Arroyo Appoints Rick DeGabrielle as President and Chief Executive Officer; New CEO Expected to Build on Arroyo's Current Success; Arroyo OnDemand Deployed/Trialed with Six Top Operators in North America

PLEASANTON, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 3, 2005--Arroyo Video Solutions, Inc., creator of an innovative software infrastructure that empowers operators and service providers to deliver the world of personalized entertainment, today announced the appointment of broadband industry leader Rick DeGabrielle to the position of president and chief executive officer.

DeGabrielle, a 20 year networking veteran with a track record at several highly successful telecommunication companies, joins Arroyo as the company leverages its unique capabilities to introduce new applications in addition to video on demand (VOD), expand its reach, and enter new markets.

“I am thrilled to join a company whose strategy is so clearly resonating with the operators. We are now deployed or in trials with six top operators, including multiple deployments in divisions at Comcast and Time Warner Cable”

"I am thrilled to join a company whose strategy is so clearly resonating with the operators. We are now deployed or in trials with six top operators, including multiple deployments in divisions at Comcast and Time Warner Cable," said DeGabrielle. "Traditional television viewing is rapidly evolving to personalized entertainment, and Arroyo OnDemand is the platform which best enables that exciting evolution."

"Rick is a great addition to Arroyo," said Adam Grosser, general partner at Foundation Capital. "In the last fifteen years, he has held senior management positions with three successful technology companies, helping them move from start-up phase to become major players in their markets. Rick's customer-oriented, outbound focus is the perfect complement to Arroyo's incredibly strong technical team."

Gus Warren, executive director at Time Warner Investments commented, "We're pleased to see Rick join Arroyo. Arroyo is seeing customer momentum as operators appreciate the unique advantages of the company's software-based, network-centric approach to video. Rick's extensive experience in voice/data/video networking, and his background of managing in high-growth environments, will serve the company well."

DeGabrielle's experience spans several successful networking companies including Network Equipment Technologies (NET), Cascade Communications, and Catena Networks. Prior to Arroyo, he was vice president of sales and business development at Catena Networks (acquired by Ciena Corp.), an equipment manufacturer specializing in broadband access solutions for some of the world's largest operators. At Catena, DeGabrielle was instrumental in growing the company from pre-revenue to $100 million annually, prior to the successful acquisition by Ciena for $500 million.

Arroyo OnDemand, Arroyo's first product, is based on the company's unique Entertainment Networking Architecture, which applies sophisticated Internet-proven software networking technology to the problem of building next generation personalized entertainment infrastructures. Arroyo's Entertainment Networking Architecture provides the intelligence which enables multiple independent, open standards-based hardware elements to operate as one, delivering critical benefits over competing hardware-based video delivery solutions. These benefits include unmatched flexibility; effortless scalability of streams, content and ingest; and Arroyo's "Always ON" capability that deliver 24x7 reliability and total system availability. Arroyo OnDemand's breakthrough performance includes the industry's first 10 Gigabit Ethernet support, unparalleled streaming density of over 1,600 streams per rack unit, and the ability to simultaneously ingest 160 channels per industry-standard server. Using Arroyo OnDemand, operators can deliver more revenue-generating services faster, enhance customer satisfaction, and achieve the lowest total cost of ownership in the industry.

About Arroyo Video Solutions

Arroyo Video Solutions is the creator of an innovative software infrastructure that empowers operators to realize the promise of personalized entertainment services. This software enables a network of 100 percent industry-standard servers to work together to deliver a multitude of revenue-generating personalized applications, including video/music on demand, advertising, network PVR, and games.

Truly the direction for the future, Arroyo's software infrastructure shifts the focus from individual servers to the network. It delivers the networking intelligence required to build large, scalable, highly-reliable, open personalized entertainment networks and removes the limitations inherent in proprietary hardware in the areas of flexibility, future-proofing, and total ownership cost.

Arroyo's customers consist of operators and service providers around the world, including the two largest U.S. cable operators, Comcast and Time Warner Cable. For more information, please visit http://www.arroyo.tv.