Church Utilizes Streambox Solutions to Stream Live Video of Pastor's Message to Geographically Disbursed Campuses

SEATTLE — June. 17, 2008 — Streambox video transport solutions are enabling Fellowship Church, one of the largest churches in the U.S., to deliver live video of Pastor Ed Young's message to satellite campuses. The Streambox systems provide a highly reliable and cost-effective solution for encoding, transmitting, and playing out full-motion, full-frame interlaced video and audio of Fellowship Church's services over IP-based networks.

Fellowship Church has deployed a combination of Streambox SBT3-5100 and SBT3-7100 systems along with a Streambox Broadcast Server at its main campus in Grapevine, Texas. At each of its Texas satellite campuses in Dallas, Fort Worth, and Plano as well as at its Miami, Florida campus, the church has deployed the full duplex Streambox SBT3-7400 systems which will eventually enable the church to do bidirectional streaming. Currently, Fellowship Church is doing live point-to-multipoint streaming from Grapevine to each of its four satellite churches. The video transport systems encode and transmit the live video to Fellowship Church's Texas campuses via a dedicated metro Ethernet network at 4 Mbps, and to the Miami satellite via a bonded T1 Internet connection. Streambox's built-in forward error correction helps mitigate packet loss and other network irregularities, which are especially common over the public Internet connection to the Miami campus.

Prior to deploying Streambox, Fellowship Church sent HD tapes of the pastor's message to each location for delayed playback, which reduced the overall immediacy and timeliness of the message in relation to the service at the satellite locations. Today, however, the live video provides churchgoers with virtually the same worship experience as those at the main campus. An onsite worship team at each campus leads the worship service prior to the message. Towards the end of the music set, a VNC network clock visible to the worship leader on the stage of each site reaches :00 seconds. At that exact moment, each campus switches to the live feed of Pastor Young's message from Grapevine. The high quality standard definition video is displayed on 13' by 24' center screens and 7' by 14' side screens at the Dallas, Fort Worth, and Miami locations, and on a 16' by 27' center screen and 11' by 20' side screens in Plano.

"The Streambox solution has provided a much more cost-effective means of bringing our entire congregation together compared to other solutions we considered," said Troy Page, who oversees the Technology staff at Fellowship Church. "It has created a stronger sense of community and built excitement within our church in the sense that we are one dynamic church with five locations."

"Fellowship Church is an excellent example of the value that high performance, low-bandwidth video solutions can bring to large houses of worship with multiple locations and geographically dispersed congregations," said Bob Hildeman, chairman and CEO at Streambox. "We're pleased that Streambox plays an integral role in helping Fellowship Church reach out to its church at large and creating a sense of immediacy for its satellite congregations."

More information about Streambox solutions is available online at www.streambox.com.

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About Fellowship Church
Fellowship Church (FellowshipChurch.com) is led by founding and senior pastor, Ed Young. Beginning in 1990 with 150 people, the church has become one of the most attended churches in America today and was recently ranked as the 3rd Most Influential Church in America by The Church Report (2007).

Fellowship has its main campus just north of the DFW Airport and operates three satellite campuses in Plano, downtown Dallas, Fort Worth and one in Miami, Florida.

Fellowship offers a wide range of activities and ministries for all stages of life.

About Streambox, Inc.
Streambox provides a single software-based platform for live and file-based video transport and acquisition over IP. The platform comprises clients - from small form factor mobile devices and laptops - to rule-based video management and play-out systems. The company's scalable end-to-end solutions can be integrated into all IP centric broadcast and broadband operations.

Streambox solutions are based on the industry-leading ACT-L3T codec which provides unrivaled performance, reliability, and quality over low data rate IP networks for fast transmission and play-out of video streams in HD and SD. The company's platform enables broadcasters, government agencies, enterprises, and other users to enhance content ownership, simplify operations, and increase operational efficiencies.

More information is available at www.streambox.com.

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