Tom Collins

Avail-TVN is the largest independent digital media services company in North America. Working with every major studio and television network, the company offers a full content line up of MPEG-4 encoded live programming as well as video on demand content in MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 to multichannel video providers throughout the US, Canada, the Caribbean and Mexico. The Avail-TVN platform is an open, advanced technology, offering the most comprehensive, end-to-end solution for licensing, managing, distributing and marketing linear and on-demand content to virtually any platform today and is extensible to support the new services of tomorrow. Avail-TVN is the only company today to deliver to its customers a combined MPEG-4 linear IPTV and Video On Demand (VOD) solution. The Avail-TVN solution includes a full line-up of live television programming with hundreds of channels, all quality-encoded in MPEG-4, IP-encapsulated, encrypted, combined with VOD, and designed for future value-added services. Avail-TVN possesses an extensive content library, including transport rights from the top national programmers, including ABC-Disney, Turner, NBC Universal, MTV Networks, Fox Cable Networks as well as On Demand content from every major studio such as Buena Vista/Disney, DreamWorks, Lionsgate NBC Universal, Paramount, Sony, 20th Century Fox, and Warner Bros and television network, as well as content only available On Demand. Avail-TVN also offers a proprietary software suite, ViewTrak™, which allows both carriers and content providers the ability to track programming activations on a real-time basis. Avail-TVN's solutions have been designed for and are today used by digital video providers of all types. Whether triple-play, quad-play, or pure video play, Avail-TVN has a solution to suit your digital media services requirements.

Intelsat US LLC engages in the provision of satellite telecommunication services. It offers commercial aircraft, business jet, and aeronautical connectivity; land mobile; maritime; satellite, fiber, and teleport; consulting; and enterprise networking services. The company was founded in 1964 and is headquartered in McLean, VA.

Inmarsat Ltd. owns and operates mobile satellite network solutions. The company has a portfolio of mobile satellite solutions including voice, fax, intranet, Internet access, and other data services. The company was founded in 1979 and is headquartered in London, UK.

COMSAT Mobile Communications provides global mobile communications solutions to the maritime, land mobile and aeronautical communities, and offers data, voice, fax, telex and video capabilities via the Inmarsat satellite constellation. The company is headquartered in Bethesda, MD.