KatDC and Streaming21 sign partnership agreement   KatDC, a leading provider of embedded application solution for digital infotainment devices, and Streaming21, the world's leader in broadcast-quality streaming solutions, have announced today that they have signed a partnership agreement. George Huang, Strategy and Marketing Manager of KatDC said, "By partnering with Streaming21, we can quickly expand the IPTV business with a differentiated and profitable service offering. We expect the partnership will boost our competitiveness in the IPTV market in Asia Pacific." "KatDC provides a flexible and powerful application platform for embedded devices such IP STB," said Mike Chiang, Vice President of Business Development at Streaming21. "The partnership with KatDC allows Streaming21 to create new applications, such as Karaoke-on-demand, that work seamlessly with our carrier-grade streaming servers. This collaboration will lead to better and richer interactive experience for our IPTV customers." In addition, KatDC and Streaming21 plan to build a demo site inside KatDC with interactive digital home features and services integrated. KatDC and Streaming21’s new cooperation will serve as a stepping stone for the proliferation of IPTV services in Taiwan and create new market opportunities in neighboring APAC countries. About Streaming21 Streaming21 is the world leader in providing interactive IPTV solutions over Fixed-Mobile-Convergence (FMC) and open networks. The solutions successfully enable fixed, mobile, or xSP operators to generate revenues from services delivered across heterogeneous networks. Streaming21’s groundbreaking technologies enable digital video entertainment anytime, anywhere and on any device. Built upon a revolutionary and patented architecture, Streaming21’s solutions enable the deployment of rich-media services with carrier-class scalability, 24/7 operations, and broadcast-quality delivery. The solutions use standard hardware to lower the total cost of ownership and can deliver content to more users concurrently with patented technologies. The platform is open and flexible to readily integrate value-added services. To learn more about Streaming21's solutions and industry leading partners, please call +886-2-2500-0680 or visit www.streaming21.com. About KatDC KatDC is a leading provider of embedded application solution for digital infotainment devices. Our solution, MediaWalker®, supporting industrial open standards specs and enabling the seamless integration for the latest broadband services, is designed to provide an interactive application developing environment for portable and digital home devices. The scalability and the customizability of MediaWalker® are the ideal solution for digital home devices that accelerates the product development process and time-to-market for our customers. KatDC supplies the right applications for home entertainment and interactive premium services, bringing television, music, videos, photos and more in a way you want it to be.