Emblaze-VCON signs strategic partnership agreements with Xenex and AVC of Finland

Emblaze VCON together with, Xenex and AVC, Finland’s leading telecommunications companies, to supply a co-developed video telephony IP platform to Internet service providers

Ra’anana, Israel, October 19, 2005 : Emblaze Ltd (“Emblaze” or “the Group”) announces that its subsidiary Emblaze VCON had signed a strategic partnership with Xenex Telecom Ltd (Xenex), a leading Finnish videoconferencing provider for the enterprise market and its subsidiary, Applied Visual Computing Ltd (AVC), a provider of standard compliant rich media communications software for IP-networks, to supply a co-developed video telephony IP platform to internet service providers (ISPs) in Finland this year and across Europe next year.

According to the agreement, the new co-developed platform will offer IP video telephony services to B2B, SOHO (small office home office) and B2C markets. The combination of Emblaze VCON and AVC technology together with Xenex’s new emeeting.fi service platform will allow the ISP subscriber to make IP-video calls from their desktop to any other desktop.

Esa Ojala , CEO of Xenex said: “Together with Emblaze VCON we now provide the subscribers an easy to use and standards compliant service with quality audio, video and data at a very affordable price. This is another affirmation that our product is leading the technological revolution that is making it easier for people to communicate from wherever they are.”

Eli Reifman, CEO of Emblaze Group, said: “As a leading provider of IP communications we are in the forefront of fulfilling worldwide demand for advanced video telephony services. We are very proud that Xenex and AVC have chosen us for this challenging project and are eager to bring our proven technological advantages of IP solutions to the Finnish Telecommunication companies.”

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About Xenex

Xenex Telecom Ltd is the market leader in Finland for videoconferencing systems and services. Xenex has been active in visual communications and collaborative computing for almost twenty years and has constantly provided its customers the most advanced products and services available for videoconferencing, distance learning and telemedicine. www.xenex.fi

About AVC

Applied Visual Computing Ltd provides standard compliant rich media communications software for IP-networks. Its easy-to use development environment allows embedding remote visual communication capabilities into the applications and services of its partners that are leading solution providers in their respective vertical markets. www.avc.fi

About Emblaze

Emblaze Ltd is a group of companies sharing a common mission to provide telecom operators with technologies, products and solutions for next generation services: Emblaze Mobile, a new breed in handsets design and manufacturing; Adamind (LSE: ADA), a global leader in content adaptation (transcoding) for wireless operators; VisualDefence (LSE: VDI), a provider of wireless and IP video solutions for military and homeland security markets; EmblazeVCON, recently created from the merger of Emblaze Systems and VCON , is a leading provider of wireless video communications technologies and conferencing solutions for operators and enterprise markets over IP networks and OrcaInteractive (LSE: ORCA), provider of Interactive Television IPTV middleware for Video On Demand (VOD) and broadcast services, aimed at Telecom, cable and xDSL operators.