Hibernia Media Launches Commercial Operations

San Jose, California – April 7, 2008. Hibernia Media, a new venture that provides carrier-neutral, high quality transport and managed network services for the production and broadcast industries, today announced the launch of commercial operations. Contribution quality video signals from event venues in 17 major markets can now be transported to regional and national broadcasters for redistribution to consumer audiences.

Led by Del Bothof as President, the management team is a highly experienced group of industry veterans recognized in the production and broadcast media marketplace. Using state-of-the-art optical switching and Dynamic Transport Mode (DTM) technologies, Hibernia Media’s service platform is ideal for customers who generate and manage media content. “The network is specifically designed and built to deliver customer solutions for media,” said Wayne Price, CTO Hibernia Media. Customers can specify optimized solutions for contribution quality collection of content and forward distribution of content between businesses engaged in production and broadcast. “Customer service is our number one objective in Operations and that’s the reflected in the way we built and operate the Television Operating Center,” according to Wes Hanemayer, Vice President Operations Hibernia Media.

A true high definition viewing experience starts with delivering a dedicated contribution quality signal to producers and broadcasters. “Multi-service public and commodity IP platforms are not optimized to drive the high definition viewing experience demanded by the marketplace,” said Del Bothof, President Hibernia Media. “We are building a portfolio of contribution quality business-to-business services so producers and broadcasters can deliver the images that cameras actually see.”
Cliff Friedman, Chairman of the Board Hibernia Media, added “We are focused on capturing a strategic inflection point in the market between media, communications and technology. Bringing together digital media technologies with a company like Hibernia Media creates an industry platform for content creators to innovate programming services economically.”

Additionally, Hibernia Media was formed in partnership with AboveNet Communications, Inc and Hibernia Atlantic US LLC; media savvy companies capable of investing the resources and assets necessary to build an international network footprint suitable for the needs of the production and broadcast industries.