Press Release

• Find Espial® at Stand #3 March 6-8 at Olympia Conference Centre in London
• Espial will be featuring its Beyond Brandable™ IPTV client middleware, Espial Evo™

Ottawa, CANADA, March 3, 2006 — Espial ®, a leading provider of client IPTV middleware and applications, will be highlighting strategic IPTV solutions available to telcos during panel discussions and booth demonstrations at IPTV World Forum in London, UK next week. In the extremely competitive TV market, IPTV is poised to stand out as a new revenue stream for telcos and operators. At Stand 3 in the exhibition hall, Espial will demonstrate how Espial Evo will ensure telcos and system integrators can tap into this new revenue stream and provide compelling IPTV services that help “Own Their IPTV Subscribers” and provide a long-lasting and crucial competitive edge.

Dr. Neale Foster, Espial's director of strategic marketing, will be speaking to conference attendees on March 6 th at 10:30am along with representatives from Bulldog Communications, Tiscali and Cisco Systems.

By providing middleware and applications to hundreds of customers around the world, Espial has developed a robust product suite for telcos and operators to engage their subscribers with interactive IPTV content. Partnerships with leading semiconductor suppliers, set-top box manufacturers and other IPTV component vendors have ensured Espial Evo supports most major IPTV platforms in a seamless, standards-based middleware package.

Espial Evo, unlike other IPTV solutions based on Web browsers, delivers an exceptionally fast consumer experience by eliminating performance penalties such as progressive page loading and page flips. In addition to this unique client IPTV middleware framework that is open for 3 rd party developers, Espial Evo includes applications such as Electronic Program Guide, Video on Demand, Portal and Settings.

“Espial Evo provides the best solution for operators who have been dissatisfied by the same generic interfaces that they are currently limited to with browser-based applications,” said Dr. Neale Foster, director of strategic marketing, Espial. “Espial Evo allows operators to offer exciting and engaging interfaces and easily control all the branding, modifications and integrations they need. The fact that it's extremely compact, open and extensible and already ported to countless leading set-top box manufacturers ensures that our customers are getting the best quality product for their requirements.”

About Espial Evo:

• Espial Evo provides highly-customizable, beyond brandable user interfaces.
• Espial Evo provides network-efficient data-driven applications for Electronic Program Guide, Video on Demand, Portal and Settings. It provides a level of user responsiveness that is unparalleled in the IPTV industry.
• Espial Evo provides a framework for operators and system integrators to independently develop new applications and port to the set-top box of their choice.
• Espial Evo provides standards-based design capabilities to produce application UIs that are graphically rich, with smooth animations and transitions
• Lower deployment costs with Espial Evo's complete IPTV client solution that can scale from low-cost, resource-constrained designs to higher-end, memory-rich devices.

Visit Espial at stand #3 or make an appointment by contacting Espial at: info@espial.com.

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ABOUT ESPIAL

Espial is a leading provider of client middleware and applications for set-top boxes and consumer electronic devices. Espial applications include User Settings Management, Electronic Program Guides, Video on Demand, Interactive Content Portals and Web browsing. Espial provides a Beyond Brandable™ user interface that enables the operator to customize their offering so that they can ‘Own their IPTV Subscribers'. The company is the recipient of the Deloitte and Touche 'Fast 500' top companies in North America three years running. Espial software is deployed and accredited for more than 100 consumer designs such as, Siemens, Motorola, Sumitomo Electric Networks, Amino, Thomson, Philips, i3Micro Technologies, LodgeNet, OnCommand and S-Net Systems. Espial can be found on the web at www.espial.com.

Media Contact:

Meredith Dundas

Espial, Marketing Communications Manager

+1-613-230-4770 x 1142

mdundas@espial.com