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To: BillyG who wrote (48191)	1/10/2000 1:08:00 PM
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AOL a customer of HLIT now? DiviCom Wins Digital Channel Expansion of Time Warner Cable System in New York TWC Turns to DiviCom For Second Integration, Deployment With Cable Operator's Existing System MILPITAS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 17, 1999--DiviCom Inc., a C-Cube (Nasdaq:CUBE - news) subsidiary and the world's leading provider of open solutions for digital television, today announced that it has again been selected by Time Warner Cable for a New York City area channel expansion after DiviCom successfully integrated and deployed its digital head-end technology with the cable operator's existing system earlier this year. ''The ease of installing and operating DiviCom's equipment and the quality of its systems were key factors in our decision to turn to the open solutions provider for further expansion,'' said Larry Pestana, Time Warner Cable's Vice President, Engineering Manhattan. ''We've found DiviCom's digital head-end technology an attractive solution that allows us to compete at the performance levels we need to achieve going forward.'' DiviCom will deliver digital encoders that interoperate with Time Warner Cable's existing set-top and conditional access system (CAS) technology. Earlier this year, Time Warner deployed DiviCom's digital head-end solution to deliver 44 digital channels to its subscribers in New York, home to the operator's largest cable system. The upcoming deployment will enable Time Warner Cable to again combine its existing analog cable programming with an expanded tier of digital service. Momentum Toward More Open Systems Builds ''Time Warner Cable's choice again shows the vital importance of open architecture in allowing a variety of suppliers to integrate equipment to deliver digital television services,'' said Tom Lookabaugh, President of DiviCom. ''It also comes on the heels of the deployment of our head-end solution for MediaOne in Jacksonville, the nation's first end-to-end open architecture system. That deployment is truly a watershed, showing that the U.S. cable market is more than ready for open architecture.'' ''Momentum toward more open systems is clearly building,'' Lookabaugh added. ''Since open architecture is the key to making set-top boxes available at retail stores and, in turn, bringing innovative features such as Internet interactivity and video-on-demand to the home, American consumers will benefit dramatically from this trend.'' In delivering superior picture quality and streamlining total hybrid fiber-coax (HFC) bandwidth usage, the compression, multiplexing, and network management components deployed by DiviCom in the first Time-Warner expansion mirror those to be used in the second. Those components include the following: