August 31, 2000

Interactive Enterprise Wins the Communications Technology's Readers Choice Awards

Burlington, MA, August 31, 2000 - Interactive Enterprise Ltd., a leading provider of mediation and provisioning solutions for broadband operators, today announced that its CONEXON Mediation and Provisioning Platform has won the Communications Technology's Readers Choice Award in the Network Diagnosis category.

The Communications Technology's Readers Choice Awards is the premier product awards program for broadband operators that are buying, building, and maintaining broadband networks. Sponsored by Communications Technology magazine, the official trade journal of the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers, the Readers Choice Award is the most coveted and respected award by cable decision makers.

"A fast-paced industry calls for quick acquisition of new skills, such as network provisioning," said Jonathan Tombes, Deployment Editor, Communications Technology. "Our panel thought that Conexon is helping to bridge that experience gap and could greatly improve efficiency on the delivery front and in the business office."

"To win this Reader's Choice Award is a tremendous acknowledgement that we have indeed developed a software integration product that is high on the 'Must-Have' list of cable operators," said Tom Higgins, Chief Executive Officer, Interactive Enterprise Ltd. "The all-inclusive mediation abilities of CONEXON are what will enable the roll-out of broadband services wherever an operator a wants, whatever the existing infrastructure and billing system."

CONEXON Wins Network Diagnosis Award CONEXON is a software-based platform that interconnects between disparate systems, broadband services and devices. CONEXON links and manages customer premise equipment, broadband content services, the communications devices that deliver the content, and operator back-office support systems for end-to-end integration of both standards-based and proprietary devices and systems. A key component of the product adds intelligence to the network and acts as a mediator between home devices and the operator's back-office systems.

Interactive Enterprise's CONEXON solution enables broadband operators to rapidly deploy and integrate high-speed data, Voice Over IP (VoIP), and interactive services. CONEXON meets the specific requirements of MSO's in the management of interactive service offerings by providing plug and play interfaces into DOCSIS and proprietary cable modems, digital set top boxes, network management systems, operator support systems and content services. It allows customers to auto provision their home devices, self subscribe to services and self manage their accounts through a web interface, dramatically reducing installation and management overheads. It enables the operator to provide on-line support increasing customer satisfaction and reducing demands on customer service representatives.

About the Communications Technology's Readers Choice Awards Communications Technology Nominations Review panel is made up of industry executive engineers from the operator, consulting, and network integration community including Time Warner, Cox Communications, Rogers Cable, and INT-2.These experts carefully evaluate dozens of products in multiple categories to choose the Readers Choice finalists. Finalists are the most innovative and functional new products showcased at the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers' Cable-Tec Expo 2000, which was held June 4-7 in Las Vegas, NV at the Las Vegas Convention Center. All attendees of Cable-Tec Expo have the chance to vote for their choice in each product category. The product with the greatest number of nominations is the recipient of the Readers Choice Award. Winners.

Communications Technology is recognized as the broadband industry's leading trade publication for engineering and technology solutions. The Official Journal of the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers, CT reaches over 27,000 broadband deployment professionals. More information about Communications Technology is available at www.cabletoday.com.

For more information about the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers' Cable-Tec Expo, go to www.scte.org/.

About Interactive Enterprise Ltd. Established in 1998, Interactive Enterprise Ltd. is a leading provider of broadband mediation and provisioning solutions to broadband digital operators. Interactive Enterprise's CONEXON platform enables the rapid deployment of broadband interactive services, such as interactive television, high-speed data services, and IP telephony across multiple broadband platforms and multiple devices. An Irish software company, Interactive Enterprise's expertise spans broadband communications, OSS support and integration, software product design and development, and software services. Interactive Enterprise has offices in Dublin, Ireland, Burlington, Massachusetts, and Stockholm, Sweden. For more information, visit www.interactive-enterprise.com.

Note: CONEXON is a trademark of Interactive Enterprise Ltd. All other trademarks are properties of their respective owners.