Foster City, CA & Draper, UT - December 7, 2000: Digital Pipe Inc. the leading provider of intranet-based content delivery networks (iCDN) today announced a partnership with Learnframe, a leading developer of KnowledgE-Commerce™ and e-Learning infrastructure technologies. Together, Digital Pipe and Learnframe will provide customers with an end-to-end corporate communications and training solution. This is possible by offering a fully customizable and scalable resolution for corporations to leverage rich multimedia and collaborative communications for training and education to satisfy the demands of any size corporation.

According to Mike Memmott Sr., CEO and Chairman of Learnframe, "In the evolving e-learning technologies marketplace, companies are continually looking for ways to gain a competitive advantage," said Memmott. "Digital Pipe, with its fully integrated and all-inclusive streaming media solution supports Learnframe to take the next step and gain this advantage."

Learnframe's technology enables companies to access and manage training curriculum via computer networks. In addition, the company aggregates content for corporate use, ranging from text-based computer based training (CBT) programs to streaming audio and video. The system operates over IP networks (the Internet and corporate intranets).

As content becomes more rich and complex, companies are finding that it requires more network bandwidth-especially when multiple simultaneous users are accessing the system. As customers look to integrate more video into their training programs, e-learning providers rely more heavily on infrastructure to effectively deliver content.

Digital Pipe offers a solution to satisfy this need. Its nCORE solution offers a robust platform for delivering streaming video and other bandwidth-intensive applications over existing enterprise communications networks. It incorporates an intranet content delivery approach (iCDN), which places content closest to the end-user on co-located servers within the company's internal network, thereby eliminating bandwidth bottlenecks and optimizing performance.

This helps maximize the quality and reliability of content delivery to the corporate desktop. Regarding curriculum that incorporates video, it is now possible to deliver full-screen TV-quality video to the corporate desktop using Digital Pipe's iCDN approach. Additionally, all media assets are protected within the corporate firewall.

"As the e-learning market matures, we see some of our biggest opportunities for growth," said Chris Wallace, Digital Pipe's president and CEO. "Many e-learning content providers have not been able to realize their full potential simply due to bandwidth constraints. Digital Pipe offers a solution that makes TV-quality streaming video a reality."

By integrating technologies, Digital Pipe and Learnframe will be able to offer features and capabilities no other training technology company can. Digital Pipe's infrastructure behind Learnframe application will provide an unparalleled ability to connect diverse programs and integrate streaming video and other CBT programs into one seamless system. 

About Learnframe
Learnframe (www.learnframe.com) is the leading provider of KnowledgE-Commerce™ solutions, e-learning infrastructure technologies and services for enterprises large and small, government agencies, learning providers and Internet businesses around the world. The combination of Learnframe's Pinnacle Learning Manager™ (PLM), an e-Learning infrastructure, and the Learnframe Learning Center, a knowledge commerce front end, creates what the company today calls KnowledgE-Commerce™ - the point where e-Learning and e-commerce converge. Learnframe also provides Web-Based Content Delivery, hosting and re-branding services, and one of the largest online libraries of CBT, WBT, text, audio, video, etc., courses on the market. Learnframe's AdminSTAR™ extensions provide resource management and scheduling as well as skills assessment. Learnframe has many valuable customers including, NASA, Compaq, Arthur Anderson, Michelin, Whirlpool, Coca-Cola, Georgia Pacific, UUNet, and City of New York. For more information, please contact Kimberly Stilson, Director of Marketing Communications, at kstilson@learnframe.com or 800.738.9800. Visit http://www.learnframe.com/ for product and company details.

About Digital Pipe
Digital Pipe, Inc. is the leading provider of intranet-based streaming media solutions, enabling TV-quality video to the corporate desktops of Global 2500 companies.

Digital Pipe's nCORETM solution offers the first scalable and secure means of deploying streaming video and other bandwidth-intensive applications over existing enterprise communications networks. It includes everything from infrastructure deployment to content management and supports industry leading streaming technologies like Windows MediaTM, RealTM, and QuickTimeTM. Digital Pipe's customers are up-and-running in a matter of weeks with little or no dedicated resources and see immediate improvements in communications and training with significant cost savings. For more information, call 866-GET-iCDN or visit www.digitalpipe.net.

Digital Pipe will be exhibiting at Streaming Media West 2000 from Dec. 12-14th at the San Jose Convention Center (Booth #1809). Visit www.streamingmedia.com/west for more show details.

Digital Pipe, nCORE, COREcast, and THE INSIDE CONNECTION are trademarks of Digital Pipe, Inc. Learnframe is a trademarks of Learnframe, Inc. in the US and certain other countries. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and should be treated as such