Broadbus Chief Technical Officer Tom Jokerst Inducted Into SCTE Hall of Fame

Broadbus Chief Technical Officer Tom Jokerst Inducted Into SCTE Hall of Fame

35-Year Industry Veteran Recognized for Extraordinary Contributions to the Cable Industry

DENVER, June 21 /PRNewswire/ -- SCTE Cable-Tec Expo -- Broadbus Technologies, Inc., the leading provider of technology solutions for Television on Demand (TOD(R)), today announced that its chief technical officer, Tom Jokerst, was inducted into the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) Hall of Fame in a ceremony at this week's Cable-Tec Expo conference.

The Hall of Fame Award recognizes long-time SCTE members who have made extraordinary contributions to the cable telecommunications industry. Recipients have a minimum of 20 years of industry experience and are selected based on their achievements at the global, national and local levels.

"Tom Jokerst has managed to drive the cutting edge of our industry for three-and-a-half decades," said SCTE President/CEO John Clark. "As a result, when he speaks, people listen, as we witnessed at the SCTE Conference on Emerging Technologies(R) 2005, for which Tom served as program subcommittee chair. He is one of the true pillars of our Society and industry, and I am delighted to see him rewarded with induction into the SCTE Hall of Fame this year."

One of the cable industry's most well-known technology experts, Jokerst has served the cable industry for 35 years and has a long history of participation in SCTE, including 31 years as an active member. Jokerst's accomplishments at the SCTE include serving on the National Board of Directors, co-founding the Gateway Chapter of SCTE and serving as its president, and acting as program chairman for the Conference on Emerging Technologies.

"Broadbus is extremely proud of the work that Tom Jokerst has done, not only with our company, but throughout an illustrious career during which he has played the role of educator and leader during a time of significant growth within the industry," said Vin Bisceglia, chief executive officer for Broadbus. "Tom is very deserving of this prestigious honor."

Jokerst has served as Broadus' CTO since 2003, helping the company expand to more than 80 deployments in less than two years of shipping product. Prior to joining Broadbus, Jokerst spent nearly a decade at Charter Communications, Inc., where he built the engineering, technical operations, purchasing and inventory management functions from scratch. He was named senior vice president of advanced technology in 1998 and worked directly with Chairman Paul Allen on technology initiatives such as the MOXI STB/DVR. Jokerst became senior technical advisor to Charter in 2002.

Previously, he served as vice president, Office of Science & Technology for Cable Television Laboratories (CableLabs) in Boulder, Colorado where, among many activities, he evaluated proposals for digital video compression systems. He also conceived and promoted the development of a commercially successful digital video impulse noise reducer for use in headend applications. Prior to CableLabs, Jokerst worked for 15 years at Continental Cablevision, where he was assistant vice president and director of engineering for the company's mid-west region. Prior to Continental he served in various technical capacities for Cable Information Systems in New York.

In addition to his numerous SCTE activities, Jokerst served as chairman of the NCTA Engineering Committee. He has previously been selected as a nominee in the entertainment category of World Technology Awards, held in association with Nasdaq, Microsoft, TIME magazine, Science magazine, and CNN.

About Broadbus

Broadbus develops fully scalable, next-generation video on-demand solutions designed to solve streaming scale, space, power consumption and live ingest issues for communications service providers deploying advanced video services such as VOD, IPTV, Time-Shifted TV, Network-Based DVRs (nDVR), On-Demand Ad Insertion and ultimately, full-scale Television On-Demand (TOD). Broadbus offers a migration path to the emerging TOD environment, while fully exploiting existing upgraded broadband networks. The company's revolutionary solid-state server architecture, based on the intelligent configuration and management of massive amounts of dynamic random-access memory (DRAM), eliminates the use of mechanical hard drives for video streaming and ingest. The result is unparalleled performance, reliability and scalability for VOD and advanced on-demand services and the industry's lowest total cost of ownership.

Broadbus was selected by Red Herring for inclusion into its annual list of Top 100 Private Companies, named for the second consecutive year to CED Magazine's Broadband 50, awarded Product of the Year by the Massachusetts Network Communication Council and listed as a finalist for Best Innovation in two categories for the first annual On-Demandies(TM) awards hosted by Digital Hollywood. For more information, please visit www.broadbus.com.

Press Contacts: Jim Owens Brian Baumley
Broadbus Cohn & Wolfe
(978) 266-7264 (212) 798-9813
jowens@broadbus.combrian_baumley@cohnwolfe.com

Source: Broadbus Technologies, Inc.

CONTACT: Press, Jim Owens of Broadbus, +1-978-266-7264,
jowens@broadbus.com; or Brian Baumley of Cohn & Wolfe, +1-212-798-9813,
brian_baumley@cohnwolfe.com

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

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