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To: BillyG who wrote (37321)	11/18/1998 10:51:00 AM
From: Don Dorsey	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

Lucent Digital Video Enters Into Development Agreement With Unique Broadband Systems for New Digital Video Applications MARKHAM, ONTARIO & MURRAY HILL, N.J. (Nov. 18) BUSINESS WIRE -Nov. 18, 1998--Lucent Digital Video, a wholly-owned venture of Lucent Technologies, has entered into a development agreement with Unique Broadband Systems, Inc. for new digital video applications, including new products and end-to-end digital video solutions. The two companies will work specifically on solutions for digital video in the areas of terrestrial and satellite distribution. Unique's Ontario facility will conduct much of the research and development on the joint projects. Lucent Digital Video will fund Unique's engineering costs. In addition, Andreas Papanicolaou, president of Lucent Digital Video, has agreed to join Unique's Board of Directors. Work has commenced on the initial project. Under terms of the agreement, Unique will provide transmission equipment and digital video boards as well as systems integration and custom system design to Lucent Digital Video. Lucent Digital Video will be the supplier to the customer, "Unique Broadband Systems offers us another competitive resource for product development in new digital video areas," said Andreas Papanicolaou, president of Lucent Digital Video. "The global market for digital video is expanding rapidly, and this requires faster product development in new applications. Together, with Unique, we will deliver new customer solutions faster." Unique will bring its expertise in microwave frequency and digital video board design to its development work with Lucent Digital Video. "There are new challenges for digital video systems that require strong expertise in both design and systems integration, and we look forward to delivering new applications for this industry with Lucent, who will market our solutions on a global basis," said Alex Dolgonos, CEO of Unique Broadband Systems. "We believe that we are well-matched companies for this endeavor." Unique Broadband Systems, Inc. is a recognized world leader in the design, development and manufacture of broadband wireless and other wireless solutions that serve the service provider, telecommunications and broadcast industries. With headquarters in Markham, Ontario, Unique Broadband Systems markets its products globally, providing 24X7 support. Unique Broadband Systems is a trademark of Unique Broadband Systems, Inc. For additional information, visit the company's Web site at www.uniquesys.com. Lucent won a Primetime Engineering Emmy Award in 1997 for its pioneering work in DTV as a member of the HDTV Grand Alliance. The company, which contributed to the original MPEG-2 specification, also built the world's first MPEG-2 and digital HDTV encoders. Lucent Digital Video is one of several new entrepreneurial business ventures formed by Lucent to help bring Bell Labs technologies to market. Leveraging decades of Bell Labs research and development, the group was formed to manufacture and market digital video products, including encoders.