RA'ANANA, Israel -- Orca Interactive (LSE:ORCA - News), a global leader in the IPTV market (television over Internet Protocol), today announced the results of a record-breaking benchmark demonstrating the very high scalability that network operators and service providers, such as Telcos, ISPs and utility companies, need to serve this emerging market. The benchmark simulated an active subscriber base of 500,000 people accessing Orca's IPTV solution, RiGHTv(TM) 4.2, based on Oracle10g running on an HP server platform with the HP-UX 11i operating system.

This is the first time an IPTV solution has been shown to reach this threshold in a commercial simulation; previously published benchmarks in 2003 demonstrated approximately 100,000 users. Even at the much higher subscriber load, average response times remained relatively constant, demonstrating the fundamental scalability of the Orca solution.

Orca Interactive worked closely with HP to complete the benchmark, which was done at an HP research facility in Paramus, New Jersey. The benchmark simulated a mix of subscribers with different TV usage profiles. The test simulated a subscriber base accessing advanced interactive services such as video on demand (VOD) and conventional television services, including a 1,000-movie database and 300 TV channels.

Under this heavy user load, the 500,000 simulated subscribers generated 123,000 actions per minute. At this high level of usage, the solution delivered an average response time of 3.5 milliseconds for common activities. Comparable response times in previous benchmarks have been 4.0 milliseconds, demonstrating that the Orca solution can scale up without slowing average response time.

"Our focus at Orca Interactive has always been creating a Telco-grade platform ready for delivering television services to hundreds of thousands of subscribers," said Dotan Naveh, Vice President of Research and Development for Orca Interactive. "HP provides Orca with the robust, powerful processing platforms and the expertise needed to support our customers. This benchmark demonstrates RiGHTv's inherent scalability, performance and high-availability, and our ability to scale up to a very large subscriber base, effectively utilizing a large number of CPUs."

Naveh added, "For Orca, the real value of benchmark tests goes beyond posting impressive results. High-stress simulations are the best way to refine and strengthen the solution itself."

Orca Interactive Ltd.