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CANAL+ Group Chooses
Optibase for Video Over IP
Other Topics: IPTV Roll-out,
IPTV Technology Issues
Optibase, Ltd.
May 8, 2006
Herzliya, Israel -- Optibase, Ltd. (Nasdaq:OBAS), a leading provider
of advanced digital head-end solutions, today announced that
France's leading pay TV operator, CANAL+ Group, has chosen Optibase
IPTV platforms to provide video over IP capabilities throughout the
facility's premises.
Optibase supplied CANAL+ with its integrated MGW 1100 platforms that
offer high quality video encoding and streaming functionalities.
Optibase's suite of management solutions complements the MGW 1100
and offers sophisticated control and motoring capabilities, while
its carrier-grade architecture ensures high availability,
reliability and robustness.
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"We are proud to add CANAL+ Group to our list of broadcast
customers," said Udi Shani, vice president of International Sales at
Optibase. "With the Optibase platforms as part of its digital
connectivity solutions, CANAL+ is assured of highly reliable quality
video streaming."
"We had specific requirements for a flexible platform with time
stamping capabilities," said Marcel VIOLANTE , IT Project Manager at
CANAL+. "Optibase's outstanding customer-oriented approach resulted
in a solution perfect for our needs. Furthermore, smooth migration
options ensure that we can easily expand and upgrade our services to
ensure that we are at the forefront of video technology."
Optibase's extensive range of streaming gateways and MPEG
encoders/decoders are widely deployed in advanced video streaming
solutions worldwide. Video streaming is a crucial communication tool
at the office, for training and in the classroom.
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 Canal+
Canal Plus Group (Canal+) is a French film and television studio and
distributor. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Vivendi Universal
and has a film library in excess of 5,000 films and is headquartered
in Issy-les-Moulineaux, in the suburbs of Paris.
This press release contains forward-looking statements concerning
our marketing and operations plans for specific sales to Canal+. 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
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