Cyber Operations To Unveil Industry's First Real-Time Broadcasting-to-the-Internet Service at Streaming Media East, December 11-13, Jacob Javits Convention Center, New York City.

Business Editors & Finance/High-Tech Writers

Streaming Media East

Booth No. 801

JUPITER, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 5, 2001

Company Will Premiere Technology Architecture for the World's

First Online Cable Company

Cyber Operations, a technology research and development company, will unveil their "Video Enhanced Compression for Transmission And Recording" (VECTAR) technology at Streaming Media East, Dec. 11-13, 2001, at Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City.

The company will be broadcasting a live feed from satellite to the Internet: the first time a live signal has been rebroadcast to the Web in real-time. All other so-called broadcasts are recorded to a file that is downloaded to a computer. VECTAR is the first technology that is not file based and therefore, provides a real-time signal.

The public showing of VECTAR at Streaming Media East is an immediate follow-up to the first real-time broadcast ever completed on the Web which took place November 29 and 30 from New York City. Cyber Operations' technology fed the NASCAR's annual awards show and driver interviews via AOL's backbone (NYSE:AOL) to the NASCAR.com Web site where the live stream was made available to users.

"The public launch of VECTAR at Streaming Media East will present the media, consumers, and industry players with a demonstration of the only 'live' broadcasting to the Internet technology, along with Cyber Operations' proprietary Cable Guide, the architecture for the first online cable television system," said Bill Townsend, Chief Marketing Officer of Cyber Operations. "All video over the Web is currently saved to file and then streamed, making real-time broadcasting impossible. Only VECTAR provides for real-time encoding and transmission. This brings significant advances in quality, mobility, and affordability to an industry that has been sorely hurting for advances in streaming technology."

The Cable Guide forms the basis to bring local, national and international programming to users regardless of their location. It provides immediate archiving of programming so that any missed program can be viewed up to 24 hours later. In addition, personal broadcasting can be accomplished through the system, enabling any consumer with a video camera and VECTAR technology to become their own broadcasting system.

VECTAR is a patent-pending high performance MPEG-X encoder and decoder system that uses a proprietary architecture to greatly increase video and audio compression, thereby making live multimedia streaming, broadcasting and affordable archiving manageable for companies and consumers.

"VECTAR is the industry's only 'live' encoder and broadcasting technology. It does not require writing to file as existing streaming technologies do. This enables broadcasters to instantly send the same signal they're broadcasting to the Internet," said Townsend. "Because of the live, non-file-based nature of VECTAR, outside replication services like Akamai (Nasdaq:AKAM) or Digital Island are not required. The signal can be viewed on popular media players such as Microsoft's (Nasdaq:MSFT) Windows Media Player and Real Networks' Real Player (Nasdaq:RNWK).

VECTAR's MPEG-X platform is compatible with MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, and MPEG-7 and offers higher audio quality at smaller file size than MPEG-3. The advanced technology enables streaming, real-time live broadcasting and video conferencing (100kb-30fps) over broadband and satellite services with transmission rates down to 22kb/s with synchronous stereo audio over standard Internet and wireless connections.

The technology addresses the most difficult barriers facing consumers today: (1) receipt of high quality synchronized video and stereo audio over non-traditional devices such as the Internet or wireless, (2) low bit transmission rate, and (3) stable network applications. Automatic stream smoothing is incorporated into the VECTAR technology to adaptively optimize transmission during network congestion.

"VECTAR constantly learns against the user's connection in order to continuously provide a better signal," said Townsend. "Because it is TCP-IP and UDP-IP based, signal loss is virtually non-existent and video and audio are always in perfect sync."

Cyber Operations is at booth 801 during the Streaming Media East show. Interested parties are invited to visit the booth for a demonstration of the technology.

About Cyber Operations

Cyber Operations is a Jupiter, Florida-based technology research and development company focused on creating market-dominating technologies that enable a broad spectrum of global commercial applications. These technologies are based upon a disciplined approach with proven sciences encompassing self-learning networks, compression algorithms, optical components and intelligent data management systems. Cyber Operations is privately held.