PLANO, Texas, Nov. 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- In the Wisconsin city of West Allis, a Niagara streaming media encoder is playing a central role in expanding the audience for public, educational, and government access (PEG) television programming. A product of ViewCast Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: VCST), a leading global provider of streaming hardware and software, the Niagara encoder has enabled the city to port its government access programs to AT&T's(R) U-verse(R) residential IPTV service, recently launched in the greater Milwaukee area.

"Thanks to ViewCast, we're able to bring our government access programs to an even broader audience via leading-edge IPTV," said Jerry Musial, video and cable coordinator for the City of West Allis. "The Niagara system was extremely easy to adopt, and its budget-conscious pricing played a big role in our choice. As a non-technical person, I really appreciated the excellent support and assistance we received from ViewCast, which enabled us to get up and running quickly and smoothly."

Musial also serves on the board of the National Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors (NATOA), an association that represents the communications needs and interests of local governments and their advisors.

A city of 60,000 in Milwaukee County and the site of the Wisconsin State Fair, West Allis offers a wide range of government access programming to its citizens. The programs are locally produced as well as supplied by state and federal agencies, and include information about state and city services, community events, and coverage of city council meetings. The Niagara system encodes the video for transport over a T1 network to the U-verse system, which began serving the West Allis viewing area in February.

All Niagara encoders have AT&T's U-verse PEG streaming specifications programmed as a menu item, and ViewCast is one of only four providers noted in U-verse's PEG encoder information collateral. This makes ViewCast an ideal solution for municipalities that are seeking to deliver PEG content over this new, rapidly growing IPTV platform.

ViewCast President and Chief Executive Dave Stoner said: "Niagara encoders are playing a central role in expanding the audience for PEG television programming. Mr. Musial's involvement in NATOA is a testament to West Allis' leadership in the area of municipal communications, as is the city's commitment to embracing advanced new media technologies such as IPTV. We are pleased that we were able to meet West Allis' needs and look forward to continuing our successful partnership."

"Moreover, we see continuing and rising adoption of video streaming for sports and entertainment applications, as well as public access, as evidence of the growing trend toward using the Internet as a major channel for streaming all varieties of programs, information, and other content," Stoner added.

About the City of West Allis

A city with a population of 62,000 in the greater Milwaukee area, West Allis is truly a community woven together with many important values. It exemplifies an American community with strong principles of family and work. Citizens of West Allis treasure their homes and continuously work to maintain them along with improving their neighborhoods. Businesses prosper and provide employment for residents as well as for the larger metropolitan area. As West Allis moves toward the future, it continues to be the best place to live, work, and operate a business. For more information, visit www.ci.west-allis.wi.us.

About ViewCast Corporation

ViewCast designs, manufactures and markets industry leading hardware and software solutions that enable users to capture, encode audio/video content for live video streaming and video-on-demand (VOD) delivery over IP and mobile networks. ViewCast products include the Niagara(R) Pro and portable Niagara GoStream(R) families -- all powered by renowned Osprey(R) video capture technology. ViewCast's software, including Niagara SCX(R), Niagara SCX SDK and Osprey SimulStream(R) provides remote system management, and enhances Osprey and Niagara hardware to configure multiple, simultaneous multi-format, multi-bit rate, multi-resolution video streams. This array of tools empowers broadcasters, businesses, network service providers and government to expand their audience in the digital media market place. www.viewcast.com

ViewCast(R), Osprey(R), Niagara(R), Niagara SCX(R), GoStream(R), SimulStream(R), and EZStream(R) are trademarks or registered trademarks of ViewCast Corporation or its subsidiaries. All other trademarks appearing herein are the property of their respective owners.

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Certain statements in this release are forward-looking within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and reflect the Company's current outlook. Such statements apply to future events and are therefore subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, changes in market and business conditions, demand for the Company's products and services, technological change, the ability of the Company to develop and market new products, increased competition, the ability of the Company to obtain and enforce its patent and avoid infringing other parties' patents, and changes in government regulations. All written and verbal forward-looking statements attributable to ViewCast and any person acting on its behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by the cautionary statements set forth herein. ViewCast does not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statement to reflect circumstances or events that occur after the date on which the forward-looking statements are made. For a detailed discussion of these and other cautionary statements and factors that could cause actual results to differ from the Company's forward-looking statements, please refer to the Company's reports on Form 10-KSB and 10-QSB on file with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

     ViewCast Contact:              PR Agency Contact:
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