Zixi Names Vivek Pathela as Executive Vice President, Products, Marketing and Operations

Former NETGEAR VP/GM joins as well-funded startup ramps go-to-market execution

“Today’s consumers have seemingly limitless programming options and HDHomeRun® PRIME™ allows families to watch what they want, on computers from anywhere within the home network,” said Theodore Head, President and Chief Executive Officer of SiliconDust USA, Inc. “MaxLinear’s MxL241SF has been an integral player in our ability to deliver this innovative solution in a form factor and at the price that is appealing to our customers.”MaxLinear’s MxL241SF is an “MPEG tuner” that combines a TV tuner and demodulator, providing a complete and cost-effective TV tuner solution for SiliconDust’s multi-tuner HDHomeRun PRIME, which enables viewers to watch and record digital and HD television from computers within their wired or wireless home network.Founded in 2006, Zixi is the leading enabler of flawless, broadcast-quality HDTV over the cloud. Broadcasters, enterprises and video-on-demand services use Zixi to enrich user experience, create new services and significantly reduce costs. Zixi enables the delivery of live and on-demand HD video content over the Internet in real-time, with unprecedented quality. It is available as a plug-in for broadcasters, PCs, mobile devices and set-top boxes. Zixi software uses existing equipment and content formats with no jitter, no packet loss and no frame freeze, regardless of network conditions. Zixi supports any video encoding and encryption over MPEG transport streams at any bit-rate and broadcasts in up to full HDTV (1080p/60fps). Zixi Feed™, Zixi Cast™, Zixi Client™ and Zixi Ready™ are trademarks of Zixi. For more information visit: www.Zixi.com."We are very pleased to have Vivek join Zixi’s management team," said Israel Drori, Zixi’s founder and CEO. “Zixi’s patented software has been in development for five years since we started the Company, and the time is right for active market penetration. We are hiring a world-class team in vital locations around the world. Vivek’s vast achievements at NETGEAR and HP will play a vital role in pursuit of our mission to enable HDTV everywhere.”MaxLinear, Inc. is a leading provider of radio-frequency and mixed-signal semiconductor solutions for broadband communication applications. MaxLinear is located in Carlsbad, California, and its address on the Internet is www.maxlinear.com."I am excited to join Zixi," said Vivek. "There is a disruption taking place in the industry that will eliminate the bottlenecks of the Internet to deliver broadcast quality and anytime, anywhere live, on-demand and multi-way multimedia communications. Re-purposing of existing technologies in the market will not suffice. We are designing software and developing solutions with our embedded platform partners that create a new paradigm for serving multimedia content and communications. Broadcasters, enterprise and on-demand service providers will be able to exploit the Internet to its full potential and support the most demanding, highest quality, and mission critical application environments."

Founded in 2006, Zixi is the leading enabler of flawless, broadcast-quality HDTV over the cloud. Broadcasters, enterprises and video-on-demand services use Zixi to enrich user experience, create new services and significantly reduce costs. Zixi enables the delivery of live and on-demand HD video content over the Internet in real-time, with unprecedented quality. It is available as a plug-in for broadcasters, PCs, mobile devices and set-top boxes. Zixi software uses existing equipment and content formats with no jitter, no packet loss and no frame freeze, regardless of network conditions. Zixi supports any video encoding and encryption over MPEG transport streams at any bit-rate and broadcasts in up to full HDTV (1080p/60fps). Zixi Feed™, Zixi Cast™, Zixi Client™ and Zixi Ready™ are trademarks of Zixi. For more information visit: www.Zixi.com.