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Optibase IPTV Platforms
Integrated in Cellular Streaming Service in The United States
Other Topics:
IPTV Personalization,
IPTV Delivery Platform
Optibase, Ltd.
May 2, 2006
Live full motion TV provided by SmartVideo
Mountain View, CA -- Optibase, Ltd. (NASDAQ:OBAS), a leading
provider of advanced digital video high-end solutions, today
announced that its IPTV streaming platforms are enabling SmartVideo,
a provider of management and delivery solutions of content to mobile
and cellular devices, to provide full motion TV to Verizon and
Cingular mobile subscribers in the United States.
Georgia-based SmartVideo is using the Optibase MGW 5100 TV streaming
platform to encode and transmit live video received from satellite
provider Crawford Communications over a dedicated network to
SmartVideo's facilities. At SmartVideo, the video is decoded using
Optibase's MGW 200 decoders and transmitted using SmartVideo's
proprietary technology to cell phones and other smart handheld
devices. The content offering includes news, weather, sports and
children's programming from ABC news, NBC Universal, Fox Sports, The
Weather Channel and others. |
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"We are excited about the prospects in the cellular streaming market
and this opportunity to take part in an innovative broadcast service
that provides high quality live television directly to mobile
devices," said Adam Schadle, president of Optibase Inc. "SmartVideo
benefits from the combination of our encoding and decoding offerings
that yield a high quality, end-to-end video streaming solution."
"SmartVideo has distinguished itself from other service providers by
its ability to deliver high-quality, reliable interactive video,
audio and graphics simultaneously," said David Ross, president of
SmartVideo. "The Optibase platforms provide 24x7 services ensuring
our customers receive the best possible service."
WH Platts, an Optibase value add reseller based in Atlanta, GA and
Charleston, SC, provided the system design consultation installation
and training.
About Optibase
Optibase provides professional encoding, decoding, video server
upload and streaming solutions for telecom operators, service
providers, broadcasters and content creators. The company’s
platforms enable the creation, broadband streaming and playback of
high quality digital video. Optibase’s breadth of product offerings
are used in applications, such as: video over DSL/Fiber networks,
post production for the broadcast and cables industries, archiving;
high-end surveillance, distance learning; and business television.
Headquartered in Israel, Optibase operates through its fully owned
subsidiary in Mountain View, California and offices in, Japan,
China, India and Singapore. Optibase products are marketed in over
40 countries through a combination of direct sales, independent
distributors, system integrators and OEM partners. For further
information, please visit www.optibase.com.
About Smart Video
SmartVideo Technologies offers the first and best-in-class services
for broadcasting live, on-demand and download-and-play television
content for Internet-connected video consumers around the world.
SmartVideo's television solutions deliver sharp video images with
fully synched audio for broadcast to video-enabled cell phones and
other handheld devices, via current and next- generation cellular
and Wi-Fi systems. SmartVideo's proprietary technologies include a
full suite of television content management services for wireless
telco carriers as well as content owners, to provide an end-to-end
mobile television broadcast and business solution. SmartVideo's
robust library of content includes news, weather, sports, children's
programming and more, from such leading international brands as ABC
News, NBC Universal, Fox Sports, The Weather Channel and dozens of
others. SmartVideo's mobile video solutions provide exceptional
image quality on all existing 2.5G and Edge cellular networks, and
near-broadcast quality on 3G and Wi-Fi networks. SmartVideo is a
Microsoft Windows Media(R) 9 Series Certified Hosting Provider. For
additional information and to subscribe to SmartVideo's Live TV
content packages visit
http://www.smartvideo.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 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 IPTV market in particular, competition, our
ability to manage growth and expansion, general economic conditions
and other risk factors. For a more detailed discussion of these and
other risks that may cause actual results to differ from the forward
looking statements in this news release, please refer to Optibase's
most recent annual report on Form 20-F. The Company does not
undertake any obligation to update forward-looking statements made
herein. |
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