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South San Francisco, CA - Envivio Inc., the leading technology provider of IP video convergence encoding solutions from mobile to HD, recently announced that the new Mobile TV configuration of its 4Caster C4 three screens encoder has successfully entered service with several mobile network operators and content aggregators around the world. Recently awarded the prestigious 2008 TelcoTV Vision Award, the Envivio 4Caster C4 simultaneously delivers four channels of video to up to 32 different mobile TV profiles, providing a solid compression platform for operators launching new services or upgrading early generation services based on software encoding platforms.

"As early generation encoding products, particularly software encoders, reach their limits or end of life, service providers are looking for a more substantial, mission-critical grade platform on which to operate their mobile TV services," said Julien Signès, President and CEO of Envivio. "With its high performance hardware foundation and future-proof, flexible software compression core, the 4Caster C4 enables operators to meet today's requirements and plan effectively for future needs."

The 4Caster C4 convergence encoding platform is the world's first to provide video compression for all Three Screens of consumer video – TVs, PCs and mobile devices – from a single platform. Designed to enable fixed line and mobile network operators to deliver content simultaneously across the full range of consumer devices, the 4Caster C4 is able to take multiple channels of content and encode them simultaneously to deliver multiple mobile TV profiles, multiple Internet TV profiles, or SD and HD IPTV profiles. The 4Caster C4 supports digital, analog and MPEG-2 Transport Stream over IP inputs as well as a range of video and audio encoding options to enable efficient delivery of content to the Three Screens.

Envivio's unique high-availability hardware platform combined with an embedded software encoding core offers levels of service flexibility and encoding performance upgradeability not possible with traditional hardware-only compression platforms. Encoding performance can be upgraded with each software release. New services and features can be added in the same way.

The 4Caster C4 Mobile TV configuration is shipping today and is available through Envivio representatives worldwide.

SOURCE: Envivio Inc.