Netanya, Israel & Medellín - Colombia - 7th of December, 2009-BitBand and Grupo Union announce a successful deployment of IPTV Catch-Up services to UNE Telecommunications' subscribers in Colombia based on BitBand video CDN solution. The deployment is led by Grupo Unión as the system integrator, utilizing BitBand's advanced Content Delivery Network solutions.

UNE Telecommunications is currently the largest IPTV Company in Latin America, serving more than 60.000 IPTV subscribers. Its offering to subscribers includes TV and video entertainment packages, data and telephony services.

"Implementing BitBand's Catch-Up TV allows us to improve our viewers' quality of experience and an immediate access to content of their choice," explained UNE Telecommunications. "An additional important advantage we gained is the ability to easily control distributed networks from a single location, using the Maestro management system, which we implemented in a very short time in Bogota and Medellín"

"Our successful collaboration with BitBand allows us to offer IPTV operators a comprehensive solution for managing and delivering content to their subscribers in the reliable manner," said Valentina Villegas, IPTV Projects Manager, Grupo Union.

"Relying on our experience gained through worldwide deployments with leading IPTV players, we continue to provide advanced Content Delivery Network (CDN) solutions which are user-centric in terms of application offering." "Our cooperation with Grupo Union offers scalable IPTV solutions, which are a perfect fit for operators in emerging IPTV markets, allowing quick introduction of new services", said Michael Katznelson, VP Sales, BitBand.

BitBand CDN is composed of BitBand MaestroTM, an automated cross-platform content distribution and management suite, BitBand VisionTM, highly scalable recording, streaming and storage video servers and BitBand QualiCTVTM, a boosted broadcast TV QoE solution. BitBand CDN enables high quality efficient delivery of video content to all three types of screen across all relevant networks - IPTV, Cable, Internet and Mobile. For additional information on BitBand CDN, QualiCTV and other BitBand products and solutions, please e-mail sales@bitband.com or visit www.bitband.com.

About UNE-EPM Telecomunicaciones

UNE-EPM Telecomunicaciones is a public company, fully owned by Empresas Publicas de Medellin (EPM) S.A. UNE-EPM provides information and communications technologies to its customers throughout Colombia, including fixed and public telephony, long distance calls, prepaid cards for Colombia and international calls, data transmission, Internet, content services and TV subscriptions. Its asset and sales positions it as one of the largest companies in Colombia and its longstanding experience and support provide a competitive advantage for delivery of high quality services and the most advanced technology. For more information about UNE, visit www.une.com.co