Attendees at the 2005 SCTE Cable-Tec Expo can "Experience the Freedom" provided by Scientific-Atlanta's innovative products and systems that can help deliver a wide array of features and help launch new or expanded services.
- Digital Content Manager - The DCM addresses new demands of digital simulcast and ad insertion, switched digital broadcast, and more HD and on-demand digital channels.
- MPEG-4 Part 10/H.264 Advanced Video Coding - Scientific-Atlanta continues to lead the way with advanced codecs to help deliver high- quality video, even at bandwidth-saving low bit rates.
- Digital Simulcast - A complete range of encoders, multiplexers and decoders for digital simulcast.
- VOD Enabler - Our extra-dense QAM platform squeezes more performance from current rack space to support the growing demand for VOD services. In addition, our dynamically provisioned transport (Reconfigurable Optical Add/Drop Multiplexer/ROADM) platform can change the way bandwidth is allocated to boost performance from existing bandwidth on cable networks.
- Service Group Management - Proper management of services can help position MSOs for future growth. Our new high-density transmitter delivers twice the performance in half the rack space, using half the power.
- Manage It by Expanding It - The demand from increased content and advanced services on network bandwidth is a constant worry for cable operators. Scientific-Atlanta has a solution with its new GainMaker® 1GHz platform.
- Switched Digital Broadcast - Using scalable, switched digital broadcast helps operators squeeze more performance from existing bandwidth.
- Commercial Services - Today's HFC cable networks pass millions of potential commercial services customers. Scientific-Atlanta can help operators leverage their existing network and capitalize this opportunity for profitable growth.
- Network and Element Management - The open-standards-based family of ROSA(TM) products provides system operators with freedom of choice in software applications and vendor platforms.
- Wireless MetroMesh Network - The multi-use MetroMesh(TM) architecture allows many applications to run at the same time to expand the reach of the network.
- Multi-Room DVR - Multi-Room(TM) DVR is the next step in the "connected life" for cable viewers. Watch what you want, when you want and where you want.
- MCP-100(TM) Media Center - Combining DVR with DVD R/W will give viewers the freedom to archive their favorite programming and maximize their entertainment experience.
- Data and VoIP cable modems - The video, data and voice "triple play" offers big opportunities for expanding revenue with a single-source, multiple-services concept that is popular with today's customers.
- IP Video Interoperability - Scientific-Atlanta and Tellabs will participate in a demonstration that displays Layer 2 aggregation capabilities and Ethernet integration into Scientific-Atlanta advanced set-tops. Demonstrations will be hosted at both booths - Scientific- Atlanta #2091 and Tellabs #1157.
- Powerful Monitoring Tools - Scientific-Atlanta's Pointer(TM) and Retriever(TM) applications are highly effective tools that provide real-time reporting of set-top and modem two-way connectivity status, and improved insight into consumers' viewership habits and proactive set-top and network monitoring.
Scientific-Atlanta, Inc. (NYSE: SFA - News; http://www.scientificatlanta.com ) is a leading supplier of digital content contribution and distribution systems, transmission networks for broadband access to the home, digital interactive set-tops and subscriber systems designed for video, high-speed Internet and voice over IP (VoIP) networks, and worldwide customer service and support. "Forward-looking statements," as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, may be included in this news release. A variety of factors could cause Scientific-Atlanta's actual results to differ from the anticipated results expressed in such forward-looking statements. Investors are referred to Scientific-Atlanta's Cautionary Statements (Exhibit 99.1 to the Company's most recent Form 10-Q), which statements are incorporated into this news release by reference.
