Envivio Receives 2007 Frost & Sullivan Award 

Envivio Receives 2007 Frost & Sullivan Award for Digital Media Infrastructure Entrepreneurial Company of the Year

Frost & Sullivan Lauds Envivio’s Growth through Constant Development of Advanced Compression Formats for Converging IP Video Services

South San Francisco, CA – February 1, 2007 – Envivio Inc. announced today that it has been awarded the 2007 Frost & Sullivan Award for Entrepreneurial Company of the Year in the world digital media infrastructure market.  The company has continuously strived to introduce advanced compression products for traditional and emerging media, while expanding aggressively in the converging IP video services markets.

Each year Frost & Sullivan presents this award to the small company that demonstrates superior entrepreneurial ability in its industry.  The award signifies the company's identification of a unique and revolutionary product solution with significant market potential.  Additionally, the award certifies that the company's marketing strategy as sound and poised for success.

“As an early provider of MPEG-4 technologies and solutions, Envivio was the first company to provide MPEG-4 encoding systems for Mobile and Internet video, IPTV, and Broadcast TV applications,” said Frost & Sullivan Research Analyst Vidya S Nath.  “As the access networks and devices matured, Envivio was in a unique position to leverage its expertise in these applications to offer MPEG-4 IP video headends and eventually enable a converged video marketplace.”

The Envivio® product portfolio is comprised of a complete suite of encoding solutions including standard-definition (SD) and high definition (HD) live and offline encoders for IPTV, mobile TV, Internet TV and the broadcast transport sectors.  It also includes professional decoders, network management systems and unique e-learning/webcasting solutions that highlight its expertise in MPEG-4-based interactivity techniques.  Its video compression technology makes IP video a reality over any type of network and to any multimedia device—from 3G to xDSL and from mobile TV to HDTV.

“Envivio constantly aims to satisfy customer demands with solutions that provide extreme flexibility and interoperability in a non-uniform network environment – support for multi-networks, devices, transport streams, output profiles and statistical rate control,” noted Nath.  “Its constant efforts to satisfy demands of various service providers in the video value chain, particularly in the face of growing media convergence, are expected to enhance its consistent growth performance.”

Focusing exclusively on MPEG-4 based IP video solutions, Envivio has a strong intellectual property portfolio with 19 patents, including patent licenses, around essential MPEG-4 technology and its implementation.  Envivio has a well-recognized reputation as a pioneering contributor to the MPEG-4 standard and is an expert in the field.

Frost & Sullivan Best Practices Awards recognize companies in a variety of regional and global markets for demonstrating outstanding achievement and superior performance in areas such as leadership, technological innovation, customer service, and strategic product development.  Industry analysts compare market participants and measure performance through in-depth interviews, analysis, and extensive secondary research in order to identify best practices in the industry.


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About Envivio Inc.
Envivio Inc. is the leading technology provider of MPEG-4-based IP video convergence solutions for telcos, enterprises, and broadcasters.  Supporting a wide range of network protocols, resolutions, bit rates and devices, Envivio is the only company to offer IP video convergence solutions from mobile to HD.  Envivio solutions deliver industry leading AVC/H.264 compressed video quality at the lowest bit rate for mobile TV, Internet TV, broadcast contribution and interactive IPTV.  Service providers worldwide use Envivio solutions to reduce their operational costs while offering subscribers compelling video services anytime and anywhere.  Visit www.envivio.com for more information.



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