New York Stock Exchange Expands Use Of Grass Valley Group's Wideband Routing System

Nevada City, Calif., June 11, 2001 — The Grass Valley Group announced today that the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) has expanded the use of the digital media leader's next-generation routing technologies. The NYSE has deployed a new 256X256 Grass Valley™ 7500 WB wideband routing frame to handle the growing number of feeds it provides to media organizations worldwide—and to provide a well-defined, scalable path for future growth.

System integrator Innovative Digital Design (IDD) of Flanders, N.J. performed the NYSE installation.

Representing more than 3,000 companies and total global market capitalization of $18 trillion, the NYSE is one of the largest financial marketplaces in the world. It is also one of the most closely watched: every day, the NYSE fields a variety of media requests for live shots of its trading floor and packaged feeds of its opening and closing ceremonies.

To help deliver these kinds of feeds efficiently, the Grass Valley Group's Series 7500 routing systems offer guaranteed, non-blocking, deterministic switching of standard- and high-definition (SD and HD) signals as well as many other data types—and many ways to future proof a facility's investments. The Series 7500 WB system, for example, can switch any and all digital formats—from 10 Mb/s to 1.5 Gb/s—and offers incredible scalability. And its integration with Grass Valley Group's Profile^® line of digital video platforms as well as Grass Valley switchers and modular lines—including support for Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) protocol-based remote monitoring—leads the industry.

The Series 7500 WB system also offers affordable expansion. To route only SD signals, users can pair the system's frame with SD-only Grass Valley modules and save two-thirds the cost of a full-bandwidth routing solution. Expanding to high-definition signals requires only the plugging in of new input and output modules.

The NYSE's new 7500 WB frame joins a host of other Grass Valley Group equipment, including Profile digital video platforms, a Grass Valley 4000 switcher, Grass Valley modular products, and Krystal™ digital video effects technology.

"High-quality content providers such as the New York Stock Exchange are demanding media infrastructures flexible enough to anticipate new uses, new markets, and new technologies," said Tim Thorsteinson, CEO of the Grass Valley Group. "We're excited to watch the 7500 WB become the signal-management backbone for content creators and distributors worldwide."

About The Grass Valley Group

The Grass Valley Group knows more about high-quality video than anybody else—especially as video goes digital. The Internet. Digital cinema. Data-enhanced broadcasting. Interactive television. It's a world of Digicasting—one that demands Media Without Bounds™ solutions. Whether online or on the air, the Emmy^® award-winning Grass Valley Group, a privately held digital media leader, has the hardware, software, and new media technologies to get content wherever it needs to go.

For the latest Grass Valley Group product information, visit www.grassvalleygroup.com.

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