ARRIS and OpenTV Offer Turnkey Digital Television Advertisement Solution for European Market

ARRIS and OpenTV Offer Turnkey Digital Television Advertisement Solution for European Market

"Ad Insertion in a Box" Allows Operators to Rapidly Introduce Digital Advertising Services with Minimum Risk and Immediate Revenue

SUWANEE, Ga., May 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ARRIS (NASDAQ:ARRS) and OpenTV (NASDAQ:OPTV) today announced a turnkey digital advertising offering for cable and telecommunications operators looking to revenues from advanced digital advertising services to effectively generate advertising revenues with a minimum of risk. This turnkey solution supports the advertising sales, insertion, reporting, campaign management, and related functions necessary for ad sales operations and is targeted initially at Europe where local ad sales opportunities are gaining momentum. The solution pairs the ARRIS ConvergeMedia(TM) SkyVision(TM) Advertising applications suite and OpenTV's Eclipse(R) Campaign Management product to provide a world-class end-to-end Digital Program Insertion (DPI) advertising system.

The "Ad Insertion-in-a-Box" solution includes digital splicers, campaign management systems, cue management and encoding/transcoding, installation services and 7x24x365 technical assistance to support cable operators in preparing their systems for advertising capabilities.

ARRIS has integrated the flagship SkyVision Advertising solution with the components required to introduce an advertising system, with reduced operational expenses, and in a risk managed and assisted solution within a short timeframe. "We are very excited to bring a turnkey bundled solution to the marketplace that builds revenues in a safe and trusted environment," said Claudio Cerioli, SVP, EMEA Sales. "Leveraging the best of breed advertising products into a simple and efficient end-to-end solution responds to the demands of our customers and the marketplace."

Aimed at emerging ad sales operations of less than 200 channels, OpenTV Eclipse, accommodates the vital campaign management component of this bundled solution allowing an operator's advertising sales team to maximize yield on their inventories, saving money and significantly optimizing work flow. Date, time and currency functions can be easily customized for the local market, and as advertising operations mature, operators can migrate to the EclipsePlus(TM) solution which is designed to manage larger scale operations.

"We are proud to collaborate with ARRIS on this new turnkey solution geared at up-and-coming ad sales operations," said Tracy Geist, OpenTV's SVP, Business Development. "There is a growing need internationally to accommodate new advertising revenue streams through ad insertion on linear television, and based on OpenTV's cable experience, we are now able to provide these new markets with a simple and effective solution."

About ARRIS

ARRIS is a global communications technology company specializing in the design, engineering and supply of broadband services for residential and business customers around the world. The company supplies broadband operators with the tools and platforms they need to deliver reliable telephony, demand driven video, next-generation advertising and high-speed data services. Headquartered in Suwanee, Georgia, USA, ARRIS has R&D centers in Suwanee, GA; Chicago IL; State College, PA; Beaverton, OR; Wallingford, CT; Cork, Ireland; and Shenzhen, China, and operates support and sales offices throughout the world. Information about ARRIS products and services can be found at www.arrisi.com.

About OpenTV

OpenTV is one of the world's leading providers of advanced digital television solutions dedicated to creating and delivering compelling viewing experiences to consumers of digital content worldwide. The company's software has been integrated in more than 127 million devices around the world, and enables advanced program guides, video-on-demand, personal video recording, interactive and addressable advertising and a variety of enhanced television applications. OpenTV's campaign management solutions, including Eclipse(R) and EclipsePlus(TM), currently provide advertising services to nearly 30 million cable subscribers across the United States representing more than 52 percent of the top ten MSOs' subscriber base. For more information, please visit www.opentv.com.

Source: ARRIS

CONTACT: Alex Swan of ARRIS Media Relations, +1-678-473-8327,
alex.swan@arrisi.com; or Christine Oury of OpenTV, +1-415-962-5433,
coury@opentv.com

Web Site: http://www.arrisi.com/

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