStream) provides content delivery services for thousands of businesses and consumers worldwide.
Technology & Services Partners and Alliances
 Apposite Technologies makes WAN emulation easy by offering high-precision network emulation tools at reasonable prices. Apposite emphasizes ease-of-use so engineers spend time using the tools, not learning them. Apposite’s Linktropy 4500 and Linktropy 7500 WAN emulation appliances simulate bandwidth, latency, loss, and other network characteristics up to 1 Gbps with fine-grained precision to provide accurate simulations of terrestrial, wireless, satellite, internet or any other type of wide-area network. Apposite Technologies ─ WAN Emulation Made Easy.
 ATTO Technology, Inc. is a global leader of storage connectivity and infrastructure solutions for data-intensive computing environments. With a focus toward markets that require higher performance, ATTO manufactures host adapters, appliances, and management software. ATTO solutions help customers better store, manage and deliver data, and are based on providing a high level of connectivity to all storage interfaces including SCSI, SATA, iSCSI, NDMP, SAS and Fibre Channel. ATTO works closely with Independent Software Vendors (ISV), hardware vendors and industry groups to ensure interoperability and easy integration for our customers.
 BEAM.TV, part of leading international visual effects company The Mill, is a global and cost effective digital advertising distribution network. BEAM.TV transforms the way advertisers and agencies create and distribute global TV campaigns in a digital age. BEAM.TV is a global distribution network able to immediately deliver digital advertising across different platforms and countries. Since conception BEAM.TV has become the industry standard to deliver rich-media content in the advertising industry. Most agency networks and top 100 advertiser use BEAM.TV to support the production and distribution of TV commercials.
 Ciprico is a leading storage solutions provider for content creation, archiving and delivery applications, with technologies based on 4GB Fibrechannel and standard IP connectivity. The MediaVault 4Gb FC based devices are capable of playing back high resolution content from SD through HD to 2K and 4K. The DiMeda IP storage appliances, based on either 1Gb or 10Gb Ethernet, are widely used in both collaborative content creation applications, such as news production, as well as content streaming in areas like digital cinema delivery or VOD.
 Datmedia – a world leader in online presentation and IPTV technology – has produced packaged and bespoke streaming media solutions since 2000. We also offer a range of services and considerable expertise in the fields of interactive online multi-media and software development. datpresenter™ DPX V2.0 software is the ideal tool for reliably and cost-effectively harnessing next-generation IPTV triple play services using existing technology and networks.
 Los Angeles based DAX Solutions, Inc. delivers targeted production workflow acceleration tools to companies who design, produce, manage and distribute audio-visual and rich media content. DAX provides highly secure, targeted web-based collaboration and workflow management solutions, with full digital asset management capabilities, designed to help film and television production companies, brand marketers and advertising agencies reduce costs by sharing resources, enhancing collaboration and speeding distribution in an easy-to-use and highly secure online environment.
 Digital Evidence Group is a leading multimedia provider for the legal industry. DEG assists law firms and their clients in creating video for use in the courtroom, managing those assets in an on-line deposition repository, and presenting multimedia utilizing expert trial consultants. Attorney owned and operated, DEG incorporates state of the art technology in all phases of litigation.
 Founded in 1997, Enhance Technology designs and manufactures high performance RAID or JBOD storage systems and products for digital content creation, post production, broadcast markets and IT infrastructure. Enhance Technology is a world leader in the development of hybrid I/O storage solutions with their enterprise class award-winning "UltraStor™" RAID systems, the versatile rackmount "R Series™" storage appliances, and elegant "E Series™" pro-video desktop storage arrays. Enhance Technology reaches globally through a selected group of resellers, distributors, and distribution channels worldwide.
 eyeon Software Inc. is dedicated to providing the best possible solutions for dynamic desktop compositing and pipeline management. Drawing upon expertise in film special effects, eyeon continues to develop innovative tools to maximize project control and minimize creative barriers. Today, eyeon offers products to meet the demands of film, with a comprehensive toolset for the commercial broadcast, motion graphics and games development markets.
 Karcher Group, a leader in rich media asset management, provides video archiving systems for federal, state and local governments. Karcher Group offers a number of products and services to capture and encode, catalog, search, distribute and store video in a muti-tiered storage architecture.
 MediaKey Inc. is an internationally recognized Microsoft DRM-partner, providing innovative DRM-solutions and Windows Media Digital Rights Management services to the global entertainment industry. Since 1999 clients around the world depend on MediaKey to provide solid and sophisticated content protection and secure billing integrations to world leading payment service providers. MediaKey offers turn-key solutions as well as custom built DRM-systems designed to protect, manage and ensure profitable online distribution of digital assets. MediaKey's core business is DRM, but it can also provide hosting, distribution and clearinghouse services tailored to secure content owners return on digital assets.
 MOG Solutions is the first company to provide a comprehensive software approach to MXF. MOG Solutions offers a diverse, award-winning product family of powerful MXF tools that enable accelerated development and migration to the next generation of IT-based multimedia content applications. These MXF applications enable users to easily have MXF in their desktop with a variety of functionalities ranging from the creation, manipulation and metadata logging of MXF files to the simple playout of MXF files. MOG Solutions products allow customers across all sectors of the industry - including broadcasting, digital cinema, advertising and distribution - to quickly adopt MXF.
 OpenCube Technologies offers innovative advanced technology solutions for the television and film industries. Extensive video, software and IT know-how enables the company to build robust applications under MXF and HDTV standards that boost productivity and business performance. OpenCube has world-class expertise in MXF development, metadata management, and media-data interoperability.
 Rimage Corporation is the world’s leading provider of recordable CD, DVD and Blu-ray Disc™ publishing systems used to produce discs on-demand with unique digital content and direct-to-disc printing. Media services, content owners and video production facilities worldwide rely on Rimage disc publishing systems in their content creation, management, archiving and distribution workflows, specifically: distribution of on-demand, single or small-run quantities; prerelease, preview, promo or prescreening of production content; repurposing and resale of archived content; and archiving for preservation of valuable original footage. Digital Rapids encoding systems include support for publishing to Rimage Producer III.
 Founded in 1998, Servecast is a leading provider of online broadcasting solutions for the corporate, sports and entertainment sectors. Its pioneering software and video-delivery solutions enable organisations to harness the power of webcasting as part of their communications, training and investor relations activities. Servecast's flagship product for corporate webcasting is Enterprise Media Studio™ ,a unique training and communications platform, which enables organisations to create, manage, deliver and measure compelling and interactive multimedia internal and external communications materials.
 Teresis Media, Inc. is a multi-media, digital workflow, content management service provider to the entertainment industry. Teresis products and services enable reality, episodic television, post production facilities, broadcast companies, and advertising agencies to work securely and more efficiently saving time and money. Teresis provides digitizing, encoding, transcoding, digital asset management, logging, transcription, MPEG Compression, DVD Authoring, digital archiving and media storage services. Teresis derives its name from the Greek word meaning to guard, to protect, and to watch over.
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