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International provider of digital broadcasting technologies, SIDSA, has reached an agreement with satellite service provider, SpeedCast, to protect its digital content in Asia and the Middle East.

Ref. CN0913 – Madrid (Spain) May 13th 2009 - SIDSA, the international provider of digital technology, is strengthening its position in the Asia-Pacific Region following an agreement with Hong Kong-based company, SpeedCast, to encrypt and protect its content distribution in Asia.

SpeedCast’s satellite platform, in operation since March and with over 35 clients in Asia and the Middle East, will initially use SIDSA’s technology to protect its content, which is delivered to a large number of wireless operators. In a second phase, the company plans to extend the platform to other type of users, such as shipping companies.

Pierre-Jean Beylier, CEO of SpeedCast, explains: “It’s a key factor for us to have full control of all the content that we up-link to the satellite. SIDSA approached us with a highly reliable and user-friendly option. The flexibility of the company to customise the platform, as well as an attractive price, made this an easy solution.”

Fernando Odriozola, vice president of business operations in Asia-Pacific for SIDSA, adds: “We are satisfied this project that will be to the benefit of the content delivered to many operators in Asia-Pacific and the Middle East area. We are already a well-known technology provider in Europe, the Middle East, Russia, North Africa and Latin America and have recently opened our office in Hong Kong. This project is an important milestone for us in our Asia-Pacific expansion.”

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Notes to editors

About SpeedCast:
Founded in September 1999, SpeedCast Ltd is a leading satellite telecommunications service provider that offers high-quality managed network services in over 35 countries in Asia, the Middle East and Africa. With 10 international points of presence and 7 teleport operations, it boasts a unique infrastructure to serve corporate and carriers’ requirements. Operating over 10 VSAT platforms SpeedCast has developed strong operations expertise and an efficient support organisation, which are at the root of SpeedCast’s success.

Leveraging the latest satellite technologies, SpeedCast has taken leadership positions in Asia in the provision of reliable and efficient network services to key industries like cellular networks, maritime, banking, oil and gas.

SpeedCast Ltd is also a pioneer in the delivery of digital media content and turnkey video platforms to service providers and media broadcasters, including 3G and DVB-H based mobile TV platforms.

Operating on many different satellites in both C-band and Ku-band, and partnering with Tier 1 carriers for its fibre requirements, SpeedCast Ltd and its 150 partners, worldwide, provide first-class services and 24/7 technical support. For further information please visit www.speedcast.com

About SIDSA:
SIDSA is an audiovisual technology provider with active work in semiconductor design, conditional access, digital headends and overall project management. The SIDSA headquarters are in Madrid (Spain) and the company has offices in Zaragoza, Dubai, Hong Kong, Moscow and San Francisco. In 2006 SIDSA obtained investment from the Spanish private equity and venture capital groups, Inova Capital and Baring Group, which stimulated its international expansion and growth. SIDSA’s digital TV headend portfolio includes contribution and distribution network solutions; broadcast-to-IPTV; etherTV gateways; and terrestrial and mobile digital TV platforms, including POLARplus, the most compact but fully featured headend product line in the market. SIDSA complements its headend line with KeyFly 2.0, a smartcard-less conditional access system, specifically designed to offer the maximum level of security and flexibility in horizontal pay-TV markets, such as DTT.

Within the semiconductors portfolio, SIDSA includes Enter e1, a cutting edge DVB-H demodulator and application processor chipset, available as reference designs (hardware and software) and targeted at mobile devices, consumer electronics, professional reception and micro gap-fillers markets. SIDSA is also developing DVB-SH and DVB-T2 demodulators.

SIDSA’s key differentiation is the valuable know-how and understanding of complete end-to-end Digital TV Systems. For further information please visit www.sidsa.com.

Forward-looking statement:
This press release may contain certain forward-looking statements with respect results of operations and business of SIDSA and certain plans and objectives of SIDSA with respect to these items. By their nature, forward-looking statements involve risk and uncertainty because they relate to events and depend on circumstances that will occur in the future and not always under SIDSA’s control.

Contact details for publication:
SIDSA, PTM - Torres Quevedo 1, 28760 Tres Cantos, Madrid, Spain
Tel: +34 91 803 50 52 Fax: +34 91 803 95 57
E-mail: pr@sidsa.es


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