Scopus Strengthens Asia Pacific Business With New Win in India

Scopus Strengthens Asia Pacific Business With New Win in India

Essel Group Selects IVG Platform to Increase Transponder Capacity

SINGAPORE, Broadcast Asia 2006, Hall 7, Booth # F3-06, June 19/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Scopus Video Networks (NASDAQ:SCOP), a provider of digital
video networking products, today announced that Essel Group and its Indian
content provider DISH TV have selected Scopus products to support the
expansion of its channel offerings over its Direct-To-Home (DTH) platform.

DISH TV with its flagship Zee TV channel will use Scopus
products to enhance its transponders' utilization and expand its already fast
growing DTH market share throughout the Indian subcontinent. India is
beginning its transition to digital TV in which the number of digital
subscribers is expected to grow tenfold within the next five years.

The deal brings to DISH TV's headend Scopus' full line of
products including E-1200 encoders, IRD-2900 decoders, IVG-7100 intelligent
video gateway (IVG) platforms and Network Management System software. Scopus'
versatile IVG platform provides advanced video processing capabilities
including joint transrating, grooming and bit rate shaping. The platform will
be demonstrated alongside other solutions at the Broadcast Asia show in booth
# F3-06.

Mr. Amitabh Kumar, Director of Technology at Essel Group,
commented, "We operate in a complex web of multiple satellites and multiple
carriers and the unique capabilities offered by Scopus' product line such as
the Intelligent Video Gateway, help us optimize operations while minimizing
cost and enhancing reliability in our operations. Scopus has also helped Dish
TV achieve very high satellite utilization and bring down costs on a per
channel basis."

Mr. Eitan Koter, Scopus' Vice President of Sales, stated, "We
are honored and delighted to continue doing business with the Essel Group,
India's leading media conglomerate. This achievement is a testimony to our
on-going commitment to our customers' success. Scopus is the only vendor that
offers a full product portfolio under one roof, enabling us to provide simple
solutions to complex requirements such as the ones posed by DISH TV."

About Essel Group

Essel Group has a vast range of national and global business
interests that include media programming, broadcasting and distribution,
packaging, entertainment, online gaming, and telecom. Essel Group has always
been a pioneer-Zee TV was the one of the first Indian satellite channels,
Siticable among the first MSOs, Essel World the first theme park, Playwin the
first online lottery. All of these were revolutionary concepts in their
respective fields. With its approximately 6.5 million subscribers, Essel
Group's Siticable customer base is India's largest. Essel group's DISH TV is
the first and fastest growing DTH service in the India.

Contact:
Mr. Amitabh Kumar, Director Technology
Tel: +91-120-2515239, Email: amitabhk@zeenetwork.com

About Scopus Video Networks:

Scopus Video Networks (NASDAQ: SCOP) develops, markets, and supports
digital video networking products that enable network operators to offer
advanced video services to their subscribers. Scopus' products support
digital television, HDTV, live event coverage, and content distribution.

Scopus provides a comprehensive digital video networking product
offering, including intelligent video gateways, encoders, decoders, and
network management products. Scopus' products are designed to allow network
operators to increase service revenues, improve customer retention, and
minimize capital and operating expenses.

Scopus' customers include satellite, cable, and terrestrial operators,
broadcasters and telecom service providers. Scopus' products are used by
hundreds of network operators worldwide.

For more information visit: www.scopus.net

Contacts:
Scopus' Corporate Contact - Rinat Yeffet
Tel. +972-3-9007767, rinaty@scopus.net

PR Agency: Shuman & Associates
Tel. +972-54-498-5833, joshs@shumanpr.com

This press release contains forward-looking statements
concerning our marketing and operations plans. All statements other than
statements of historical fact are statements that could be deemed
forward-looking statements. All forward-looking statements in this press
release are made based on management's current expectations and estimates,
which involve risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause results
to differ materially from those expressed in forward-looking statements.
These statements involve a number of risks and uncertainties including, but
not limited to, risks related to the evolving market for digital video in
general and the infancy of the video-over-IP in particular and the ability to
successfully demonstrate to service providers integrated solutions such as
the one described here, general economic conditions and other risk factors.
Scopus does not undertake any obligation to update forward-looking statements
made herein.

Source: Scopus Video Networks Ltd

Scopus' Corporate Contact - Rinat Yeffet, Tel. +972-3-9007767, rinaty@scopus.net. PR Agency: Shuman & Associates, Tel. +972-54-498-5833, joshs@shumanpr.com. Mr. Amitabh Kumar, Director Technology, Tel: +91-120-2515239, Email: amitabhk@zeenetwork.com

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