Cradle and InterAct Create Powerful Public Safety Video Monitoring System

Market Wire, April, 2006

Cradle Technologies, a fabless semiconductor company providing Multi-core DSPs (MDSPs) for video and imaging systems, and InterAct Public Safety Systems, a leading provider of public safety and homeland security technology solutions used by local, state, national and international government agencies, today announced an agreement to use Cradle's CT3616-enabled Grouper digital video recorder (DVR) PCI card. The card will run the content analytics on TrueSentry, InterAct's digital video surveillance platform. The merged technology will be displayed at the ISC West show, April 5-7, 2006 in booth #16136.

Customers taking advantage of this partnership will benefit from many automated elements of the video monitoring process. By alerting security personnel only when certain suspicious events occur, they are better prepared to respond to critical situations in a timely and more accurate manner.

TrueSentry uses a detailed software program to alert surveillance employees when actionable situations occur. A set of video content analytics enables employees to monitor more cameras with fewer staffers, allowing more personnel to work in the field. TrueSentry allows users to track distant objects and behaviors. The customer is able to set the image size, compression ratio and frame rate for each camera in the security network. If TrueSentry detects motion in a camera, it can instantly change the frame rate to capture high-quality images of the alarm incident. This gives users the ability to filter the video for interesting events, set alerts based on those events, and reduce the number of false alarms.

"We are very pleased that InterAct has selected Cradle to provide key enabling technology for their superior TrueSentry IP-based video security monitoring system," said Patrick Soheili, CEO and President of Cradle Technologies. "InterAct's presence and market dominance in Public Safety, coupled with its sophisticated and comprehensive TrueSentry VCA embedded in Cradle's CT3600 family, will prove to be a powerful combination in mission critical and price-performance sensitive applications such as the rapidly growing IP video-based security and surveillance."

Cradle's CT3600 family of MDSPs offers a scalable platform with the cost-optimized performance and flexibility that is demanded by today's rapidly evolving IP surveillance market. With the capability to address the performance requirements of high channel density DVRs, just as cost-effectively as the low power requirements of compact IP video surveillance cameras, Cradle's programmable MDSP architecture is an ideal solution for powering next-generation video surveillance equipment by offering one common platform to address many surveillance applications.

"Cradle plays a critical role in accelerating the development and productization of our security monitoring systems," said Peter Quintas, InterAct's Senior Vice President of Surveillance Solutions. "We look forward to working closely with Cradle on rolling out a variety of advanced surveillance equipment, including intelligent IP cameras and streamers as well as DVRs over the next year. The Cradle platform scales perfectly across multiple products, while maintaining IP-based firmware upgradability, compatible product roadmap, and feature-based offerings."

About Grouper

Cradle's Grouper is a complete DVR 16-channel PCI video capture and compression card featuring the company's high-performance CT3616 Multi-core DSP chip. The CT3616 offers industry-leading price-performance, providing up to 16 channels of compressed video while reserving headroom for intelligent video content analysis applications. Grouper supports up to 16 camera inputs along with four audio inputs and one audio output for remote audio communication.

About Cradle Technologies

Cradle is a fabless semiconductor company providing the best price-performance, most flexible and most scalable DSP solutions for real-time multimedia applications. Cradle's Multi-core DSP architecture innovation delivers high-performance scalable DSP processing with the flexibility, time-to-market and product differentiation benefits of processor-based programmable platforms. Coupled with a Rapid Development System and suite of application software functions, Cradle provides OEMs with all the building blocks necessary to enable flexible yet high-performance DSP designs. Cradle's corporate headquarters are located in Sunnyvale, California. For more information call 408-636-5000 or visit www.cradle.com .

About InterAct Public Safety Systems

Since 1975, InterAct Public Safety Systems has led the industry in providing mission-critical public safety and homeland security systems and products. Our 9-1-1 systems revolutionize the way public safety agencies handle information and how first-responders carry out their missions. We offer dynamic Records Management solutions that allow agencies to quickly extract, filter and share information to better manage their internal information processes. First responders from a variety of agencies and jurisdictions gather and share crucial information quickly and accurately using our suite of data sharing, security, and emergency management systems. InterAct understands real-world demands and provides real-world solutions. For more information, please visit us on the web at http://www.interact911.com/ or call 1-800-768-3911.