Concurrent's Laguna(TM) Edge Cache Wins NewBay's Best of Show Award

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Laguna(TM) Cache developed by Concurrent Technology Inc., a Vecima
Company (TSX: VCM), is the recipient of NewBay's Best of Show Award,
presented at the 2018 NAB Show by Video Edge. NewBay's Best of Show
Awards are evaluated by a panel of engineers and industry experts and
are selected based on criteria for innovation, feature set, cost
efficiency and performance in serving the industry. With more than
1,700+ exhibitors, Laguna(TM) Cache beat out the competition because
of its ability to help to reduce the cost of OTT service delivery and
improve the end consumer experience.

As Concurrent looks to reduce bandwidth cost for OTT providers,
its latest innovations in Laguna(TM) Cache, a comprehensive
multi-tiered caching solution for video providers, is helping solve
the answer for over-the-top (OTT) operators looking to deliver
content to an increasing universe of customers without drowning in
bandwidth charges. Laguna(TM) Cache offers content providers the
world's highest density caching solution, which reduces latency and
network utilization to maximize the delivery of OTT and TV Everywhere
(TVE) video services to their customers. "As you grow your OTT
services with more video traffic to larger audiences, your success
comes with an increasing CDN cost that many OTT service providers and
content providers need to manage. Deploying edge cache solutions can
dramatically reduce this cost of CDN distribution" says Clay
McCreery, Chief Revenue Officer at Concurrent.

Caching is a critical component of any robust content delivery
solution. Concurrent's Laguna(TM) Cache is a software-based, high
density streaming server with integrated intelligent caching
features. With support for a wide variety of content formats and
streaming protocols, it supports delivery to mobile devices, smart
TVs, as well as classic set-top boxes simultaneously. In Concurrent's
highly innovative 1 rack unit (RU) configuration, which leverages the
latest generation processors and high reliability 3D V-NAND flash
memory, the Laguna(TM) Cache can ingress up to 50 Gbps, egress 100
Gbps, and cache 50 TB of content. The new 2RU configuration boasts
ingress capacity up to 200 Gbps while egress increases to 400 Gbps,
and cache triples to 150 TB. In either configuration, this level of
capacity per rack unit is unparalleled. For Content Providers
requiring massive scale, a single 2RU cache can now deliver tens of
thousands of video streams to client devices in a fault tolerant,
redundant configuration.

Key features of Laguna(TM) Cache include:

- Unified Cache & Streaming: Provides intelligent caching for Live
Streaming, Time-shift TV, cloud DVR, and Video On Demand services
- Hardware-Assisted HTTPS: Enables high performance data protection
by supporting content encryption requirements without losing
streaming density
- Support for Multiple Caching Scenarios: Laguna(TM) Cache can be
deployed at the Edge for maximized quality of experience and
minimized latency, in Intermediate locations to save network cost,
and at the Origin to reduce the storage I/O and Origin egress
requirements
- Optimized ABR Handling: Laguna(TM) Cache handles both caching and
streaming of Live and VOD IP ABR formats including HLS, HSS, and
DASH to deliver content to clients at higher speeds and with lower
latency
- Request Router Technology: Efficiently directs stream requests to
the optimal caching server to maximize the viewer experience.
Supports redundancy, session management, tokenization, load
balancing and ABR profile groups for best in class operational
performance
- Flexible Deployment: Laguna(TM) Cache runs on qualified COTS
hardware, and can be licensed as a bundled hardware appliance,
virtual machine, or container-based software package

"The NewBay Best of Show Awards at NAB are now in their fifth
year," said Paul McLane, NewBay Managing Director of Content. "The
program seeks to shine a spotlight on relevant innovations in
technology as seen around the million-square-foot exhibit floor of
the industry's top trade show. The list of 2018 winners gives real
insight into where and how rapidly our media tech businesses are
evolving."

About Concurrent

Concurrent Technology Inc., a Vecima Company (TSX: VCM), is a
global company that develops software solutions focused on storing,
protecting, transforming, and delivering visual media assets. We
enable the world's leading innovators in visual media to entertain,
inform, and communicate, by providing the tools to help them unlock
their creativity and share it with the world. We accomplish this by
developing open software solutions that make the world's visual media
available online, when and where it is needed around the world.
Concurrent has offices located in North America, Europe and Asia.
Visit http://www.concurrent.com for further information and follow us
on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/Concurrent_CCUR and LinkedIn at
http://www.linkedin.com/company/ccur.

Concurrent's logo and Concurrent product names are trademarks or
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product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their
respective owners.

About Vecima Networks

Vecima Networks Inc. (TSX:VCM) is a globally recognized leader in
creating breakthrough technology solutions that empower network
service providers to connect people and enterprises to information
and entertainment worldwide. For more information, visit
http://www.vecima.com.

Media Relations: Concurrent Technology Inc., Michelle Valdez, Tel:
404-409-5664, Email: michelle.valdez@concurrent.com

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