Eagle Unveils IP STBs

HOUSTON -- Eagle Broadband, Inc. (AMEX:EAG - News), a leading provider of broadband, Internet protocol (IP) and communications technology and services, announced today the availability of the company's new MediaPro IP3000SD, a standard definition IP set-top box for the residential IPTV, hospitality and other vertical markets.

The launch of the IP3000 platform accelerates Eagle's push into the residential IPTV market with the company's most cost effective, entry-level set-top box. The IP3000 product family complements Eagle's existing high-end IP5000 family of IP set-top boxes enabling the company to now deliver a full range of standard and high-definition solutions for the residential IPTV market. The IP3000 is also an ideal entry level solution for the hospitality industry, providing a robust, compact solution for economy and mid-level hotel properties.

Capable of supporting a variety of leading middleware and video-on-demand systems, the IP3000 platform delivers the advanced content system security and digital rights management (DRM) needed by a wide variety of industries including telco, hospitality, enterprise, and government markets. Available in MPEG2 format, the IP3000 also supports the new MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) video compression standard. It is available in a standard definition format today as the IP3000SD.

"We developed the IP3000 to meet the specific needs and growing demand from telephone companies, new broadband providers and hospitality operators for a very cost-effective, fully featured, low-end IP set-top box for the hospitality and residential IPTV markets," said David Micek, president and CEO of Eagle Broadband. "Eagle's goal is to build upon our successes and expand in the low-end hospitality market, while leveraging additional set top box revenue opportunities with our IPTVComplete(TM) video service offering. From this solid base, we can pursue additional vertical markets including enterprise, point of sale and others that require higher-performance in a smaller, lower cost form factor."

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HOUSTON -- Eagle Broadband, Inc. (AMEX:EAG - News), a leading provider of broadband, Internet protocol (IP) and communications technology and services, announced today that it has added advanced, full-featured personal video recorder (PVR) functionality to the company's advanced, MediaPro IP5000 set-top boxes that deliver dual tuner, dual streaming PVR in standard and high-definition formats for the residential IPTV market.

Eagle's MediaPro IP5000 has been proven as a high-end hospitality IP set-top box platform capable of delivering standard and high-definition formats with the advanced processing needed for internet browsing, gaming, video on demand, and other interactive services in the hospitality industry. The IP5000HD has been deployed at a new luxury casino in Las Vegas, the largest IP-based high definition deployment in the industry to date. By adding PVR functionality to the IP5000, Eagle now offers service providers a complete family of IP set-top box solutions that provide a better way to compete with cable and satellite service providers on cost, as well as advanced functionality.

"With the availability of our new IP3000 and IP5000 with PVR functionality, IPTV service providers now have a powerful combination of advanced features and functionality at the lowest possible cost enabling them to offer a full range of highly competitive video services to their subscribers," said David Micek, president and CEO of Eagle Broadband. "Eagle is focused on delivering turnkey IPTV solutions and these additional set-top box offerings enable us to provide service providers with the industry's only, end-to-end IPTV solution set with content, infrastructure and transport all the way to the set-top box in the subscriber's home."

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