Optibase, Ltd., a leading provider of advanced digital video solutions, today announced that it will demonstrate its IPTV and digital video solutions at Broadcast Asia 2006, June 20-23, 2006 in Singapore. The company will showcase Optibase's flexible model design providing customers with future-proof video solutions to meet the evolving requirements of Telcos and service providers.

Visitors to the Optibase booth (8B3-01) will see the following demonstrations:

• A turnkey solution for IPTV with Optibase MGW-1100 integrated carrier grade TV streaming platform, Orca Interactive's middleware service delivery platform and BitBand video servers streaming MPEG-2 video. Optibase can deliver turnkey all-in-one solutions, in addition to its encoders or transcoders, by providing systems integration and bringing together components from IPTV ecosystem partners.
• Live encoding of MPEG-4 AVC High Definition (HD) resolution technology, providing efficient HD bandwidth utilization without compromising video quality and allowing the use of existing MPEG-2 content which requires no additional decoding or processing equipment. MPEG-4 AVC HD is currently the only format that enables Telcos to provide high definition channels to DSL subscribers.
• MPEG-2 HD encoding and decoding through Optibase MovieMaker 200 HD, designed for professional quality ingest of HD for broadcasting, video on demand (VOD), ad insertion, program initiation and post-production studios, as well as for integrators working on high-resolution military simulation or surveillance projects.
• Also, on display at the Optibase booth, a professional digital video ingest system co-developed with Venaca Inc. leading provider of media asset management solutions. When part of a Digital Asset Management (DAM) system, the integrated solution enables top quality video capture, Edit Decision List (EDL) creation, annotation archive retrieval, editing and asset management at the same time.

"With MPEG-4, operators can reach more people with IPTV services, delivering additional streams to each home," said Yossi Aloni, vice president of marketing, Optibase. "Telcos want to deliver services like HDTV in order to stay competitive with satellite and cable, Optibase's MPEG-4 technology and our proven interoperability with leading STBS, will enable Telcos to deploy advanced HDTV that will help them generate revenue and sustain subscribers."

Optibase will also discuss the recent announcement that it was selected by India's state-owned major telecom, MTNL, to provide encoding solutions for the first IPTV deployment to go live in India.