From: Stacie Pham [pham@optivision.com]
Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 10:45 AM
To: i2-news@internet2.edu
Subject: Optivision Enables First Multi-Location Video Recording Session
over Internet2 networks

News Release

Contacts:

Jeanne Wun
Optivision, Inc.
(650) 354-8852
wun@optivision.com

Rebekah Donaldson
Bairey & Bedford Public Relations, LLC
(916) 457-8988
rebekah@b2pr.com


OPTIVISION ENABLES FIRST REAL-TIME INTERACTIVE, MULTI-CITY,
MULTI-TRACK MUSIC VIDEO RECORDING SESSION

Groundbreaking Event Links Five University Campuses with World-Class
Musicians via Live Streaming Audio and Video

Palo Alto, Calif., November 6, 2000 - Optivision® Inc., a leading provider
of networked streaming video products, today announced the successful
completion of the first ever multi-location music video recording session
using real-time streaming video over Internet2® networks. Linking five major
university campuses with its plug-and-play live streaming video servers and
receivers, Optivision participated in a real-time music video recording
session between musicians located thousands of miles apart, which included
world-class professionals from groups that back major performers, such as
Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, N Sync, Christina Aguilera and CeCe Winans.
Profiled and broadcast on CNN on Saturday, November 4th at 1:30 p.m. EST,
the national event showcased the immediately deployable communications power
that the Internet2 infrastructure will bring to thousands of universities.

"We are proud to help enable an event that shows educators and the music and
entertainment industry what they can expect to see from the future broadband
Internet," said Michael Liccardo, chairman,
president and CEO of Optivision. "Today was just the start of a major
revolutionary step in real-time entertainment, communications and learning."

"Optivision went out of their way to ensure a successful collaboration among
five campuses that produced a compelling CD done in a compelling way," said
Ann Doyle, manager of Arts & Humanities Initiatives for Internet2. "The
audience was blown away that musicians and engineers from multiple cities
recorded a CD in one evening and the audience was there to witness the live
recording session. As important as the equipment being used was the expert
staff Optivision provided to each of the campuses involved. They were
integral to the success of this event."

Campuses participating in the event included New York University, University
of Southern California, University of Alabama-Birmingham, University of
Miami and the University of Georgia School of Music. To produce the event,
Optivision connected its NACTM-3000 live streaming video servers at each
campus with a VS-ProTM playback system located at the University of Georgia
School of Music, all linked over Internet2 networks. With the Optivision
products streaming broadcast MPEG-2 video and dual channel audio, all the
musicians were simultaneously connected for the performance via timing
tracks to a mixing board where the signals were merged into a final,
recorded song. As a result, world-class musicians from geographically remote
locations were able to collaborate in this recording session.

About Internet2
Led by over 180 US universities working with industry and government,
Internet2 is developing and deploying advanced network applications and
technologies for research and higher education, accelerating the creation of
tomorrow's Internet. Internet2 recreates the partnership of academia,
industry and government that helped foster today's Internet in its infancy.
For more information about Internet2, see: http://www.internet2.edu/.

About the Optivision Network Attached Video Solution
The Optivision product line offers a set of network attached, streaming
media components that fully support industry standards. This permits easy
implementation for a broad range of high quality MPEG  streaming media
applications in a variety of network environments. High quality video is
supported by MPEG compression with variable bit rates from 56Kb/s to 15Mb/s
for customer choice of video quality. Both LAN and WAN environments are
supported with industry standards such as IP/Ethernet, ATM, Gigabit
Ethernet, and T1 network interfaces.

About Optivision, Inc.
Optivision, Inc., the dominant leader in the networked streaming video
market, develops, manufactures and delivers MPEG network video products for
high-quality video creation, management and distribution worldwide both
directly and through leading industry partners. The company's products are
used in diverse applications such as distance learning, corporate training,
video courier services, telemedicine, surveillance and visual collaboration.
The company is privately held and is headquartered in Palo Alto, Calif. For
more information about Optivision, visit http://www.optivision.com, or phone
650-855-0200.

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Optivision, NAC and VS-Pro are trademarks or registered trademarks of
Optivision, Inc. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the
property of their respective owners.

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