Helius, Inc and Microspace Communications Receive ActiveLight’s 2005 DIGI Award

Award recognizes excellence in the digital signage industry

LINDON, UTAH and RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA—MARCH 15, 2005—Helius, Inc. (Helius), the worldwide leader in business class data broadcasting solutions, and Microspace Communications Corporation (Microspace), the leading provider of point-to-multipoint satellite services, today announced they are the recipients of a 2005 DIGI Award in recognition of innovation and excellence in the digital signage industry. The award was presented on March 12 at NSCA Systems Integration Expo in Orlando for their work on the StagePost/Flagstar Bank digital signage network.

The 2005 DIGI Awards were given to ten outstanding resellers, dealers and integrators of digital signage. This is the first year of the annual awards, presented by ActiveLight, a national distributor of advanced displays, projectors and digital signage solutions, and sponsored by Systems Contractor News and Pioneer.

Helius and Microspace worked with StagePost, a media and marketing firm, to develop a network that delivers real-time marketing, training and corporate communication content to Flagstar Bank locations via satellite. This network consists primarily of Microspace’s VELOCITY® satellite service, Helius MediaWrite®, and Helius MediaGate™ routers. This digital signage application capitalizes on “dwell time” – the time a customer is in the store awaiting assistance – at Flagstar Bank locations to showcase the bank's products and services.

" The Flagstar bank signage system provided by Helius and Microspace is the kind of robust solution for the delivery of information, advertising, entertainment, and training that is making the digital signage industry stand up and take notice. Its provision for passive advertising, customized interactive advertising, and employee training on a single system was well deserving of a DIGI Award," said David Keene, DIGI Awards Chairman and Executive Editor, Systems Contractor News Magazine.

According to Helius President and CEO, Ron Heinz, “Digital signage continues to be an important and growing market limited only by the imagination. According to Flagstar, they have experienced an increase in sales of more than 25 percent. The financial benefits of such a system speak for themselves.”

Including Keene, the awards were judged by five journalists in the digital signage industry: Darek Johnson, senior technology editor of Signs of the Times; Mark Mayfield, editor of Pro AV; Pete Putman, senior editor of Studio, and Film and Video; and David A. Silverman, editor of Sound & Communications.

About Helius, Inc.
Helius provides leading business class data broadcasting solutions through secure and reliable delivery of broadband IP over satellites and local area networks. Helius products serve as the communications bridge between the satellite transmission and terrestrial integration of business-critical data, addressing in particular the stringent requirements for video transmission. This reliable and secure integration gives organizations the ability to implement new high bandwidth applications such as digital signage, distance learning, and corporate sales training and deliver these applications from satellite distribution straight to employee desktops. For more information, visit www.helius.com.

About Microspace
Microspace Communications Corporation (Microspace) is the leading provider of satellite services for video, data and audio content distribution and operates the largest global business satellite broadcasting network, with over 315,000 remote links worldwide. A variety of both businesses and government organizations rely upon Microspace’s VELOCITY® for high-quality, cost-effective and secure content distribution at savings of up to 98% over terrestrial services. VELOCITY supports customers such as Morgan Stanley, LodgeNet, Muzak and the Christian Radio Consortium via a wide range of IP broadband applications such as business TV, distance learning, digital signage and digital cinema, among many others. The service is available as either a dedicated solution or as an on-demand service, enabling customers to easily and affordably expand their bandwidth as their needs change. Founded in 1988 with headquarters in the U.S and a presence in Europe and Latin America, Microspace is a subsidiary of Capitol Broadcasting Company. For more information, visit www.microspace.com.

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