Omneon Acquires Castify Networks

Omneon, Inc., a provider of media server and active storage
systems for the broadcast and digital content storage markets, has acquired

Castify Networks, a provider of
software-based solutions for managing the distribution of digital
content over the Internet and private Intranets. 

Castify’s
end-to-end software solutions enable enterprises and service providers
to build scalable, easy-to-manage, and cost-efficient service delivery
platforms for content distribution over public and private networks.
Castify’s EBN and CBN products, built on SOA principles, allows
companies to virtualize services across globally distributed locations,
enabling fast service access, high performance, and high availability.
Castify’s modular product suite forms the foundation of a digital
content delivery platform to distribute, monitor and manage media
assets from any location.

“As our customers
move to file-based workflows, our strategy is to provide the digital
content infrastructure they need to efficiently and cost-effectively
manage their assets,” said Joe Kennedy, president and CEO of Omneon,
Inc.  “Castify’s full-featured distribution management infrastructure
combined with our digital content storage systems will provide our
customers with an integrated solution for managing media across their
networks, however large and extended they might be.”

“Our
two companies have already demonstrated the ability to work closely
together with great results,” said Jörg Nonnenmacher, CEO of Castify
Networks. “At NAB2007 we announced our support of the Omneon MediaGrid
active storage system and Spectrum media server platform.  Now we will
have the opportunity to capitalize on the synergy with even more
tightly integrated solutions, which ultimately will provide greater
value to all of our customers.”

As
broadcasters and other media companies adopt file-based workflows,
there is a growing need to be able to manage and distribute their
content throughout their own internal networks and over the Internet to
growing numbers of business partners.  Castify’s distribution
infrastructure combined with Omneon digital content storage systems
will provide customers with an integrated solution for managing media
across their extended networks. 

Omneon, Inc.

Castify Networks