Jacques Le Mancq, Broadpeak's President and CEO, and Martin Ortiz, CDN Product Manager at Telecom Argentina, presented Broadpeak Operator CDN solution at CDN World Summit. The presentation examines the business case and rationale behind the establishment of an operator CDN, discusses the necessary solution architecture, and explores the results and benefits of the approach.

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RENNES, France — Oct. 19, 2011 — Broadpeak, a leading provider of content delivery networks (CDN) and video-on-demand (VoD) servers for cable, IPTV, and hybrid TV operators worldwide, today announced that Jacques Le Mancq, the company’s president and CEO, will be a featured speaker at the CDN World Summit to be held in London, Oct. 25-28. Le Mancq, with his extensive experience in the field of digital television and expertise in IP video delivery, will present a session titled “A Telecom CDN deployment in Latin America: facts and lessons learned” on Oct. 27 at 10:45 a.m. Also joining him at the session will be Martin Ortiz, CDN product manager of Telecom Argentina.

The presentation for the Summit audience will examine the business case and rationale behind the establishment of an operator CDN, discuss the necessary solution architecture, and explore the results and benefits of the approach. With consumer demand for high-quality video over the Internet rising rapidly, network operators are increasingly faced with the challenge of dealing with an unprecedented quantity of video on their network. By creating its own CDN, an operator is able to monetize its network and provide a competitive offer to content providers for delivering video content, while guaranteeing quality of service.

The session’s discussion will draw directly from a real-life CDN deployment to analyze the challenges faced during the project and the solutions derived to mitigate them. Le Mancq and Ortiz will shed light upon the recently completed, successful deployment in Latin America where Telecom Argentina launched its own CDN. Through the deployment, the telecommunications group was able to eliminate costly, ongoing CDN provider fees, as well as monetize its network by leasing bandwidth to content providers without requiring intervention from a third-party CDN, while offering resellers the opportunity to lease and manage the space.

Le Mancq is the president, CEO, and co-founder of Broadpeak, and is the driving force behind the company’s rapid growth since its launch in the summer of 2010. Prior to co-founding Broadpeak, he was product manager at Technicolor for the company’s SmartVision video distribution server family, where he spearheaded a spin-off project that created Broadpeak. Previous to Technicolor, Le Mancq held various engineering and product marketing positions at Thales Broadcast and Multimedia and at Tektronix, where his work involving the development of MPEG-2 protocol testing and monitoring solutions was awarded two Emmy^® awards in 1999 and 2007. Le Mancq holds a masters degree in economics and a second masters degree in computer sciences from the University of Rennes, France. He also owns several patents in the field of digital television.

More information on the speaking session at the CDN World Summit can be located at www.cdnworldsummit.com.

RENNES, France — October 11, 2011 — Broadpeak, the leading provider of content delivery networks (CDN) and video-on-demand (VoD) servers for cable, IPTV, and hybrid TV operators worldwide, today announced that Telecom Argentina has successfully deployed the company’s technology to launch its own CDN in Argentina, offering services to users around the country with initial POPs located in the cities of Buenos Aires, Rosario, and Cordoba. The Broadpeak solution, deployed by Broadpeak’s local strategic partner Technology Bureau, makes Telecom Argentina owner and operator of a robust CDN that enables the company to eliminate costly, on-going CDN provider fees while also earning additional revenues by monetizing the CDN through direct lease and wholesale operations.

The deployment signifies an important step ahead for Telecom Argentina, Argentina’s largest telecommunications group and network service provider. By creating its own CDN, Telecom Argentina can now monetize its network like never before, breaking free of the traditional model in which operators and content providers are at the mercy of third-party CDNs.  The network operator can now easily lease space on its own network without requiring intervention from a third-party CDN or, leveraging Broadpeak’s management tools, offer resellers the opportunity to lease and manage the space.

Founded in 1990, Telecom Argentina offers local phone lines, long distance fixed voice, mobile, data and Internet services, as well as ICT solutions, information centers, transportation, video, and multimedia content delivery, directly or through its subsidiaries. Powered by Broadpeak’s BkM100 CDN mediator, and the BkS200 and BkS300 families of live and on-demand streaming servers, Telecom Argentina now enables its content provider partners to deliver live and video-on-demand programming directly to viewers on PCs or through Telecom Argentina set-top boxes using the open Internet (i.e. “over-the-top”).

The system established for Telecom Argentina required the installation of a central control system, or a system manager, which was found in Broadpeak’s BkM Mediator, a unified CDN manager. The BkM Mediator administrates the bandwidth and enables the efficient delivery of content over any type of network. Telecom Argentina uses the portal to easily define how content is distributed to different points of presence. Working in sync with the BkM Mediator, the BkS200 and BkS300 streaming servers provide a unified solution for delivering content via managed or open Internet networks to a variety of platforms. While the BkS200 is used to stream content in Adobe^® Flash^® format and SHOUTcast/ICEcast formats for web radio streaming, BkS300 is deployed for streaming video content in Microsoft^® Windows Media^® and Silverlight^® Smooth Streaming formats. By combining the most popular streaming formats, the BkS200 and BkS300 platforms can help Telecom Argentina’s content partners reach their respective audiences over multiple screens, future-proofing the deployment to account for the growing number of over-the-top (OTT) rollouts worldwide.

“We test-ran the installed Broadpeak system for a trial service to a Media Broadcasting company during the broadcast of Copa America, the oldest international continental football competition and one of the world's most widely viewed sporting events, held earlier this year,” said Martin Ortiz, CDN Product Manager at Telecom Argentina. ”The test involved an internet streaming service for the radio and television channels who has the emission rights, reaching approximately 30 thousands internet users simultaneously or 15 Gbps of IP multimedia streaming traffic and we have been highly pleased with the results. We are glad that in this highly competitive market, we have found a technology provider that understands our needs and allows us to deliver to our customers a value proposition with a profitable combination of services and infrastructure.”

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About Technology Bureau S.A. (www.tb.com.ar)

Technology Bureau, headquartered in Buenos Aires, Argentina, is specialized in the commercialization and integration of telecommunication products and services. Representing leading international telecommunication equipment manufacturers, Technology Bureau provides integrated solutions to telecom and internet operators, carriers, as well as corporations and governmental entities.

About Telecom Argentina (www.telecom.com.ar)

Telecom Argentina is a fully integrated telecommunications group operating more than 24.9 million access lines. The Company offers fixed-lines, mobile, broadband, data and ICT services, video distribution and multimedia content delivery, to residential and business users as well as governments, corporations and others networks operators and carriers.

The Telecom Group carries out its main activities through Telecom Argentina (fixed services) and its controlled subsidiaries: Telecom Personal S.A. (mobile) and Núcleo S.A. (mobile in Paraguay).

As of June 30, 2011, Telecom Argentina had 4.1 million fixed lines in service, 19.4 million mobile customers (in Argentina and Paraguay), and 1.5 million Internet subscribers. The Telecom Argentina Group generates approximately P$16.6 billion in revenues (1) (equivalent to US$4.1 billion) and P$5.1 billion in OPBDA (1) (2) (equivalent to US$1.3 billion).

The Company commenced operations on November 8, 1990, upon the Argentine Government’s transfer of the telecommunications system in the northern region of Argentina.

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