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PRESS RELEASE: Digital Island Inks ITV-f1.com As Customer
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( BW)(CA-DIGITAL-ISLAND)(ISLD) Digital Island Announces ITV-f1.com as Customer to Ensure Fast Access to Formula One News for Racing Fans Worldwide
Business Editors/High-Tech Writers
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 9, 2000--
Official U.K. Web Site for Formula One News Relies on Digital
Island's Global E-Business Delivery Network for Daily
Coverage and Exclusive Interviews
Digital Island, Inc. (Nasdaq:ISLD), a leading global e-Business delivery network, today announced ITV-f1.com as a customer to ensure the fast delivery of Formula One news to car racing fans at www.ITV-f1.com.
Using Digital Island's network services, ITV-f1.com, the official Web site of leading British broadcaster ITV's Formula One coverage, provides global viewers with a superior online experience while reading car racing news, test schedules and event calendars. In addition to downloading exclusive interviews, fans can also order photographs from the Formula One online gallery.
"After an exhaustive search, we chose Digital Island because of its excellent track record and ability to quickly deliver news to world championship racing fans from Monaco to Indianapolis," said Mark Brandon, commercial and marketing director of Granada Media Interactive, commercial agents for ITV-f1.com.
"As well as increasing uptime, Digital Island has substantially lowered ITV-f1.com's cost of ownership by enabling us to outsource our network, facilities and hardware management, yet still allowing in-house monitoring and control of servers."
"In the Formula One world of racing, reliability and speed are the key factors to finishing on the podium," said Tim Wilson, vice president of marketing at Digital Island. "Similarly, Digital Island's e-Business Delivery Network, which combines world-class content delivery, hosting and network services, enables the Web site of ITV-f1 with the speed and reliability necessary to give fans a winning end-user experience."
ITV-f1.com is the official Web site for British broadcaster ITV's Formula One coverage and features daily news, test schedules and event calendars. The site is managed by Granada Media Interactive, a division of Granada Media. Granada Media was established in 1999 to sell innovative sponsorships and e-commerce opportunities for a portfolio of Web sites including www.ITV-f1.com.
Digital Island(R) is a leading global e-Business Delivery Network. The company's suite of application services for interactive e-Business allows customers and partners to readily integrate content delivery, hosting and intelligent networking to give the ultimate consumer a superior experience. Strategically located Data Centres in the United States, Europe and Asia are directly connected to leading access service providers in 23 countries.
In addition, Digital Island operates a network of more than 1,200 content distributors across the Internet, which improves the performance and reduces the cost of hosting high-volume Web applications in target markets. This network is expected to grow to 6,200 content distributors in 350 locations worldwide by the year 2003. Digital Island is headquartered in San Francisco. www.digitalisland.net. |
