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Diversified Communications Inc.

Company Profile

Diversified Communications Inc. (DCI), located at 2000 M Street NW, Suite 340, Washington D.C., 20036, USA, provides a broad range of television production and television transmission services.

DCI, which is privately owned, was founded in 1987 for the purpose of providing teleport and transportable satellite services to North American and International TV networks for “live coverage” of news, sports and entertainment events.

Today, live television production, teleport and mobile services continue to be a large segment of DCI’s business. DCI has grown to become the premiere provider of remote production services in the Washington, DC marketplace. DCI provides credentialed television crews and live stand-up broadcast locations around the city for standard definition and high definition television productions.

New digital services such as extensive broadband fiber-optic connectivity, co-location services for long-haul carriers, ASI switching and routing, Internet (TCP/IP and UDP/IP), Webcasting and MPEG-2 services have become an important component of the company’s transmission business.

Although technology and services continue to change, DCI’s business philosophy remains unchanged, which is; to meet each client’s need with the very best in quality and reliability of service. We are big enough to provide a broad range of transmission services and small enough to provide a personal touch that most of our clients find reassuring.

DCI has become the preferred choice by broadcasters such as ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, FOX, PBS, BBC, EBU, and NHK. Corporate clients are BT, Level 3, MCI, Verestar, Globecast, SAIC, Eutelsat, Loral, PanAmSat, General Electric, T-Systems, Siemens and Reuters.

USA government clients include Congress, the White House, the State Department, DOD, GSA, VA and HUD.

Our Web site is www.dciteleport.com

DCI PRODUCTIONS

DCI Productions provides television crewing services for live and tape television events primarily for broadcasting customers. DCI’s crews are credentialed for White House and Capital Hill broadcast locations. DCI has the latest television production equipment for basic stand-ups to multi camera shoots.

DCI operates a fixed broadcast position from the White House North Lawn, Capitol Hill Russell Building, Lafayette Building Roof Top and ad-hoc locations for special events such as Freedom Plaza, 400 North Capitol and the Labor Department Roof Top.
DCI is in the process of expanding these live positions and venues throughout DC for our client bases. Reference customers for recurring production services include BBC, NHK Japan and Bloomberg Television News and Associated Press.

DCI TELEPORT

DCI’s teleport is a 24/7 staffed, state-of-the-art facility with 25 roof mounted antennas with full access to all US domestic and all (to 4 degrees west longitude) Atlantic Ocean Region (AOR) region satellites. DCI is licensed for transmission service to Intelsat, Newskies, PanAmSat, Eutelsat, Anik, Hispasat, SatMex and all USA domestic satellites.

Satellite uplink and downlink transmissions are provided in both analog and Standard (SD) and High (HD) digital (MPEG-2) formats. The digital equipment used in the teleport, as well as for SNG, services include Tandberg, Tiernan, Wegner and NDS encoders, decoder/IRD’s in 4:2:0 or 4:2:2 formats. Video record/playback and standard conversions are also provided. DCI owns seven high-quality converters including a Cyrus/Prime with full vector motion compensation.

DCI employs the use ASI routing between digital fiber-optic and satellite circuits to eliminate re-encoding degeneration in digital video circuits.

DCI fixed and transportable earth station profile as of February 1, 2007 (subject to change)

All facilities are capable of analog and MPEG-2 service. The DCI Teleport and Booking Center is staffed on a 24x7 basis. DCI also provides Web streaming and other Internet services.

Fixed Antennas:

• 3.8 meter Ku-band, Tx/Rx, four-port, on Telstar-12
• 3.8 meter Ku-band, Tx/Rx on Atlantic Bird 1
• 3.8 meter Ku-band, Tx/Rx on Atlantic Bird 2
• 3.8 meter Ku-band, Tx/Rx (open for domestic service)
• 3.6 meter C-band, Tx/Rx on AMC-3
• 2.4 meter Ku-band, Tx/Rx (open for domestic or AOR service)
• 2.4 meter Ku-band, Tx/Rx on PAS-3R
• 2.4 meter Ku-band, Tx/Rx on AMC-6
• 2.4 meter Ku-band, Rx on Galaxy-11
• (two) 3.2 meter C/Ku-band, Rx, (open)
• 3.2 meter C/Ku-band, Rx on SatMex-5
• 3.2 meter C/Ku-band, Rx on Anik F1
• 3.2 meter C-band on AMC-6
• 3.2 meter C-band Rx on Telstar-5
• 3.2 meter C-band Rx on Galaxy-11
• meter Ka-band Tx/Rx, on IA-8
• 5.0 meter C or Ku-band Rx, (open for AOR service)

Agile Antennas:

• (two) 5.0 meter Ku-band, Tx/Rx (covers AOR and Domestic arcs) meets Intelsat E2 spec.
• (two) 2.4 meter Ku-band Tx/Rx (covers AOR and Domestic arcs)
• (two) 5.0 meter C-band Tx/Rx (covers AOR and domestic arcs)
• 3.6 meter C-band Ro (covers Domestic arc)

Transportable Antennas:

All are Ku-band and capable of analog or SD/HD MPEG-2 service.

DCI has 3 uplink trucks based in Washington, DC. Two trucks are dual-path with production and Beta editing. The third truck has no production capability however it does have two microwave transmitters and tape play-out.

DCI has two existing flyaway systems, one of which was developed in house and can easily travel as airline baggage and can be powered from 90 to 260 VAC or 12 VDC. This new flyaway system is capable of transmission rates up to 30 Mbps and operates in the Ku and Ka bands. It was demonstrated at NAB and SATCOM 2006.

Fiber-optic connectivity:

• MCI International and UUNET Washington, D.C., PoP’s (via our own fiber)
• Level 3 Washington POP (via our own fiber)
• PEPCO (Wash. D.C. power company) metropolitan area fiber-optic system
• ABC Washington bureau
• CBS Washington Bureau
• BBC Washington Bureau
• NHK Washington Bureau
• EBU Washington Bureau (includes all EBU members)
• Bell Atlantic/Verison (AVOC) Switch: DCI maintains a 64x64 switch

DCI provides Co-location services and is the Washington POP for the following Video Services carriers. We supply analog and ASI switching that interfaces these carriers to our teleport and other locations:

• Intelsat (Formally PanAmSat /Sonic Telecom)
• Genesis Networks
• Level 3
• Looking Glass Networks
• NEXION
• Siemens/BBC Technologies
• T-Systems

DCI Wireless Local Loops:

DCI has completed its first phase deployment of it’s 45 Mbps microwave for local access circuit link Broadcasters to DCI’s video hub.

DCI’s COFDM prototype was selected by CBS and used for the 2005 live coverage of the Bush Inauguration parade route with much accolades.

DCI has 8 systems and maintains a central receive site at Clock Tower of the Old Post Office Building.

We are licensed and have equipment for the following bands: 2, 6, 7, 13, 23 and 40 GHz.

THE DCI DIFFERENCE

DCI’s unique differentiator is it’s experienced staff of broadcasters serving broadcasters’ requirements for live television coverage of Washington, DC. DCI has both the talented personal in place and the important broadcast production and transmission infrastructure that has earned the trust and respect of the world’s most prestigious broadcasters.