PūrDigital Media Deploys Full Triple Play Services Using i3 IP Residential Gateways and IPTV Set-Top Boxes

Unprecedented market growth in college dorms, condos and apartments

BOSTON, Fall VON, Booth #636 — Sept.21, 2005 — i3 micro technology (i3), today announced that PūrDigital™ Networks, Inc. has recently deployed i3’s Triple Play products and solutions for VoIP, IPTV and high-speed Internet access, into Atlanta-area commercial and university high density residential properties. The first of these deployments is to 2,500 students in four select dormitories at a major research university, as well as to over 4,500 residents in more than 50 high-end condominiums and apartment complexes – the first such wide scale deployment in the USA.

PūrDigital provides an extremely high speed connection (OC-12 to Gigabit Ethernet) to a variety of high density residential buildings, then combines that building’s existing Ethernet plant with i3’s Vood IP Residential Gateways and Mood IPTV set-top boxes to deliver a full suite of managed broadband digital services to the tenants, including:

• Ultra High Speed Internet Service – consistently at 10 Mbps and above – better than DSL or cable;
• Voice-over-IP (VoIP) – uncompressed service for extremely high voice quality through i3’s Vood IP Residential Gateways;
• Video Enhanced Voice Service;
• IPTV – capable of delivering a 300+ channel lineup through i3’s Mood IP Set-top Boxes at DVD-like picture quality;
• True Video-on-Demand;
• Ultra High Speed Wi-Fi Service in Common Areas (802.11b,g and a).

Using i3’s Vood Centre Manager to provide centralized, secure auto-provisioning and element management, PūrDigital is able to reduce the cost of provisioning and managing its voice services. Customers get leading leading-edge VoIP solutions at a cost-effective price, and can quickly auto-install the hardware.

“PūrDigital has been very smart to identify and successfully implement services tailored to meet the needs of a quickly growing market in the Atlanta metropolitan area. We are committed to working very closely with them as they continue their geographic expansion during 2006,” noted Gordon Lewandowski, vice president, Americas, i3 micro technology.

“i3 has among the most sophisticed and reliable set-top boxes and most manageable VoIP gateways on the market today,” said Bill Dodd, president, PūrDigital Networks, Inc. “They have been very instrumental in helping us provide converged digital services to subscribers in a cost-effective manner.”

Beginning in early 2006, PūrDigital will deploy these same set of advanced services using i3’s Triple Play products in Charlotte, North Carolina; Orlando; Nashville, Tennesse; South Florida, Tampa, as well as other colleges and universities.

About i3’s Triple Play Products
Vood™ IP Residential Gateways offer service providers a powerful solution for Voice over IP and high-speed Internet access in the home. They not only provide integrated ADSL2+, FTTH and Ethernet connectivity, but also high quality voice with support for all leading VoIP back-end systems. Vood products are designed to be an integrated component in a service provider’s network, offering zero-touch auto-provisioning, remote management and complete control for the service provider. Appreciated as the intelligent gateway into the home for all IP communications, the Vood portfolio helps service providers to evolve their portfolio of Triple Play services for voice, video and data.

Mood™ IP Set-top Boxes (STB) offer advanced IP streaming media and Internet services, including IP-based real-time TV, video-on-demand, pay-per-view, music-on-demand, web browsing, e-mail and more. They offer such key functionality as personalized viewing and recording – provided via an integrated Personal Video Recorder, plug & play installation, DVD quality viewing, fast channel switching, and flexible SmartCard support. Flexible codec design provides the option of using MPEG-2 or MPEG-4 AVC to meet growing requirements for reduced bandwidth deployments. Based on open standards, the Mood products are easily integrated with a variety of third party products and are well established in leading IP-TV ecosystems.