Safari Technologies Signs Strategic Volume Purchase Agreement with Concurrent Computer to Expand Joint Marketing Efforts for Education Applications.

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ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 29, 2001

Companies to Deliver Packaged Rich Streaming Media Solution

with Content to K-12 Market

Concurrent Computer Corporation (Nasdaq:CCUR), a leading provider of digital video solutions on demand, today announced it has secured a strategic volume purchase agreement with Safari Technologies, Inc. (Otsego, Mich.), a supplier of digital video solutions specially designed and optimized for the education market. This annual agreement expands on the existing Concurrent-Safari relationship and totals 50 MediaHawk(TM) Streaming Media Servers sold to Safari. Additionally, the two companies' joint solution will be marketed to K-12 customers as a total rich streaming media solution including packaged educational content. This turnkey solution will provide educational institutions with a total package that will enable them to introduce rich streaming media technology into their offerings.

Using Concurrent's MediaHawk Streaming Media System, Safari provides digital video solutions for distance learning and education to the classroom. Safari and Concurrent together provide a powerful education tool in today's digital learning environment. Building on its education market expertise, Safari will offer the MediaHawk Streaming Media System with content from educational content providers to provide pre-loaded video servers to new and existing customers in the K-12 and higher education markets. This pre-loaded video content is licensed by Safari from The Video Schoolhouse(c) and Sunrise Media.

The Video Schoolhouse provides the Video Schoolhouse Library, with educational video targeted at the middle school, high school, and higher education audiences. This video library includes short, two-to three-minute clip biographies on such historical icons as John F. Kennedy, Jackie Kennedy Onassis, Henry Ford, and Babe Ruth, to enhance learning in the classroom. Sunrise Media provides "The Encyclopedia of the 20th Century(TM)," which includes 2,300 clips totaling 87 hours of raw footage from 20th century events. These clips are a combination of color and black and white and moving and still video, including footage of the Olympic Games, Pearl Harbor, Harry Truman, John F. Kennedy, and more.

This MediaHawk system enables classroom televisions and student computers on-demand, simultaneous access to high-quality, digital video to enhance the student learning experience. Safari Pathways' hybrid digital/analog solution brings full-motion, broadcast-quality video and stereo to one or hundreds of LAN stations without degrading LAN performance or video quality. The Safari system supports existing, standard Ethernet wiring infrastucture and adapts to multiple transmission protocols including baseband, broadband, and ATM.

"Safari Technologies is committed to leading the way in advanced educational applications," said Tim Beekman, president, Safari Video Network Division. "Educational tools such as The Video Schoolhouse and Sunrise Media give teaching faculty and staff a new medium that excites the minds of students and encourages learning." He continued, "Concurrent has proven to be a pioneer and leader in dependable and scalable rich streaming media solutions. Through Safari's strong relationship and history with Concurrent, we are confident in their ability to support our customers' digital video needs."

Del Kunert, Concurrent vice president, Market Development, Rich Streaming Media, said, "Safari Technologies is taking education to the next level by developing breakthrough applications and creating compelling learning environments. Concurrent is proud to partner with such a strong player in the education and distance learning industries and to support such unique applications through our unparalleled MediaHawk Streaming Media System."

Concurrent's MediaHawk Video-On-Demand (VOD) System is a comprehensive end-to-end solution, including integrated hardware and software. A primary component of the system is the MediaHawk Video Server, which is a high-performance, scalable, digital video server that supports MPEG1 or MPEG2 digital video streams on QAM, ASI, Ethernet, ATM, and cable networks. Concurrent's VOD technology enables users to instantly call up digital content from a list of titles and control their selected content with VCR-like functionality including fast forward, pause, and rewind. Concurrent's MediaHawk VOD System offers industry-leading performance and provides the most reliable response time achievable in the worldwide marketplace today.

About Safari Technologies, Inc.

Safari Technologies, Inc. (http://safaripathways.com) of Otsego, Michigan, designs, manufactures and sells Video-On-Demand Internet-protocol-based multimedia networking software and hardware products for the educational, hospitality, and corporate markets. The company specializes in products that deliver high-quality video, audio, and data over existing network infrastructures to more than 23,000 clients at over 550 sites around the world. Safari has over 350 educational clients that include schools and major universities throughout the nation and has provided state-of-the-art systems for 900 classrooms in the Kirkwood, Missouri School District with eight schools, 21 separate CUNY campuses scattered throughout the five boroughs, Notre Dame University, and the multi-site University of Connecticut.

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 applications such as corporate training, education, hospitality, and digital video-to-the-home. Operating worldwide, Concurrent provides sales and support from offices throughout North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia.

Concurrent brings over 35 years of real-time experience to the broadband VOD and rich streaming media industries, and in a very short time has become the market leader. Today, Concurrent's worldwide broadband VOD and rich streaming media trials and deployments include: AOL Time Warner Cable - 7 markets, Beijing Fengtai Cable - China; Blue Ridge Communications - Pennsylvania; 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./TransAct - Australia.

"Forward-looking statements" as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 may be included in this news release. A variety of factors could cause the Company's actual results to differ from the anticipated results expressed in such forward-looking statements. Investors are referred to the Company's Risk Factors included on Form 8-K filed on October 22, 2001, which statements are incorporated into this news release by reference.

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