Motorola Acquires Vertasent, Enhances Company’s Next-Generation Digital Video Platform

September 28, 2006 – Motorola has enhanced its next-generation video network platform with the acquisition of Vertasent, LLC.

Vertasent is a privately-held developer of software applications that enables services such as content-on-demand or IPTV to share resources and be delivered over a common infrastructure. Vertasent’s applications manage the elements in a “switched” digital video network – a key area of interest for cable operators. A switched video architecture can increase available bandwidth in a cable network by dynamically transmitting only those channels currently being watched in a given neighborhood.

“Over the past several years, consumer demand for advanced video services, such as Video-on-Demand and High-Definition TV (HDTV) service, has risen rapidly. In response, pay-TV service providers are broadening the availability of many advanced services in order to reach a wider array of home and mobile devices,” according to Mike Paxton, a cable TV industry analyst at In-Stat, a leading technology research firm.

“Motorola’s acquisition of Vertasent, coupled with its purchase of Broadbus Technologies earlier this summer, now allows the company to provide pay-TV service providers with an end-to-end, open standards hardware and software portfolio that supports advanced video services and improves bandwidth management,” said Paxton.

“Motorola is today delivering solutions that make seamless video – in and out of the home – a reality. Vertasent will play a critical role in our technology strategy, by providing the software ‘glue’ that unifies the management of advanced services and the standards-based video components in the network,” said Dan Moloney, President, Motorola Connected Home Solutions. “Motorola’s robust digital video platform now gains the unparalleled flexibility to deliver content one-to-one or one-to-many – over a common network infrastructure.”