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RealNetworks Offers Envivio 4Caster Professional Hardware Encoders for Real-Time Mobile TV Streaming

Business Wire, Feb 7, 2008

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. -- Envivio, Inc., the leading technology provider of IP video convergence encoding solutions from mobile to HD, today announced a new agreement which enables digital entertainment services company RealNetworks (Nasdaq:RNWK) to resell the Envivio[R] 4Caster[TM] Mobile Series hardware encoding platform. The platform includes the real-time M2 and M4 encoders and 4Manager redundancy system. The agreement enables RealNetworks to offer a complete carrier grade mobile streaming solution.

"Mobile TV streaming is moving to the next level. The continued uptake of mobile streaming services makes it clear that we now need to offer our customers an encoding solution that provides the very highest levels of compression, performance, and service availability," said Scott MacKenzie, Director of Mobile Solutions at RealNetworks. "The 4Caster Mobile Series platform provides us with that solution. Ever since our collaboration began in 2002, Envivio has repeatedly demonstrated that it's fully committed to supporting RealNetworks and our customers."

Envivio and RealNetworks have a longstanding relationship in the mobile streaming market. RealNetworks provides video streaming infrastructure for over 100 leading mobile operators around the world including Vodafone, AT&T, TIM and Telefonica.

"Carrier grade hardware-based solutions represent the future of professional encoding for people that want to offer the next generation of services providing higher levels of video quality, reliability and 24/7 high service availability," continued MacKenzie. "This new agreement with Envivio will give our customer base access to a real-time encoding solution that's more suitable for the coming expansion phase of the mobile streaming market."

"There is no doubt that mobile streaming is coming of age. Operators are no longer satisfied with non-redundant encoding platforms based on standard PCs and software," said Rudi Polednik, Vice President Marketing and Global Alliances at Envivio. "They are now demanding more professional solutions that support reliable, high quality content delivery on which fee paying services can be justifiably based. Consequently, we are delighted to be expanding our relationship with RealNetworks in the Mobile TV market to help these operators gain access to the solutions they'll need today and tomorrow."

Award Winning Real-Time Envivio Mobile TV Encoders Now Available to RealNetworks Customers

The 4Caster M2 and M4 encoders support the full range of 3GPP and 3GPP2 video and audio codecs, as well as advanced encoding features for mobile streaming including live bit stream switching and the Envivio Network-Aware Rate Control feature for low bit rate bandwidth smoothing. The encoders offer levels of stability and reliability not easily achievable using software based encoding solutions. When combined with the 4Manager headend management system, the Envivio solutions provide a fully automated M:N redundant mobile TV encoding platform with the same quality of service capabilities as a Tier 1 satellite or cable TV video headend.

Envivio 4Caster Mobile Series real-time hardware encoding solutions with the 4Manager headend management system are available from RealNetworks today.

Mobile World Congress 2008

Envivio and RealNetworks will both be exhibiting at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain from February 11th to 14th 2008. Envivio's range of world leading mobile streaming and mobile broadcast encoding solutions will be on display at stand 2H12. RealNetwork's range of mobile entertainment services and solutions will be on display at stands 4H19 and 4H25.

ABOUT ENVIVIO

Envivio Inc. is the leading technology provider of IP video convergence encoding solutions for telcos, enterprises, and broadcasters. Envivio is the only company to offer convergence solutions supporting the "3 screens" of video - TV's, PC's and mobile phones - making IP video a reality over any type of network and to any multimedia device from mobile to HD. In 2007, Envivio won the Cable and Satellite International Product of the Year Award and the Frost and Sullivan Product Innovation award for the 4Caster M2 mobile TV encoder as well as the Entrepreneurial Company of the Year award in the world digital media infrastructure market. Envivio solutions deliver industry leading AVC/H.264, Windows Media Video (VC-1) and AVS compressed video quality at the lowest bit rate for IPTV, Internet TV, mobile TV and broadcast applications. Service providers worldwide use Envivio solutions to reduce their operational costs while offering subscribers the most compelling and highest quality video services anytime and anywhere. Visit www.envivio.com for more information.

Envivio is a registered trademark of Envivio Inc. All trademarks used herein, whether recognized or not, are the properties of their respective companies.

ABOUT REALNETWORKS

RealNetworks, Inc. delivers digital entertainment services to consumers via PC, portable music player, home entertainment system or mobile phone. Real created the streaming media category in 1995 and has continued to lead the market with pioneering products and services, including: RealPlayer[R], the first mainstream media player to enable one-click downloading and recording of Internet video; the award-winning Rhapsody[R] digital music service, which delivers more than 1 billion songs per year; RealArcade[R], one of the largest casual games destinations on the Web; and a variety of mobile entertainment services, such as ringback tones, offered to consumers through leading wireless carriers around the world. RealNetworks' corporate information is located at www.realnetworks.com/company.>