Envivio Celebrates Fifth Birthday at NAB2005 with a Party and New MPEG-4 Encoders

Mindshare Presentation Optimizes the Delivery of Rich Media Communications over IP Networks

South San Francisco, CA, April 20, 2005 – Envivio Inc., a leading technology provider of MPEG-4 (including AVC / H.264) systems, invited everyone to celebrate the company's fifth birthday in its NAB booth on Tuesday, April 19, 2005, from 6 to 7pm.

Two Envivio founders, Julien Signes, President and CTO and Yuval Fisher, Chief Scientist, cut the
cake at the fifth birthday party.

With the recent introduction of its newest encoders, the 4Caster Mobile and the 4Coder HD system families, Envivio Inc. became the first and only company powering MPEG-4 broadcast video services from mobile to HD. Available today, the new systems debuted at NAB2005 and could be seen in the Envivio booth as well as in various partner exhibits.

"As service providers expand their offerings, maximizing bandwidth usage is critical to their success. The increasing demand for video services over limited bandwidth positions MPEG-4 technology in the right place at the right time. Consumers expect high quality and a myriad of choices. Broadcasters and enterprises can use our MPEG-4 systems to efficiently deliver video services over their existing networks," said Julien Signès, President and CTO of Envivio Inc. "Whether a provider is delivering broadcast video to a mobile device, educational or business content to a desktop or an HD television program to a subscriber's home, they need a technology that will allow them to increase service offerings and quality over time. MPEG-4 is that technology and Envivio is the company to deliver on that technology's promise."

Broadcasters, enterprises, and telcos use Envivio systems for video applications such as multimedia broadcasting, elearning, IPTV and the broadcast of SD and HD television programming. The newest encoders, like all Envivio systems, offer the most advanced implementation of the MPEG-4 specification to provide the best video quality at the lowest possible bit rate. Company milestones include:

• Demonstrating the first live full-resolution (CCIR-601) MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 main profile transmission on Hughes Network Systems DIRECWAY Satellite (2004)
• Shipping its 4Caster™ Broadcast 3500 Live MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 encoder (2004)
• Customer NDTV using Envivio 4Caster encoders to launch the world's first MPEG-4 digital satellite news gathering network based around Envivio's 4Caster real-time, full D1 resolution MPEG-4 encoder and 4View™ real-time MPEG-4 decoder (2003)
• Unveiling and shipping a complete integrated line of award winning MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 live encoding and decoding systems (2003)
• Unveiling and shipping a suite of MPEG-4 IPTV systems aimed at telcos, utilities, MSOs, and ISPs at SUPERCOMM 2003
• Producing a multimedia encoder for mobile markets for RealNetworks (2003)
• Launching and delivering the first interactive industry-standard MPEG-4 webcasting system used for broadcasting, managing, distributing, and playing MPEG-4 multimedia presentations over enterprise networks (2002)
• Demonstrating the first MPEG-4 ISMA-based content protection solution at the Broadband Plus Show (2002)
• Delivering its first complete MPEG-4 product line designed to produce, manage, stream, and playback interactive rich media based on the ISO MPEG-4 and ISMA standards (2002)
• Announcing and delivering the world's first MPEG-4 real-time encoder with DVD resolution (2002)
• Introducing and delivering EnvivioTV™, the world's first ISO/MPEG-4 complete media player, supporting streaming, local playback and digital rights protection of MPEG-4 audio, video and mixed media streams for the Internet and broadcast networks (2001)
• EnvivioTV was the first MPEG-4 player available implementing the MPEG-4 Advanced2D graphics profile, providing content designers with the ability to create standards-based mixed media content (2001)
• EnvivioTV was also the first MPEG-4 standards based plug-in to the QuickTime and Real players (2001)
• Envivio was the first company to provide integration of standards based Digital Rights Management by integrating the Intertrust DRM solution to provide a seamless way to protect, stream, and view content without fear of digital piracy (2001)

About Envivio, Inc.
Envivio Inc. is the leading provider of MPEG-4 (including AVC / H.264) systems derived from its own video, network and multimedia technologies. These systems power revenue generating and bandwidth saving applications and services for the broadcast, enterprise and telco markets. Using Envivio products enables customers to reduce their operational costs by making their existing infrastructure more efficient and by creating new applications and services that were before not possible. Working with leading industry partners, the company's open standards-based technology and systems are used to deliver complete end-to-end video-based solutions that range from mobile video services, digital television over IP, enterprise communications to high definition television. Visit www.envivio.com for more information.

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