Tilgin selected to join industry leaders as part of the international Open IPTV Forum

Tilgin selected to join industry leaders as part of the international Open IPTV
Forum

STOCKHOLM, 7 DECEMBER 2007: Tilgin, a leading provider of customer premises
equipment (CPE) for triple play, next-generation broadband and IMS-based
services, is pleased to have been selected as a new member of the Open IPTV
Forum, as announced yesterday by Forum Steering Group Chairman Mr. Yun Chao Hu.

Tilgin joins other new members, including Alcatel-Lucent, Amino Communications,
Deutsche Telekom, Huawei, LG Electronics, Sun Microsystems, Telefonica,
TeliaSonera, Verimatrix Inc. and ZTE Corporation, to drive pan-industry
end-to-end specifications for IPTV solutions. Tilgin will be contributing
particular expertise in customer premises equipment (CPE) solutions for
delivering an expanded IPTV experience. Key contributions will be related to
operator managed Home Gateways and IP Set-top Boxes, Remote Management Systems
(RMS) and IMS system design for customer premise equipment (CPE).

“We are a full supporter of the Forum's agenda to drive next-generation IPTV
services beyond those currently being deployed”, comments Ola Berglund, Tilgin
CEO. “Today's highly competitive market has created a situation where operators
are rushing into the triple play arena with an increasing number of “me too”
services. Our business is to provide CPE technology solutions that can help
operators differentiate themselves and create long-term sustainable revenue
streams from the opportunities offered by convergence.”

Tilgin's comprehensive expertise in engineering service node environments in the
home enables operators to deploy a broader portfolio of new services, giving
them a distinct market position and also enabling them better to understand and
target their audiences.

“With so many key players in the industry now on board, we believe that the
Forum is an important initiative for driving the evolution of new services and
applications to the TV”, Ola Berglund continues. “There is a real potential to
leverage standards-based convergence capabilities and integrate services that
can work with other networks and devices. The TV is on its way to becoming just
as important for broadband as the PC is today. ”

Tilgin is leading developments that integrate IMS and DLNA interworking for
converged next-generation services to the home. These services include
integrations with consumer devices like mobile phones, media servers, network
attached storage (NAS), cameras, and home audio systems. Standards like IMS and
DLNA play a key factor in driving IPTV to the next stage of its development
beyond today's largely proprietary solutions.

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“This press release has been reported to the Swedish Financial Supervisory
Authority subject to FFFS 2007:11”.

For further information: 
Katrin Buhre, IR & Communications Director 
tel: +46 8-572 386 86
e-mail: katrin.buhre@tilgin.com

About Tilgin 
Tilgin designs and delivers premier IP customer premises equipment (CPE) for
advanced Triple Play and IMS-based services. Supporting the full convergence of
voice, video and data, Tilgin takes a network systems approach to CPE that
enables service providers to offer a broad range portfolio of innovative and
competitive broadband services. Tilgin's comprehensive product portfolio of IP
residential gateways, set-top boxes and related management applications, offers
service providers unprecedented return on investment - delivering new service
revenues and impressive cost savings over the lifetime of the product. Tilgin
was founded in 1997 under the name i3 micro technology and listed on the
Stockholm Stock Exchange on the Nordic List as of December 2006. It is
headquartered in Kista, Sweden, with European sales representation in France and
Germany. www.tilgin.com 


About the Open IPTV Forum
The Open IPTV Forum is a pan-industry initiative with the purpose of producing
end to end specifications for IPTV in order to take the next generation of IPTV
into a mass market service. The forum, which is fully open to participation
across the communications and entertainment industries, will focus on
development of open standards that could help to streamline and accelerate
deployments of IPTV technologies, and help to maximize the benefits of IPTV for
consumers, network operators, content providers, service providers, consumer
electronics manufacturers and home and network infrastructure providers. The
Open IPTV Forum founding members are Ericsson, France Telecom, Nokia Siemens,
Panasonic, Philips, Samsung, Sony, and Telecom Italia. www.openiptvforum.org