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Digeo Produces Universal Cable Platform With Availability of Moxi Media Center for Scientific-Atlanta Networks

Posted on: Monday, 3 May 2004, 06:00 CDT

NEW ORLEANS, THE NATIONAL SHOW (NCTA) and KIRKLAND, Wash., May 3

/PRNewswire/ -- Digeo, Inc., the leading provider of media center software and services, today announced the PowerKEY(R) version of the acclaimed Moxi(TM) Media Center, designed to run on digital cable networks from Scientific-Atlanta. Charter Communications, Inc. and Digeo also announced an order for 70,000 PowerKEY Media Centers.

Today's announcements make Moxi the most advanced cable platform to deliver an identical user-experience to customers on either Scientific-Atlanta or Motorola networks. With 99% of the hardware platform and software stack being common between these two systems, cable operators can leverage this commonality to realize operational, support and marketing economies of scale from offering the same product and services across their national footprint.

Consistency across both Moxi PowerKEY and Motorola BMC versions gives operators national reach for new revenue-generating media center-services, including high-definition TV (HDTV) watch-and-record digital video recording (DVR with two tuners), and eventually Jukebox, Photos, Games and home networking. By creating versions of the Moxi Media Center that are compatible with conditional access systems of either Scientific-Atlanta or Motorola networks, Digeo has established a universal cable platform for advanced services.

"Providing PowerKEY compatibility for the Moxi Media Center software confirms the strength of our reference design architecture, and highlights the benefits of partnering with Digeo to provide advanced services," said Jim Billmaier, Chief Executive Officer of Digeo. "The consistent Moxi platform provides cable operators with a mix of Scientific-Atlanta and Motorola deployments to unify and consolidate marketing, training, and support for advanced services across their national network."

"We are pleased to be innovating together with Digeo," said Bob Van Orden, Vice President Strategy & Product Planning of Scientific-Atlanta. "The ability to deploy the Moxi Media Center with PowerKEY gives a broader choice of options to the cable operator to compete with satellite and provide the latest technology to their customers."

Adding PowerKEY compatibility to the Moxi Media Center is an important step forward for Digeo's overall product strategy. Already deployed on Motorola-based systems, the availability of the Moxi Media Center for Scientific-Atlanta networks effectively doubles the potential deployment footprint of the Moxi platform.

The Moxi PowerKEY is currently scheduled for release in Fall 2004.

Charter Orders 70,000 Moxi PowerKEY Media Centers

Charter initiated commercial deployment of Moxi-powered Motorola Broadband Media Centers (BMC) in its Rochester, Minn. market in April 2004, and intends to begin rolling out the Moxi service to customers on Scientific-Atlanta PowerKEY networks in late 2004.

"With two established conditional-access systems, this agreement ensures Moxi deployment across both platforms," said Wayne Davis, Senior Vice President, Engineering and Technical Operations of Charter Communications. "We look forward to making the Moxi Media Center available to as many Charter customers as possible."

About Scientific Atlanta

Scientific-Atlanta, Inc. 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 support.

About Charter Communications

Charter Communications, Inc., a broadband communications company, provides a full range of advanced broadband services to the home, including cable television on an advanced digital video programming platform via Charter Digital(TM) and Charter High-Speed Internet Service(TM). Charter also provides business to business video, data and Internet protocol (IP) solutions through its Commercial Services Division. Advertising sales and production services are sold under the Charter Media(R) brand. More information about Charter can be found at http://www.charter.com/.

About Digeo, Inc.

Digeo, Inc., provides media center software and services that inspire consumer loyalty, generate new incremental revenue, and position cable as the leading source for home entertainment.

The Moxi(TM) platform from Digeo powers a new generation of media centers through which cable operators can deliver high-revenue services and applications-such as digital video recording (DVR), high-definition TV, and on-demand and pay-per-view content -- to the whole home at competitive cost per TV. The multi-TV architecture and breakthrough user interface of the Moxi platform provide all Moxi applications including DVR, DVD, information on demand, jukebox, photos, games, and more from any cable access point in the home using existing wiring. Digeo has also developed an innovative chipset that integrates essential media-center functionality and can substantially reduce future set-top box production costs.

Additionally, Digeo offers the Digeo(TM) iTV service to over one million subscribers, which is the most widely deployed cable iTV service in North America. With Digeo iTV, cable operators can increase the value of their existing digital set-tops by offering field-tested services that have demonstrated increased customer satisfaction and churn reduction, and effective cross-selling of video-on-demand (VOD) and pay-per-view (PPV) offerings.

Moxi(TM) Media Center customers include Comcast, Charter and Adelphia. Digeo is primarily backed by Paul Allen's Vulcan Inc. The company has offices in Kirkland, Wash., Palo Alto, Calif. and Longmont, Colo. For more information, please visit http://www.digeo.com/.

NOTE: Digeo and Moxi are trademarks of Digeo, Inc. All other product or service names are the property of their respective owners.

PowerKEY is a registered trademark of Scientific-Atlanta, Inc.

Digeo, Inc.

CONTACT: Diane Schreiber, +1-415-321-1871, or diane@sparkpr.com, orSteve Kerns, +1-415-321-1891, or steve@sparkpr.com, both of Sparkpr, forDigeo; or Sara Stutzenstein of Scientific-Atlanta, +1-770-236-2181, orsara.stutzenstein@sciatl.com; or David Mack of Charter Communications,+1-303-323-1392, or dmack@chartercom.com

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

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

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

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