TelcoTV09 Announces Vision Award Finalists

IRVINE, California, November 5 /PRNewswire/ --

- Winners to Be Honored in Orlando

TelcoTV 2009, the premier meeting place for the convergence of the
entertainment and communications markets, has determined the finalists for
the 2nd Annual TelcoTV Vision Awards. The 2009 TelcoTV Vision Awards winners
will be announced before an audience of ecosystem partners, service
providers, analysts, and technology and business press at TelcoTV 2009 on
Wednesday, November 11, at 12:30 p.m. EST in Room N220G of the Orange County
Convention Center in Orlando, Fla. The ceremony is preceded by a follow-up
study presentation on Pay TV services by Adi Kishore, Senior Analyst, Heavy
Reading.

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Finalists in each category have demonstrated outstanding leadership and
innovation in seven unique categories: Broadband Access Networks, Customer
Premises Equipment, Conditional Access, Encoding, Middleware, Test &
Measurement, and Service Provider Innovation.

The TelcoTV Vision Awards recognize the most innovative and "visionary"
new products, services, or applications announced in the communications
industry in the past year. The finalists were determined by a distinguished
panel of industry executives, analysts, and service providers: Bernardin
Arnason, Chairman, TelcoTV; Joseph Braue, SVP and Group Director, Light
Reading; Derrick Bulawa, CEO, BEK Communications Cooperative; Steve Fravel,
Video Services Manager, NTCA; Aditya Kishore, Senior Analyst, Heavy Reading;
and Kevin McGuire, VP Business & Technology, NTCA.

Finalists in each category are:

    Broadband Access Networks
    - Alcatel-Lucent: Next-Generation ONT
    - Zeugma Systems: SmartBoost
    - Occam Networks: GigE BLC 6316 Optical Line Terminal Blade

    Conditional Access
    - Latens: CAS 4.1
    - Nagravision: Media ACCESS ELK Conditional Access System
    - Verimatrix: VCAS for DVB 2.0

    Customer Premises Equipment
    - uControl/SMC Networks: Security, Monitoring and Automation (SMA) 
      TouchScreen Gateway
    - Entone: Hydra IP Video Gateway Verimatrix: VCAS for DVB 2.0
    - Ericsson: Connected Home Gateway

    Encoding
    - RGB Networks: Video Multiprocessing Gateway
    - Harmonic: Electra 8000 Universal SD/HD MPEG‐2 and AVC Encoder
    - Tandberg: iPlex UltraCompression-2 Multiformat HD/SD Encoder / 
      Transcoder

    Middleware
    - Nokia Siemens Network: Interactivity Markup Language (IML) Framework
    - Orca Interactive: COMPASS
    - Skitter: Skitter.TV

    Test & Measurement
    - Mixed Signals: Sentry
    - Ineoquest: IQDialogue IPTV Mediaroom
    - Mariner: xVu Release 3 - Support for Cisco VQE Monitoring

    Service Providers Innovation Award
    - AT&T: AT&T U-verse TV - Multiview
    - Iowa Network Services: DET-Digital Entertainment Television
    - Mahaka Communications Group: MCGTV



TelcoTV provides a comprehensive overview of the changing telecom video
landscape, with presentations delivering meaningful insight into, and
analysis of, the evolving world of entertainment convergence, plus more than
100 exhibitors showcasing the latest solutions and products for the IPTV and
video markets. It is a joint production of TechWeb and NTCA. This year's
event will be held November 10-12, 2009, at the Orange County Convention
Center, Orlando, Fla. For further details visit:
http://www.TelcoTVonline.com.

About Light Reading

Founded in 2000, Light Reading (www.lightreading.com) is the leading
online media, research, and focused event company serving the US$3 trillion
worldwide communications market. Lightreading.com is the ultimate source for
technology and financial analysis of the communications industry, leading the
media sector in terms of traffic, content, and reputation.

Light Reading's research arms, Heavy Reading and Pyramid Research,
provide the most comprehensive communications research, market data, and
technology analysis in close to 100 markets around the world. Light Reading
produces almost 20 targeted communications events including TelcoTV, Ethernet
Expo New York and Ethernet Expo London, The Tower Summit@CTIA, and Optical
Expo, as well as focused one-day events tailored for cable, mobile, and
wireline executives. Light Reading was acquired by United Business Media in
August 2005, and operates as a unit of TechWeb.

About TechWeb

TechWeb (www.techweb.com/aboutus) the global leader in business
technology media, is an innovative business focused on serving the needs of
technology decision-makers and marketers worldwide. TechWeb produces the most
respected and consumed media brands in the business technology market. Today,
more than 13.3 million* business technology professionals actively engage in
our communities created around our global face-to-face events Interop, Web
2.0, Black Hat, and VoiceCon; online resources such as the TechWeb Network,
Light Reading, Intelligent Enterprise, InformationWeek.com, bMighty.com, and
The Financial Technology Network; and the market leading, award-winning
InformationWeek, TechNet Magazine, MSDN Magazine, Wall Street & Technology
magazines. TechWeb also provides end-to-end services ranging from
next-generation performance marketing, integrated media, research, and
analyst services. TechWeb is a division of United Business Media, a global
provider of news distribution and specialist information services with a
market capitalization of more than US$2.5 billion.

*13.3 million business decision-makers: based on number of monthly
connections

About United Business Media Limited (www.unitedbusinessmedia.com)

United Business Media Limited (UBM) is a global media and marketing
services company that informs markets and brings the world's buyers and
sellers together at events, online, in print, and with the information they
need to do business successfully. UBM serves professional and commercial
communities, from IT professionals to doctors, from journalists to jewelry
dealers, from farmers to pharmacists around the world. UBM employs more than
6,500 people in more than 30 countries. UBM's businesses operating in the US
include CMPMedica, Commonwealth Business Media, Everything Channel, PR
Newswire, RISI, TechInsights, TechWeb and Think Services. UBM is listed on
the London Stock Exchange (UBM.L) and has a market capitalization of US$1.6
billion.

About NTCA

The National Telecommunications Cooperative Association is the premier
association representing more than 580 locally owned and managed
telecommunications cooperatives and commercial companies throughout rural
America. NTCA provides its members with legislative, regulatory, and industry
representation; meetings; publications and educational programs; and an array
of employee benefit programs. Visit us at www.ntca.org.

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