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To: Madharry who wrote (357)	9/7/1999 10:55:00 AM
From: djane	Respond to of 1884

news.com. Internet broadcasts to get a boost from new partnership By Bloomberg News Special to CNET News.com September 6, 1999, 10:45 p.m. PT Digital Island, Inktomi, and RealNetworks have formed a worldwide network for broadcasting video and audio, as the Internet becomes more popular for playing music and broadcasting live events. Digital Island, which provides computer network services to companies that do business on the Internet, offers a private computer network that connects data centers and local Internet service providers in different countries. San Francisco-based Digital Island's announcement marks the formation of a technical alliance among the three companies. Digital Island is improving its network by integrating RealNetworks' G2 software for delivering sound and video and Inktomi's software for storing data on the network. The network is the first of its kind for broadcasting sound and video worldwide on the Internet, Digital Island said. Terms of the agreement weren't disclosed. The service will be available in October, said Tim Wilson, vice president of marketing for Digital Island. MP3, a technology that makes it easy to copy and distribute music over the Internet, has shown the popularity of so-called streaming audio and video, technology for sending sound and video over the Internet. Analyst Peter Christy of Internet Research Group, a market research firm in Los Altos, California, said Digital Island's network is well positioned. Many so-called broadband programs, such as singing cartoons, and computer videos, use a lot of bandwidth, or data transfer capacity, on the computer network. "As soon as it becomes successful, your success overwhelms the network," Christy said. He said the companies will be ready for a boom of creative media on the Internet in the next six to 12 months. Copyright 1999, Bloomberg L.P. All Rights Reserved. Copyright ¸ 1995-99 CNET, Inc. All rights reserved. Privacy policy.

To: Madharry who wrote (357)	9/7/1999 10:56:00 AM
From: djane	Respond to of 1884

"The network is the first of its kind for broadcasting sound and video worldwide on the Internet" -- very nice...

To: Madharry who wrote (357)	9/7/1999 11:01:00 AM
From: djane	Respond to of 1884

To all, last Wednesday, I attended a very good Ziff Davis-sponsored conference in SF called "The Next 20 Years" with a technology focus. John Gage (Sun) was an impressive speaker. At the Sandpiper booth, I talked to their rep about their distributed local content technology and strategy. When I mentioned Digital Island and Akamai, the Sandpiper rep said, "Yeah, it's a drag that Digital Island has entered our space. They're pretty good." FYI. Sandpiper and Akamai are going to be very hot IPOs in the next couple months and will help highlight the value in ISLD. djane