Cap Rock Telephone Cooperative Selects Myrio to Enable Video Services in West Texas

Myrio’s content solution and integration with Martin Group’s OSS system significantly reduce the cost of delivering IP video

Kirkland, Wash. - Myrio Corporation, the leading provider of software and integration services that enable broadband service providers to offer Digital TV, VOD, and other advanced entertainment services, announced today that Cap Rock Telephone Cooperative, in Spur TX, has commercially deployed Myrio’s video solution. Cap Rock selected Myrio’s video software services to complete their “Triple Play” offering of voice, data, and video. Cap Rock will make its new video services available to its subscribers immediately.

In an effort to provide a competitive video offering while reducing operational costs, Cap Rock chose Martin Group's auto-provisioning software, OASIS. Cap Rock also uses Martin Group's OSS for customer care and end-user billing. OASIS provides a streamlined service order flow process between customer care and Myrio's TotalManage back office application via an API interface developed by Myrio. This interface will increase data integrity, increase productivity, and allow Cap Rock to provision services real time without manual intervention. In addition to auto-provisioning, Martin Group also supports an automatic billing feed from Myrio into the end-user billing software.

Providing content was also a high priority in Cap Rock’s decision making process. Myrio is able to provide content services at a substantial discount compared to potential competitors’ offerings by leveraging the aggregated subscriber base of its many commercial deployments. “It’s a little difficult to deploy video without TV and movie content,” said Jim Whitefield, executive vice-president and general manager of Cap Rock. “Myrio is currently the only provider to offer content and content management services, which combined with their experience deploying video made Myrio the best choice.”

“Our software and services must contribute directly to capital and operational savings to make video more feasible,” said Chris Coles, president and CEO of Myrio. “Our content services alone allow Cap Rock to save $3,500 per month, and the integration of Martin Group’s OSS system with our back office solution is also a tangible example of operational savings we enable through the flexibility of our software architecture.”

Joining forces to supply Cap Rock with video is Myrio partner VideoTele.com. VideoTele.com's AstriaÒ digital headend enables Cap Rock to take in both off-air analog and pre-compressed digital video and perform demultiplexing, low bit-rate digital encoding, rate conversion and protocol conversion. VideoTele.com’s digital headend solution provides the flexibility to distribute video over any transmission type, including xDSL, coax and fiber.

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About Cap Rock Telephone

Cap Rock Telephone Cooperative's service area extends eastward from the caprock in West Texas through the Rolling Plains, covering 4800 square miles of farms, ranches and small towns. Some of the larger ranches are located in this area, including the 6666 Ranch, Matador Cattle Company, and the Pitchfork Land and Cattle Company. Cap Rock's telephone exchanges are located at Afton, Dickens, Dry Lake, Flomot, Girard, Hackmont, Jayton, Matador, Paducah, Peacock, Quitaque, Roaring Springs, Spur, Turkey, Verbena, and White River. Cap Rock serves approximately 5000 access lines located in the counties of Briscoe, Cottle, Crosby, Dickens, Floyd, Foard, Garza, Hall, Kent, King, Motley, and Stonewall. Facilities used to provide service art state-of-the-art, digital central offices. Cap Rock utilizes 2500 miles of buried cable to provide service to our customers. For more information, visit Cap Rock’s web site at www.caprock-spur.com.

About Myrio

Myrio is the leading provider of software and integration services that enable new video revenue opportunities for broadband service providers by leveraging their existing infrastructures. With Myrio's solutions, operators can offer next generation, TV-based services and media to their customers. In turn, operators can protect their valuable residential assets from competitors, such as cable and satellite companies. A pioneer in the industry, Myrio has commercially deployed its solutions to operators throughout the United States, and is conducting customer trials internationally as well.
Myrio is a privately held corporation funded by Ridgewood Capital, NeoCarta Ventures, and Alexander Hutton Venture Partners. For more information, please visit Myrio's web site at www.myrio.com.