IPTV Pavilion at Broadband World Forum Shows Telecom Providers How To Keep Pace with Customer Trends in 'Internet Time'; 'One Room Schoolhouse' Showcases Speed and Flexibility Now Possible with Open, Internet Compliant Service Creation Platform.

MADRID -- Leading providers of IPTV technology today kicked off an initiative designed to educate service providers about the advantages of a standards-based architecture to rapidly and successfully deploy internet-based television services.

The initial step in this effort is the IPTV Pavilion, a "one room schoolhouse" structure at this week's Broadband World Forum, sponsored by the International Engineering Consortium (IEC). The event runs through October 6.

The IEC-sponsored IPTV Pavilion was organized by mPhase Technologies (OTCBB:XDSL), with participation by Espial, Latens, Ranch Networks and SkyStream, banding together to drive industry consensus around open platforms so that service providers have greater choice and flexibility in their IPTV deployments. The pavilion provides attendees with learning experiences ranging from hands-on deployment tutorials for Internet TV and interactive services to advanced techniques for maximum service assurance, revenue protection and expansion.

The companies today pledged to continue their outreach and build awareness of the advantages of a multi-vendor environment with common interfaces with a planned launch of a website, www.learnIPTV.com, which is envisioned as an information resource for service providers.

Built around the theme, "IPTV Means Income Potential," the educational programs at the IPTV Pavilion are designed to underscore the benefits of a carrier-class, open architecture engineered to reliably deliver revenue-generating interactive video services over broadband networks.

"If there is anything we have learned since our initial system installation eight years ago, it's that a closed architecture that limits carrier choice is a non-starter," said Ronald Durando, chief executive of mPhase Technologies, a pioneer in the delivery of television content over telephone networks. "Traditional phone companies can be successful in the new world of IPTV by learning how to repeat the success of the digital dialpad, which is a simple end user device yet initiates a host of information services and complex transactions. As a group, we are working together to create a parallel for IPTV, in which the click of a button on a TV remote is just as simple and intuitive, yet allows service providers to quickly integrate any standard Internet-driven applications that subscribers crave."

Steve Wallbank, general manager, EMEA, SkyStream: "We are showing telephone companies how to move into IPTV and create video head-end environments that are uniquely designed for telco networks and requirements rather than a copy of legacy cable headends. The underlying lesson of video history is that flexibility delivers lower cost. Choosing a video headend that is easily adaptable to future advanced services at the lowest cost will help a carrier be successful in the TV business. Our session will help carriers learn the essential considerations for designing an IPTV headend that fits their business plan as well as their technical requirements."

Latens delivers software-based Content and Revenue Protection systems to pay-TV and IPTV operators. The advantages of Latens solutions over traditional hardware conditional access, include; a lower-cost base, greater flexibility and increased security.

The other participants in the IPTV Pavilion are software innovator Espial and Ranch Networks.

About Espial

Espial is a leading provider of client middleware and applications for set-top boxes and consumer electronic devices. Espial applications include User Settings Management, Electronic Program Guides, Video on Demand, Interactive Content Portals and Web browsing. Espial provides a Beyond Brandable(TM) user interface that enables the operator to customize their offering so that they can 'Own their IPTV Subscribers'. The company is the recipient of the Deloitte and Touche 'Fast 500' top companies in North America three years running. Espial software is deployed and accredited for more than 100 consumer designs such as, Siemens, Motorola, Sumitomo Electric Networks, Amino Thomson, Philips, i3Micro Technologies, LodgeNet, OnCommand and S-Net Systems. Espial can be found on the web at www.espial.com.

About Latens Systems

Latens is a privately held company based in Belfast, Northern Ireland founded by broadcast technology experts. Latens' sole mission is to provide the industry's leading software-based Content & Revenue Protection Systems for pay-TV and IPTV operators, as software security replaces legacy Conditional Access (CA) technology.

Latens uses Secure Software Modules to maximize security and minimize the risk of attack.

Latens technology has the added benefit that is easily extended to provide security for the PVR (Personal Video Recorder) and multiple set-top box homes. Latens business benefits include lower implementation and running costs, increased business flexibility and major cashflow advantages. For more information, please visit: www.latens.com

About mPhase Technologies, Inc.

mPhase Technologies Inc. (OTC:XDSL) develops and commercializes next-generation telecommunications and nanotechnology solutions, delivering novel systems to the marketplace that advance functionality and reduce costs. In telecommunications, the Company's mPhase TV+ platform cost-effectively and reliably delivers entertainment digital television, high-speed Internet access and traditional telephone service over existing copper telephone lines. mPhase also offers a growing line of innovative DSL component products, such as the iPOTS, designed to help service providers lower the provisioning and operating costs associated with DSL. The company is bringing nanotechnology out of the laboratory and into the market with a planned innovative long, life power cell. Additionally, the company is working on prototype ultra-sensitive magnetometers that promise up to a 1,000-fold increase in sensitivity as compared with available un-cooled sensors. More information is available at the mPhase Web site at www.mPhaseTech.com.

About Ranch Networks Inc.

Ranch Networks Inc, is a provider of mission critical, secured networking solutions for IPTV, VoIP, Data, and Video Service Providers and Enterprises. The mission of the company is to develop innovative security and data networking appliances that solve advanced but specific business problems at drastically reduced prices. Ranch Networks offers an innovative networking products designed to leverage the existing network infrastructure in order to provide a very cost effective-solution for Enterprises, MTU/MDU, and Managed Service Providers. Ranch products enable customers easily and cost-effectively to deploy and manage multiple Layer 2-7 services for multiple secured zones. Our Secure Zone technology logically separates a LAN into multiple networks each of which can have independent Security policies, VPN access, QoS policies, Load balancing rules, and Administrative access. Secure Zone can be dedicated to enterprise business units, departments, applications, or to each dwelling/tenant in MDU/MTU environment.Ranch Networks' unique solution enables a network architecture that can deliver VoIP services, IPTV broadcasting and many others, without the cost and complexity typically required to acquire, integrate, and manage such complex systems. www.ranchnetworks.com

About SkyStream

SkyStream provides IP video delivery platforms that enable service providers to transform their business by offering IPTV and MPEG-4 Video Services. SkyStream's products lower opex and capex costs by 40 - 50% and optimize video delivery over any last mile network, and include zBand(TM) content delivery software; Mediaplex-20(TM) and iPlex(TM) switched digital video headends and the Source Media Router series of IP Encapsulation solutions. SkyStream is the fastest-growing provider of IP video solutions with over 300 customers. SkyStream's website can be found on the Internet at www.skystream.com

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