FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Tuesday, 11 September 2007

Widevine Expands Sales and Support Team with New Offices in Belgium, Italy and France

AMSTERDAM, 11 September 2007 – Widevine Technologies, the leading provider of downloadable conditional access, digital rights management and digital copy protection solutions for 125+ video operators worldwide, today announced it has opened additional offices in Europe to support its existing customers and new contracts with leading Telco operators in the region.

Widevine has added three new sales and product support offices in Rome, Paris and Antwerp, in strategic alignment with customers and partners. An additional office in Eastern Europe is planned for later this year. This builds on its previous sales and product support office in the UK and its engineering center in Lisbon.

Leading the European team is Yves Van Hecke, most recently with Espial, who joins as General Manager of Sales, EMEA. Axel Faux, formerly of Alcatel-Lucent, and Yaron Rosiner, most recently with Orca Interactive, join as Sales Directors and Sergio Silva, formerly of Siemens, joins as Director of Presales, EMEA.

“The continued expansion of our sales and customer engineering teams will better enable Widevine to support service providers across Europe, Russia, Africa and the Middle East to acquire and secure premium content for their video-on-demand service offerings in both managed networks and open internet delivery,” says Mike Petrocelli, Widevine’s Senior Vice President of Global Sales. “We’ve experienced significant growth in Europe due to our ability to deliver a single content protection solution that secures delivery of high-value content to multiple platforms, in multiple formats and to any device. This includes the ability to secure digital terrestrial television, hybrid DVB IP deployments, cable IPTV, Telco IPTV, mobile and open internet delivery. Our EMEA presence proves our commitment as a customer-driven organization that supports our customers’ current and future deployments.”

About Widevine Technologies, Inc.
Widevine is the leading provider of downloadable content protection and forensic solutions for video operators worldwide. Widevine enables telco, internet, mobile, cable and satellite service operators to generate new revenue opportunities through the secure distribution, identification and tracking of multimedia content.

Utilizing a combination of downloadable conditional access, digital rights management and digital copy protection techniques, Widevine enables operators to acquire and distribute premium studio content and, through unique patented technologies, reduce video related capital and operational expenditures. An innovator in the industry and holder of eight patents, Widevine invented renewable client security with the Cypher Virtual SmartCard™—which today protects more IP video set top boxes, personal video recorders, PCs, portable media players and mobile devices in the industry than any other vendor.

Widevine’s intellectual property portfolio now comprises eight issued patents, with approximately 281 claims. Widevine has more than 45 other patents pending in the USPTO and international pipelines. Widevine’s patents cover content security for video delivery to multiple devices, in multiple formats on multiple platforms.

Widevine is a privately held corporation headquartered in Seattle, WA, USA, funded by Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO), Charter Ventures, Constellation Ventures, Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd (DNP), PaceSetter Capital Group, Phoenix Partners, TELUS (NYSE: TU) and VantagePoint Venture Partners.

Contact:
Eric Moser
Ruder Finn Chicago (for Widevine Technologies)
+1 312 329 3908
mosere@ruderfinn.com

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