VideoPropulsion Enables HD over IPTV for Cable Hospitality Providers

MSO’s Get Hospitality IPTV Solution for HD
 
Slinger, WI – November 17, 2009 – VideoPropulsion® (OTC:VPTV) today announced the general commercial availability of its new FloodGate® IPTV appliance, the FG-3200, for high definition hospitality cable TV installations. With the FG-3200, cable TV operators can now engage hotels, motels, hospitals, and other bulk commercial locations that have IPTV infrastructures to provide up to 24 HDTV channels while meeting the robust protection requirements of content providers.
 
VideoPropulsion’s FG-3200 FloodGate model provides state-of-the-art protection of the content services by decrypting streams from common residential cable receivers and re-encrypting them with Verimatrix® encryption, a technology widely know and deployed in hospitality markets. This technology meets the stringent requirements of Hollywood content providers to protect their most valuable assets. Packaged in a space-saving 1 RU rack mount enclosure, the FG-3200 provides all of the services needed to deliver HD content to the guest room using IPTV over a hotel’s IP infrastructure. In operation in multiple regions of the U.S. and Canada, the FG-3200 is a high technology tool for cable companies to manage HD services and provide unlimited channel lineups.
 
“We are always looking for new ways to provide cable operators with the technology to compete and win in the hotel marketplace. The FG-3200 brings a whole new range of hospitality solutions into play that did not previously exist” said Carl Pick, CEO and Chief Scientist at VideoPropulsion. “Cable operators can now expand their presence in hotel markets.” In addition to the on-premise FG-3200, VideoPropulsion provides a variety of other FloodGate models suited for cable head-end encryption services using cable network topologies.
 
Like VideoPropulsion’s other FloodGate products, the FG-3200 includes the FloodGate Manager web GUI for easy installation and management of the HDTV system using a standard web browser. The FloodGate connects directly to CATV set top boxes through IEEE 1394 (Firewire) interfaces to manage the channel line-up and deliver content streams. Integral SNMP features allow MSOs to remotely monitor and manage the FloodGate system in real time from a centralized network operations center to provide fast and efficient service to their hospitality customers.
 
About VideoPropulsion

For over 30 years, VideoPropulsion has been a world leader in hardware and software for high performance, low cost per stream, digital content manipulation, and has established a reputation for providing unique HDTV, VoD, and IPTV products. The Company offers revolutionary FloodGate satellite and CATV transcryption appliances as well as OEM computer modules for a variety of applications, including streaming, multiplexing, demultiplexing, modulation, demodulation, transcoding, encryption, and splicing MPEG formatted data.
 
For further information, contact:
 
Craig SnelgroveVice President of SalesVideoPropulsion255 Info HighwaySlinger, WI 53086678)689-5039www.videopropulsion.com
Verimatrix is a registered trademark of Verimatrix, Inc. VideoPropulsion and FloodGate are a registered trademarks of VideoPropulsion Interactive Television, Inc.