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RGB Networks, the leader in network video processing, announced today that Horizon Telcom, a telecommunications provider serving rural southern Ohio for the past 115 years, is using RGB’s award-winning Video Multiprocessing Gateway (VMG) to dramatically increase the number of high definition television (HDTV) channels that it offers its IPTV subscribers. Horizon has deployed the VMG in its Chillicothe, Ohio headquarters which serves all of its service areas, including 25,000 subscribers in 13 Southern Ohio counties.

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Tektronix, the leading provider of digital content monitoring solutions, today announced that its Sentry® digital content monitoring solution, part of its Mixed Signals family of products, is a finalist in this year’s Cable & Satellite International magazine’s Product of the Year Awards.  The CSI Awards, which will be presented at the IBC tradeshow in Amsterdam in September, recognize technical excellence and innovation in the cable, satellite, terrestrial broadcasting and IPTV industries.

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The Video Network Monitoring group at Tektronix, formerly Mixed Signals prior to its acquisition, has formed a Technical Advisory Board to provide guidance and counsel to management and engineering teams as they continue developing the company’s line of solutions that enable video service providers to quickly identify, diagnose and repair video and audio errors that can impact the viewing experience.

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RGB Networks, the leader in network video processing, has taken three screen delivery to the next level with today’s acquisition of RipCode, Inc., a privately held developer of solutions for mobile IP video. RGB will incorporate RipCode’s technology into its Video Multiprocessing Gateway (VMG) enabling video service providers to cost-effectively deliver services to their subscribers on TVs, PCs and mobile devices.

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Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) announced today its BOLT™ browser has rendered its 1 billionth Web page, surpassing this major usage milestone over the weekend before the company made the second generation of its mobile browser, Bolt 2.1, available to the public. Launched in February 2009, the BOLT mobile browser is the most advanced and fully featured mobile browser available for phones of all types. Bolt has enjoyed consistent growth as people around the world flock to the acclaimed browser’s video streaming, tight integration with social networking, tabbed browsing and a host of other features that deliver PC-style browsing to mobile phones of all types.

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Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) today announced commercial availability of the second generation of its acclaimed BOLT™ mobile browser. BOLT 2.1 marks the completion of beta testing on the most fully featured browser available for mobile phones of all types. Among BOLT 2.1’s new features are tighter integration with Facebook and support for HTML5 video as well as several new Flash video streaming websites.

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Mixed Signals, the leading provider of digital content monitoring solutions, today announced that its Sentry® and Medius™ digital content monitoring solutions are being used by Cablevision du Nord, a Canadian cable television operator based in Québec, to ensure that subscribers enjoy the best possible viewing experience. Cablevision is the largest cable operator in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region of Québec, providing cable television and high speed Internet to tens of thousands of subscribers in 50 municipalities throughout the province. Cablevision is the latest cable operator to deploy Sentry, joining nine of the top 10 U.S. operators and three of the top five Canadian operators.

Cablevision chose Mixed Signals Sentry for its ability to comprehensively monitor their digital video network and catch any potential service-affecting issues. Sentry’s unique ability to identify and diagnose errors enables Cablevision to quickly repair errors, thus ensuring viewers enjoy an optimal Quality of Experience (QoE) and service uptime.  Sentry utilizes advanced deep packet inspection technologies to continually dive deep into all the video programs flowing through a network to spot problems at the IP and MPEG layers, leaving no error undetected. Sentry’s ability to detect and localize errors quickly, also enables service providers to significantly reduce their operational expenses as technicians can immediately make repairs, rather than spending time tracking down the root cause of errors.

“To deliver the best possible viewing experience for our subscribers, we knew we needed to keep a closer eye on our video network and proactively spot any errors,” said Mr. John Colton, General Manager for Cablevision du Nord.  “Mixed Signals’ monitoring tools enable us to effectively catch and repair errors in our network before they affect our subscribers, allowing us to offer the best quality of experience to our customers.”

Cablevision has installed Sentry in its headend in Val-d’Or, Québec where it monitors their entire digital programming line-up, including all high definition (HD) and standard definition (SD) programs.  Cablevision will expand its deployments of Sentry, with the next installation planned for its headend in Rouyn-Noranda, Québec.

In combination with Sentry, Cablevision is also using Mixed Signals’ Medius remote monitoring and management system to communicate with all the Sentrys from a central location.  Sentry and Medius together provide operators with the industry’s most integrated, comprehensive and network-wide solution for ensuring an optimal QoE for their subscribers.

“Cablevision du Nord has proven its dedication to ensuring the highest possible quality of experience to its customers by using Mixed Signals to monitor its video network,” said Mr. Eric Conley, CEO of Mixed Signals.  “Sentry’s ability to proactively detect errors before they affect the subscriber is second to none and provides Cablevision du Nord with the tools they need to keep their subscribers loyal and happy.”

About Mixed Signals
Mixed Signals provides the most comprehensive and scalable digital content monitoring solutions from the source to the edge including digital services, transport streams, ad insertion, switched digital video, video on demand and interactive content. Mixed Signals’ innovative products offer unparalleled visibility into video streams and digital services in real time. The Company’s products are known for their ease of use and deliver critical intelligence about overall network transport stream behavior, trending analyses, and actionable alerts when anomalies are detected. More than any other product on the market today, Mixed Signals monitoring solutions enable cable and satellite television operators, broadcasters, content aggregators and IPTV providers to simplify deployments of new services and applications, and to future-proof and maximize the return on the investment in their digital networks.

For more information visit www.mixedsignals.com or call 310.227.8620.

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