Streaming21 Announces New Appointment of Yoshimasa Miyake as Japan General Manager

Released on = May 24, 2006, 8:16 pm

Press Release Author = Streaming21 Inc.

Industry = Software

Press Release Summary = Former European DoCoMo i-mode Executive to Lead Rapid
Expansion of Japanese IPTV/VOD Market

Press Release Body = Tokyo, Japan - May 24, 2006 - Streaming21, Inc., a leader in
broadcast-quality media streaming solutions, today announced the new appointment of
Yoshimasa Miyake as General Manager, Japan. In his new role, Miyake will be in
charge of Streaming21\'s sales, support and project management team in Japan. His
primary focus is to further strengthen Streaming21\'s leadership position in IPTV/VOD
market, and explore new business opportunities for emerging fixed mobile convergence
in Japan.

Miyake is a proven executive with substantial expertise in high-tech environments in
Europe and Asia Pacific. He has over 17 years of solid business development, sales
and technical experiences in the mobile and broadband industries.

\"Japan represents a key growth region for Streaming21. Miyake\'s strong leadership
and vast experience in the Japanese broadband & mobile industries will be invaluable
assets for Streaming21 to establish trusted, long-term strategic relationships with
local telcos and broadband service providers. We are excited to have Miyake-san join
our management team, and we are confident in his ability to duplicate his prior
success at Streaming21,\" said Dr. Joe Lin, President and CEO of Streaming21.

Prior to joining Streaming21, Miyake was the Vice President and Managing Director of
DoCoMo i-mode Europe B.V., where he led a team of highly intelligent professionals
to provide European mobile operators with consultancy services of NTT DoCoMo\'s
\"i-mode\", which is the world\'s most popular mobile internet service. During his
tenure at DoCoMo i-mode Europe, he also successfully launched the DoCoMo Handset
Test Center and soon became the head of the operations division.

Prior to joining NTT DoCoMo, Miyake served as Director of Datacenter Business in
Japan at Level 3 (NASDAQ: LVLT), an international communications and information
services company, which owns one of the largest communications and Internet
backbones in the world. Before that, he spent 11 years with Mitsubishi Corporation,
where he accomplished numerous IT and telecommunication projects in Asia, including
Japan, Hong Kong and China. He also led successful IC card implementation project
for Beijing Municipal Government, together with the partner, NTT Data Communication.

Mr. Miyake received his BE and ME degrees from Toyohashi University of Technology,
Japan.

About Streaming21

Streaming21\'s broadcast and media-on-demand software solutions deliver
broadcast-quality video and audio over IP networks. Streaming21 is recognized as the
\"winner of 2005 Red Herring Asia Top 100 companies\" recently. Built upon a
revolutionary architecture, for which nine patents have been filed. Streaming21\'s
solution enables the deployment of rich-media services with carrier-class
scalability, 24/7 operations, and broadcast-quality delivery. The solution uses open
standard hardware to lower the total cost of the solution and its software is
optimized to support more users and media files with fewer servers as well as less
storage, and personnel. The platform is open and flexible to readily integrate
value-added services.

Web Site = http://www.streaming21.com

Contact Details = To learn more about Streaming21\'s solutions and industry leading
partners, please call +886-2-2500-0680 or visit www.streaming21.com.

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