SPECTRAREP ORGANIZING MAJOR EMERGENCY ALERT INTEROPERABILITY SIMULATION AT EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE

Demonstration to highlight ready-to-deploy next generation emergency alert and response capabilities for state and local government

November 1, 2005 - Chantilly, VA - SpectraRep^®, a leading provider of solutions for the broadcast delivery of IP video, rich media and data over digital television and satellite, today announced that it is organizing a first-of-its-kind demonstration to show the real-world interoperability of a range of emergency alerting and incident management tools at the International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM) 2005 Annual Conference in Phoenix, Arizona on November 14 -15, 2005.

An international audience of emergency management professionals will be invited to witness the live demonstration that will provide an unprecedented level of interoperability across different public warning systems. The demonstration will include several companies working with the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) that allows a consistent warning message to be communicated simultaneously over different alerting systems. In addition, the demonstration will show how training, alerts and disaster response data can be sent and used in the office and in the field.

SpectraRep's partners in the demonstration will include Acoustic Technologies Inc. (ATI), Defense Group, Inc. (DGI), Hormann America, Inc., Warning Systems, Inc. (WSI), and local public television station KAET.

SpectraRep will lead the demonstration with its AlertManager, a CAP-based alert distribution solution plus next-generation data delivery using local digital television stations. AlertManager will generate alerts, gather emergency data, and transmit it via KAET-TV to other partner exhibition booths to showcase data and application layer interoperability. Scenarios will include simulated chemical HAZMAT incidents, AMBER alerts, tornado warnings, flood warnings, and other emergency alert notifications. Simulated all hazards alerts will be relayed by emergency alert equipment for television and radio, sirens, tone alert radios, the Internet, cell phones, pagers, and mobile computing devices.

"The Common Alerting Protocol provides a clear path for the next generation of all-hazards warning systems," said Edward Czarnecki, Vice President Government Solutions, SpectraRep. "Our AlertManager application leverages these industry-based standards for interoperability and next generation networking to provide ready-to-deploy solutions for critical emergency messaging. The implementation of end-to-end solutions like AlertManager will go a long way toward making alerts, warning and incident data more accessible to state and local governments. Some of the many benefits include increased functionality for voice, text, and video capabilities, the ability to issue alerts faster and the availability of more flexible messaging tools."

To see this emergency management demonstration at the IAEM conference, visit SpectraRep at booth number 617. Additional details on the demonstration and participants will be provided at www.spectrarep.com. Further conference details can be found at www.iaem.com/events/annual/intro.htm.

About SpectraRep^®  SpectraRep is a leading provider of solutions for the broadcast delivery of data over digital television. SpectraRep is working with broadcasters around the country to deploy wireless datacast broadband services and applications for all-hazards emergency notification, emergency management, first responder and education applications. SpectraRep® is a wholly owned subsidiary of BIA Financial Network (BIAfn), a premier financial and strategic advisory services firm that has served the media and communications industries for more than two decades. For more information about SpectraRep, IncidentOne and AlertManager, visit www.spectrarep.com.