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Concurrent to Showcase On-Demand Technology at CTAM Summit.


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CTAM CTAM Cable and Telecommunications Association for Marketing
CTAM Cable Television Administration and Marketing Society
CTAM Centralized Tuition Assistance Management (Army education)
CTAM Climb to and Maintain
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 (Nasdaq:CCUR CCUR Center for Crops Utilization Research ), the pioneer and market leader in Video-On-Demand (VOD See video-on-demand.

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) commercial deployments, today announced its plans for the upcoming Cable and Telecommunications Association for Marketing (CTAM) "Power On" Cable Conference, July 14-17, in Boston, Mass. At the CTAM Summit New Media Lab, Concurrent will demonstrate one of its key Personal TV(TM) (pTV(TM)) technologies focused on creating a totally personalized viewing experience. On display will be Concurrent's subscription Video-On-Demand (SVOD SVOD Subscription Video on Demand
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) services, which are currently being trialed in several major markets with three different U.S. cable operators.

Focusing on consumer convenience, choice, and control, the Concurrent demonstration will highlight SVOD as the subscriber would experience this fully interactive on-demand service in the home. The demonstration will include Concurrent's SVOD service, encompassing feature films, new release films, and original programming, with premier content from Starz On Demand. The CTAM audience will be treated to an interactive demonstration, including an interactive paid television (iptv) menu; channel line up, with the SVOD service as one of the channels; SVOD menu; and a variety of hit movie genres - all with full viewer control.

Concurrent's MediaHawk(R) VOD Systems

Concurrent's MediaHawk Video Server Series is designed to support all leading digital set-top box The cable TV box that sits on "top" of the TV "set," although it is often located several feet away in an equipment rack. The set-top box descrambles the premium channels and provides a tuner for the higher cable numbers that very old TVs did not support.  platforms and operate optimally in both a distributed network architecture, minimizing network transport infrastructure requirements and system costs, and a centralized network architecture, minimizing physical space requirements and incremental facility costs. With this flexibility, Concurrent's MediaHawk can support VOD in small and midsize markets, as well as the largest broadband systems. Customers can scale both video storage and stream capacity in various increments, allowing for significant flexibility and efficiency.

Concurrent's MediaHawk Broadband VOD System features the MediaHawk Video Server and MediaHawk Business Management System (BMS BMS
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), which provide cable operators all the tools necessary to run their VOD business from end-to-end. The MediaHawk BMS includes a complete system for managing content, subscriber demographic information, transaction and usage analysis, billing, and order fulfillment Order fulfillment (in BE also: order fulfilment) is in the most general sense the complete process from point of sales inquiry to delivery of a product to the customer. Sometimes Order fulfillment . Concurrent's VOD technology enables subscribers to use a digital set-top box to instantly call up digital movies and other programming from a list that includes major movie titles and control their selected movie with VCR-like functionality including fast forward, pause, and rewind.

About Concurrent

Concurrent Computer Corporation (http://www.ccur.com) is a leading provider of high-performance computer systems, software, and servers. Concurrent Computer Corporation's XSTREME Division is a leading supplier in the emerging digital video server marketplace. This market includes broadband VOD and rich streaming media See streaming audio, streaming video and digital media hub.  applications such as corporate training, education, hospitality, and digital video-to-the-home. Concurrent is also a leading provider of high-performance, real-time computer systems, solutions, and software for commercial and government markets. Concurrent's 35-year-old Real-Time business focuses on strategic market areas that include hardware-in-the-loop and man-in-the-loop simulation, data acquisition, industrial systems, and software. Operating worldwide, Concurrent provides sales and support from offices throughout North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Europe, Asia, and Australia.

Concurrent brings over 35 years of real-time experience to the broadband VOD and rich streaming media industries and has become a market leader. Today, Concurrent's worldwide broadband VOD and rich streaming media trials and deployments include: AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services.  Time Warner Cable This article or section needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article.  - 15 markets; Beijing Fengtai Cable - China; Blue Ridge Blue Ridge, eastern range of the Appalachian Mts., extending south from S Pa. to N Ga.; highest mountains in the E United States. Mt. Mitchell, 6,684 ft (2,037 m) high, is the tallest peak. Beginning with a narrow ridge in the north, c.  Communications - Pennsylvania; Charter - 6 markets; Cogeco Cable - Quebec and Ontario, Canada; Comcast - 9 markets; Cox - 3 markets; Horizon.com - Singapore; Mediacom - one market; NXTV Inc. - 4 hotels; OLYMPUS Optical - Hamburg, Germany; Safari Technologies - 16 educational institutions throughout North America; Shanghai Telecom - China; and VOD Pty Ltd PTY LTD Propriety Limited (company structure in Australia) ./TransAct - Australia.

Certain statements made or incorporated by reference in this release may constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the federal securities laws. When used or incorporated by reference in this release, the words "believes," "expects," "estimates," and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Statements regarding future events and developments and our future performance, as well as our expectations, beliefs, plans, estimates, or projections relating to relating to relate prepconcernant

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 the future, are forward-looking statements within the meaning of these laws. All forward-looking statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual events to differ materially from those projected. The risks and uncertainties which could affect our financial condition or results of operations include, without limitation: availability of video-on-demand content; delays or cancellations of customer orders; changes in product demand; economic conditions; various inventory risks due to changes in market conditions; uncertainties relating to the development and ownership of intellectual property; uncertainties relating to our ability and the ability of other companies to enforce their intellectual property rights; the pricing and availability of equipment, materials and inventories; the limited operating history of our video-on-demand segment; the concentration of our customers; failure to effectively manage growth; delays in testing and introductions of new products; rapid technology changes; demand shifts from high-priced, proprietary real-time systems Real-time systems

Computer systems in which the computer is required to perform its tasks within the time restraints of some process or simultaneously with the system it is assisting.
 to low-priced, open server systems; system errors or failures; reliance on a limited number of suppliers; uncertainties associated with international business activities, including foreign regulations, trade controls, taxes, and currency fluctuations; the highly competitive environment in which we operate; and the entry of new well-capitalized competitors into our markets.

Other important risk factors are discussed in our Current Report on Form 8-K Form 8-K

The form required by the SEC when a publicly held company incurs any event that might affect its financial situation or the share value of its stock.


Form 8-K

See 8-K.
, dated October 22, 2001, incorporated herein by reference. Our forward-looking statements are based on current expectations and speak only as of the date of such statements. We undertake no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of future events, new information or otherwise.

Note to Editors: For additional company or product information from Concurrent Computer Corporation, please contact Concurrent Computer Corporation, 4375 River Green Parkway, Duluth, GA 30096. Call toll free in the U.S. and Canada at (877) 978-7363, fax (678) 258-4199. Readers can also access information through the company's Web site at http://www.ccur.com.

Concurrent Computer Corporation, its logo, pTV, pVC, and MediaHawk are registered and unregistered trademarks of Concurrent Computer Corporation. All other product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
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