MobiTV Collaborates with Sun Microsystems to Offer High-Quality Mobile TV Services

MobiTV Collaborates with Sun Microsystems to Offer High-Quality Mobile TV Services

MobiTV Optimized Delivery Server Certified on Sun's Sun Fire(TM) Enterprise Line of Servers

EMERYVILLE, Calif. and LAS VEGAS, April 20 /PRNewswire/ -- NAB 2009 Show -- MobiTV, Inc, the leader in the delivery of mobile content and services, has announced that MobiTV's Optimized Delivery Server (ODS), featuring rate adaptation, sub-second channel change, support for multicast and unicast, and exceptional video quality is now certified on Sun Fire Enterprise x64 servers.

"We are very excited to work with MobiTV to bring high-quality TV programming to mobile phones," said Darrell Jordan-Smith, Vice President, Global Communications and Media Industry. "We are constantly working with our valued partners to help them streamline development time, advance time-to-market, and launch revenue-generating services for their service provider customers."

In partnership with Sun, the ODS will be available as a packaged solution for customers looking for a scalable and high quality solution for the delivery of live, linear and VOD audio and video content over mobile and broadband networks.

"Our strategic partnership with Sun offered an excellent opportunity to do extensive performance testing of the ODS platform in the Sun Solution Center," said Kay Johansson, CTO, MobiTV. "As a result of that testing, the ODS platform will be certified as a pre-packaged solution on Sun Hardware for small, medium and large-sized deployments, which can then be configured to scale with customers' needs."

A white paper is available from MobiTV highlighting features and functionality of ODS.

For more information on MobiTV's ODS packaged solution, please contact Tricia Higgins, Sr. Director Strategic Alliances, MobiTV at thiggins@mobitv.com.

About MobiTV

MobiTV (www.mobitv.com), the first to bring live TV to mobile devices, draws on its proven knowledge to continuously anticipate, develop and deliver a compelling mobile media experience to millions of subscribers worldwide. MobiTV is shaping the mobile media landscape with a passion for delivering a compelling consumer experience.

Founded in 1999, MobiTV is a privately held company with headquarters in Emeryville, California.

For more information about MobiTV managed end to end services, hosted content delivery technology and solutions, please visit: www.mobitv.com/technology. To learn more about MobiTV mobile television products and services, go to: www.mobitv.com/gettv. To learn more about MobiTV mobile music products and services, go to: www.mobitv.com/getradio

Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo and Sun Fire are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries.

MobiTV and the MobiTV logo are trademarks, service marks, and/or registered trademarks of MobiTV, Inc. in the United States and in other countries. All other trademarks, service marks, and product names used herein are the property of their respective owners.

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