BROOMFIELD, Colo., October 28, 2008 ¾ Level 3 Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: LVLT) today announced that the company has expanded its Content Delivery Network (CDN) capacity in Asia. This expansion significantly increases Level 3's delivery capabilities in the region and adds new capabilities to deliver content in China.

"Level 3 offers the CDN features and functionality we need to provide audiences in Asia with the same high-performing, end-user experience that is standard for Yahoo! in more established markets," said Raj Patel, vice president of network systems and storage engineering for Yahoo!. "Content delivery in Asia is critical for our global business growth and we are pleased to continue working with Level 3 to meet this goal."

Level 3's expansion increases content delivery capacity in Asia by a factor of 10 and extends the CDN network into China. With this expansion, the Level 3 CDN footprint in the region includes: Australia, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan.

Increased access to these markets provides new and existing customers in North America and Europe with a global content delivery solution. The ability to deliver content from within Asia optimizes content delivery for efficiency and performance, enabling content owners to provide a better end-user experience to their customers.

"As global demand for online video and other content continues to accelerate, the need to store and deliver content locally becomes increasingly important," said Grant van Rooyen, president of Level 3's Content Markets Group. "The expansion of our CDN service capabilities in Asia reinforces Level 3's commitment to continue investing in our global CDN business and further establishes the company as the right content distribution partner for content owners, distributors and rights holders to meet the rapidly growing demands of their customer base."

Company Site: Level3

Belfast, UK and Dubai, UAE, 30thOctober 2008 - Latens, world leader in next generation software Conditional Access (CA) and Middleware for Pay-TV, today announced that the du IPTV service, secured by Latens IPCAS, has grown to over 50,000 subscribers. du, the UAE based integrated telecommunications service provider, offers an innovative, multilingual IPTV service, providing TV channels from the UAE and around the world, catering to the tastes of different nationalities and cultures.

"We are aggressively pursuing our plans for growth and expansion as we are confident of the potential for growth of our IPTV service," said Farid Faraidooni, EVP Commercial du. "To do this successfully, it is imperative that our CA system can be upgraded and scaled without any disruption to our current services and customers, Latens does this and helps us to achieve our goals efficiently."

Latens IPCAS is a fully DVB compliant software-based Conditional Access System for IPTV. IPCAS provides operators with significant cost savings in comparison to traditional smart cards by removing the cost of additional hardware, and decreasing the time to launch - meaning operators can start generating revenues earlier. Latens software CA also offers unparalleled security as the software solution replaces traditional smart cards with innovative Secure Software Modules. This approach provides superior levels of conditional access security with previously impossible hack recovery and anti-piracy features. As a result, Latens CAS is trusted by the world's leading content providers. The Latens software CA family of products also offers operators of Cable, Satellite and Terrestrial Networks the same benefits over legacy smart card systems.

"Pay-TV piracy in the Middle East is well reported as a serious problem for network operators and their content providers. Operators like du are aware of the unique advantages of Latens software CA, and how it can enable their business. That du can continue to grow at such a fast pace is evidence that the Latens family of software CA systems has a vital role to play in preventing piracy in this market. It also highlights the importance of the stable and robust integration of Latens CAS with du's IPTV network. We were able to achieve this by working closely with du's extremely skilled technical team, providing them with a flawless security deployment in a matter of weeks," says Gary Else, Director of Strategic Alliances, Latens. "I look forward to further success with du, as this highly ambitious operator continues to grow and innovate."

Company Site: Latens

Oslo, Norway & Budapest, Hungary - October 20, 2008
At the opening of IPTV World Forum Eastern Europe 2008, Appear TV (stand: 32), a global provider of next-generation head-ends for broadcast and IP television, and HFC Technics, a system integrator and Appear TV partner based in Budapest, Hungary, are pleased to announce the integration and commercial deployment of the Appear TV SC2000 IPTV head-end into the Smart-End end-to-end IPTV and Cable solution. The HFC Technics Smart-End solution powered by the Appear TV SC2000 is already providing three operators with more than 60 SD and HD television services.

Smart-End provides Hungary's small-to-medium sized Cable and IPTV operators with a full end-to-end Digital TV solution, which simplifies launching IPTV services and transitioning analogue cable services to digital. The Smart-End and Appear TV SC2000 combination is also ideal for operators looking to move to a hybrid IPTV and cable architecture. HFC Technics plans to rollout the solution to a total of nine operators within the coming year, the system includes best-of-breed network equipment and is integrated with comprehensive subscriber, conditional access, hardware management tools and set-top boxes.

Within the HFC Technics Smart-End, Appear TV performs all content aggregation, management and scrambling functions. 'The flexibility of the Appear TV solution in such an efficient footprint certainly makes it the leading solution in the marketplace today,' comments Atilla Schnobl, CTO of HFC Technics. 'Its redundancy options enables us to provide our clients with 100% uptime.'

'We are pleased to be a part of HFC Technics' Smart-End project', comments Thomas Lind, Technical Director of Appear TV. 'For owners of small to medium sized networks, launching Digital TV services presents a variety of technical challenges. The collaboration of Appear TV and HFC Technics significantly reduces the costs and risks involved, and ensures that an operators' infrastructure has the flexibility to meet all future challenges.'

About the SC2000
The Appear TV SC2000 is the most powerful reception and streaming solution available for television network operators. The SC2000/SC2100 can be configured as a turn-key head-end, or as a standalone solution for intensive service processing applications. Applications include:

Content Aggregation
Reception and descrambling of multiple services from multiple sources.
Professional Descrambler
Multi-service CAM-based, and high performance AES 'Bulk', descrambling.
DVB and AES Scrambler
Fully featured and high performance scrambling for all video streaming applications.

About Appear TV

Appear TV is based in Oslo, Norway. The company produces world-class equipment that enables operators to deliver professional broadcast services to millions of users around the globe. The company is dedicated to developing reliable, revenue-generating and innovative solutions for operators looking to deliver real-time content to the home. Appear TV head-ends are designed for modularity, high density, and flexibility. www.appeartv.com

About HFC Technics & the Smart-End

HFC Technics was founded in December, 2000 by partners with more than 10 years professional experience in the broadcast television industry. HFC Technics' Smart-End is a Turnkey Digital Head-End Solution with IP based content acquisition and distributed conditional access system, feeding partner networks via Budapest Internet Exchanges' Gb IP backbone.

Company Site: HFC Technics

TANDBERG Television, part of the Ericsson Group (NASDAQ:ERIC), today announced a new cable HD program transcoder that enables programmers to harness the bandwidth efficiencies of MPEG-4 AVC HD and DVB-S2 satellite distribution. The new TANDBERG RX8250 means MPEG-4 AVC HD content can be cost-effectively converted into high quality MPEG-2 HD streams at the cable head end. The RX8250 program transcoder, which will be launched at the HD World Conference and Exposition in New York, October 15-16, will boost content provider plans to expand their HD channel offerings.

The RX8250 is part of an end-to-end TANDBERG Television cable HD distribution solution, which enables content providers to carry six to eight MPEG-4 AVC HDTV channels on a satellite transponder. This represents a doubling in the number of channels to be carried per transponder compared to today's best MPEG-2/DVB-S HD satellite distribution solutions. Moreover, the RX8250 overcomes the legacy barrier to MPEG-4 AVC HD content for operators whose cable networks have a large installed base of MPEG-2 HDTV set-top boxes by enabling efficient transcoding of MPEG-4 AVC/DVB-S2 distributed content into high quality MPEG-2 HD.

"The RX8250 completes an end-to-end HD cable distribution solution that changes the economics of HD program distribution and enables programmers to add a significant number of new HD channels to their line-ups," said Lisa Hobbs, VP of Business Development for satellite and broadcast at TANDBERG Television.

TANDBERG Television's cable HD distribution solution combines the company's award-winning HD MPEG-4 AVC encoding and TANDBERG PREKOR™ satellite modulation, which uses dynamic pre-correction to improve the received signal quality. The high performance transcode functions of the RX8250 guarantee the high quality MPEG-2 HD program streams cable operators demand. The new RX8250 HD program transcoder also performs HD to SD down-conversion to generate analog video and audio outputs, providing compatibility with both digital and analog tiers. By offering automatic picture aspect ratio conversion and signaling via active format description (AFD), the RX8250 ensures widescreen HD video is correctly displayed when down-converted to 4:3 video. Full support is provided to ensure that closed captions, TV Guide data and program rating (V-Chip) services continue to be supported.

The RX8250 also supports MPEG-4 AVC HD output into the cable network, providing operators with the option to introduce MPEG-4 AVC set-top boxes without further investment at the head end. It can be used in combination with the TANDBERG Director receiver control and network management system, which includes a highly secure encryption/conditional access system. The product will be available commercially in Q1 2009.

Company Site: Tandberg TV

Adconion Media Group, the independent global advertising network, today announced the launch of its new video content syndication offering, AMG-TV which allows creators and studios access to Adconion's massive global network of publisher sites, advertiser and agency partners to broadly distribute and effectively monetize their premium Web video content.

Adconion's launch of AMG-TV signals its innovative evolution from the traditional ad network model pairing advertisers with publisher sites, to a truly global distribution platform designed to monetize all types of audience-targeted, multimedia content. For Adconion's ad agency partners, AMG-TV provides a scalable branded video solution paired with high-quality original content and the ability to optimize campaigns across video, display and email. In addition, Adconion will provide advertisers and brands with a range of data on the performance of their campaigns and how new and existing customers are interacting with their messages.

Vuguru (www.vuguru.com), the Emmy®-nominated new media studio backed by Michael Eisner's The Tornante Company, is the first production studio using Adconion's AMG-TV to syndicate its new show Back on Topps beginning today. Back on Topps, a hilarious, behind-the-scenes journey into one of the world's most recognizable sports companies, will premiere new episodes twice weekly online.

"AMG-TV is a boon to both creators and agencies and brings Adconion closer to fulfilling our vision of becoming the largest IPTV network by 2010," said Tyler Moebius, Founder and CEO, Adconion. "We are breaking the stranglehold that YouTube and other video platforms have had on professional video creators and giving them broader, global distribution and a sales force dedicated to pairing their content with brand advertisers for greater monetization opportunities. We are essentially meeting Web video's two greatest challenges to date: audience and monetization."

"The partnership with Adconion's AMG-TV will provide an optimal platform for Back on Topps to achieve an instant global footprint through Adconion's network of publishers," said Michael Eisner, The Tornante Company. "As Vuguru continues to create high-quality professionally-produced content for the Internet, it becomes vital to develop measurement platforms and distribution models that will help move the space forward."

"AMG-TV offers agencies a one-stop solution that unites hard-to-find quality content with massive distribution for instantly scalable video campaigns," said Keith Kaplan, President of North America, Adconion. "We understand that many of our agency partners - both digital and traditional - are not interested in sponsoring user-generated content, and we will continue to add premium branded video content that will be syndicated across our worldwide network of publishers."

Adconion's network reaches over 240 million unique users, or nearly one-third of the global Internet population, according to comScore.

Company Site: Adconion

Join Diggnation In London For A LIVE Episode During FOWA Expo

Kevin Rose, host of "Diggnation," founder of Digg and co-founder of Revision3; Alex Albrecht, host of "Diggnation" and co-creator of "The Totally Rad Show".

Join Kevin and Alex across the pond for a LIVE taping of Diggnation, the wildly popular Revision3 tech/Web culture show based on the top digg.com social bookmarking news stories, at the Future of Web Apps Expo 2008 (FOWA). Kevin and Alex will talk about the biggest stories from the Internet, the real world and Hollywood culture.

FOWA, Europe's biggest web conference, is promising to be bigger and better this year. The conference will include the biggest names in the industry, amazing speakers, great advice and tons of networking potential for attendees.

When: Friday, October 10, 2008 - 7:30 p.m. BST

Where: ExCeL London
One Western Gateway
Royal Victoria Dock
London

Show Site: Diggnation

Cambridge, UK, and Rockville, MD - October 1, 2008: Amino Communications, the world leading IPTV platform supplier announced today that its two-year old partnership with Cilutions, Inc. has produced an 'out-of-the-box' digital signage and IPTV applications capability for enterprise customers. This enables multi-site enterprise networks to rapidly install these increasingly popular applications into their existing networks.

Using a range of models from the AmiNET portfolio of STBs, including the hard-drive equipped AmiNET530 for push Video-on-Demand (VOD), Cilutions has already made a number of prestigious deployments in the past couple of years in various North American market segments such as automotive dealerships, drug stores and retail clothing.

"In the Internet age, the corporate world is increasingly looking for plug-n-play applications," said Roy Kirsopp, VP and General Manager of Amino. "By integrating its proven enterprise-grade DMB software into our consumer AmiNET product line, Cilutions has made it very easy and cost-effective for enterprise customers to implement digital signage and IPTV solutions into their existing network infrastructure."

To demonstrate these 'out-of-the-box' applications running on the AmiNET platform to potential small-to-medium business (SMB) and enterprise customers, Amino and Cilutions have decided to further expand their relationship. In 2009, the two companies plan to jointly participate in specific trade shows and other marketing activities that target SMB and enterprise customers across key verticals.

"We have enjoyed a terrific relationship with Amino in the past couple of years," said Kamran Givpoor, CEO of Cilutions. "We are extending this partnership to jointly target rapidly growing digital signage and IPTV markets worldwide. By sharing this 'out-of-the-box' experience with select vertical market segments at these trade shows, we hope to attract a wider audience to our integrated product offering".

Company Site: Amino Communications