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Redefining Innovation

Content ABonair

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Applicaster

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ATX Networks Ltd.

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Beamr

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Comigo

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Extreme Reality

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eyeSight-tech

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Jinni

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Kaltura

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Latto

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NovelSat

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Pixellot

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SatixFy

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SatLink

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Streamitup

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Tecsys

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Vcodes

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VideoFlow

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Vimmi

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www.abonair.com

Solution at a Glance ABonAir is a leading designer of robust wireless broadcast transmitters for professional camera and production teams worldwide. Our systems transmit video content from cameras to control centers using microwave technology. ABonAir's wireless broadcasting solutions are designed for news coverage (ENG), outdoor sports and live events. Customers include TV channels, news broadcasters, production companies, OB vans, rental houses and system integrators. Our unique technology enables us to provide exceptionally robust and reliable wireless video links. ABonAir's bi-directional system, superior to anything on the market today, guarantees 100% accurate pictures and ensures that not even a single pixel is dropped while broadcasting.

Customer's Challenges The broadcast industry has become more competitive than ever before: News is reported live, right from the scene, Sports broadcasts show the players’ perspective, and Reality shows require real-time monitoring. Broadcast networks worldwide need to go on the air from remote or unexpected places, provide unique shooting angles and bring breaking news quickly. In order to create attractive content transmission and ease of video shooting they need to go wireless. They need robust microwave systems with zero errors technologies that deliver accurate pictures and stable transmission. All at affordable cost.

Our Offering ABonAir's AB400 wireless broadcast systems utilize a robust OFDM and MIMO technologies to deliver reliable and stable transmission. AB400 includes integrated Camera Control Units (CCU or RCP) and Intercom for communication between the cameraman and the director. The system connects to Fiber Coverage Extender (FCE) to provide flexible antenna deployment through fiber optic cables.

Unique Differentiators • Robust and reliable links using strong MIMO OFDM Microwave • Bi-directional technology that enables zero error transmission • AB-MultiZone technology for the coverage of massive areas and multiple venues

Business Benefits for the Customers Being first on the air by utilizing ABonAir’s wireless links increases viewer ratings. Our technology guarantees stable transmission at unmatched price. Enlarged coverage with only one receiver reduces costs, and integrated CCU & Intercom save the need for additional equipment. All systems work on unlicensed frequencies and save additional costs for bandwidth.

Company References & Strategic Partners Company references: Texas Motor Speedway, FIFA World Cup, Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics, Detroit Pistons, Nebraska Memorial, Virginia Tech, Kansas University, El Paso Baseball and the Florida Panth. Main partners: CTG - Comprehensive Technical Group, LLC, Omega Broadcast Group, Diversified Systems.

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www.applicaster.com

Solution at a Glance Applicaster offers broadcast solutions for cross-screen TV experiences, empowering world-leading broadcasters and formats. Solutions include live and on-demand TV, CrossMates digital format, second screen, synchronized and social TV experiences, social primetime FEED and engaging apps that support any business model. The platform’s features and functionality encourage viewers to share and interact with content and brands, in sync with TV.

Customer's Challenges With technology advancements, mobile lifestyle and changing viewer habits, broadcasters realize that TV is fundamentally changing. • Entertainment is now served cross-screen, not only as lean back but also as lean forward

• New revenue lines from second screen sponsorships and subscriptions, cannot be ignored • Technology advancements require constant feature development and resources • Broadcasters need to find a way to quickly tap into this market, with minimal investment

Our Offering Cross-Screen TV experience delivery, working with existing broadcaster workflows: • Connected advertising - sponsorship tools generating new revenues • Second Screen & event based new media - maximizing second screen to boost ratings • New Formats - broadcasters create new TV formats, enabled by new technologies • Social TV integrations - allowing viewers to make social expressions

Unique Differentiators • Boost Prime Time - synchronized activities retain viewers’ attention, extending prime time and increasing

advertising investments • Tech, Interactive and Creative - providing both technological and creative value, with the broadcaster challenges and viewers’ demands in mind • Broadcaster control - enabling broadcasters to draw their audiences into their ecosystem and away from competing content, activities and platforms

Business Benefits for the Customers • Increased viewership & user engagement - increase primetime viewing through the use of companion screens resulting in a respective increased exposure to advertising • Business model flexibility - enabling customers to instantly re-package viewing bundles, and quickly respond to market/viewers demands • Increased advertising revenues - 360 advertising and sponsorship solutions

Company References & Strategic Partners Company references: Applicaster has a growing list of customers worldwide, including FOX International channels, Televisa, Univision, Mediaset, MediaCorp, Pramer, ChelloMulticanal, Telefe, Frequencia Latina, Reshet, Sport5, Caracol TV, RPC, BabyFirst TV, America TV, Channel1, HOT, Telemetro, El Universal and more. Main Partners: Avid, VizRT, Orad, Chyron, Civolution to name a few. Investors: Greylock Partners, PitangoInvestors: Greylock Partners, Pitango.

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www.atxnetworks.com

Solution at a Glance ATX Networks designs, manufactures and markets a broad range of digital video processing and distribution solutions to the global OTT, IPTV, and cable television industries, including PVNs (Private Video Networks). Sectors served include healthcare, enterprise, government, broadcast, hospitality, healthcare, education, stadiums/arenas/ casinos, retail and worship. ATX’s solutions enable broadcasters and operators to achieve a dramatic reduction of CAPEX and OPEX costs, using their software-based, fully virtualized encoding and transcoding platforms, while providing superb video quality.

Customer's Challenges Issues Operators have with Transcoders include the following. ATX can resolve these issues. • Pricing - encoding/transcoding is costly • Providing an entire lineup in high quality video • To change licencing from SD-HD-SD, or MBR, or add profiling or migrate licences • Adding control & monitoring, or multiple redundancy types • Flexibility - transcoding licences are too limiting • Today’s standard HD MPEG-2 licence, or an HD H.264 licence, isn’t "variable", so operators pay to move or change licences, from all transcoder/encoder vendors • Support - is too costly. Usually, ~5-6 years of paying costly support fees = a new transcoder

Our Offering ATX Networks offers digital video solutions including UCrypt gateways, DVIS/DigiVu/DigiVu II encoding, VersAtivePro transcoding, DigiStream content streaming solutions, MAXNET/SignalON RF management, and many other associated products. Most offer a variety of inputs and outputs with MPEG-2/H.264, HD/SD solution.

Unique Differentiators • High quality, competitively priced solutions • Licence-free transcoding • Multi-input, multichannel encoding to QAM and IP • MPEG-2/H.264, HD/SD solutions • Centrally manage and monitor multiple units with VMS element manager • Superb video quality with very low bitrate • Flexible pricing approach • Successful implementations • Strong customer support systems • Company established in 1985

Business Benefits for the Customers • Significant CAPEX and OPEX reduction, using the software-based virtualized encoding and transcoding platforms • Advanced monitoring and control • End-to-end IPTV solutions

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www.beamr.com

Solution at a Glance Beamr offers a patent-pending perceptual video optimizer, which reduces the bitrate of H.264 and HEVC streams by up to 50%, while preserving their full resolution and quality. By reducing video bitrates, Beamr enables content and service providers to deliver their fixed and mobile consumers exceptionally high-quality video at lower costs, with faster downloads and smoother streaming - even on bandwidth constrained connections. Beamr’s optimization solution is offered both as on-premises software running on Linux, and as a cloud service accessible via REST API or direct cloud storage integration.

Customer's Challenges Customers using Beamr Video are able to successfully address the following challenges : • Increase the reach of 4K UHD video delivery to a wider audience, enabling better monetization and ROI for the expensive 4K content production and delivery costs • Improve the user experience for OTT video delivery, as measured by stream start time, re-buffering events and viewed resolutions • Reduce storage costs for OTT video delivery

Our Offering Beamr Video, a patent-pending perceptual video optimizer, reduces the bitrate of H.264/HEVC streams by up to 50%, preserving their full resolution and quality. By reducing video bitrates, Beamr Video enables content/service providers to distribute exceptionally high quality videos, with faster download rates and smoother streaming, even on bandwidth-constrained connections.

Unique Differentiators Beamr Video uniquely: • Guarantees an always-safe optimization: the only video optimizer that preserves subjective quality when reducing video bitrates • Fits seamlessly into workflow: optimization is performed post encoding, before packaging/encryption, works seamlessly with ABR streams • Generates standard-compliant files: Outputs H.264/HEVC streams, played on any device, no special software needed

Business Benefits for the Customers • Boosts consumer satisfaction: provides smoother streaming, faster stream starts, less re-buffering events • Achieves fast ROI: cuts delivery costs by 50%, ROI achieved after 300 views (single bitrate delivery), 1600 views (6-layer ABR package) • Delivers compatible videos: outputs standard H.264/HEVC streams, enabling watching videos on any player

Company References & Strategic Partners • Example customers: M-GO ● Interlude • References: Jan Ozer published a review of Beamr Video • Collaborations: AWS: Beamr was selected as one of eight partners that participated at Amazon AWS booth, NAB 2015, demonstrating Beamr Video cloud service

• Investors: Innovation Endeavors, owned by Google’s Chairman Eric Schmidt ● Marker LLC ● Private investors

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www.comigo.com

Solution at a Glance Comigo’s cutting-edge TV platform allows pay-TV operators to offer an exciting TV experience on any device (TVs, smartphones and tablets). Through an advanced personal viewing experience, social features and content-related interactive applications (called ‘WatchApps’), the Comigo platform dramatically increases content consumption and stimulates viewer engagement, leading to new revenue opportunities for the pay-TV operators.

Customer's Challenges Built on extensive experience in consumer-electronic devices and mobile platforms, Comigo makes it easier for operators to maximize the TV business opportunity: quickly launch an innovative multi-screen TV solution, acquire new customers, boost ARPU and increase subscribers’ engagement. Comigo’s insights & analytics tools enable the operator to optimize its TV service and generate micro-targeted campaigns.

Our Offering The heart of Comigo platform is a cloud-based back-end engine, fully controlled by the Pay-TV operator. Comigo’s back-end can be integrated easily to different client-based solutions as well as to the Service Provider’s existing systems. Comigo also provides client-based solutions: Apps for smartphones, tablets and Android-based Set-TopBox solution, which supports HEVC and 4K.

Unique Differentiators • Content-related TV applications- WatchApps, offering extensive viewer engagement • Comprehensive, feature rich, multi-screen solution • Fully personalized TV viewing experience • Most advanced social TV features and capabilities, including Games Center

Business Benefits for the Customers • Quick rollout of multiscreen solution (TV, smartphones, Tablets) with unique capabilities • Cloud-based back-end solution, fully controlled by the operator • Strong analytics capabilities which enable micro-targeted marketing opportunities • Enables pay-TV operators to generate new revenue streams • Operators can quickly envision and roll out innovative offerings • Increase engagement and encourage viral sharing • Recommendations, which increase content consumption

Company References & Strategic Partners

Comigo has various customers in Europe, Central America, North America and APAC. We have partnered with various complementary solutions providers, STB manufacturers and System Integrators to provide an e2e solution.

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www.xtr3d.com

Solution at a Glance Extreme Reality's software technology enables 3D full-body motion control on any 2D camera. That means, any device that has a webcam can track and analyze the person in front of it in real-time. The technology is compatible with any operating system (Windows, iOS, Android etc.) and is offered as an SDK for quick and easy integration. With 21 patents granted worldwide, the company’s Extreme Motion product enables developers to create a wide range of applications that pioneer Natural User Interfaces (NUI), while breaking the physical barriers of current hardwarebased technologies. Extreme Reality was founded in 2005 and is based in Herzelia, Israel.

Customer's Challenges Today, in order to enable human-machine motion interaction the user needs an external peripheral such as a 3D camera or sensor. These peripherals are expensive and restricted to specific OS.

Our Offering • Our solution enables content providers and device manufacturers to provide their consumers with motion experiences without any additional hardware, utilizing the webcam on the device the user already has. • Any device, smartphones to tablets, PCs to STBs, becomes a motion console without adding peripherals. • Potential use cases: Games, TV UI control, rehabilitation and education content.

Unique Differentiators • Extreme Reality is the only company that provides 3D motion tracking and analysis of the human body (XYZ

coordinates) on a webcam. • The compatibility to multiple operating systems enables true cross platform. • The technology is easily incorporated on any device with SDK tools and samples and enables seamless cross platform porting.

Business Benefits for the Customers Extreme Reality enables customers to provide their users with unique motion experiences on any device or operating system at low cost and without the restraints of complex hardware.

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www.eyesight-tech.com

Solution at a Glance eyeSight is the leading provider of machine vision and sensing technology, bringing software based gesture recognition solutions to TVs, STBs, PCs, and smartphones among others. In November 2014 eyeSight has announced singlecue, a device that connects and controls the media and smart home devices using a single, simple interface controlled by touch-free gestures. No more juggling remote controls and apps! singlecue makes your home and devices smarter and simpler to. The device is available for end users as well as in partnership with cable operator.

Customer's Challenges Every digital device in your home comes with its own remote control or application for controlling it. Your TV, cable box, DVD player, AV receiver and smart home devices are each controlled differently and separately. singlecue reduces the clutter and confusion caused by the overwhelming variety of remote controls and apps which we juggle on a daily basis, and offers a central control system with a single and simple interface. eyeSight’s other software solutions provide a touch-free experience with various other digital devices using their existing camera.

Our Offering With singlecue the power is at your fingertips, a single touch-free motion will turn on your TV and media environment all-at-once, allowing you to control the features of the device, touch-free, right from your couch. singlecue works with existing devices in the home and makes these smarter - no need to invest in expensive hardware.

Unique Differentiators eyeSight’s sensing technology provides freedom to interact with your devices using touch -free interaction. eyeSight is the leading provider of gesture based control solutions and is integrated on numerous digital devices by, Lenovo, Toshiba, Hisense, Phillips, ZTE and more. eyeSight’s first standalone device, singlecue, is a first of its kind in the market, providing touch-free universal remote capabilities together with IOT and smart home controls by allowing to interact not only with IR remote controlled devices but also Wi-Fi devices.

Business Benefits for the Customers By partnering with eyeSight, OEMs and cable operators achieve great differentiation in a saturated market by delivering touch-free interactions and connected experiences with their devices. In addition, eyeSight’ machine vision capabilities open opportunities for more wholesome and engaging experiences with the TV and its content.

Company References & Strategic Partners • Main partners: AMD, Omnivision • Investors: eyeSight is a privately held Company and has raised funds from a number of institutional and private investors, including: Mitsui Ventures, MaC GP, Intercapital Investment Fund, CEVA DSP Ltd, and Anturio Holdings

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solutions.jinni.com

Solution at a Glance Jinni is a leader in video discovery and targeted advertising solutions for entertainment brands and is the holder of the 66th annual Technology & Engineering Emmy®. Jinni’s semantic engines are powered by the Entertainment Genome™, containing thousands of genes that are automatically assigned to describe mood, style, plot and setting of every movie or TV show. These elements are then matched to subscribers’ personal tastes and viewing history to provide a truly personalized discovery experience. The company recently extended its service into the ADTECH space with an entertainment audience targeting solution addressed to movie studios, TV networks and OTT video providers.

Customer's Challenges Subscribers are provided with hundreds of different channels and an endless amount of content choices. With so many choices, it’s difficult to decide which content to watch and users are channel zapping… Jinni provides personalized, taste based content recommendations enabling subscribers to find what they are interested in. The movie studios have the opposite problem when advertising a new release as they do not know who would be interested in their new title. Jinni knows the users’ entertainment tastes when they are browsing the internet and offers a targeted ad solution for entertainment.

Our Offering Jinni offers personalized video discovery for Pay TV operators and OTT providers and targeted audience buying solutions for movie studios, TV networks. Jinni understands the content using its Entertainment Genome™ containing thousands of genes assigned to describe the content through Natural Language Processing and matches them to subscribers’ personal tastes.

Unique Differentiators Jinni developed the Entertainment Genome™ which contains more than 2,200 genes to describe the mood, style, plot, setting and more for entertainment and uses Natural Language Processing to understand and to automatically tag the content based on user reviews and synopses. Jinni then matches the content to the user’s tastes based on their consumption.

Business Benefits for the Customers Jinni’s discovery engine brings a uniquely intuitive personalized experience that increases content consumption and consumer satisfaction. Jinni’s targeted ad solution reachs relevent users based on their tastes.

Company References & Strategic Partners • Main partners: Arris, Ooyala • Investors: DFJ-TA, Belgacom and LG

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www.kaltura.com

Solution at a Glance Kaltura offers a white label over-the-top paid TV platform. Kaltura OTT TV is an end-to-end solution that includes all the tools to manage an advanced video service: HD ingestion, metadata management, pricing, advertising, promo offers, time shifted TV, DRM and more. All the features are available on Kaltura’s award winning applications or via 3rd party apps consuming Kaltura’s APIs. Working with some of the world’s largest media companies such as Kabel Deutschland, Turner and MediaCorp, Kaltura excels in fast time to market even in very complex deployment. In addition, Kaltura offers tools for internal video management and sharing for universities and enterprises.

Customer's Challenges Kaltura allows service providers and media companies to go direct to consumer and offer TV services based on any business model: subscription service (SVOD), video transactions (TVOD) and/or advertising (free, freemium). In order to expedite time to market and reduce application development costs, Kaltura also offers reference applications for mobile and desktop. With Kaltura’s platform, media companies can finally converge their video content to a unified system to manage all video ingestion, pricing, customer management and front-end applications as well as internal video portal for QA and training.

Our Offering Kaltura’s mission is to power any video experience. We transform how viewers consume television with HD streaming on any device via live TV restart, cloud DVR, personalized advertising, advanced search and social feeds from Facebook and Twitter. Kaltura’s backend end offers endless flexibility when designing the TV service and integrating with legacy systems such as customer management, billing gateway and CDNs.

Unique Differentiators Kaltura offers unparalleled innovation in the market, focusing on a personalized TV experience. With our latest product additions such as personal cloud DVR on any device, offline viewing, personalized ads and real-time recommendations, we solidified our leadership position for personalized TV experience Our innovative products have proven to be successful. We have a track record of tier-1 media companies and service providers, which launched complex deployment in extremely short time to market.

Business Benefits for the Customers With speedy deployment, our OTT solution can be tailored to any business model to meet customer objectives and optimize revenue streams. Content can be distributed across any device to offer a seamless user experience. Our flexible platform enables out-of-the-box applications according to customer specifications.

Company References & Strategic Partners • Kabel Deutschland ● Turner Latam (TNTGO ● MediaCorp (toggle) ● Solar (blink) ● Yes (YESGO) • Company references: Main partners: IBM ● Atos ● InterCall ● Tata ● Amazon ● Akamai • Investors: Intel Capital ● Nokia Venture Partners ● SAP Ventures ● 406 Ventures ● Nexus Ventures ● Avalon Ventures full list here

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www.latto.tv

Solution at a Glance LATTO offers cloud-based OTT business management solutions for efficiently monetizing online media assets across devices. LATTO’s Sales Engine facilitates dynamic management of complex business rules in real time fitting any business model such as SVOD, TVOD and AVOD. The innovative revenue, offer and relationship management solutions allow to turn your video service into a revenue generating business. Our personalized and easy-to-use user interface provide a competitive edge in the fast paced online video space.

Customer's Challenges The online video and content consumption landscape continues to change rapidly. Operators, Broadcasters and Content Owners face the challenge to pursue innovative solutions that satisfy the on-going increase in users’ appetite to not only consume but engage with the content across multiple devices, and enabling them to fully leverage & monetize their media assets.

Our Offering • Dynamic business management solutions for effectively monetizing users and content across devices in real time. • A centralized content distribution management system for publishing live, VOD and catch-up TV content across devices via a single control console

• Modular system allowing to address specific needs including a front-end API kit for rapid app development

Unique Differentiators • Next-generation monetization tools accelerating revenue streams in real time • In-depth reporting and analytics to better understand your audience • User-centric and engaging UI/UX offering a whole new entertainment experience • Centralized business logic to manage subscribers, large media libraries, devices and correlated data via a single control console

Business Benefits for the Customers • Easily monetize your media assets, increase revenue streams and boost the ARPU in real time • Interactive and user-centric UI/UX to engage with your users and provide a competitive edge in the fast-paced OTT/Multiscreen Video • In-depth anaytics providing detailed insights to help boost performance • Proven ability of fast and cost-effective deployment

Company References & Strategic Partners Company references: PLDT ● DogTV ● Charlton Main partners: PCCW Global ● Jinni ● Verimatrix ● Brightcove ● Amdocs ● Level (3)

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www.novelsat.com

Solution at a Glance NovelSat develops the satellite industry’s most advanced modems, modulators and demodulators. All NovelSat solutions support DVB-S and DVB-S2 and offer unsurpassed spectral efficiency with the NovelSat NS3 high-end efficiency satellite transmission software package. NovelSat delivers the fastest bitrates, most compelling ROI and the most scalable transmission solutions from 64Kbps to 850Mbps per modem. In 2015, NovelSat announced NovelSat NS4, the next generation of satellite waveform that boosts spectral efficiency by up to 25% compared with DVB-S2X. NovelSat technology is built around the NovelSat SMOS (Satellite Modem OS), platform designed for interoperability, scalability and software-upgradable high-end features and waveforms.

Customer's Challenges When satellite bandwidth is required for the success of a business (teleports, cellular backhaul, SNGs, broadcasters, oil & gas, etc.) or to save lives (first responders, military, etc.), transmission needs to be low cost, resilient, scalable and secure. Satellite transmission is, by nature, the opposite of these characteristics. It takes a set of satellite transmission solutions that can overcome these challenges to ensure an organization’s success.

Our Offering Announced earlier this year, NovelSat NS4 promises up to 45% higher spectral efficiency compared with satellite industry standard DVB-S2. As opposed to some extensions to the standard, such as DVB S2X, NovelSat NS4 can deliver record breaking efficiency over the air (OTA) without new hardware on all NovelSat satellite devices.

Unique Differentiators While NovelSat supports all industry standards, only NovelSat offers NovelSat NS4, the most spectrally efficient high performance satellite waveforms. Consistent industry leading performance comes built into every NovelSat solution. When it’s time to expand, unlike competitors, NovelSat equipment can be updated over the air (OTA - no additional hardware investment.

Business Benefits for the Customers No other satellite transmission hardware offers business better efficiency, faster ROI or more peace of mind compared with NovelSat. NovelSat solutions can improve the quality and performance of existing networks, networks with legacy equipment and is designed to scale with planned industry technologies.

Company References & Strategic Partners Company references: EBU, Globosat, RRSat, Televisa.

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www.pixellot.tv

Solution at a Glance Pixellot is an affordable end-to-end alternative to the traditional outside broadcast video capture and production system. The patent-pending Pixellot is based on ultra-high-resolution unmanned video capture devices, a virtual, compact production suite that can be located either at the venue or at a remote location and unique new media applications based on the "capture all" concept.

Customer's Challenges • Large in-venue production teams • Very high production costs • Cameras are deployed in multiple locations, complicated logistics • Expensive and cumbersome broadcast cameras • Very long setup times • Missed events due to lacking full coverage and the "ball zone capture" principle

Our Offering • “All in one” productions solution • End-to-end (remote) productions suite • Enabling platform for personalized, interactive and immersive viewing experiences • Coverage of the entire playing field all the time enables enhancements of traditional productions with features like “capture all” based replays and players’ cameras

• Automatic production - for the first time ever: a fully automatic Unmanned Sports production • Unique spatial replays • Built-in virtual advertising

Unique Differentiators • Scalable cameras rig producing hundreds of mega-pixels • Variety of automation algorithms • Seamless object based stitching between the individual cameras’ frames generating an ultra-high resolution panoramic view

• Proxy (low resolution, low bandwidth link) video production (patent pending) • Unique applications such as attached-to-field and attached-to-players augmented graphics, Virtual immersive reality, surround video and more

Business Benefits for the Customers • Affordable and automated production for second/second tier events • Enhancement of first tier events • An ideal web and mobile production platform, a second screen enabler • Customized video preparation engine for coaches

Company References & Strategic Partners Founders: Dr. Miky Tamir and Gal Oz Main partners and investors: Israeli Chief Scientist (OCS) ● The Time Incubator ● Baidu ● Prozone ● private investors

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SATIXFY

www.satixfy.com

Solution at a Glance Broadband satellite communications is gearing up for the High Throughput Satellite (HTS) and LEO (Low Earth Orbit) era. Wideband transponders and multi-spot beams provide higher data rates at a more affordable cost than ever before. DVB-S2X new satellite transmission standard provides higher efficiency, better satellite utilization and paves the way to fully utilize HTS. UHD TV is becoming a reality and transmission over satellite of UHD channels require a much higher bit rate for each channel. DVB-S2X channel bonding together with improved transponder utilization enables an effective UHD transmission. SatixFy offers a new ASIC providing low cost high performance access to all these new and exciting technologies.

Customer's Challenges • High efficiency UHD transmission and reception over satellite • Effective and low cost broadband access

Our Offering SatixFy Ltd. is a fabless company developing ASICs (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) designed to significantly enhance ground equipment performance, lower costs and allow a broader audience to enjoy a large variety of applications via satellite.

Unique Differentiators Using SatixFy's ASIC it is possible to build an entire terminal as a system on a chip (SoC). This will allow a staggering price reduction, much better utilization of the satellite capacity, and extension of product's life span by using Software Defined Radio elements which can be updated via satellite.

Business Benefits for the Customers SatixFy customers can enjoy state-of-the-art technologies such as DVB-S2X, channel bonding, DVB-RCS2 in an integrated SoC. SatixFy’s ASIC provides better satellite utilization, lowering operators OPEX. The high integration also brings the cost of the end terminal down to a level which can enable the distribution of internet access to users who couldn’t afford it before.

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www.Satlink.tv

Solution at a Glance

SatLink is a leading independent teleport and key player in the satellite transmission and content management arena for over 25 years, offering innovative, cutting-edge satellite delivery, HD Playout and content management services and OTT solutions. SatLink's expertise enables you to maximize your global reach, and deliver high-quality, reliable broadcasting on any screen or device. Our Services include: Teleport services, Sports & News Occasional Use delivery, Global Satellite MCPC platforms, Playout and content management, channels' localization, IPTV/OTT channels aggregation, SNG's & productions, OTT suite of services, news monitoring and satellite engineering solutions.

Customer's Challenges

The Services, solutions and expertise you need: As a leading teleport and key player in the satellite transmission and content management arena, SatLink offers tailored solutions for distributing television, radio and data over satellite, fiber and IP. Where technology goes, we're there: Our cutting-edge satellite delivery, HD Playout & content management services and expertise will enable to maximize your global reach, and deliver high-quality, reliable broadcasting on any screen or device to every corner of the world. Around-the-clock, continuous operation: We equip our Master Control Rooms with state of the art technologies and provide 24/7 technical support.

Our Offering

• Content origination and premium satellite platforms including: • HotBird @13.0°East, DVB-S & DVB-S2: Reach over 123 million homes across Europe, ME and North Africa • AsiaSat @100.5°East, C-band, DVB-S2: Reach over 149 million subscribers via Pay TV networks in Asia Pacific & the ME

• Amos 5 @ 17° East, C & Ku band

• Content aggregation services

Unique Differentiators

• Availability: Over 100 earth stations in strategic location ● Experts at Sports and News Broadcasting ● 24/7

Support • Access: To the most popular broadcast satellites worldwide ● To the latest technology ● To viewers - via direct-tohome, pay TV's, cross- screen and more • Added Value: Professional, flexible, creative solutions ● Tailored solutions ● Our expertise and knowledgee

Business Benefits for the Customers

We Deliver Your Content To Every Corner Of The World. Satlink will enable to maximize your global reach to deliver high-quality, reliable broadcasting to any screen or device at premium savings. Reach millions of homes around the world on the most popular broadcast satellites and increase channel exposure & market share.

Company References & Strategic Partners

• Some of our customers: Broadcast Networks - Viacom including Nickelodeon, MTV Base, Comedy central, Paramount Channel, Fashion TV, Disney, euronews, France 24, i24News, National Geographic, Zee Networks, Thomson Reuters, AP and more. • Satellite operators: SES, ABS, Amos-Spacecom, AsiaSat

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Streamitup

www.streamitup.co.il

Solution at a Glance Fully automatic Cloud based solution for creation, management, sharing and communication of Rich-Media content. Main capabilities: • Unified, web based, management layer for Live, VOD and Collaboration • Recording and synchronizing of rich media content, including :audio, video, presentations, files and text • Automatic creation of secured and categorized "Rich Media" database • Broadcast, Webcast, Web conference • Rich Media portal (enterprise youtube) • Streamitup "In-Video-Search" technology • On Line collaboration tools for Live and recorded sessions • API for 3rd party integration8.9

Customer's Challenges Enterprises, educational institutes, municipalities, and health care organizations are embracing video technologies and collaboration tools to be part of their ongoing work routine. At present, most video solutions are stand alone and focused on a specific feature with fixed capabilities, Such as: Chat applications, video conference appliances, video portals, video assets management and content distribution infrastructure. The price, complexity, required integration between the various products, vendors and technologies and the lack of solving sector specific bottlenecks may be overwhelming and stops many organizations from having wide deployment for video technologies.

Our Offering To ISPs : Using EMP as VAS to various sectors: • Enterprises. "enterprise video platform" including video portal, unified communication, collaboration ● Education: "lecture capture", Live lessons, Mooc ● Health : On-line doctor, video library training To OTT, IPTV and content owners: • Setup a new channel (Live and VOD) in seconds ● Contributors add content to channels in minutes ● Audience become active participants by audio video and text communication

Unique Differentiators Most existing video solutions are focused on creating, moving, and sharing the videos as objects. Streamitup developed unique and patented technologies based on video and content analytics that automated and improved the way video and content are captured, analyzed searched and deliver to end users. By that dramatically improve the costs, complexity and solution stability. On top of that, Streamitup platform is one of the most comprehensive and flexible cloud based video solution existing today.

Business Benefits for the Customers Streamitup enables to deliver the optimal solution to the customer by means of feature set, capabilities, deployment level, service location (hosted/On premises), 3rd party integration and Excellent TCO. The platform enables extremely fast deployment and enables to the customer to add and remove services and deployment levels in a no time.

Company References & Strategic Partners

• Company references: Bezeq International, Israeli Defense Force, Hadasa Medical Center and about 60% of the higher education sector in Israel • Investors: Private

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www.tecsys.tv

www.tecsys.tv

Solution at a Glance Tecsys Video Networks is a solution provider and manufacturer of Professional Digital distribution equipment supporting all standards and infrastructures.

Customer's Challenges Today’s migration of transmission platforms provides the content provider / TV operator with the challenge to keep and expend its market share while reducing the transmission costs taking advantage of the new transmission standards while maximizing it’s existing resources. Tecsys provides the most unique cost effective a solution based on it’s innovative cross-platform products. Tecsys products provides encoding, multi-channel decryption, turn around and processing (trans-coding/rating etc) of any video content received from any infrastructure under any standard. The content can be turned around or decoded for multi-purpose uses (including re-transmission, monitoring, IP streaming) all by the same Tecsys platform.

Our Offering Tecsys offering is divided to 6 main product lines: • Encoding - Single and Multi-channel encoding platforms • Digital Turn Around platforms - Professional IRDs, Multi-channel decryptors, TS Processors, Trans-coders • DVB / ISDBT Multiplexers • Modulators - DVB-S/S2, DVB-C, ISDBT • Video Gateways for Business TV, Hospitality, Digital Signage networks • Converters / Trans-modulators - ASI/IP, DVB-S/S2, IP/QAM

Unique Differentiators Tecsys main differentiation factors are the following: • The only full cross-platform / standards solution in the market (including DVB and ISDBT) • The highest Multi Channel Decryption capacity in a small 1RU platform • One of the few High quality professional modulation platforms in the market (DVB-S/S2, DVB-C, ISDBT) • Professional Head-End and transmission manufacturer delivering full projects (including 3rd party)

Business Benefits for the Customers Tecsys is providing the best solutions for customers who want to make maximum usage of their existing resources while migrating to new platforms and enjoy the advantages of the most cost effective combination of transmission equipment and available infrastructure. Our full cross platform solutions supporting all available standard (including DVB, ISDBT etc) enables full flexibility to use any infrastructure for delivering video content. For partners we offer a dedicated approach as one of the few suppliers in the market who actually work with regional partners only as part of our business approach.

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www.vcodes.tv

www.vcodes.tv

Solution at a Glance Vcodes for Broadcasters offers a best-in-class solution for automating the offline conversion of large-scale, multiformat video content. Whether you are a TV broadcaster or Over-the-top provider, Vcodes can dramatically cut manual work, required expertise, and costs involved with video conversion. Vcodes’ intelligent workflows automate video conversion end to end - from the ingestion of source content, through analysis, transcoding, subtitling, video processing and up to multiplexing and repackaging output files for cable VOD, mobile devices, broadcast servers, or any required format. Vcodes seamlessly integrates with any content management and media asset management systems (CMS/MAM), so that it can receive instructions and video metadata and send back final encoded content for publication.

Customer's Challenges Growing demand for VOD drives the conversion and preparation of broadcasted content to become a bottleneck which results in increasing cost. The traditional video preparation solutions are built by combining manual processes and acquire expertise, which leads to time consuming processes and human errors, resulting in compromises to quality of service and inability to adapt to today's rapid changes in technology.

Our Offering • Automated video workflows, customized to each broadcaster’s needs • Video/audio processing with automatic decision making • Highest quality video/audio encoding • Subtitling options for multiple languages • Integration with Media Asset Management systems • Carrier-grade scalability and throughput • Exceptional customer service

Unique Differentiators Our solutions have been selected by large satellite and cable providers. Why? Probably because we are able to combine extensive video expertise with unique software architecture, which create agile, custom-tailored video solutions that cannot be matched by larger competitors. Our team is focused on three objectives: offering video solutions that provide 100% match to the requirements of our customers, delivering the best video output quality, and providing the best customer support.

Business Benefits for the Customers Immediate reduction in running costs. Reduces the dependency on human expertise. Incoming video content is ready for broadcast on any device, in a single automated process, increasing monetization from video.

Company References & Strategic Partners

Yes, Israel - Largest satellite TV provider. Digiturk - Satellite Television provider. Arqiva - Infrastructure and Broadcast Transmission provider. Hot, Israel - Largest CATV provider.

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www.video-flow.com

Solution at a Glance VideoFlow solutions ensure continuation of service from the OB Vehicle to the NOC, reduces International TV channel/network distribution costs, improves teleport margins by enabling higher network utilization, reduces the cost of OTT video contribution and reduces cost of access to affordable cloud based video services.

Customer's Challenges Sending live video broadcasts as a continuous bit stream, which IP networks were never designed to handle, results in artefacts caused by packet jitter, packet loss and connection capacity changes. More than a couple of seconds of latency is unacceptable by customers expecting to enjoy the excitement of live events like sport as they happen. VideoFlow’s technology ensures that no packet is lost and the packet jitter caused by transiting the IP network is eliminated and capacity changes are handled in real time at very low delay.

Our Offering The VideoFlow product portfolio guarantee highest video quality over any network or infrastructure, managed or unmanaged. It is encoding/decoding technology as well as video resolution independent handling MPEG2, H.264, and HEVC, at any resolution. VideoFlow solution is equipment vendor independent, working with any broadcast equipment vendor of your choice.

Unique Differentiators VideoFlow’s Controlled Adaptive Rate (CAR) is capable of both increasing and decreasing the encoder’s bit rate in real time to the changes in the connection’s capacity. Adding CAR to load sharing/balancing, multi ISP and secured UDP VPN technologies provide unparalleled solution for secured uninterrupted high quality live video service.

Business Benefits for the Customers • Secured uninterrupted low delay high quality video delivery over any IP network • Reducing the cost of delivery (12 months ROI in average compared with legacy connections) • High Quality Video > Longer User Engagement > High Revenue • Increasing operational margin • Generating new revenues by opening new markets

Company References & Strategic Partners

Company references: CANAL+ AFRIQUE, CANAL+ REUNION, Tele Italia, TV5 Monde, PSE, Trinity Broadcast Network (TBN), Microspace Communications Corporation, WFBD (Blab-TV), Alma TV, azam Media, Daystar, Eutelsat, Olympusat, Tele Radio Padre Pio, Ponant Cruise Lines Main partners: Ateme, Adtec, Harmonic, Sapec, Sencore, Dektec

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www.vimmi.net

www.vimmi.net

Solution at a Glance Vimmi video Over-The-Top (OTT) cloud platform - SOLO - provides a single workflow that enables faster, simpler preparation, delivery and monetization of video, while meeting today’s pricing pressures: • Solo-CDN: Our ‘CDN in a box’ proprietary technology enables dramatic reduction in bandwidth required to view video online, but without compromising on video quality • Solo-CMS: A single monetization platform that includes Content Management System, user management, CRM and billing, integrated them with our mobile applications and video web site templates • Solo-MAM: cloud based Media Asset Management which includes live and VOD transcoding, metadata insertion, content protection, catch-up TV, playlists creation, geo-blocking and more

Customer's Challenges & Our Offering • High quality multiscreen live & VOD video delivery over unmanaged networks and unmanaged devices • Increased use of bandwidth for video streaming • Integrating variety of technologies into complete video OTT project • Integrating content preparation and content delivery • Rapid scalability

Unique Differentiators • Performance - Localized servers and video-optimized software provide dramatically better performance than

competing solutions • Affordability - Technological breakthroughs drive the price down • Rapid Scalability - Increased network capacity within hours anywhere in the world, due to unique architecture • Huge Range of Capabilities - Live events, time shift, linear channels, caching, multiple streaming technologies, analytics, monitoring, transcoding, HTML5 video player, DRM, etc.

Business Benefits for the Customers • Fastest video launch times • Highest quality video - anywhere • Rapid scalability - increased network capacity within hours anywhere in the world • Future proof platform - guaranteed to support any video type, now and in the future • Cloud based, no CAPEX involved

Company References & Strategic Partners

Company references: Cellcom TV, Walla, Sport 5, Kids TV, Israeli Broadcast Authority Investors: Private

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