Digital 5 and Broadcom Collaborate on Development of Digital Media Server Solution

Digital 5 and Broadcom Collaborate on Development of Digital Media Server Solution

Reference Design Based on Broadcom's BCM4780 Targeted at Emerging Digital Home Market

LAS VEGAS, Jan. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- CES 2005 (Suite 910) -- Digital 5, a leading provider of software for streaming of multimedia content, and Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ:BRCM), a leading provider of highly-integrated semiconductor solutions enabling broadband communications, today announced a partnership to bring to market the next generation of digital media server and network attached storage solutions for the new age of the digital home.

The companies are developing a complete hardware and software platform to help accelerate the time-to-market for products by original design manufacturers (ODMs) and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) addressing the attached storage needs of digital media content throughout the home.

The joint collaboration is focused on developing and bringing to market a digital media server platform based on the Broadcom BCM4780 Network Attached Storage on-a-Chip (NASoC) chip with software integration, validation and customization for new products to be introduced in 2005.

The continued growth in the amount of digital entertainment content such as video, music and digital photographs has led to the need for solutions that provide cost-effective methods for storing, streaming and protecting these files on home networks. Broadcom and Digital 5 will offer a platform to ensure that OEMs can respond to this need by rapidly bringing NAS-based media server products to market.

"We are very excited to collaborate with Digital 5 to bring advanced media server capabilities to our customers," said David Murray, Director of Business Development for Broadcom's NASoC products. "Digital 5 provides a proven solution in the streaming media space, which combined with Broadcom's NASoC solution will provide OEMs and ODMs with a turn-key solution for producing consumer electronic products for the storing and streaming of multimedia content throughout the home."

"We are pleased to collaborate with Broadcom to support their connected home vision and enable technology essential for sharing, storing and protecting a household's personal and commercial digital media files," said Michael Harris, president and COO of Digital 5. "Our solution enables OEMs/ODMs to leverage a complete reference platform and accelerate time-to- market for devices designed to manage the increasing digital media content in the connected digital home."

The Digital 5 technology supports industry standards such as UPnP, HTTP, RTP, NMPR and 802.11g. Digital 5 provides an application customization layer creating the ability to easily add additional application functionality and utilize the customizable user interface to expose more features, enhance the device capabilities and enrich the user experience.

About Digital 5, Inc.

Digital 5, Inc. (Digital 5) is a leading provider of software enabling both wireless and wired sharing of multimedia content among networked consumer electronics (CE) devices. Digital 5's software technology is used to enable new products for existing CE categories, such as DVD players, televisions, and stereo systems, giving them the capability to access media content over a home network and the Internet. These products allow consumers to enjoy their music, digital pictures, or video in the comfort of their various home entertainment locations. With headquarters in Lawrenceville, New Jersey and operations in California, Taiwan, Japan and India, Digital 5 can be contacted on the World Wide Web at http://www.digital5.com/.

About Broadcom

Broadcom Corporation is a leading provider of highly integrated semiconductor solutions that enable broadband communications and networking of voice, video and data services. We design, develop and supply complete system- on-a-chip (SoC) solutions incorporating digital, analog, radio frequency (RF), microprocessor and digital signal processing (DSP) technologies, as well as related hardware and software system-level applications. Our diverse product portfolio addresses every major broadband communications market and includes solutions for digital cable and satellite set-top boxes; high definition television (HDTV); cable and digital subscriber line (DSL) modems and residential gateways; high-speed transmission and switching for local, metropolitan, wide area and storage networking; home and wireless networking; cellular and terrestrial wireless communications; Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) gateway and telephony systems; broadband network and security processors; and SystemI/O(TM) server solutions. These technologies and products support our core mission: Connecting everything(R). Broadcom is headquartered in Irvine, Calif., and may be contacted at 1-949-450-8700 or at http://www.broadcom.com/.

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Source: Digital 5, Inc.

CONTACT: Andrea Sorace, Digital 5, +1-609-759-4204,
asorace@digital5.com

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

Web site: http://www.digital5.com/


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