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SeaChange Milestones

Corporate Timeline

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1993:  
 
Company is founded in Massachusetts as SeaChange Technology

1994:


 
First shipment of SeaChange Spot cable advertising insertion system
 
Video Server development facilities in Greenville, NH established

1995:
 
 
Advertising insertion systems deployed to automate thousands of television channels across massive cable television interconnects

1996:
 
 
IPO Nasdaq: SEAC
 
SeaChange’s MediaCluster® video server technology introduced
 
Business Week names SeaChange “Hot Growth Company” – SeaChange ranked 3rd overall in sales and earnings growth in the “Hot 100”

1997:
 
 

First SeaChange Near Video-on-Demand (NVOD) Movie Systems are deployed


1998:
 
 
First SeaChange broadcast server systems ship
 
SeaChange ranks in Deloitte & Touche Fast 500 and Fast 50

1999:
   
 
MediaCluster awarded U.S. patent
 
SeaChange acquires Digital Video Arts in Fort Washington, PA, specialists in custom settop software development and consulting services
 
SeaChange supports Fox NDTC’s High-Definition broadcast of the feature film “Independence Day”

2000:
 
 
First Video-on-Demand systems are deployed

2001:
 
 
SeaChange wins first Emmy® Award for MediaCluster technology

2002:
 
 
SeaChange completes successful secondary offering, raising $100 million
 
Video On Demand becomes DVD-on-Demand™ as SeaChange® VODlink® software is unveiled
 
SeaChange® Broadcast MediaLibrary™ solution debuts massive centralized online storage

2003:
 
 
SeaChange celebrates 10 years in digital video delivery
 
SeaChange earns Broadcast Engineering and Digital Television editor and reader’s choice awards

2004:
 
 
SeaChange software and servers power more than 65% of the VOD market worldwide, with delivery of over 1.3 million streams
 
First VOD deployments with Telco customers
 
SeaChange wins first-ever VOD Emmy® Award
 
SeaChange marks over 15,000 video servers deployed to date
 
SeaChange acquires ZQ Interactive, a China-based engineering organization
 
Overall, SeaChange supports more than 600 television companies worldwide, nearly $4 billion in cable advertising revenue per year

2005:
   
  UK’s largest cable operators NTL and Telewest Broadband launch on-demand television with SeaChange systems
 
SeaChange IP VOD goes live at two of the world’s largest telcos: Verizon in US and NTT in Japan
 
SeaChange acquires Liberate Technologies in San Mateo, CA, developer of on demand middleware applications platform
 
SeaChange acquires On Demand Group in London, England, specialists in content distribution and media services, serving the EU
 
CCTV puts China’s first High Definition broadcast on-air using SeaChange systems

2006:
 
 
World’s first dynamic VOD advertising
system launched
 
SeaChange unveils scalable NAS solution for
growing markets including service storage
providers and Web-based media services

2007:
 
 
SeaChange and Tele München Gruppe form
On Demand Deutschland joint venture to
serve German-speaking VOD market
 
First ever flash memory server launched
at The Cable Show
 
SeaChange Axiom openness extends to Cisco®, Concurrent and Motorola servers
 
SeaChange serves Korea’s first HD cable channels

2008:
 
 
CABLEVISION Mexico deploys SeaChange
Flash Memory Servers for VOD
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