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Markham, ON. Canada - October 16, 2007

Edcom installs Audience™ digital signage system at London Convention Centre

Edcom Multimedia Products has recently completed an advanced Audience™ digital signage implementation with
the London Convention Centre (LCC) in London, ON. This deployment involved 22 different displays and 17 unique content presentations.

In the London Convention Centre there was a need to efficiently and effectively present meeting room information to attendees of the center. This information includes companies that have bookings for the day, individual events for each company, room location and meeting times.

To display this information a network of LCD and Plasma displays were used in the main lobby; elevator waiting areas, exits/entrances and outside individual meeting rooms.

An Audience.web™ solution was deployed with the one central Audience™ workstation providing design, scheduling, data automation and Audience.web™ hosting functions and 17 rack-mounted 'thin-client' computers as display devices.

The most important operational issue with this installation was data automation and the Audience.data™ module provided the right solution. All information displayed on the digital signage screens is automatically generated from a data base program that the LCC uses to manage their meeting room bookings. Gary Cain, Production Manager for Huge Ideas (a division of Edcom Multimedia) explains "Once an event is entered in the London Convention Centre database, Audience™ does the rest, so no further employee action is required".

Individual playbacks for each room display a list of upcoming events for that room, plus the current event. The information is played using user-selected templates which allows the LCC to include a logo if the client provides one and /or allows them to include extra text information. If there are no events scheduled for that room that day, a series of promotional pages for LCC show in place of event information.

The key Audience™ features used in this install include:

• Audience.data™ data automation

• Flexible scheduling capabilities for page and magazine scheduling (time-rages / date ranges)

• Sharing content across multiple playbacks

• Contentious scheduling model to accommodate events and emergency information.

For further information about his project, please contact Jim Vair, Vice President Business Develop Capital Networks. T : 905 946-1122 ext 231

About Edcom Multimedia Products
Edcom Multimedia Products, with offices in Kitchener, London, Windsor is a provider and integrator of the most up-to-date audio and video technology. Edcom Multimedia Products was opened in London, Ontario in 1979 as the audio visual division of Scholars Choice. Through the years the company developed in size and scope. Eventually it became important to offer a rental option to our customers. Out of this our rental and staging division grew and became a vital part of our offering. In recent years Edcom has opened divisions that offer equipment service, repair and maintenance, design and installation and multimedia content production. Edcom succeeds by harmonizing evolving technologies, ever changing client requirements and global suppliers in the marketplace.

About Capital Networks Limited
Capital Networks Limited is a privately held company based in Markham, Ontario, Canada. Established in 1991, Capital Networks is a respected marketing, integration and sales organization for all DiGiMATiON incorporated software products and a leader in the supply and support of advanced multimedia systems to communications companies engaged in cable television operation, broadcasting, direct-to-home and place-based media. Capital Networks has sold Audience ™ software through authorized re-sellers into 14 different market segments including Digital Signage, Cable TV, Education, Corporate and Medical applications across 6 continents. Current clients include: Alma Media - Helsinki, Air Canada Centre - Toronto, Bell Globe Media - Toronto, Cablevision - New York, Rogers Cable TV - Toronto, Outdoor Broadcast Network, Cox Communications, United States Marine Corps, Electronic Arts - Canada, Inc. and many others.

About DiGiMATiON incorporated
Founded in 1982, DiGiMATiON incorporated designs and develops leading-edge Broadcast Multimedia software systems. Staffed by a team of highly experienced programmers the firm has undertaken many high profile coding assignments for some of the best known communications companies in the world. The Audience™ suite reflects a remarkably flexible product line widely accepted by leaders in a wide range of industrial, educational, broadcast, cable, digital signage, hospitality, military and medical applications.

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