[August 5, 2002]

Optibase Intros Enhanced TV Steaming Platform For IP Networks

Optibase, Ltd. released a new version of MGW 2000, a TV streaming platform that enables the delivery of TV over IP services to residential and business subscribers. MGW 2000 enables large companies and organizations to deliver enhanced video communications over corporate IP networks. In the residential space, MGW 2000 allows service providers to deliver broadcast TV over IP based DSL and fiber networks to their broadband subscribers. Transmitting multiple channels of live TV and video, MGW 2000 receives up to six live digital or analog signals, encodes them in real-time to MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 and streams them in multicast or unicast mode.

The newly enhanced version of MGW 2000, version 2.8, adds new Session Announcement Protocol (SAP) and Session Description Protocol (SDP) features. SAP and SDP enable enterprises to publish information regarding scheduled and transmitted channels and allow viewers to see a list of channels and select a desired channel for playback.

Other MGW 2000 features include a remote management system, which enables the configuration, operation and monitoring of multiple streams via a Web-based management application; scheduled encoding and streaming; low latency; and closed caption support.

MGW 2000 is ideal for business TV, corporate communications, distance learning, archiving and surveillance applications. The enterprise and government sectors have been using MGW 2000 to stream business TV and corporate meeting proceedings to employees' desktops and to enhance border surveillance systems to detect, identify, track and intercept unwanted intruders.

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