Amnis Systems -- Formerly Optivision -- Products Deployed in Distance Learning Network for City of Padova, Italy.

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PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 24, 2002

Streaming Video Appliances Integrated With Cisco Routers and

Broadband Wireless Technology to Connect Schools

Amnis Systems Inc. (OTCBB:AMNM) (Frankfurt:ANI), a leading global provider of networked streaming video systems, today announced that the city of Padova, Italy has deployed Amnis streaming video products for a high school distance learning project.

The project connects six towns and numerous high schools utilizing a broadband IP-based network within a 40-mile radius around the city of Padova. The initial distance-learning network will provide multiple services including live classroom instruction broadcasts, video conferencing, video streaming and data sharing. Students and teachers benefit through increased and timely access to education and training without leaving their current school location.

The distance-learning network interconnects schools distributed throughout the local Padova region including the towns of Treviso, Padova East, Feltre, Rovigo and Busonera within a radius of 40 miles. Each distance learning site implements a separate 100 Mb/s Ethernet Local Area Network (LAN) supporting multiple video appliances and enabled for standard IP-based multicast of the high quality MPEG video content. The remote LAN sites are connected via high-speed radio data links (34 Mb/s Wireless IP) creating an end-to-end broadband network. At each site a Cisco 3600 router is used to bridge the wireless network links with the 100 Mb/s LAN.

Each school and its LAN uses at least one Amnis NAC(TM)-3000 live streaming video server and four NAC-4000 streaming video receivers for each conference room connected directly to the Ethernet LAN. A maximum of four video sources are active on the network at the same time and utilize IP multicast for distribution to all sites. Future plans are to expand the network and increase the current deployment to three video conferencing centers per school.

"The demand for high quality network video makes distance learning desirable for the changing education market," said Rich Falcone, vice president of worldwide sales and marketing of Amnis Systems. "Our high quality MPEG video over IP network infrastructure products provide universities, community colleges, high schools and adult education centers the leverage needed to implement new programs and create the virtual classroom."

About Amnis Systems Inc.

Amnis Systems Inc. (OTCBB:AMNM), formerly Optivision Inc., is the dominant market leader in the networked streaming video market for enterprise applications. For more visit www.amnisinc.com or visit www.optivision.com, or phone [phone].

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