MBO Video Deploys Myrio’s IP Video Platform to Additional Oklahoma Telcos

Myrio Continues to Lead Industry in IP Video Platform Deployments

Bothell, Wash. - Myrio Corporation, a leading provider of IP video software and services, today announced that Cross Telephone Company and Pottawatomie Telephone Company have deployed Myrio’s IP Video Platform on the regional MBO Interactive SONET network. Myrio’s flexible and scalable solution enables the operators to extend advanced video services, such as pay-per-view and digital television, to their customers quickly and cost-effectively. These new services are currently being offered to more than 25,000 subscribers.

MBO Video, an Oklahoma-based full-service telecommunications provider, allows operators on its network to offer a triple-play bundle by reselling Myrio’s IP Video Platform. With MBO’s centralized headend, Pottawatomie Telephone Company and Cross Telephone Company are deploying advanced digital video services without incurring the significant cost of building and maintaining individual headends.

“Myrio’s flexible and scalable IP Video Platform has made it cost effective and easy for Pottawatomie Telephone Company and Cross Telephone Company to provide video services,” said Gene Baldwin, vice president of Cimarron Telephone, the first MBO operator to deploy Myrio’s platform. “To capitalize on our centralized headend, we needed a video platform that could scale easily and help us equip other operators with video services quickly. Myrio’s platform gives our partner companies the ability to reduce deployment costs while creating new revenue opportunities.”

Cross Telephone Company and Pottawatomie Telephone Company have been providing local telephone services since the early 1900’s. By deploying Myrio’s IP Video Platform, both Cross Telephone Company and Pottawatomie Telephone Company are now able to offer advanced video applications, including pay-per-view, video on demand (coming soon), digital television, music and walled garden advertising.

“Cross Telephone is committed to providing affordable and advanced services to our subscribers, including video,” said David Wright, director of technical operations and business development. “With Myrio’s flexible and scalable IP Video Platform and MBO’s centralized headend, we were able to get our video services up and running within days.”

“IP video is becoming crucial to independent operators in today’s competitive telecom environment,” said Dan Overland, vice president and general manager of Pottawatomie Telephone Company. “Myrio’s successful track record of deploying video services through regional headends and the ease of making the system operational enabled us to enter the video market cost effectively and quickly.”

Myrio’s IP Video Platform is Java-based, which is the ideal development and deployment platform for an emerging class of interactive services and applications such as video. The flexibility of Myrio’s platform to operate across different network and hardware environments allowed Cross Telephone Company and Pottawatomie Telephone Company to reduce deployment time from months to weeks.

“The successful IP video deployments of Cross and Pottawattamie demonstrate the economic and speed-to-market benefits of MBO Video’s bundle of a centralized headend and the standards based Myrio IP Video Platform,” said Roger Shanafelt, vice president of worldwide sales and marketing for Myrio. “Myrio continues to lead the industry in IP video deployments by providing operators with the most flexible and scalable solutions available.”

About MBO Video

MBO Video is a privately held company whose SONET network spans the four state region of Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kansas and Missouri. MBO established a market leadership position in 1997 and now has more than 1,900 miles of fiber optics throughout the four state region. MBO has completed the first statewide redundant network that supports video distance learning applications, and has grown to also provide integrated solutions with voice, data, long distance, video, Internet, cable and wireless applications. Through its wholly owned independent telephone companies, it also provides end-to-end network solutions with a full range of products and services. MBO Video provides wholesale network capacity to carriers and Interactive services to other telcos in addition to commercial network private line services for large business clients with statewide networks. By leveraging the MBO Interactive network, centralized head-end and combined personnel experience of over 90 years in video with extensively trained technicians, customer support staff, and installation experts, MBO Interactive can facilitate deploying the industry’s latest services.

For more information, please contact:
Milton Alford, Director of Network Operations
918.865.6104 or support@mbovideo.com

Sheryl Macoubrie, Director of Strategic Planning and Marketing
918.865.6106 or sales@mbovideo.com

www.mbovideo.net

1.877.777.8941

About Cross Telephone Company

Cross Telephone Company has specialized in the provisioning of local telephone service to eleven exchanges including the Lake Eufaula and Lake Tenkiller areas. Today, Cross Telephone provides a wide variety of telecommunication services to over 10,000 subscribers in several Oklahoma counties.
Cross Telephone is continuously researching and upgrading equipment to provide our customers with the custom calling they want and need.
Cross Telephone Company also offers specialized services, which include Cross Long Distance Service, which is offered through our subsidiary company and Cross Cable Television, which brings the best in cable television service.

About Myrio

Myrio is a leading provider of software, content and integration services that enable new revenue opportunities for broadband operators by leveraging their infrastructures. Myrio’s software suite consists of Myrio Interactive, a full-featured end-user application for set-top boxes, and TotalManage, a back-office subscriber and content management solution. Myrio's solutions and expertise enable operators to deploy more quickly and offer their subscribers a full range of IP-based video and on-demand entertainment while lowering the total cost of ownership through operational efficiencies and hardware choice. A pioneer in the industry, Myrio has commercially deployed its solutions to operators throughout the United States and is conducting customer trials internationally.

Myrio is a privately held corporation funded by Ridgewood Capital, NeoCarta Ventures, Alexander Hutton Venture Partners and Siemens Venture Capital. For more information, please visit Myrio's web site at www.myrio.com.