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MCI Unveils Hosted Solution to Better Manage Digital Media Content

Posted on: Thursday, 8 September 2005, 03:00 CDT

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands and ASHBURN, Va., Sept. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- IBC CONFERENCE -- MCI, Inc. today announced a first-of-its-kind hosted digital media solution that enables companies to efficiently manage, edit and securely distribute digital media content. MCI's new ICF Media Platform Hosted Edition builds on the proven capabilities of the ICF Media Platform family by adding hosting, IP and security offerings from MCI.

The new service is aimed at media and entertainment companies with digital content production and distribution needs. Using the ICF Media Platform workflow capabilities, the solution can be tailored to customer needs, including digital content aggregation and syndication to next-generation Internet Protocol TV (IPTV), broadband TV and mobile video platforms; remote rough-editing; content logging; broadcast archiving and digital asset management; as well as digital dailies.

"The digital media marketplace is growing exponentially and customers need a service-based digital media production and distribution capabilities accessible from the Web," said Phill Lawson-Shanks, vice president of MCI's Digital Media Technologies Group. "By combining the ICF Media Platform and MCI's proven IP capabilities, MCI is delivering an end-to-end hosted solution helping customers to reduce costs and gain efficiencies in managing and distributing media content from virtually anywhere at anytime."

Ideal for wireless, broadband and IPTV operators as well as broadcasters and post-production companies, MCI's ICF Media Platform Hosted Edition enables customers to take advantage of the intelligence and security within MCI's global IP network and throughout its worldwide data center footprint. As a fully-managed service hosted in MCI's world-class data centers, customers can deploy a reliable, secure, scalable and high-performance solution quickly and without the capital expense of building a dedicated media infrastructure. Since content is stored centrally and available globally, the ICF Media Platform Hosted Edition allows customers to securely manage, edit and distribute media assets using Web-enabled devices, thereby accelerating production cycles.

ICF Media Platform is also available as a software product offered by MCI to be installed at the customer's premise.

MCI's Digital Media Technologies Group, which recently acquired the assets of Interactive Content Factory (ICF), is dedicated to developing and distributing end-to-end, digital media solutions for content creators, producers, media outlets and entertainment and video gaming organizations. The MCI Digital Media Technologies suite of solutions provides companies with fully-managed IP-based digital media service platform and end-to-end infrastructure well suited to the management and production workflow of digital content creation through a Web-based interface over an IP connection.

MCI will demonstrate its ICF Media Platform Hosted Edition at the IBC Conference at the RAI Convention Centre in Amsterdam (Hall 1, Booth 546).

About MCI, Inc.

MCI, Inc. is a leading global communications provider, delivering innovative, cost-effective, advanced communications connectivity to businesses, governments and consumers. With one of the most expansive global IP backbones and wholly-owned data networks, MCI develops the converged communications products and services that are the foundation for commerce and communications in today's market. For more information, go to http://www.mci.com/.

MCI, Inc.

CONTACT: Janet Brumfield or Stefanie Scott of MCI, +1-800-644-NEWS

Web site: http://www.mci.com/

Source: PRNewswire-FirstCall

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