Omneon and Aspera Partner to Deliver Industry-Leading Content Distribution Solutions

Omneon to Transfer Castify Operations to Aspera:Combination Strengthens Product
Offering and Aligns Development Efforts with Core Strengths
LAS VEGAS--(Business Wire)--
Omneon Inc. and Aspera Inc. announced at NAB the terms of a broad partnership in
which Aspera will acquire the Omneon Castify content distribution business unit
and the two companies will collaborate on making CDN solutions more widely
available to broadcast and technology markets. Omneon will continue to market
the ProCast CDN product, with Aspera assuming ongoing development, engineering
and operational responsibility for the technology, with the goal of creating a
more powerful and complete content distribution platform for customers. Aspera
expects to integrate its fasp transport technology with ProCast and the Omneon
APIs to create a highly manageable and high performance solution for moving
content between Omneon systems.

"Having Aspera assume management and ongoing development of the Castify
products, coupled with the tight integration of Aspera and Castify CDN
technologies with Omneon server and storage platforms will result in our ability
to provide our customers with the highest performing and most complete solution
available for fast, efficient and reliable content distribution," said Geoff
Stedman, Omneon senior vice president for products and markets. "Aspera is known
for providing advanced, high-performance file transfer solutions, and the
addition of the Castify team further enhances their ability to develop
best-in-class products for content delivery over IP networks."

The agreement will expand Aspera`s reach in supplying market-leading content
delivery solutions and will allow Omneon to continue to focus on providing
best-of-breed video servers and media storage platforms. The deal will ensure
seamless integration of Aspera and Omneon technology and will also enhance new
solutions to support distributed workflows that were not possible before.

"With the growth of file-based workflows, the demand for a tightly integrated
solution for producing, storing and delivering content across geographically
distributed locations will continue to increase. Aspera`s acquisition of Castify
combined with our partnership with Omneon will enable both companies to deliver
the kind of high performance, tightly integrated solutions that customers
demand," said Michelle Munson, president and co-founder of Aspera. "The team and
product line match up very well with our area of expertise, and we look forward
to leveraging our partnership with Omneon to make the platform`s unique content
distribution capabilities available to an even broader user base."

Based on its patent-pending fasp protocol, only Aspera software fully utilizes
existing infrastructures to deliver the fastest, most predictable file transfer
experience.

Aspera provides innovative, high-performance and secure data transfer software
that eliminates the fundamental transport bottlenecks facing today`s file-based
workflows and delivery applications. Unlike conventional file transfer
technologies that perform very poorly over the WAN, only Aspera fasp technology
fully utilizes existing network infrastructures to deliver the fastest, most
predictable file transfer experience with maximum end-to-end transfer speeds,
regardless of the distance of the endpoints. These gains are maintained across
the dynamic conditions of the network and for even the most difficult satellite,
wireless, and unreliable international links. Users have extra-ordinary control
over transfer rates and bandwidth sharing, and full visibility into utilization.

The Castify team has created a portfolio of products and technologies providing
an end-to-end software solution that enables enterprises and service providers
to build scalable, easily managed, and cost-efficient service acceleration and
content delivery platforms over the Internet and on Intranets. Taking advantage
of advanced reliable IP Multicast, WAN acceleration technology, network
management, and bandwidth control, Castify enables organizations to initiate,
monitor, and manage the delivery of content either as file transfers,
progressive downloads or real-time streams.

Enabling the Castify product line with Aspera technology will result in a
portfolio of software solutions that work across existing network infrastructure
and enable the easy deployment of a wide variety of mission-critical
applications including Portal Acceleration, eLearning, Wide Area File Delivery,
Business TV, IPTV, Push VOD, Hotel VOD and Digital Cinema.

About Aspera

Aspera is the creator of next-generation transport technologies that move the
world`s digital assets at maximum speed regardless of file size, transfer
distance and network conditions. Based on its patent-pending fasp protocol,
Aspera software fully utilizes existing infrastructures to deliver the fastest,
most predictable file transfer experience. Aspera`s core technology delivers
unprecedented control over bandwidth, complete security and uncompromising
reliability. Hundreds of organizations across a variety of industries on six
continents rely on Aspera software for the business-critical transport of their
digital assets. Please visit www.asperasoft.com for more information.

About Omneon

Omneon Inc. is a leading provider of scalable media server and active storage
systems that optimize workflow productivity and on-air reliability for the
production, distribution, and management of digital media. Omneon is a pioneer
in the use of advanced IT technologies and open systems for broadcast
applications, producing a modular and expandable video server architecture in
the Omneon Spectrum. The company`s MediaGrid active storage system delivers
centralized content storage that is scalable in capacity, bandwidth, and
media-processing power. The company has an extensive global presence with
customers in more than 50 countries on six continents. Omneon is on the Web at
www.omneon.com.

Visit Omneon at the 2009 NAB Show, Booth SU7217
Visit Aspera at the 2009 NAB Show, Booth SL9724

Wall Street Communications for Omneon
Sunny Branson, +1-801-582-0581
sunny@wallstcom.com
or
Omneon
Paulien Ruijssenaars, +1-408-585-5421
Corporate Communications
paulienr@omneon.com
or
Schwartz Communications for Aspera
Jill Reed or Myron Lee, +1-415-512-0770
aspera@schwartz-pr.com
or
Aspera
Francois Quereuil, +1-510-849-2386
Corporate Marketing
francois@asperasoft.com

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