TelVue(R) Debuts the New HyperCaster SDI(TM)

All-in-One, Multi-Format Broadcast Server With Integrated Channel Branding

MOUNT LAUREL, NJ–(Marketwired – Apr 9, 2013) – TelVue® Corporation (PINKSHEETS: TEVE) — the innovation leader in Television and Internet Broadcasting for cable operators, media companies and communities — today launched the newest version of its award-winning HyperCaster IP broadcast server — now with integrated multi-format decoding for baseband outputs and on-air graphics features.

The all-new HyperCaster SDI was unveiled at the 2013 National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) in Las Vegas. The HyperCaster SDI is an IP video broadcast server with multi-format MPEG-2 and H.264 playout and native digital IP switching, with the choice of IP, SD/HD-SDI, Composite, Component, or HDMI outputs with integrated channel branding. Features of the HyperCaster SDI include:

• Automatic SD/HD up & down conversion per channel
• Seamless format switching on the fly
• Standard-Definition & High-Definition up to 1080p
• MPEG-2 & H.264
• Simultaneously output IP and baseband
• Up to 20 SD or HD channels in a compact, single rack unit appliance

“The new TelVue HyperCaster SDI is perfect for a range of broadcast and simulcast applications, such as HD/SD, Digital/Analog, or Broadcast/Streaming simulcast,” explains Jesse Lerman, President and CEO of TelVue Corporation. “The new HyperCaster output options give broadcasters the best of both worlds, combining the strengths of IP and baseband workflows. And the integrated graphics packs in even more value supporting HD branding without requiring expensive external graphics systems.”

The HyperCaster SDI features browser-based content management, drag and drop scheduling, StreamThru™ IP digital switching, and many other broadcast automation and workflow features. The HyperCaster SDI is being demonstrated at the TelVue NAB booth #N623.

About TelVue Corporation – TelVue® Corporation is a broadcast technology innovator and leader that helps video broadcasters automate their channels, expand their audiences across multiple screens, and broaden their ability to monetize their content. TelVue’s professional quality broadcast equipment and cloud video services include all-in-one digital broadcast servers, ad servers, live and VOD Internet streaming, multi-user contribution and transcoding, hosted broadcast, broadcast program sharing, and web-based digital signage. TelVue® serves the local origination and leased access needs for 8 of the top 10 Cable and Telco MSOs, powers over 1,500 hyperlocal and PEG channels, powers Over-The-Top and Subscription Internet channels on the most popular OTT boxes and gaming consoles, and delivers local and specialty programming to millions of college students, hundreds of hospitals, and to over 30 Million households. For more information about TelVue®, please visit http://www.TelVue.com

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Plum Voice Releases VoiceTrends IVR-Specific Analytics Tool

VoiceTrends reveals the most useful data for improvement of customer satisfaction and, thus, improvement of automation rates

NEW YORK, April 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Communication technology leader Plum Voice has launched a tool that addresses the escalating business need to improve voice applications, refine customer service and minimize call center costs. With Plum’s new VoiceTrends analytics engine—designed specifically for interactive voice response (IVR) applications—businesses can monitor and improve the performance of essential customer-facing applications via an optimized toolkit.

VoiceTrends automatically analyzes all of the key metrics that lead to poor caller experience. Proper measurement is the key to continuous improvement and, therefore, the key to creating iteratively optimized communication applications.

Most IVR analytics tools on the market today are not actually designed for IVR but are instead derived from generalized business intelligence platforms that have been white-labeled and reconfigured. As such, they require IVR applications to adapt to the analytics tool, as opposed to the other way around. IVR designers must learn to manually set parameters, identify and log pertinent information, keep up-to-date on disparate IVR and analytics APIs, and maintain extra code or configurations. The IVR expert must also become an analytics expert to gather all valuable information and make headway.

VoiceTrends is designed specifically for modern IVR needs. Building on Plum’s 13 years of expertise in the field, the tool automatically knows which data are important to the efficient functioning of an IVR app. VoiceTrends logs the pertinent information and populates ready-to-go reports to reveal useful insights. Business users can easily deduce how to make their voice and messaging applications more efficient and more accepted.

“Successful IVR and messaging applications must be tuned to optimize the consumer convenience,” says Plum’s President and founder Matt Ervin. “VoiceTrends logs and digests data to show exactly where an application is causing customer frustration—enabling a cycle of improvement informed by meaningful data.”

Anyone can sign up for a free developer account to build IVR applications on the Plum Platform and see firsthand how VoiceTrends enables streamlining of call flows. Features include:

• Failure Analysis—Identifies where callers are hanging up frequently or transferring.
• Trend Tracking—Logs which menu options are selected most often and in what order.
• A/B Comparison—Compares data from A/B script tests.
• Speech Rec Optimization—Logs speech recognition attempts and identifies spots that need grammar improvements.
• DTMF event tracking—Tracks choices for each menu and data input/output.

VoiceTrends is available now and can be accessed via Plum’s developer site located at http://www.plumvoice.com/developers.

About Plum Voice:
For businesses of all sizes that demand high-performance, versatile and scalable multimodal solutions, Plum Voice offers proprietary IVR application and messaging tools, enterprise-grade hosting infrastructure, and an experienced professional service team to support creation of optimized IVR and messaging applications. Our voice and messaging offerings help companies improve customer satisfaction and streamline business processes.

http://www.plumvoice.com/

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AOptix Unveils the First Comprehensive Mobile Identity System Made for iPhone™

The portability, usability and open architecture of AOptix Stratus opens a host of new markets for biometric identity verification

The first Comprehensive Mobile Identity System Made for iPhone
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CAMPBELL, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–

AOptix (www.aoptix.com), a technology innovation company that leverages optics to transform identity verification and wireless communications, today unveiled AOptix Stratus™, the first comprehensive mobile identity solution “Made for iPhone” delivering iris, fingerprint, voice, and face recognition in a truly integrated solution. AOptix Stratus offers highly intuitive and accurate identity enrollment, identification and verification anytime, anywhere. Its power and mobility make AOptix Stratus the ideal solution for applications where biometric identity verification previously was impractical, cost prohibitive, or impossible. Additionally, it will replace the cumbersome mobile identity systems currently being used for a variety of applications.

“Until now, biometric identity verification has been delivered either by fixed location solutions or difficult to use mobile products with limited functionality,” said Alan Goode, Managing Director, Goode Intelligence. “By leveraging the capabilities of the iPhone, and its own deep experience in identity solutions, AOptix is providing an ideal mobile identity platform which will greatly expand the use of biometrics to many new applications and markets.”

The first mobile biometric product built with an open architecture, AOptix Stratus enables SI/VAR partners to develop applications meeting the specific requirements of their customers in a broad range of vertical markets, such as:

• Public safety and border management
• National and civil ID programs
• Humanitarian aid and disaster relief
• Defense
• Healthcare

“The launch of AOptix Stratus provides a capability for Smart Mobile Identity around iPhone that will open up a new range of applications for biometrics,” said Dr. Peter Waggett, Emerging Technology Program Leader at IBM. “The product provides the basis for an ecosystem of Smart Mobile Identity products and apps that we will use to develop and deliver solutions.”

AOptix Stratus is the only mobile biometric device with iris and fingerprint recognition that is Made for iPhone. Employing familiar Apple iOS™ conventions, it is designed to be highly intuitive like the iPhone itself. Previous biometric identity systems have been difficult to use and bulky. AOptix Stratus resolves these issues, enabling the use of the product for many applications that cannot be addressed by traditional biometric systems.

The AOptix Stratus family includes AOptix Stratus MX, AOptix Stratus App for iOS and AOptix Stratus SDK. AOptix Stratus MX is a sleek, rugged hardware peripheral that houses an iPhone 4 / 4S and contains a fingerprint sensor and an advanced AOptix iris imaging system.

AOptix Stratus is an ideal complement to AOptix InSight, the company’s high throughput product line, currently verifying the identities of over 50 million travelers a year. Used in combination, these products provide the foundation for new networked biometric applications, such as law enforcement. For example, AOptix InSight can perform iris and face enrollment at precinct booking stations while AOptix Stratus provides identity authentication wherever required.

“Our objective in developing AOptix Stratus was to create a product family that would deliver the benefits of biometric identification to a host of new users,” said Chuck Yort, Vice President and General Manager of Identity Solutions at AOptix. “We’ve received a great deal interest from law enforcement and border control, national and civil ID programs, and defense. We anticipate AOptix Stratus will be embraced by healthcare, disaster relief, humanitarian aid and other areas where identity verification is essential but previous biometric techniques have been impossible or unacceptable. We’ve received strong encouragement from our partners and end users throughout our development and beta process and are delighted that the product is now available for purchase.”

AOptix Stratus is available for purchase through AOptix systems integrator and value-added reseller partners around the world.

More information is available at www.aoptix.com/identity-solutions.

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About AOptix

AOptix Technologies Inc. is keeping people safe and connected with its identity verification and wireless communications solutions. AOptix delivers highly intuitive and accurate biometric identity verification solutions for a wide range of mobile and high throughput applications. The company also delivers wireless communications technology and equipment that provide carrier grade availability and long-range, ultra-high bandwidth to solve mobile backhaul congestion and other communication challenges. AOptix products are derived from the company’s patented optical technologies originally developed for scientific research and advanced defense applications. AOptix is a privately held company headquartered in Campbell, CA. http://www.aoptix.com

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Vasseti Launched Global IP Transit Services

Vasseti Joins the League of International IP-Transit Providers

SINGAPORE–(Marketwired – Apr 9, 2013) – Vasseti (UK) Plc (FRANKFURT: 1VS), through its regional telecommunication divisions, launched its global IP-Transit services for service providers based in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia.

Mr. Sayed Mustafa Ali, Chief Technology Officer, reports, “The services are in the pilot phase and our commercial offer to the wholesale market will start next month. We have started taking orders and our IP Transit services include direct peering with other global players such as Reliance, NTT, Hurricane, Bharti, Tata, Cable & Wireless, and Starhub and to global content aggregators such as Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Akamai.”

Mr. Sayed Mustafa elaborated that the company will offer both ipV4 and ipV6 flavours in its IP Transit offering and will be one of the most competitive providers in the region. “We can leverage our own domestic networks that are present in the region, it will be a win-win situation for the service providers and end users.” Vasseti has spent a considerable amount of resources on R&D to ensure its telco subsidiaries at least meet if not exceed global customer expectations. “Apart from traditional IPT and IPLC service offerings, we can support customer needs including Global Routing Optimization, Routing Customization and Traffic Engineering,” he added.

Vasseti has embarked on a vision to become a leading regional terrestrial fibre optic telecommunication infrastructure player over the next few years. The key strategy is its flagship Vasseti South Asia Network (“VSAN”) which will have over 30,000 kms of fibre optic network through more than a dozen countries in South Asia.

“We have put forth a great effort and we will continue investing to realise the VSAN which will connect three of the most populous countries in the world — which are among the least connected regions in the world. Over time, this region will drive one of the fastest growths in the global telecommunication markets,” said Mr. Ranjeet S. Sidhu, President of Vasseti (UK) Plc.

About Vasseti

Vasseti (UK) Plc (“Vasseti”) is a large, diversified conglomerate based in Kuala Lumpur. It is listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (“FSE”) trading under the Symbol 1VS:GR and is fully reporting on the FSE Entry Standard. It is an investment holding company with business interests in the field of network telecommunications, information technology and real estate.
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TelVue(R) Unveils AdCaster(TM) Digital Ad Server

Unlocks New Revenue in Small and Local Market Ad Insertion

MOUNT LAUREL, NJ–(Marketwired – Apr 8, 2013) – TelVue® Corporation (PINKSHEETS: TEVE) — the innovation leader in Television and Internet Broadcasting for cable operators, media companies and communities — launched the TelVue AdCaster A1000 Digital Ad Server today at the conference of the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) in Las Vegas.

The AdCaster is a cost-effective solution for digital ad insertion applications of up to 64 SD or HD channels per unit, particularly suited to local markets, Tier 2 and 3 MSO line-ups, and low to medium volume applications. The AdCaster integrates with industry standard Ad Splicers and Traffic and Billing systems. The AdCaster is being demonstrated at the 2013 NAB Show at TelVue Booth #N623.

“We believe the AdCaster’s economics and flexibility open up new ad insertion market opportunities and can help make local ad insertion more profitable,” said Jesse Lerman, TelVue President and CEO. “Whether for cable and telco operators, local broadcasters, or hospitality and broadcast networks, the AdCaster is an affordable way to monetize linear video channels. Smaller operators can now monetize channels in their line-ups with local ads just like the big operators.”

The AdCaster advanced workflow features include automatic ingest of schedule files and ad spots from network storage, and generating missing file reports and email alerts so issues can be addressed well in advance. The AdCaster creates Traffic and Billing verification logs, and includes native As Run reports. The AdCaster includes an integrated, browser-based management interface that can be easily accessed remotely and displays real-time status across all channels. The management interface also allows local scheduling and real-time overrides, important for sports workflows such as overtime games. The AdCaster can be scaled for higher volume applications by combining several units or by running as a Virtual Machine on a cloud computing platform.

About TelVue Corporation

TelVue® Corporation is a broadcast technology innovator and leader that helps video broadcasters automate their channels, expand their audiences across multiple screens, and broaden their ability to monetize their content. TelVue’s professional quality broadcast equipment and cloud video services include all-in-one digital broadcast servers, ad servers, live and VOD Internet streaming, multi-user contribution and transcoding, hosted broadcast, broadcast program sharing, and web-based digital signage. TelVue® serves the local origination and leased access needs for 8 of the top 10 Cable and Telco MSOs, powers over 1,500 hyperlocal and PEG channels, powers Over-The-Top and Subscription Internet channels on the most popular OTT boxes and gaming consoles, and delivers local and specialty programming to millions of college students, hundreds of hospitals, and to over 30 Million households. For more information about TelVue®, please visit http://www.TelVue.com

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TelVue Corporation
16000 Horizon Way, Suite 500
Mt. Laurel, NJ 08054
1-800-885-8886