Net Insight

Business and Financial Review • Dec 29, 2009

Net Insight to supply backbone network for cable TV distribution in an African country

29 December 2009

Stockholm, Sweden – Net Insight, a leading provider of efficient optical transport solutions for media, broadcast and IP networks has received an order to deliver the Nimbra platform for a cable TV distribution network in Africa.

A national telecom operator in an African country is deploying a cable TV distribution network. The network shall initially multicast IP TV services between 15 regional sites and carry regionally inserted native video content with 100% Quality of Service.

Net Insight will provide the CATV backbone network where the central headend is implemented using multiple Nimbra 680 high-capacity switches and all local distribution sites are served by Nimbra 360 nodes.

Net Insights Nimbra product family makes up the world's most efficient and scalable media-rich transport solution. Encompassing a full range of multiservice transport equipment, the Nimbra platform enables Broadcast, IP Media, TV Distribution and Broadband TV networks to deliver video and media services from the core backbone to the end customer. Always with the industry's highest bandwidth utilization, and always with 100% Quality of Service.

The Nimbra 680 is a carrier-class network switch that typically forms the high-capacity backbone layer of a Nimbra network, aggregating and switching traffic from Nimbra 360 access nodes which provide a wide selection of multiservice access interfaces making it ideal for use at customer premises or in colocation POPs.

For more information, please contact:

Fredrik Trägårdh, CEO of Net Insight AB, +46 8 685 04 69, fredrik.tragardh@netinsight.net

About Net Insight

Net Insight delivers the world´s most efficient and scalable optical transport solution for Broadcast and Media, Digital Terrestrial TV, Mobile TV and IPTV/CATV networks.

Net Insight products truly deliver 100 percent Quality of Service with three times improvement in utilization of bandwidth for a converged transport infrastructure. Net Insight's Nimbra™ platform is the industry solution for video, voice and data, reducing operational costs by 50 percent and enhancing competitiveness in delivery of existing and new media services.

World class customers run mission critical video services over Net Insight products for more than 100 million people in more than 35 countries. Net Insight is quoted on the Stockholm Stock Exchange. For more information, visit www.netinsight.net

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