Broadbus' B-1 Video on Demand Server System Deployed at 5 top North American MSOs.

BOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- Cable operators embrace DRAM VOD server reliability and functionality

Broadbus Technologies, Inc. today announced that it has won more than 25 commercial deployments at 5 top MSOs in North America. The operators include Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Charter, Adelphia, and Rogers Cable. The company expects to have sold more than 150,000 streams through the end of 1Q05.

Broadbus began shipping its B-1(TM) systems to cable operators for commercial deployment during the second quarter of 2004 and expects growth to be as much as 300% in 2005.

"This is an exciting time for the Company, and a long time in the making. We have chosen to be stealth up until now, so that we could stay focused on execution and customer satisfaction", said Vin Bisceglia, Chairman and CEO. "We are very fortunate to have strong and supportive investors that have enabled us to properly staff and plan well in advance, for the kind of growth we are now seeing. Stay tuned, as a wholesale shift from disk-based architectures to solid-state systems takes place, much like we have seen in other technologies many times before".

Company President Jeffrey Binder added, "Our commitment to setting a new bar for innovation in the On Demand domain will only be strengthened by this rapid growth. We continue to listen closely to our customers, who have been instrumental in our ability to rapidly deliver an immensely capable platform with carrier-class reliability. And it is on this platform that Broadbus and Television on Demand or TOD(R) services will help operators change the way viewers watch television forever".

The Broadbus B-1 Video Server Platform is capable of up to 20,000 streams of MPEG-2 video at 3.75Mbps in a single 18U chassis, with full support for H.264 and VC-1. In a clustered configuration, greater than 1 million streams can share a single storage library of more than 1 million hours. Interfaces such as GigE and Fibre-Channel are standard and the system is compatible with back-offices from Tandberg TV (formerly N2BB) and C-COR (formerly nCUBE) as well as several proprietary systems.

The Broadbus B-1 is unique in its ability to leverage commodity elements such as DDR DRAM and SATA Hard Drives, while at the same time, using carrier-class elements in its chassis, power supplies and cooling systems which are critical to achieving exceptional levels of reliability. Other systems are at the whim of mainstream PC manufacturers, who consistently obsolete their mid-level COTS systems with new models without reference to the on-going requirements for Video on Demand (VOD). Additionally, these systems are unable to achieve the memory density and reliability requirements needed to have the most efficient and capable balance between RAM and Disk.

While other systems claim to "use RAM", the B-1 has a DRAM capacity as much as 80 times greater than other systems. This density advantage is critical to achieving the performance characteristics of the B-1; including the industry's highest ingest capability, a feature that enables nPVR and TOD applications. Instant availability of hundreds of channels of real time content is a key capability of the system. Broadbus' open source Linux based architecture uses open-standards interfaces such as JAVA, .net, SOAP, XML, and CORBA, while also supporting the cable industry's open interface specifications such as ISA and NGOD.

Company CTO Tom Jokerst said, "The Broadbus system is different than anything else we've seen in the marketplace. It is this compelling difference that initially attracted me to Broadbus after 30+ years as a cable operator. I will continue to ensure that Broadbus builds the very best products and delivers superior levels of service and support. I assure the industry, with confidence, that Broadbus will continue to deliver the highest levels of performance from our products".

About Broadbus

Broadbus develops fully scalable, next-generation Video on Demand server systems designed to solve streaming scale, space, power consumption and live ingest issues for cable operators deploying advanced video services such as VOD, Subscription VOD, and ultimately, full-scale TOD. Broadbus offers a migration path to the emerging TOD environment, while fully exploiting existing upgraded broadband networks. The company's revolutionary server architecture based on the intelligent configuration and management of massive amounts of random-access memory, enables operators to offer their subscribers unparalleled convenience, choice, and control over their home entertainment.

Broadbus was recently selected by Red Herring for inclusion into its annual List of Top 100 Private Companies, named to CED Magazine's Top 50 companies leading the broadband revolution and listed as a finalist for Best Innovation in two categories for the first annual On-Demandies(TM) awards hosted by Digital Hollywood. For more information, please visit www.broadbus.com.