Fastweb launches the first VideoGallery, a service developed in collaboration with DyLogic

Milan 27th March 2003 - FastWeb, the leader operator in broad band communications in the six main Italian cities, launches the first VideoGallery: a gallery of video-dedications and video-portraits for all residential users who want to share their own recorded video-messages with other people, consult other's messages or simply vote the best messages.

VideoGallery represents a real innovation in the fields of technology and entertainment: it offers to FastWeb users subscribed to the TV Visual Communication service the chance to record video-messages through a simple videocall to the VideoGallery number *4142 via TVcam or VideoPC software. They can also see videomessages throgh TVcam or MyFastPage as a normal website, vote them and answer privately or publicly to other video-messages. Every week all users are able to vote the most innovative, strange or amusing video. Based on the received votes, a real-time message chart is produced and the most voted messages are grouped in different categories. This new service has been developed in collaboration with DyLogic, an Italian company specialized in the development of software solutions and services in the telecommunications world. DyLogic has allowed the creation of a link between visual communication system over IP protocol and the Internet world. The innovative system developed for this service is based on a transcoding module that allows the visualization of audio/video streams in different formats. In this way web users are able to visualize easily on a web page the videomessages left by FastWeb visual communication users.

DyLogic had already collaborated with FastWeb for the development of other innovative projects, such as the implementation of "VideoPC", the software that allows FastWeb users to communicate trough the video by using their own PC and a webcam, and the "Video Answering Machine", which allows users to record a videomessage if the person called is not available.

The realization of the VideoGallery project for FastWeb allowed us to show the multifunctionality of DyLogic visual communication platform PSE (Parallel Stream Engine) and to offer to companies a new solution for their customers and their research of new communication ways", says Cristoforo Mione, one of DyLogic associates and Sales & Marketing Manager.

"DyLogic, whom we collaborated with in the development and implementation of different projects, is a strongly reliable partner in every aspect", affirms Stefano Parisse, FastWeb Commercial Director. "The new VideoGallery service developed in extremely short time, allows us to offer to our costumers a new entertainment channel for the exchange of videomessages by using a technologically advanced solution".

DyLogic is specialized in the realization of high quality solutions within Wireless and Unified Messaging and Video and Voice over IP areas. Founded in 1999, it has already developed important projects for consumer and business market. A team of people with strong know-how and deep competence in this field allowed DyLogic to take part in the most successful European projects and to cooperate with the main players of the reference market achieving important results and a fast growth. FastWeb is the main broadband telecommunications operator within the six main Italian metropolitan areas. The company offers infrastructures and innovative services in Rome, Genoa, Turin, Naples and Bologna. In these cities it controls an advanced total market share equal to more than 10% with tips of more than 30% in some of the first activated areas. At the end of the year the cover of Milan has been substantially completed, going to almost catch up the totality of the companies, of the families and of the SOHO, which today represents the most capillary fibre optic net in the world. The rest of the cities followed Milan about a year later, with the advantage to use also the Socrate plan ducts. In this way FastWeb has considerably accelerated the diffusion of the services and reduced the risk concerning the digging activity. At the same time, the use of DSL technology has offered to enable customers to benefit from the provider's innovative telecommunications services in those cities where FastWeb fibre optic infrastructures still aren't being rolled out. To the end of 2002 FastWeb fibre optic network extended for approximately 10.000 km, of which more than 6.000 Km of local access network, and it had caught up 1,2 million of inhabited units, while the number of the connected buildings rose to quota 43.500, more than quadrupled compared to 2001. In 2002 FastWeb has tripled the revenues brought back from the previous exercise, reaching 220,7 million Euros. Still in 2002 FastWeb has recorded its first positive MOL on annual basis - that is 9 million Euros - while the number of users has also tripled exceeding the 176.000 units.

For more information about the company visit the website: http://www.fastweb.it