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Press Releases Nominum helps enable quadplay for Virgin Media customers Jun 12 2007 Virgin Media to upgrade network infrastructure with Nominum solutions Redwood City, CA 12 June 2007 – Nominum, the leading provider of network naming and addressing solutions, today announced that Virgin Media, the UK's first and only quadplay provider, has selected Nominum’s Foundation Caching Name Server (CNS) and Authoritative Name Server (ANS) to provide its customers with reliable, scalable and high-performance bundles of services. With 10 million subscribers, including 5.4m mobile customers, Virgin Media is the UK’s leading entertainment and communications company. It became the first quadplay media company in Britain by bringing together television, broadband, mobile and fixed-line telephony services. “When Virgin Media launched in February this year, we needed to upgrade our complete DNS infrastructure to successfully merge the ntl, Telewest, Virgin Mobile and Virgin.net services”, said Keith Oborn, Network Systems Product Architect, Virgin Media. “Based on the success of our previous projects with Nominum, we decided its products offered the best solution to deliver on our quality of experience goals, while enabling our anticipated growth.” Providing quadplay bundles requires a robust and scalable DNS infrastructure to support network demand. Virgin Media installed Nominum CNS and ANS servers to enable the company to offer customers value-added and always-on quadplay services including; TV on demand, broadband, converged voice telephony services and digital TV. “Our network services software will deliver a business critical foundation for Virgin Media’s internet-based services. We are delighted to be working with the company and we look forward to supporting its innovative IP-enabled services going forward,” said Tom Tovar, President and Chief Operating Officer, Nominum. “Having Nominum’s servers in place at the UK’s leading entertainment and communications company further validates our technology leadership and expertise in DNS and DHCP solutions.” Nominum’s CNS server is the world's fastest caching name server. It was built from the ground up to deliver superior performance, reliability and highly available DNS caching services. Using CNS, communication service providers can reduce costs and provide better network responsiveness and enhanced network security, while meeting the challenges of growing IP networks. Nominum’s ANS server has higher performance in query responses per second than any other name server product and can be configured and managed remotely without downtime. This dedicated authoritative name server is used by customers running DNS registries and hosting domains, where DNS scalability, availability, manageability, and performance are most critical. Virgin Media joins Nominum’s growing customer list of the largest telcos and cable operators in the world including BT, T-Com, Telefónica, NTT/Verio, Telekom Malaysia, Bell Canada and Colt. About Nominum Nominum's network naming and addressing solutions power the world's largest always-on networks. Nominum is a global provider of ENUM-based IP-application routing directory, DNS, and DHCP solutions that enable communication providers to deliver high quality always-on broadband internet and innovative services to their customers, including VoIP, push to talk, fixed-mobile convergence, IPTV, and triple-play. For further information visit www.nominum.com Note: Nominum and the Nominum logo are registered trademarks of Nominum Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. About Virgin Media Virgin Media is an innovative and pioneering UK entertainment and communications business. For the first time consumers can get everything they need from one company - the UK's only quad play of TV, broadband, phone and mobile plus the most advanced TV on demand service available, the UK’s first high definition TV service and V+, our high specification personal video recorder. We're the UK’s most popular residential broadband provider, the largest virtual mobile network operator and the second largest provider of pay TV and home phone.