France Telecom announced creation of GlobeCast at NAB 1997

Paris, 24 April 2007– Returning to Las Vegas, content management and delivery company GlobeCast chose NAB 2007 to mark its 10th anniversary as a global service provider, thanking broadcasters that rely on GlobeCast for their support and loyalty. It was ten years ago during NAB 1997 that France Telecom announced to the industry the merger of its French-based Audio and Video Services Unit with its subsidiaries Keystone Communications in the U.S. and Maxat Limited in the U.K., forming at the time the world’s first globally integrated provider of satellite delivery capabilities for broadcasters and corporate users.

In its ten-year history as a global provider, GlobeCast has significantly transformed its business, forming a solid geographic presence through the establishment of 20 offices in Europe, America, Asia and Africa, and by backing up this huge commercial footprint with interconnecting satellite and fiber networks that cover the globe.

The result has been GlobeCast’s transformation from a traditional teleport operator to its current position as a broadcast expert and a leading content management and delivery company, providing a full range of ingest, aggregation, hosting and transmission capabilities via satellite and fiber to deliver video to any platform worldwide. – including DTH, Cable, IPTV, Broadband TV, Mobile TV and more. It delivers news and sports events live in HD or SD and has also established itself as a serious player in digital signage, now providing Captive Audience services to retail agencies in Europe.

On the occasion of this milestone anniversary, GlobeCast executives are available to comment on the changes in the industry they have witnessed over the past ten years.

GlobeCast (www.globecast.com), a subsidiary of France Telecom, marks its 10th anniversary in 2007 as the leading global provider of content management and worldwide transmission services for professional broadcast delivery. The company operates a secure global satellite and fiber network to manage and transport 10 million hours of video and other rich media each year, providing ingest, aggregation, transmission and repurposing of content for delivery to direct-to-home satellite platforms; cable, IPTV, mobile and broadband headends; as well as corporate and digital signage networks. GlobeCast’s fleet of SNG trucks deploys globally to support coverage of the biggest news and sporting events each year in SD and HDTV formats. Borders are non-existent when it comes to GlobeCast’s services, thanks to the company’s 15 technical operations centers and 20 offices in Europe, North and Latin America, The Middle East, Asia, Africa and Australia

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