News Release - For immediate release

TELESTREAM, Tarari Partner to accelerate
production and delivery of digital media

Leader in Automated Media Encoding and Delivery over IP Networks now offers Tarari® Encoder Accelerator

for Windows Media®

San Diego and Nevada City, Calif., February 27, 2006 - Telestream®, the world’s leading provider of automated media encoding and delivery solutions, and Tarari® Inc., the award-winning acceleration company, today announced that Telestream is now offering the Tarari® Encoder Accelerator for Windows Media® with two of its high-end digital media solutions, Telestream FlipFactory® and Telestream MAP®. The Telestream solutions use the Tarari Encoder Accelerator for Windows Media, a PCI-X bus card that installs in any Microsoft Windows XP or Windows Server 2003-based server, to offload and accelerate the most processor-intensive algorithms of the Windows Media encoding applications.  This acceleration enables Telestream customers to reduce the time and costs associated with creating and sharing digital media.

Telestream FlipFactory® is a quick, powerful and scalable way to automate transcoding and delivery of digital media. Telestream MAP products simplify the way content owners and creators access, organize, and share complex video and audio files across the enterprise.  Both applications include encoding to standard Windows Media formats.  The Tarari Encoder Accelerator for Windows Media is the industry’s only encoding solution that offers the performance benefit of hardware acceleration without any compromise in the quality of encoded content, and without requiring system developers to change their applications or existing hardware.

“By adding greater encoding speed and efficiency to our powerful solutions, Tarari’s acceleration technology allows our customers to encode full-resolution standard-definition and high-definition Windows Media more quickly. This dramatically improves workflow efficiency at companies that depend on moving complex video and audio files across the enterprise,” said Anna Greco, Director of Business Development and Product Marketing at Telestream.

“Telestream has leveraged Tarari’s encoder accelerator to raise the bar for digital media processing and delivery,” said Jim Wilson, CTO Microsoft Technologies at Tarari, Inc. “With the rapidly growing reliance on digital media in multiple industries, including everyday corporate communications, developers around the world continue to adopt the Tarari Encoder Accelerator for Windows Media to ensure their solutions continue to meet the demands of our fast-paced digital world.”

The Tarari Encoder Accelerator for Windows Media is now available from Telestream and Telestream resellers.

About Telestream (www.telestream.net)
Telestream® products have set the standard with the world’s leading media and entertainment companies, corporations and government institutions for the encoding, organizing and delivery of digital media. Customers rely on Telestream products for convenient, cost-effective, and robust digital media access and exchange over IP networks. Telestream’s automation applications and smart media organization solutions streamline workflows for broadcasters and media companies, as well as content owners and content creators in government, higher education and corporate markets. Telestream and its team of video experts are located in Nevada City, the “video valley” region of Northern California.  The company is privately held. For more information, visit www.telestream.net.

About Tarari, Inc. (www.tarari.com)
Tarari, Inc., the award-winning acceleration company headquartered in San Diego, Calif., USA, designs and produces Tarari Content Processors that accelerate and offload compute-intensive, complex algorithms used in XML/Web Services, Network Security and Digital Media environments. Tarari's product line includes boards, ASICs and software acceleration components designed for network equipment, appliance and server vendors as well as independent software vendors and enterprises. Tarari is a privately held company with venture backing from Crosspoint Venture Partners, Morgan Stanley Venture Partners, Enterprise Partners Venture Capital, Miramar Venture Partners, XMLFund, and Intel Capital. For more information, visit: www.tarari.com, e-mail: info@tarari.com, or call (858) 385-5131.

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