TelcoTV Conference & Expo Announces 2009 Vision Awards Winners

AT&T U-verse wins again for most innovative video service

ORLANDO, Fla., Nov. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- TelcoTV 2009, the premier
meeting place for the convergence of the entertainment and communications
markets, has named the winners of the 2009 TelcoTV Vision Awards. For the
second year in a row, AT&T won the Service Provider's Innovation Award, this
year winning for its U-verse TV Multiview Interactive TV application, which
lets customers watch up to four channels at one time. AT&T claims it's a
faster way to view TV programming lineups than channel surfing.

"This year's TelcoTV Vision Awards amply demonstrate that creativity and
innovation are still driving the service provider video market," said Joe
Braue, Senior Vice President and Group Director for Light Reading, which
produces the TelcoTV conference and exhibition. "Our knowledgeable judging
panel of service providers, journalists, and analysts has indicated that these
winners are the most important video products for carriers to check out and
evaluate in the coming year."

The other winners by category were:

- Innovation in Broadband Access Networks: Zeugma Systems for their
SmartBoost
Zeugma's SmartBoost enables communications service providers to allow
their subscribers the ability to instantly self-provision temporary
bandwidth increases for computers, TVs, and smart phones.

- Innovation in Conditional Access: Nagravision for their NAGRA Media
ACCESS ELK conditional access system
The NAGRA Media ACCESS ELK conditional access system (Embedded Link
CAS) is a security platform designed to protect live video content over
"always on" managed IP networks.

- Innovation in Customer Premises Equipment: Ericsson for their Connected
Home Gateway
The Ericsson Connected Home Gateway provides a secure connection
between consumers' digital home networks and the telecommunications
network, and a single point of entry for IPTV and communication
services, such as multimedia telephony.

- Innovation in Encoding: RGB Networks for their Video Multiprocessing
Gateway
RGB's Video Multiprocessing Gateway (VMG) combines multiple video
processing functions with the ability to process more than 1,000 video
streams simultaneously.

- Innovation in Middleware: Nokia Siemens Networks for their
Interactivity Markup Language (IML) Framework
The IML framework is an open platform comprising an XML toolbox for
applications development, a rendering engine in the NSN IPTV middleware
client running on the set-top box, and enhanced metadata and
interactivity billing support.

- Innovation in Test & Measurement: Mixed Signals for their Sentry
product
Sentry is a comprehensive, real-time digital content monitoring
solution that gives video service providers visibility into network
anomalies at the IP and MPEG layers to quickly identify and repair
errors that degrade video/audio quality.

The 2009 TelcoTV Vision Awards winners were announced before an audience of
service providers, analysts, and technology and business press at TelcoTV on
Wednesday, November 11, at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando,
Fla., immediately following the Heavy Reading consumer research presentation
"Are Consumers Tuning In to Telco TV?"

About TelcoTV 2009
TelcoTV provides a comprehensive overview of the changing telecom video
landscape, with presentations delivering meaningful insight into, and analysis
of, the evolving world of entertainment convergence, plus more than 125
exhibitors showcasing the latest solutions and products for the IPTV and video
markets. It is a joint production of Light Reading, a division of TechWeb, and
the National Telecommunications Cooperative Association (NTCA). This year's
event is held November 10-12, 2009, at the Orange County Convention Center,
Orlando, Fla. For further details visit: http://www.TelcoTVonline.com.

About Light Reading
Founded in 2000, Light Reading (www.lightreading.com) is the leading online
media, research, and focused event company serving the $3 trillion worldwide
communications market. Lightreading.com is the ultimate source for technology
and financial analysis of the communications industry, leading the media
sector in terms of traffic, content, and reputation.

Light Reading's research arms, Heavy Reading and Pyramid Research, provide the
most
comprehensive communications research, market data, and technology analysis in
close to 100 markets around the world. Light Reading produces almost 20
targeted communications events including TelcoTV, Ethernet Expo New York and
Ethernet Expo London, The Tower Summit@CTIA, and Optical Expo, as well as
focused one-day events tailored for cable, mobile, and wireline executives.
Light Reading was acquired by United Business Media in August 2005, and
operates as a unit of TechWeb.

About TechWeb
TechWeb (www.techweb.com/aboutus) the global leader in business technology
media, is an
innovative business focused on serving the needs of technology decision-makers
and marketers worldwide. TechWeb produces the most respected and consumed
media brands in the business technology market. Today, more than 13.3 million*
business technology professionals actively engage in our communities created
around our global face-to-face events Interop, Web 2.0, Black Hat, and
VoiceCon; online resources such as the TechWeb Network, Light Reading,
Intelligent Enterprise, InformationWeek.com, bMighty.com, and The Financial
Technology Network; and the market leading, award-winning InformationWeek,
TechNet Magazine, MSDN Magazine, Wall Street & Technology magazines. TechWeb
also provides end-to-end services ranging from next-generation performance
marketing, integrated media, research, and analyst services. TechWeb is a
division of United Business Media, a global provider of news distribution and
specialist information services with a market capitalization of more than $2.5
billion.

*13.3 million business decision-makers: based on number of monthly connections

About United Business Media Ltd.
UBM (UBM.L) focuses on two principal activities: worldwide information
distribution, targeting and monitoring; and, the development and monetisation
of B2B communities and markets. UBM's businesses inform markets and serve
professional commercial communities - from doctors to game developers, from
journalists to jewelry traders, from farmers to pharmacists - with integrated
events, online, print, and business information products. Our 6,500 staff in
more than 30 countries are organized into specialist teams that serve these
communities, bringing buyers and sellers together, helping them to do business
and their markets to work effectively and efficiently. For more information,
go to http://www.unitedbusinessmedia.com

About NTCA
The National Telecommunications Cooperative Association is the premier
association representing more than 580 locally owned and managed
telecommunications cooperatives and commercial companies throughout rural
America. NTCA provides its members with legislative, regulatory, and industry
representation; meetings; publications and educational programs; and an array
of employee benefit programs. Visit us at www.ntca.org.

CONTACT:
Cathi Lane
The Zonic Group
(831) 480-2312
(818) 519-8869
clane@zonicgroup.com

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Cathi Lane of The Zonic Group, +1-831-480-2312, +1-818-519-8869,
clane@zonicgroup.com, for TechWeb