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About Time Warner Cable Time Warner Cable is the second-largest cable operator in the U.S., with technologically advanced, well-clustered systems located mainly in five geographic areas — New York State (including New York City), the Carolinas, Ohio, southern California (including Los Angeles) and Texas. As of December 31, 2008, Time Warner Cable served more than 14 million customers who subscribed to one or more of its video, high-speed data and voice services, representing more than 34 million revenue generating units.
 
About Bright House Networks Bright House Networks is the nation’s 6th largest multiple cable system operator (MSO) with 2.4 million customers in several large markets including Bakersfield, California; Birmingham, Alabama; Detroit, Michigan; Indianapolis, Indiana; Orlando, Florida (Central Florida Division) and Tampa Bay, Florida along with several other smaller systems in Alabama and the Florida Panhandle. The high-growth Tampa/Central Florida markets are contiguous and form one of the country’s largest cable clusters. BHN’s corporate locations are in Syracuse, New York and Orlando, Florida.
 
About Cablevision Cablevision Systems Corporation is one of the nation's leading entertainment and telecommunications companies. Its cable television operations serve 3 million households in the New York metropolitan area. The company's advanced telecommunications offerings include its iO: Interactive Optimum digital television, Optimum Online high-speed Internet, Optimum Voice digital voice-over-cable, and its Optimum Lightpath integrated business communications services. Cablevision's Rainbow Media Holdings LLC operates several successful programming businesses, including AMC, IFC, WE and other national and regional networks. In addition to its telecommunications and programming businesses, Cablevision owns Madison Square Garden and its sports teams, the New York Knicks, Rangers and Liberty. The company also operates New York's famed Radio City Music Hall, and owns and operates Clearview Cinemas.
 
About Charter Communications Charter Communications, Inc. is a leading broadband communications company and the third-largest publicly traded cable operator in the United States. Charter provides a full range of advanced broadband services, including Charter Digital(R) video entertainment programming, Charter High-Speed(R) Internet access, and Charter Telephone(R). Charter Business(TM) similarly provides scalable, tailored and cost-effective broadband communications solutions to business organizations, such as business-to-business Internet access, data networking, video and music entertainment services and business telephone. Charter's advertising sales and production services are sold under the Charter Media(R) brand.
 
About Liberty Global Liberty Global is the leading international cable operator offering advanced video, voice and broadband internet services to connect its customers to the world of entertainment, communications and information. As of December 31, 2008, Liberty Global operated state-of-the-art networks that served approximately 17 million customers across 15 countries principally located in Europe, Japan, Chile, and Australia. Liberty Global’s operations also include significant programming businesses such as Chellomedia in Europe.

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About S&T Strategy & Technology (S&T) is an acclaimed innovator of technologies for interactive TV production, playout, reception and monitoring, enabling broadcasters to deploy value-added services to viewers worldwide.

Headquartered in London, United Kingdom, S&T also maintains a strong presence in the US (Louisville, CO office) and Asia (Hong Kong office). S&T employs more than 50 people around the globe, and builds upon its successful 14 year history as a leader in in the development of interactive television technologies. 

About ADB Advanced Digital Broadcast (ADB) is a leader in the design, development and supply of high-quality products to the world-wide digital television market.  The Company has deployed over 15 million set-top boxes, across high-volume markets, incorporating the industry's pioneering middleware, conditional access and hardware technologies.

ADB has established itself as a trusted partner to television operators supporting them to launch new services using state-of-the-art technology.   Through its unique end-to-end understanding of set-top box software, ADB is able to design and supply highly efficient and optimized hardware platforms ahead of the competition.

Approximately 70% of ADB's workforce is dedicated to engineering; developing products across all the digital television technology platforms including cable, Internet Protocol (IP), satellite and terrestrial. The company is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland with Research and Development facilities in Zielona Gora, Poland and Kharkov, Ukraine, and Operations division in Taipei, Taiwan. ADB has local representation in Australia, India, Italy, Singapore, Spain, the United States and the United Kingdom.

ADB is a member of ADB Group; ADB Group (www.adbholdings.com) is publicly listed on the Swiss Stock Exchange (SIX: ADBN).

 
 
About Ensequence Ensequence, the interactive television company, is making TV new again. Ensequence delivers the reach and branding power of television with the engagement and measurability of the Internet. The company partners with the world’s leading programmers, advertisers and distributors to create interactive television experiences that can be delivered across a wide range of platforms – including cable and satellite television, broadband, mobile devices and Blu-ray Discs. The company’s award-winning software and professional services enable its clients to quickly build and deploy a high volume of sophisticated and robust interactive television experiences. Ensequence software and services also enable its clients maximize return on investment by measuring viewer behavior and engagement. Ensequence clients include: MTV Networks, NBC Universal, ESPN, The Walt Disney Company, Major League Baseball Advanced Media, QVC UK, HSN, Nike, Ford Motor Company, Hewlett-Packard, Comcast Corporation, DIRECTV, Time Warner, DISH Network, Verizon Communications and British Sky Broadcasting.
 
 
About enableTV enableTV was founded in 2008 based on two decades of work by Tim Wahlers, Walden Miller, and their core staff, many of whom have been around since the beginnings of the interactive industry. The enableTV staff have used their extensive experience in the design and development of the operating systems, middleware, applications, and toolkits in the cable, satellite, MHP, and CD-Interactive Videodisc industries to spring enableTV to the forefront of the Interactive Television industry. enableTV's team were—and are—pioneers in the iTV and advanced media industries with extensive experience in software engineering, iTV application design, testing, consulting, technical documentation, and training, providing a unique set of skills for any technology project. enableTV grew out of Vidiom Systems, Inc., the leader in OCAP software design and development. In an asset purchase in 2008, Tim Wahlers gained access to much of Vidiom's staff, products, and portions of the IP to found enableTV. enableTV is based in Boulder, Colorado, with a research and development office in Portland, Oregon.
 

 

About Softel Softel is a global leader in key TV and video technologies including interactive TV, captioning and subtitling, MPEG stream processing and multiplexing, and ad insertion cuing, through a full range of products, professional services and bespoke development. With almost three decades of broadcast experience, Softel has built a customer list that encompasses prestigious 'blue chip' broadcasters and major post production facilities, as well as freelancers and smaller facilities.
 

Softel MediaSphere is an integrated suite of Interactive TV playout solutions that provides a flexible system to reliably playout high volumes of content to multiple platforms. The latest generation of MediaSphere fully supports advanced interactive advertising and is widely deployed at prestigious broadcasters, operators and programmer head-ends. MediaSphere is a scalable solution that reduces complexity and enhances customer reach with the flexibility to deliver parallel playout across multiple middleware formats, including EBIF, tru2way(tm), OpenTV MHEG, and MHP.

 
About Comcast Media Center Denver-based Comcast Media Center (CMC), a business unit of Comcast Cable, provides centralized content management and distribution solutions for cable systems, video content providers and advertisers “All From The CENTER.”