Envivio and GlobeCast Bring High-Quality Mobile TV to Orange Subscribers in France

Envivio and GlobeCast Bring High-Quality Mobile TV to Orange Subscribers in France

61 Live Mobile TV and 16 Live Radio Channels in MPEG-4 Reach Orange Subscribers

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., and PARIS, Feb. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Envivio Inc. and GlobeCast announce that they have reached a deal with Orange to deliver high-quality MPEG-4 television broadcasts to its mobile TV subscribers in France.

The new solution, based at GlobeCast's Paris technical operations center, features the Envivio(R) mobile TV headend -- comprised of the 4Caster(TM) M2 encoders, winner of the Frost & Sullivan Product Innovation Award, and the 4Manager(TM) network management system. By deploying the H.263/H.264 Envivio mobile TV headend, GlobeCast will be able to provide Orange with the highest quality live television and radio services to any mobile device, from GPRS to HSDPA, in its subscriber network.

For GlobeCast, this represents an essential upgrade of its Orange-dedicated headend, which will allow the 61 television and 16 radio channels currently delivered by GlobeCast, to be distributed in a very high-quality, low-bit rate format. Subscribers to Orange's mobile TV services will benefit from a clear improvement in picture quality and quality of service. The Envivio mobile TV headend features the world's first and only multi-rate, multi-resolution and multi-standard encoder that outputs eight simultaneous profiles from a single video input. For Orange, this means a much greater interoperability among a wide variety of handsets, with multiple profiles generated from one input.

GlobeCast, a subsidiary of France Telecom, is a world leader in mobile TV delivery, currently managing the aggregation and delivery of 100 television and radio channels for Orange subscribers in France, the United Kingdom and Switzerland. GlobeCast's worldwide offer to Orange includes everything from aggregation to 24/7 supervision, technical management and delivery.

Orange is a subsidiary of France Telecom and keeps 88.6 million mobile customers across 23 countries in touch. They're not just talking -- Orange makes it easier for them to communicate in ways that are richer and more engaging. From their work life to their home life, Orange customers have the flexibility to choose how and when they connect to people, information and entertainment.

The Envivio mobile TV headend addresses the requirements for a robust and reliable telco-grade deployment by supporting the most network standards, including 3GPP, 3GPP2, DVB-H and ISDB-T. It includes a complete network management system with N+M redundancy and web management, as well as support for ISMACryp security and ISMA wireless standards, providing integration with mainstream mobile ecosystem components. Further validating the success of the Envivio mobile TV headend and the company's work in the field of video encoding solutions for mobile television applications, Frost & Sullivan gave its Product Innovation Award to the Envivio 4Caster M2 mobile video encoder.

Whatever the network, whatever the video standard, whatever the device and whatever the change in available bandwidth, the Envivio mobile TV headend is ideal to support the mobile TV services of today and tomorrow.

About GlobeCast

GlobeCast (www.globecast.com) -- a subsidiary of France Telecom -- is a leading global content management and delivery company. Via its worldwide satellite and fibre network, the company manages and transports 10 million hours of video and other rich media yearly for its core customer base of broadcasters, as well as corporate, government and retail clients. The company's global presence includes 15 teleports and technical operations centers throughout Europe, America, Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Australia.

About Envivio

Envivio Inc. is the leading technology provider of MPEG-4-based IP video convergence solutions for telcos, enterprises, and broadcasters. Supporting a wide range of network protocols, resolutions, bit rates and devices, Envivio is the only company to offer IP video convergence solutions from mobile to HD. In 2007, Envivio won the Frost and Sullivan's Product Innovation award for the 4Caster M2 mobile TV encoder as well as the Entrepreneurial Company of the Year award in the world digital media infrastructure market. Envivio solutions deliver industry leading AVC/H.264 compressed video quality at the lowest bit rate for mobile TV, Internet TV, broadcast contribution and interactive IPTV. Service providers worldwide use Envivio solutions to reduce their operational costs while offering subscribers compelling video services anytime and anywhere. Visit www.envivio.com for more information.

Press Contacts:

Envivio
Marianne Barulich
Director of Corporate Marketing
+1 (650) 243-2728
pr@envivio.com

GlobeCast
Matthew Rosenstein
International Communications Manager
+33 1 5595 2720
matthew.rosenstein@globecast.com

Source: Envivio Inc.

CONTACT: Marianne Barulich, Director of Corporate Marketing of Envivio,
+1-650-243-2728, or pr@envivio.com; or Matthew Rosenstein, International
Communications Manager of GlobeCast, +33-1-5595-2720, or
matthew.rosenstein@globecast.com

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

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

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