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Scientific-Atlanta Digital Transport System Connects Time Warner Oceanic Cable Systems on Four Hawaiian Islands

Posted on: Tuesday, 30 September 2003, 06:00 CDT

ATLANTA, Sept. 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Oceanic Time Warner Cable has deployed a Scientific-Atlanta(R) Prisma DT(TM) digital transport system to provide a variety of interconnect services for its cable TV and cable modem customers on the islands of Oahu, Maui and Hawaii. A fourth segment of the system is currently being installed on Kauai. In addition to serving cable customers, the network will also provide high-speed data services for government and education agencies in Hawaii.

The flexible Scientific-Atlanta transport system will be used to deliver five major applications for Oceanic on the four islands via an undersea fiber optic cable network that is believed to be the longest fiber link ever supported by Scientific-Atlanta. Fully redundant links on each island will help to protect the network in the case of a fiber cut. The applications:

- Video on Demand -- At the master headend in Mililani on Oahu, library

servers are used to store all VOD content. Rather than replicating the

effort of downloading the same content at a master site on each island,

the central master site on Mililani downloads content updates to remote

servers that are located close to customers on each island. Oceanic is

using a variety of Scientific-Atlanta Explorer(R) set-top models to

support its VOD application.

- High-speed residential cable modem service -- All of Oceanic's

residential cable modem traffic is being transported among the islands

to the system's master headend in Mililani for connection to the

Internet.

- Off-air broadcast channels -- On each island, local off-air broadcast

content is captured at the broadcasters' studios and transported to the

Prisma DT network using the Prisma DTx service adapter. Then, the

programming from all the broadcasters is included in the cable lineup

for viewing on the four islands. This allows cable customers on one

island to view programs that are broadcast on the other islands in

pristine quality, expanding their viewing options.

- High-speed data service for government -- Several government agencies

and the Department of Education have interconnected existing networks

on the three islands over OC3 and OC48 rings. The flexibility of the

Scientific-Atlanta transport system and its OC3 cards has allowed

Oceanic to deliver a high-speed data link for the agencies and schools.

- Content delivery -- The Prisma DT system's powerful delivery

capabilities enable Oceanic to downlink the programming for its entire

cable lineup at Mililani, create the complete cable package for all

consumers, and use ASI to transport it on the Prisma DT system for

delivery to customers. Using a Prisma DT ASI card at the master headend

at the single reception site has proven to be both efficient and cost-

effective. This eliminates the costly process of receiving, processing

and multiplexing feeds to create identical cable channel programming

lineups on each island.

"The Oceanic deployment of the Prisma DT digital transport system dramatically highlights the versatility and flexibility this solution can deliver for cable operators," said Paul Connolly, vice president and general manager of emerging businesses at Scientific-Atlanta. "We feel the distance we were able to span on the undersea fiber is an indicator of some new applications we can support in more friendly geographic environments where we could link two operations together, reliably and cost-effectively."

Installation, integration and support services for the Oceanic network on Oahu, Maui, and Hawaii were provided by SciCare(TM) Broadband Services, Scientific-Atlanta's integration and professional services arm that provides the technical resources to help customers meet their business and technical needs. SciCare is currently supporting the Kauai installation.

About Scientific-Atlanta

Scientific-Atlanta, Inc. ( http://www.scientificatlanta.com/ ) is a leading supplier of digital content distribution systems, transmission networks for broadband access to the home, digital interactive set-tops and subscriber systems designed for video, high-speed Internet and voice over IP (VoIP) networks, and worldwide customer service and support.

"Forward-looking statements," as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, may be included in this news release. A variety of factors could cause Scientific-Atlanta's actual results to differ from the anticipated results expressed in such forward-looking statements. Investors are referred to Scientific-Atlanta's Cautionary Statements (Exhibit 99.1 to the Company's most recent Form 10-K), which statements are incorporated into this news release by reference.

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