SGI Wins in India

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- SGI (NYSE:SGI) today announced a major win in India in the area of convergence delivery network (CDN) services. I-Spatial Communications Pvt. Ltd. has selected SGI as the prime contractor to set up the television head-end infrastructure for a CDN for about 50,000 subscribers in the first year. This project will roll out in phases, over the next twelve months, beginning with six SGI(R) Origin(R) 300 Origin(TM) servers scheduled to be installed by the end of July 2003, and will eventually cover seven cities in India.

I-Spatial Communications is a telecom and media solutions company based in Bangalore, India, and in the process of setting up CDN services for the first time. The company intends to provide broadband value-added services like video-on-demand, near video-on-demand, Internet access, and satellite television transmission.

Manjunath Jagirdar, managing director of I-Spatial Communications, said, "We selected SGI as the prime contractor because their solution architecture was easily the best. The sheer scalability of their solution, and therefore its ability to grow as the subscriber numbers grow up, is very impressive." He added, "I-Spatial's ability to deliver the value-added broadband services on the existing copper cable infrastructure translates into a significant cost advantage for consumers."

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