SAN FRANCISCO and PETACH TIKVA, Israel, December 9 /PRNewswire/ --

- Client Protocols Work Hand-in-Hand With Network Intelligence to Save 
Costs and Improve Users' Internet Experience

BitTorrent, the global standard technology for the delivery of
rich media on the Internet, and Oversi, a pioneer of over-the-top (OTT)
caching and delivery solutions, today announced their collaboration to
deliver an integrated solution that optimizes P2P traffic across the Internet
Service Provider (ISP) network. In today's business climate, the joint
solution brings clear benefits to ISPs: reduced bandwidth costs and deferred
infrastructure investments together with a higher quality subscriber
experience.

BitTorrent's intelligent client protocols (Policy Discovery
Protocols) communicate with Oversi's NetEnhancer(TM) network intelligence
platform to improve peer selection in line with the ISP's network
capabilities while speeding up P2P downloads. With enhanced intelligence, the
ISP and P2P clients avoid network bottlenecks. The solution is simple to
deploy in the P2P cloud and uses the ISP's existing network resources.

The solution complements the Internet Engineering Task Force
(IETF) Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (ALTO)* working group
initiative, which aims to improve the routing of P2P data traffic. ALTO is
the IETF working group that is extending technical evaluation and
standardization of ideas explored in operational tests by the P4P Working
Group**.

Eric Kinker, CEO of BitTorrent, said, "We're glad to be
cooperating with leading network equipment vendors like Oversi to build
solutions that help network operators while preserving and even improving the
end user experience on BitTorrent file transfers. We believe that cooperative
endeavors like this offer the most promising opportunities for helping the
Internet to evolve."

David Tolub, Oversi's President and CEO, said, "We welcome our
collaboration with the global P2P technology leader. For the first time,
network intelligence is being combined with P2P client intelligence to solve
a key ISP dilemma: how to reduce network congestion while improving users'
performance. This solution meets a real need, while reducing operational and
capital expenses at a time of shrinking budgets".

The BitTorrent/Oversi solution supports commercial and
non-commercial P2P applications and ongoing advances in P2P architectures.

NetEnhancer, Oversi's recently launched P2P management tool,
optimizes service providers' resources by automatically routing P2P traffic
to local peers in line with the available network resources of the operator.
BitTorrent's Policy Discovery Protocol is designed to help peers
automatically discover ISP policies which will optimize peer selection and
accelerate downloads.

*For more information on the IETF ALTO initiative, please see
http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/alto-charter.html

**The P4P Working Group (P4PWG) is sponsored by the Distributed
Computing Industry Association (www.dcia.info). P4P, or Proactive network
Provider Participation for P2P, is a method for ISP and P2P software to
optimize peer-to-peer connections.

About BitTorrent

BitTorrent is the global standard for delivering high-quality
files over the Internet. Millions of users worldwide are using BitTorrent's
leading peer-accelerated content delivery platform to publish, discover and
download digital entertainment content quickly, easily and securely. Founded
in 2004, BitTorrent is a privately held company backed by venture capital
firms, Accel and DCM. The company is headquartered in San Francisco,
California. For more information, visit http://www.bittorrent.com.

About Oversi

Oversi offers a breakthrough multi-service platform for
over-the-top (OTT) content, including Internet video, peer-to-peer (P2P) and
other media applications. Oversi's solutions enable service providers to cope
with the huge traffic load on their networks while significantly improving
subscribers' quality of experience (QoE). By assuring QoE, Oversi's solutions
open up new monetization opportunities with content providers and facilitate
the delivery of tiered services, increasing average revenue per user (ARPU).
Oversi systems are deployed in service provider sites around the world.
Oversi has offices and representatives in EMEA, the US, Asia-Pacific and
Latin America. For more information, please visit our web site,
http://www.oversi.com.

Media Contact
    Natalie Chouraqui,
    Director, Communications
    Oversi
    Tel:  +972-77-333-7723
    Cell: +972-54-4750-889
    Fax:  +972-3-542-3165
    Email: nataliec@oversi.com