Press release: 2001-11-27: Pace Demonstrates New Revenue-Generating Technologies at Western Show 2001

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November 27 2001

Western Show

Pace Micro Technology

Exhibit # 3025, Hall C

Pace Demonstrates New Revenue-Generating Technologies

at Western Show 2001

Nov. 27, 2001, Anaheim, Calif. - Beginning today through Nov. 30, Pace Micro Technology Americas is exhibiting new revenue-generating technologies for cable operators at Western Show 2001, exhibit # 3025, Hall C, including:

Pace 500 Series

Pace’s 500 Series is an advanced digital home gateway that is currently being shipped to Time Warner Cable. The world’s smallest digital interactive cable box, the Pace 500 Series is the first box to receive an Energy Star label for energy efficiency. It also integrates the world’s first single-chip solution - the Broadcom BCM 7100, Scientific-Atlanta’s PowerKey® conditional access, and the PowerTV® operating system. The advanced box also supports Scientific-Atlanta’s Resident Application and Pioneer’s Passport. The Pace 500 series enables more than 150 channels of analog and digital television, as well as digital interactive television services such as video on demand.

Pace 700 Series

Pace’s 700 Series digital home gateway sports an integrated DOCSIS 1.1 cable modem and more than 300 MIPS processing power. The Pace 700 Series supports DigiCipher II®, Scientific-Atlanta’s PowerKey® and DVB conditional access, as well as TV Guide’s electronic program guide (EPG), Liberate, Open TV, and Microsoft middleware, and MPEG2. It also has an option for HDTV. The Pace 700 Series is the digital home gateway Pace is developing for Comcast Cable.

Pace’s Latest Home Networking Technologies – introducing the MTA

Pace’s home networking strategy utilizes the digital home gateway box as the portal for interactive communications in and around the home – enabling electronic devices to link with each other wirelessly or through existing wiring within the home, and communicate with the outside world via any digital two-way platform.

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Pace’s latest wireless home networking technologies -- the Gateway Expander, pcConnect, and now the Multimedia Terminal Adapter (MTA) -- are key components in shaping the networked home of

the future. These Pace technologies will enable the digital home gateway boxes to reach all corners of the home – the PC, games consoles, kitchen appliances, security systems, etc.

The MTA will be sold as a stand-alone device for operators who want to deliver voice and data but not video. It acts as a wireless and ‘no new wires’ home networking base station for distributing voice and data services around the home. Using Pace’s MTA, operators will be able to provide targeted telephony and high-speed data services.

Home Gateways for Video Over IP

With two of the largest video over IP deployments worldwide for Aliant Telecom, and Kingston Communications, as well as the industry’s largest IPTV order from Myrio, Pace is demonstrating its new DSL4000 digital home gateway box at the Western Cable Show. The DSL4000 enables multichannel video, VOD, iTV, Internet, e-mail, chat, Caller ID, gaming, and home networking services, and offers operators the best value solution for MPEG2 video over IP on the market today.

Pace’s Di6000 with Microsoft TV Advanced

Pace developed the Di6000 digital home gateway for TV Cabo, the leading cable operator in Portugal. The first Pace digital home gateway to run Microsoft TV Advanced, the Di6000 was designed to support full-featured web browsers and multimedia applications required for interactive digital and analog services. The home gateway can work with a wide range of conditional access systems, has a DOCSIS/EuroDOCSIS cable modem, and can be configured for markets around the world. The Di6000 enables network operators to offer numerous advanced interactive services, including pay-per-view, e-mail, home shopping, home banking and Internet access on the TV. In addition, the Di6000 is compatible with the Lexmark i3 color printer, which is used by TV Cabo, and will be demonstrated at the Western Show. When attached to the Di6000, the i3 allows users to print photos, email, and email attachments, as well as document t-commerce activities such as banking and online shopping.

PVR All-In-One Box

Pace will also demonstrate its ‘All-In-One’, fully-integrated Personal Video Recorder (PVR) home gateway box to support both interactive television services and PVR functionality. Using a dual tuner, this box supports multichannel video, VOD, iTV, gaming, and home networking services over any major platform including cable.

Pace will demonstrate the PVR box that it developed for British Sky Broadcasting’s Sky+ service. The Sky+ home gateway is an integrated digital satellite set-top box with two tuners and PVR

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functionality fully integrated with the electronic program guide. At the heart of the device is a 40 gigabyte capacity hard disk which can store an average of 20 hours worth of recordings. Features

include the ability to record one digital satellite program while watching another, as well as the ability

to pause live TV and record episodes of favorite series – all without the need for videotapes. Pace developed the Sky+ PVR in partnership with OpenTV and NDS.

Pace’s Home Gateways with integrated Games

Pace will also demonstrate digital home gateway boxes with integrated games, including games from Sega. The Sega games demonstration features 3D graphics, digital-quality sound and full-motion video on Pace’s home gateway with an integrated hard disk drives (HDD). The HDD enables consumers to play console quality games online, while at the same time using the latest PVR technology to ‘timeshift’ TV. The HDD – currently 40 gigabytes– acts as a games jukebox and is used for storing games, downloadable delivery, and pay-per-play or pay-for-time revenue generation opportunities.

About Pace Micro Technology

Pace Micro Technology plc is a pioneer of digital technology for the home and has helped build the global market for pay television services. Using this expertise, Pace is evolving the set-top box into a sophisticated home gateway to enable revenue-generating services for TV and the networked home. In this networked home, the Pace home gateway is the portal for entertainment and interactive communications around the home and with the outside world.

Pace analog and digital technology has been installed in over 13 million homes worldwide since it was founded in 1982. The company is now actively involved in all digital platforms – satellite, terrestrial, cable, wireless and xDSL – through relationships with broadcasters, network operators and technology partners in the UK, USA, Europe, Latin America, Australasia and the Far East. These achievements were made possible through the commitment of Pace’s 1,000 strong workforce, over half of whom are research and development engineers, dedicated to the development of digital technology for the home and small and home office markets.

Pace Americas office is based in Boca Raton, Fla., with its head office in West Yorkshire, England. Additional offices are throughout England, the US, France, and Hong Kong. The company’s shares are traded on the London Stock Exchange (PIC). For further information, please visit Pace’s web site at http://www.pacemicro.com.

For more information, please contact:

Tammy Snook

HighTech Public Relations

for Pace Micro Technology

407-667-9355

[email protected]