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March 2, 2007


FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY JOINS OSTN
FSU films to premiere on OSTN


TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- The Florida State University 
College of Motion Picture, Television and 
Recording Arts -- best known as The Film School 
-- has announced its new membership with OSTN, 
the leading provider of educational and foreign 
language IPTV content and student-produced 
programming.

The partnership means that OSTN will be deployed 
in two phases, according to Film School Dean 
Frank Patterson. First, the player will be 
located on the college's website, which reaches 
more than 40,021 students, faculty and staff on 
campus. The second phase will include OSTN 
deployed on a local analog channel that will 
reach the greater Tallahassee, Fla., area.

"We couldn't be more excited about our 
relationship with the OSTN," Patterson said. 
"OSTN is a smart concept that will enable us to 
showcase our many award-winning student films on 
a global scale. This kind of massive exposure to 
student-peers and to the entertainment industry 
at large is invaluable."

OSTN was launched in 2005 with the only 24-hour, 
seven-day global channel exclusively devoted to 
student-produced programming. It is delivered to 
41 million users at 4,500 university member 
campuses and 36 countries around the globe. In 
2006, OSTN added CableTV, which delivers 
educational and foreign language TV channels to 
colleges and universities.

"OSTN is committed to offering the very best in 
student-produced programming," said Prashant 
Chopra, OSTN Chief Executive Officer. "Florida 
State's College of Motion Picture, Television and 
Recording Arts is continuously awarded top honors 
for their student productions, and we're proud to 
showcase content from these very talented 
students in our lineup."

Larry Conrad, FSU Associate Vice President for 
Technology Integration and Chief Information 
Officer, said "OSTN is an exciting new concept 
which holds the promise of redefining how video 
content is distributed. This leverages FSU's 
investment in the new very high speed research 
and educations networks, such as the Florida 
LambdaRail, in creative and serendipitous ways. 
FSU is excited to be a part of this initiative, 
and we look forward to working with the Campus 
EAI Consortium to maximize the value of this 
service to our students."

For more information on receiving OSTN, contact 
Anthony Davis, Vice President of Membership 
Development, at  or (216) 
973-7564.
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About OSTN:
OSTN is the leading provider of educational and 
foreign language IPTV content and services. OSTN 
features the only 24/7 worldwide channel 
exclusively devoted to student-produced 
programming. OSTN now is delivered to 41 million 
users at 4,500 university member campuses and 36 
countries around the globe. OSTN can be viewed on 
televisions and personal computers. In North 
America, OSTN uses Internet2’s advanced network 
to distribute programming to members. It uses 
ORION in Ontario, Canada and the GEANT2 Network, 
managed by DANTE, in the European Union. GEANT2 
links to Asia via TEIN2, the Middle East and 
Africa via EuroMed, Latin and South America via 
ALICE and Australia via AARNet. For more 
information, visit http://www.ostn.tv/.

About the FSU College of Motion Picture, 
Television and Recording Arts ("The Film School"):
Recognized in 2004 by The Directors Guild of 
America for its "distinguished contribution to 
American culture," Florida State University's 
College of Motion Picture, Television and 
Recording Arts is regarded by the film industry 
as one of the top film schools in the world. 
Created in 1989 by the Florida State Legislature, 
the college is the only film school in the 
country that pays for the production of both 
undergraduate and graduate student productions, 
including thesis films. FSU's student films have 
won more than 700 awards and honors from 
festivals in more than 45 countries, and its film 
students were honored with more Student Oscars 
and Collegiate Television Academy Awards combined 
in one year than any film program in the nation 
(seven awards in 2004). For more information, 
visit: http://film.fsu.edu/.

About Florida State University:
Florida State University is a premier, 
comprehensive, graduate research university and 
includes colleges of law and medicine. Among the 
FSU faculty are members of the National Academy 
of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and 
Sciences; Pulitzer Prize winners; a Nobel Prize 
winner; Emmy and Oscar winners; Guggenheim and 
Fulbright Fellows; and recipients of fellowships 
from the National Endowment for the Arts and the 
National Endowment for the Humanities. FSU 
faculty members attract almost $200 million a 
year in research dollars. The university 
consistently ranks in the top 10 universities 
nationally in physical sciences grants awarded by 
the National Science Foundation. For more 
information, visit: http://www.fsu.edu.

About Florida Lambda Rail:
OSTN connects to Florida State University via the 
Florida Lambda Rail Network, a state-wide, 
high-bandwidth optical network that links 
Florida's research institutions and provides a 
next-generation network in support of large-scale 
research, education outreach, public/private 
partnerships, and information technology 
infrastructure essential to Florida's economic 
development. FLR connects Florida to Internet2. 
For more information: http://www.flrnet.org.

About Internet2:
Internet2 is the foremost U.S. advanced 
networking consortium. Led by the research and 
education community since 1996, Internet2 
promotes the missions of its members by providing 
both leading-edge network capabilities and unique 
partnership opportunities that together 
facilitate the development, deployment and use of 
revolutionary Internet technologies. Internet2 
brings the U.S. research and academic community 
together with technology leaders from industry, 
government and the international community to 
undertake collaborative efforts that have a 
fundamental impact on tomorrow's Internet.

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