Tut Systems Unleashes Third Wave of IPTV Deployments

March 16th, 2006 -Tut Systems, Inc.today announced that it has secured contracts to upgrade existing IPTV headends to MPEG-4 AVC compression technology.

The contracts were awarded by triple play pioneers that previously deployed MPEG-2 technology. The upgrades represent the third phase of new technology in the rapidly growing IPTV market that originally deployed MPEG-2 over ATM, followed by MPEG-2 over IP, and now MPEG-4 AVC over IP.

The robust architecture of Tut Systems' Astria content processor (CP) has enabled a seamless and cost-effective transition between each stage, all from a single platform.

The companies upgrading to MPEG-4 AVC include: Allendale Communications of Allendale, MI; Consolidated Communications of Mattoon, IL; MBO Corporation/MBO Video of Mannford, OK; and, as previously announced, Iowa Network Services of Des Moines, IA. The four companies will deliver an average of more than 130 channels of broadcast IPTV services utilizing Tut Systems' Astria CP with its market-leading MPEG-4 AVC encoding and transcoding solutions.

More than 160 service providers across five continents deliver IPTV powered by Tut Systems digital headends. The Astria family of video processing platforms, which serves as the core of the company's digital headend solution, processes both analog and digital video streams from multiple satellite and local sources in a variety of formats.

The Astria CP supports MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 AVC video compression, local ad insertion, forward error correction and provides real-time conditioning for distribution of video and audio over any ATM, IP, or RF broadband network. The Astria VSP provides the highest density, carrier class, single chassis product for the delivery of IP video over RF broadband access networks, including coax and FTTP (Fiber to the Premises).

For more information about Allendale Communications please visit http://www.altelco.net 

For more information about Consolidated Communications please visit http://www.cosolidated.com

For more information about Iowa Network Services please visit http://www.iowanetworkservices.com 

 For more information about MBO Video please visit http://www.mbovideo.com

For more information about Tut Systems please visit http://www.tutsys.com