COPENHAGEN – 14 May 2013 – Octoshape, an industry leader in cloud-based streaming technology, has been selected by Eurovision Song Contest Malmö 2013 to deliver this year’s biggest musical event, which kicks off today, May 14^th. The Eurovision Song Contest is the world’s largest live entertainment program, with more than 100 million viewers every year.

“This year we have again chosen to partner with Octoshape,” said Sietse Bakker, Event Supervisor for the Eurovision Song Contest. “Using Octoshape’s suite of multicast technologies, we will be able to guarantee an unmatched online viewing experience for viewers all over the world. Partnering with Octoshape not only ensures excellent quality, it also provides high value for the money.”

With the high volume of viewers and quality required, Octoshape’s Infinite HD-M™ federated broadband TV platform was selected to meet the unique demand, scale and budget requirements of the event.

“We are very proud to have a longstanding partnership with the European Broadcasting Union and The Eurovision Song Contest in particular,” said Michael Koehn Milland, CEO of Octoshape. “We bring to the relationship a commitment to deliver consistent, high quality video productions where quality, cost and an overall uninterrupted viewing experience are top priority.”

About Octoshape
Streaming media innovator Octoshape provides the enabling technology required to bring TV Quality, TV Scale and TV Economics to the public Internet. The company is writing the next chapter of content delivery for broadband IPTV services. The Octoshape approach is more scalable, flexible and affordable than traditional content delivery (CDN) schemes, while providing feature-rich, high-quality viewing to the largest of audiences. For more information visit www.octoshape.com.

For more information please contact:

For Octoshape:
Jessica Slezak
(801) 305-1447

For Eurovision:
Sietse Bakker
+31 617882099

Octoshape’s Infinite HD-M is nominated for the 2013 Streaming Media European Readers’ Choice Awards in three prestigious categories including:

• TV over IP Solution
• Webcast Platform
• Delivery Network

Voting closes Friday, May 24th so please click and vote today!

COPENHAGEN – April 15, 2013 – Octoshape, an industry leader in cloud-based streaming technology, announced today that its Infinite HD-M™ technology has been selected to power Internet video distribution services for Quda Creative, a subsidiary of E3 Group, and regional provider of high quality content broadband events.

Quda Creative will leverage Octoshape’s Infinite HD-M™ Federated Multicast platform to enhance its service offerings across Argentina. Octoshape’s advanced video distribution technology provides high definition Internet video regardless of the geographic  location, connectivity or network conditions of the viewer.

“With the unique Octoshape technology in our media services portfolio, we are certain that Quda Creative will lead the region in high definition video distribution over the Internet,” said Hernán Portugal, CEO of Quda Creative. “Our parent company, E3 Group, is developing applications for SMART TV’s, mobile phones and tablets to enable access to our high quality content powered by Octoshape’s technology.”

The Infinite HD-M™ solution enables TV quality, TV scale and TV economics for broadband TV over unmanaged IP networks by utilizing existing infrastructure in the telco and operator network. Infinite HD-M™ enables large volumes of broadband TV to be delivered efficiently over last mile networks without requiring the vast infrastructure upgrades necessary with traditional video delivery platforms.

“The quality standard that the E3 Group and Quda Creative have set for video delivery to their customers is directly in line with Octoshape’s value propositions,” said Michael Koehn Milland, CEO of Octoshape. “Their aim is to continuously raise the bar for content and quality, and I am confident that together we will achieve a new standard in viewing experiences for their consumers.”

Telco and cable operators that are part of the Infinite HD-M™ federated network receive the signals via native IP Multicast in a way that allows them to easily manage large volumes of traffic without upgrading their Internet capacity. Octoshape’s federated linear broadband TV ecosystem will continue to expand globally in carefully planned phases, adding content contribution partners, Tier 1 broadband providers, connected television manufacturers and conditional access providers.

About Octoshape
Streaming media innovator Octoshape provides the enabling technology required to bring TV Quality, TV Scale and TV Economics to the public Internet. The company is writing the next chapter of content delivery for broadband IPTV services. The Octoshape approach is more scalable, flexible and affordable than traditional content delivery (CDN) schemes, while providing feature-rich, high-quality viewing to the largest of audiences. For more information visit www.octoshape.com

For Octoshape
Jessica Slezak
+1 703-597-5359

For E3 Group / Quda Creative:
Hernan Portugal
(5411) 4325-4144

COPENHAGEN (March 27, 2013) – Octoshape, an industry leader in cloud-based streaming technology, today announced that it will participate in the 2013 National Association of Broadcasters Show in Las Vegas April 7-11, 2013.

The company will be showcasing its latest innovations and service offerings at the Wynn Hotel for select broadcasters and technology partners. Octoshape will demonstrate the Infinite HD-M platform, which was launched in production at NAB 2012. Infinite HD-M is a technology platform that creates a revolutionary step forward in transforming public networks (Internet, fixed wireless or mobile) into TV-grade infrastructures. The federated global content distribution network is able to distribute HD video content globally over-the-top, without the limitations and variable usage-based prices of traditional CDNs.

Several Octoshape executives and technical experts will be available to discuss the Infinite HD-M Quality of Service and the associated efficiencies as well as demonstrate Octoshape’s extensive suite of broadband and mobile solutions in the Wynn Hotel located near the Las Vegas Convention Center.

Octoshape’s John Maniccia, Solutions Engineer, will also be participating in two speaking events during the week. First, he will speak at the Broadcast Engineer Conference on Saturday, April 6, 2013, 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. in S225/226. Second, he will participate in a panel at the DCIA Cloud Computing Conference on Monday, April 8, 2013, 3:30-4:00 p.m. in N249.

For more information or to set up a meeting with a member of the Octoshape team, contact info@octoshape.com.

About Octoshape
Streaming media innovator Octoshape provides the enabling technology required to bring TV Quality, TV Scale and TV Economics to the public Internet. The company is writing the next chapter of content delivery for broadband IPTV services. The Octoshape approach is more scalable, flexible and affordable than traditional content delivery (CDN) schemes, while providing feature-rich, high-quality viewing to the largest of audiences. For more information visit www.octoshape.com.

For more information please contact:
Jessica Slezak
703-597-5359

BRATISLAVA – (January 22, 2013) –STREAMSTAR, the Slovakia-based manufacturer of the WEBCAST portable and compact video encoding line of products for the broadband video industry, announced today an integration with Octoshape, an industry leader in cloud-based global broadband video distribution technologies. The initiative enables the STREAMSTAR WEBCAST line of encoding and production systems to publish video streams to the Octoshape Infinite HD-M Federated Linear Broadband TV Platform, an industry-first service that enables flat rate business models utilizing Multicast over broadband for high quality linear video delivery.

Recent events were successfully delivered via the joint solution including the Fight Explosion 2012 Thai Boxing Tournament, and the Red Bull Salute Trophy Hockey tournament, delivering high quality video streams to viewers around the world.

“720P HD streams were delivered for the events and the results were spectacular,” said Mr. Michal Ivanic, CTO of STREAMSTAR. “Quality assurance monitoring sites were deployed all over the world during the streaming of the events and we were able to provide flawless coverage using the joint solution.”

The partnership leverages the feature-rich, portable and high quality linear video encoding solutions of STREAMSTAR  combined with the Octoshape Infinite HD-M linear OTT platform, which enables TV quality video delivery over broadband. With the Infinite HD-M ‘flat rate per channel’ pricing model for linear channels, broadcasters can now deliver linear video with predictable and affordable economics.

“The STREAMSTAR solution addresses an important segment for our customers relative to portable and compact encoding solutions for venue and event production,” said Michael Koehn Milland, CEO of Octoshape. “Infinite HD-M ensures that the quality of video coming out of the STREAMSTAR system is preserved across the Internet from the first to the last mile. Combined with the predictable business models of Infinite HD-M, broadcasters get flexible encoding, and high quality video for their consumers globally”.

About STREAMSTAR
STREAMSTAR is a company offering technology solutions and products for the streaming industry. Dedicated to innovation STREAMSTAR delivers professional tools for the new generation of media producers.

Our flagship products are the WEBCAST software application and the WEBCAST CASE portable webcasting system.

The WEBCAST line of products presents the pinnacle of several years of broadcasting equipment development, combined with experiences from many years of television broadcasting work, thousands of completed webcasts and the extensive software development expertise of our development team.

The WEBCAST system is the superb execution of a clear vision – to offer a superior production system precisely suited to the new requirements of today’s webcasting industry. It is unquestionably the most advanced and feature-richest webcasting system on the market, highly effective, tried and tested in the real world and at the same time very flexible and easy to operate.

About Octoshape
Octoshape provides the enabling technology required for content owners to deliver online video over best-effort public networks to the largest audiences and with the highest-quality viewing experience. The company is writing the next chapter of content delivery for IPTV services over the Internet. The Octoshape approach is more scalable, flexible and affordable than traditional CDN schemes, while providing feature-rich, high-quality viewing to the largest of audiences. For more information visit www.octoshape.com

For more information please contact:

For STREAMSTAR
Rado Toth
CEO
+421 911 666 222
toth@streamstar.com

Stano Scepan
CMO
+421 917 834 470
scepan@streamstar.com

For OCTOSHAPE
Jessica Slezak
+1 703-597-5359

Integrated solution brings TV quality, multicast efficiency, and content protection to video from the cloud

Las Vegas – January 7, 2013 – Octoshape, a leading cloud streaming innovator, today
announced that they have partnered with NAGRA, the digital TV division of the Kudelski Group
(SIX:KUD.S) and the world’s leading independent provider of content protection and multi-
screen television solutions, to enable the secure and efficient delivery of broadcast TV via
the Internet by integrating Infinite HD-M, the Octoshape suite of multicast technologies, into
NAGRA’s multiscreen television solution, NAGRA MediaLive.

The partnership will allow service providers to answer consumer demand for premium over-the-
top (OTT) content with broadcast reliability and deliver the highest quality linear and on-demand
content, whether free-to-air or high value assets, to a broad range of consumer devices without
compromising security or video playback quality.

“Adding Octoshape’s network into our multiscreen solution will enable an even higher quality
end-user experience with a financially compelling offer for service providers by bringing more
efficiency into the mix,” said Jean-Michel Puiatti, SVP Multiscreen Product Unit of NAGRA. “This
option brings a unique quality and economic value proposition through CDN cost optimization to
service providers that implement NAGRA MediaLive.”

“The partnership with NAGRA creates the first demonstrable multicast enabled secure IPTV
platform over both the public Internet and private networks globally,” said Michael Koehn
Milland, CEO of Octoshape. “The combination of the award-winning innovation in the NAGRA
MediaLive system with the quality, scale, and economic aspects of our multicast technologies
will create an unbeatable consumer video experience on broadband connected devices and
enable an enhanced and sustainable model for broadcast TV over broadband.”

The integrated and end-to-end Octoshape and NAGRA solution brings together NAGRA’s
world-class content protection and multiscreen television management systems available
through NAGRA MediaLive, and Octoshape’s Infinite HD-M multicast network which enables the
distribution of broadcast signals via native IP multicast without requiring that service providers
upgrade their Internet capacity or expand their current on-net capital investments. The
combined solution extends to devices such as PC, tablets and smartphones by using NAGRA’s
secure player, NAGRA Media Player (NMP).

About Octoshape
Streaming media innovator Octoshape provides the enabling technology required to bring
TV Quality, TV Scale and TV Economics to the public Internet. The company is writing the
next chapter of content delivery for broadband IPTV services. The Octoshape approach is
more scalable, flexible and affordable than traditional content delivery (CDN) schemes, while
providing feature-rich, high-quality viewing to the largest of audiences. For more information visit
www.octoshape.com.

About NAGRA
NAGRA, the digital TV division of the Kudelski Group (SIX:KUD.S), provides security and
multiscreen user experience solutions for the monetization of digital media. The company
offers content providers and DTV operators worldwide with secure, open, integrated platforms
and applications over broadcast, broadband and mobile platforms, enabling compelling and
personalized viewing experiences. Please visit www.nagra.com/dtv for more information and
follow us on Twitter at @nagrakudelski

For more information please contact:
For Octoshape
Jessica Slezak
(801) 305-1447

For NAGRA
Ivan Schnider
Marketing Communications
+41 79 778 94 12
ivan.schnider@nagra.com

Christine Oury
Marketing Communications
+1 415 962 5433
christine.oury@nagra.com

ATLANTA – December 5, 2012 – Octoshape, an industry leader in cloud-based streaming technology, has developed an integrated technology showcase with Juniper Networks to provide a foundation for Broadband TV with the scale, quality and cost efficiency of broadcast TV. The showcase is being hosted from Juniper Networks New Jersey-based OpenLab, the Junos® Center for Innovation, which facilitates a collaborative environment for Juniper’s customers, partners and academia to learn about and develop new network integrated software applications.

The showcase integrates Octoshape’s Infinite HD-M Federated Multicast platform with Juniper Networks® MX Series 3D Universal Edge Routers for both Native Multicast, and Automatic Multicast Tunneling (AMT). The HD-M solution for high definition Internet video has been in production since April 2012, and now utilizes the first commercially available AMT relay from Juniper.

The collaboration between the two companies is a huge step forward in making the Internet a reliable medium for high quality video distribution. The integration of Infinite HD-M differentiates Juniper Networks in the OTT IPTV marketplace by enabling telco, operator and campus networks to facilitate Multicast over the unmanaged broadband network.

“Octoshape’s advanced video distribution technology provides high definition Internet video regardless of the geographic location, connectivity or network conditions of the viewer. Combined with Juniper’s AMT technology on its MX Series routers, it enables us to transform the quality and economics of Internet-based video,” said Mike Bushong, senior director product line management, Junos, Juniper Networks.

The Infinite HD-M solution enables TV quality, scale and economics for IPTV over unmanaged IP networks now utilizing existing Juniper infrastructure in the telco and operator network. Infinite HD-M enables large volumes of broadband TV to be delivered efficiently over last mile networks without requiring the vast infrastructure upgrades necessary with traditional video delivery platforms.

“Juniper Networks has a proven track record of bringing innovative, high performance, scalable solutions to the Internet,” Michael Koehn Milland, CEO of Octoshape. “When combined with Octoshape’s Infinite HD-M technology it enables us to jointly bring together the entire video distribution solution for a unique and industry-changing offering in the Internet video distribution segment.

Telco and cable operators that are part of the Infinite HD-M Federated network receive the signals via native IP Multicast in a way that allows them to easily manage large volumes of traffic without upgrading their Internet capacity. Octoshape’s federated linear broadband TV ecosystem will continue to expand globally in carefully planned phases adding content contribution partners, tier one broadband providers, connected television manufacturers and conditional access providers.

###

About Octoshape

Streaming media innovator Octoshape provides the enabling technology required to bring TV Quality, TV Scale and TV Economics to the public Internet. The company is writing the next chapter of content delivery for broadband IPTV services. The Octoshape approach is more scalable, flexible and affordable than traditional content delivery (CDN) schemes, while providing feature-rich, high-quality viewing to the largest of audiences. For more information visit www.octoshape.com.

For more information please contact:

For Octoshape:

Jessica Slezak

(801) 305-1447

October 31, 2012
Analyst: Jim Davis

Octoshape, a developer of software for content distribution, has a promising technology for delivering HD video using multicast techniques. As many vendors in the television ecosystem have learned, there’s a lot of pieces in the puzzle to be put in place before widespread adoption of a new technology can take place. Octoshape has been busy the last few months since our initial report on building a base for further adoption.

Background
Octoshape was founded in 2003 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Apart from being around a while, it last announced a round of funding back in 2010, when it took in just under $5m from Nexit Ventures; previous investors included NorthCap Partners and Nordic Venture Partners. The company has 50 employees.

Technology
Octoshape’s Infinite HD-M technology is used in conjunction with a multicast-enabled network. While multicast technology has been around for a long time, Octoshape says it makes multicast easier to implement by making it usable on best effort networks; HD-M offers resiliency from a form of forward error correction by pulling data from multiple sources as needed without adding redundant packets.

Strategy
Octoshape wants to grow a federated multicast network for linear video by getting telcos and cable operators to enable multicast support on their networks. Octoshape hands off multicast feeds of popular content (usually from a live event) so the service providers can efficiently deliver it across their networks.

The hope is that service providers decide to then use the technology to power their new services such as their own IP video subscription services, with ‘TV Everywhere’ being a common interest these days. The key part of the plan from a content owner’s perspective is that Octoshape is planning to charge a ‘per channel’ fee, in contrast to a bandwidth-based pricing model that has a cost that increases with audience size and bitrate.

Customers
So is the strategy working yet? Since its still relatively early on since the introduction of HD-M, there’s no definitive answer yet, but executives are hopeful that some large projects in Europe and North America will break cover in the coming months. There’s a large service provider in Europe that’s looking to add multicast delivery of video to IP-connected devices in addition to its IPTV service lineup. The North American market might see some action for Octoshape in 2013 as providers move beyond technology trials and into commercial availability.

Another promising group of customers is satellite providers, who don’t have an easy path to the connected consumer. Multicast technology would allow these providers to economically deliver online video for customers on the go, for example.

Competitors
Any of the networking equipment vendors that have moved into video networking, including Cisco, Alcatel-Lucent and Ericsson, are potential competitors. These companies have multicast built in to routers and switches already, but Octoshape says the technology is complicated and services can be brittle; the result is that service providers have not widely used standard multicast technology for large scale broadcast events on the Internet. These same vendors have video caching offerings that some service providers are using to build CDNs, which are useful for on-demand content, but are not cost-effective for live events on the Internet, where millions of users ‘tune’ in to servers for the same stream at the same time. CDN service providers like Akamai, Limelight Networks and Level 3 Networks provide large-scale online video streaming services for events such as the Olympics and on-demand services such as Hulu and Netflix.

Partners
Octoshape has been busy in the last few months establishing partnerships within the broadcast online video ecosystem. Some partners, like NetRange, are not widely recognized players but have worked with TV makers such as Sharp and Loewe to build software for smart TVs. This reflects a move to build multicast-enabled TV sets that would be able to receive broadcast events from the Internet. Others include satellite distribution providers like Inviso, which is focused on the Latin American market and ONE CONNXT, a provider of IP transport services.

One crucial set of partners that haven’t been announced yet is the content security providers like Cisco/ NDS Group and NAGRA that provide content encryption and conditional access systems to pay TV providers around the globe. Octoshape is aiming to have partnerships announced in the near future – the January Consumer Electronics Show or the National Association of Broadcasters trade show events in January and April 2013, respectively, would be T1R’s estimate for the timing of announcing such partnerships.

T1R take
Octoshape has a promising technology in HD-M that appears to be gaining some traction in the market. To its benefit, Octoshape’s initial pitch is that service providers adopt multicast because it will save money by reducing the amount of traffic on their networks. As we’ve stated before, there are markets such as South America, where broadband penetration is relatively low, that can benefit from Octoshape’s multicast technology.

What about the big markets like North America and Europe? Apart from saving money on transporting video across their networks, telco and cable network providers (not to mention satellite TV providers who don’t even own access networks) could power their new TV Everywhere online video services with multicast and pay for the technology with a predictable per channel fee. The argument is compelling, but getting the pieces in place will be a challenge. Along those lines, a partnership with a company like Cisco, with all its assets from the Scientific-Atlanta and NDS acquisitions, would be a key signal that large pay TV providers are getting in line for Octoshape’s HD-M technology.