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InfoVision Award Winners Announced Today at IEC's Broadband World Forum Asia 2006 in Hong Kong Award-winning Innovators Gather Today to Celebrate the Most Successfully-Deployed Broadband Products in Asia this Year

CHICAGO – May 18, 2006– The International Engineering Consortium (IEC) today announced the winners of the 2006 InfoVision Awards recognizing the most successfully-deployed broadband products in Asia this past year. The awards were presented to the winners at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre in front of hundreds of industry professionals.

Patterned after the successful InfoVision Awards program taking place in Europe, the IEC dedicated the awards program to compare technological products that were strictly deployed in Asia and launched within the past year.

IEC Executive Vice President, Roger Plummer stated, "An integral part of the Consortium's mission is to share the latest developments and the best innovations with the rest of the industry. Today we are proud to congratulate some of the brightest innovative companies whose contributions significantly benefited both the information and communications industry as well as the community."

The winners of the 2006 InfoVision Finalist Award, from more than 100 submissions, are the following companies and products in each of the respective categories:

Access Network Technologies and Services

PacketFront – BECS, Control and provisioning system

Cisco Systems, Inc. – Cisco ME 3400 Series Ethernet Access Switches

Broadband Appliances, Devices, and Home Networking

Scientific-Atlanta, Inc. – Gateway with DVR IPTV Set-top Model IPN603MCG(TM)

Infineon Technologies – Complete VDSL2 IAD Design

Content, Entertainment, Applications, and Services

Cascade – QualiTVision – The Solution Behind the Success of now Broadband TV

Alcatel – Alcatel 5900 applications

Enabling Silicon and Component-Level Technologies

Metalink Ltd. – WLANPlus

TANDBERG Television – TANDBERG High Definition Intelligent Compression Engine (HD-ICE) for MPEG-4 AVC and Windows Media 9 Series (SMPTE VC-1)

Metro Network Technologies and Services

Lucent – Lucent Multimedia Access Platform

Redback Networks – SmartEdge 100

Network and Services Management and Operations

Texas Instruments – PIQUA

SupportSoft – Service Automation Suite

Network Core Innovation and Advances

Newport Networks – 1460 Session Border Controller

Asia Netcom – M-Flex

Wireless Broadband

Samsung Electronics Corp. – Wi-Bro CPE (Wi-Max Modem)

KT – KT WiBro

Harmonic Inc. – FLXLink(TM) T1/E1 Commercial Services Solution

With hundreds of submissions, all products were judged according to how well each product achieved the following criteria:

Value of service or technology in solving recognized technology problems, meeting network requirements, optimizing service and performance, and/or enhancing customer service

Overall quality of innovation and contribution to technology advancement

Originality and vision

Potential contribution toward positive industry growth and service

Market success/acceptance (where applicable)

Contribution to end-user quality of experience and service efficiency

Products eligible for an InfoVision Award designation were commercially announced or in deployment within the Asia-Pacific region prior to the Broadband World Forum Asia 2006. Submissions were judged by a review committee composed of industry experts from vendor companies, service providers, and industry associations.

For additional information, visit http://www.iec.org/events/2006/bbwf_asia/ or contact Lisa Ann Reyes at +1-312-559-3324 or at lreyes@iec.org.

ABOUT THE BROADBAND WORLD FORUM ASIA 2006

The IEC's Broadband World Forum Asia premiered in 2004 in Seoul, Korea with KT as the official host sponsor drawing more than 1500 industry professionals to register. The show continued with last year's Broadband World Forum Asia 2005 held in Yokohama, Japan with NTT as the official host sponsor.

Increasing registration numbers by more than 50 percent, the show drew more than 3,000 industry professionals to register, included more than 150 presentations and presented more than 120 industry experts as speakers. This year, the Broadband World Forum Asia 2006 team will host numerous industry-leading companies to exhibit and expects approximately 3500 people to attend. For complete information, visit http://www.iec.org/events/2006/bbwf_asia/.

The IPTV Global ComForum also premieres at this year's Broadband World Forum Asia 2006 as a co-located event, which will address issues such as content licensing, market realities, managing broadband services over IP/MPLS core, security environments, digital rights management, personalization and interactivity for the end user, and more. For complete information, visit http://www.iec.org/events/2006/iptv/.

ABOUT THE IEC

A nonprofit organization, the IEC is dedicated to catalyzing technology and business progress worldwide in a range of high-technology industries and their university communities. Since 1944, the IEC has provided high-quality educational opportunities for industry professionals, academics, and students.

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