(BSNS WIRE) Sandpiper Networks Delivers Enhanced Performance for PBS Onl
Sandpiper Networks Delivers Enhanced Performance for PBS Online; Premier
Content Delivery Service to Handle Local-National Re-Launch of PBS.org
Business Editors
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 16, 1999--Sandpiper Networks
Inc., the leading provider of comprehensive content delivery solutions
for e-business, today announced that PBS ONLINE, the award-winning Web
site of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), has selected
Sandpiper's Content Delivery Network (CDN) to deliver its popular Web
properties.
PBS ONLINE will use Sandpiper's content delivery service,
Footprint(SM), to handle the distribution of content for its 400
associated Web sites and 85,000 HTML pages -- all of which will
re-launch November 18 as part of a "local-national" content
experience. As a result, PBS ONLINE's increasing broadband video and
other multimedia content, rich graphics and dynamic content will be
delivered with unprecedented speed and performance.
With more than 100 developers producing content for its sites,
including such popular destinations as PBS Kids, The Online NewsHour,
NOVA , and I, Cringely, PBS ONLINE needed a partner that could deliver
all types of content, from video clips to deep space images to
interactive Shockwave games. As the most comprehensive content
delivery solution available, Sandpiper's Footprint service delivers
all media types. That capability, combined with Footprint's proven
ability to deliver content faster to the end user, made it the ideal
solution for PBS ONLINE.
"PBS ONLINE is one of the most acclaimed Web destinations in
existence today, with many awards and hundreds of citations for
excellence," said Leo Spiegel, president and chief executive officer
of Sandpiper Networks. "A large part of this success is due to the
variety and richness of the content on its more than 400 sites.
Sandpiper is extremely proud to have been chosen to deliver PBS
ONLINE's content, and we look forward to rewarding PBS ONLINE's loyal
viewers with faster and even better performance."
"PBS is excited to introduce Sandpiper's technology just in time
for our local-national re-launch on November 18," said Cindy Johanson,
PBS senior vice president of broadband and Internet services. "By
using Sandpiper's technology, we can dramatically increase the
performance of our sites -- ensuring our users' full access to great
PBS content at both the national level and from a network of more than
180 local PBS station web sites nationwide. Sandpiper's technology
will cost us only a fraction of what it would take to build our own
distributed network solution, and will assist the expansion of our
broadband media offerings for high-speed Web users."
Launched last year, the Footprint CDN speeds Web site performance
up to 10 times by distributing content from a worldwide network of
servers, putting Web content closer to the consumer and shortening the
delivery path. The Footprint network will have more than 1,200 servers
worldwide by year-end. Sandpiper has deployed Footprint servers in
more than 20 networks worldwide, including America Online, Concentric
Networks, Uunet, GTE BBN, Sprint, Cable and Wireless, PSINet,
Frontier/Globalcenter, and TCG/Cerfnet.
Other customers using the Footprint service to ensure the fast
and reliable delivery of online content include: Activision, AdForce,
Astound, CallWave, CNBC.com, EarthLink, eCampus, Eonline.com,
Gamesville, LATimes.com, LiveOnLine, Sabela Media, SCO, University
Netcasting, Value America, WireBreak.com and other leading Internet
content providers. Online events delivered by Sandpiper include the
1999 Academy Awards, Woodstock.com's real-time photo gallery, "id
Software's Quake III Arena" and the Starr Report.
About PBS ONLINE
PBS ONLINE, (www.pbs.org), PBS's award-winning site on the World
Wide Web, produces high-quality Web programming as it pioneers the
convergence of television and the Internet. PBS ONLINE features more
than 85,000 pages of content as well as companion Web sites for nearly
400 PBS programs and specials. PBS ONLINE has won the prestigious
Webby Award for best TV Web site in 1998 and 1999.
About Sandpiper Networks
Sandpiper Networks is the world's first content delivery service
provider for the Internet. Founded in 1996, Sandpiper has built the
largest and most comprehensive Content Delivery Network (CDN). The
company's initial service offering, Footprint, gives leading
ebusinesses the power to deliver Web sites more efficiently and
profitably while dramatically improving site performance. Footprint
ensures the delivery of fresh Web content of all types while providing
management statistics that are vital to Web-centric businesses. For
more information, visit www.sandpiper.net. The network is changing.
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CONTACT: Sandpiper Networks Inc.
Michelle Balconi, 858/457-4888 ext. 132
mbalconi@townsendagency.com
or
PBS
Kevin Dando, 703/739-5073
kdando@pbs.org
KEYWORD: NEW YORK CALIFORNIA
INDUSTRY KEYWORD: COMPUTERS/ELECTRONICS INTERNET
TELEVISION/RADIO CABLE ELECTRONIC GAMES/MULTIMEDIA
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