SES AMERICOM’s IP-PRIME Powers TelcoTV

IP-PRIME to showcase service in thirteen exhibits at TelcoTV this week at the Georgia World Congress Center

PRINCETON, N.J.– SES AMERICOM, a SES company (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg exchanges: SESG), today announced that it will showcase its industry-leading IP-PRIME® MPEG-4 IPTV service with thirteen exhibitors that have been important contributors to the development of SES AMERICOM’s platform, at the TelcoTV Conference and Expo . SES AMERICOM, the only company delivering MPEG-4 IPTV service to telecommunications companies and other operators, will locate a fully-functioning IP-PRIME headend at the conference site using the same equipment used by IP-PRIME customers. This headend will receive television signals beamed to the conference over the SES AMERICOM satellite network from the company’s IPTV broadcast center in Vernon, Valley, N.J.

IP-PRIME offers the best quality high definition television (HDTV) in the IPTV industry which has been consistently demonstrated in side-by-side comparisons against cable and direct-to-home satellite services. The IP-PRIME demonstration at TelcoTV will include an array of HD and standard definition channels. In addition to SES-AMERICOM, which will be displaying IP-PRIME in Booth 821, the following technical contributors will showcase IP-PRIME in their booths:

* Advanced Media Technologies (Booth 521)

* Amino Communications (Booth 437)
* CISCO – Network (off the floor)

* Dascom Systems Group (Booth 925)

* Entone Technologies (Booth 107)

* Globecomm Systems, Inc. (Booth 831)

* International Datacasting (Booth 941)

* NDS (Booth 214)

* Nokia Siemens Networks (Booth121)

* National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative (Booth 921)

* Occam Networks (Booth 721)

* RGB Networks (Booth 122)

* Verimatrix (Booth 137)



Telcos of all sizes will find IP-PRIME minimizes the risk of a complex technical integration, simplifies difficult program acquisition challenges and lowers their financial risks for launching a television service. In addition to being fully customizable to suit the specific needs and desires of its customers, IP-PRIME is also a true white label service that provides customers brand protection, allowing the television service to marketed and sold under the operator’s own brand.

IP-PRIME delivers over 285 television channels, including over 28 of the best-quality HDTV channels in the IPTV industry, and over 100 digital music channels, giving customers the easiest way to offer a broad range of diverse programming. Customers can pick and choose which channels to include in their line-up, and can easily integrate local programming.

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