PlayStream Launches Distributed Network; Enhanced Network Will Improve Delivery of Both Streaming and Progressive Download Media For All PlayStream Customers
SEATTLE, Aug 6, 2002 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- PlayStream successfully rolled out a distributed network service that significantly enhances its streaming and progressive download media delivery services.
The new service utilizes PlayStream's content delivery systems in Seattle and Atlanta, to deliver virtually any media type over a more robust, dynamic network architecture that greatly improves performance. PlayStream signed a new, expanded agreement with Internap (Nasdaq:INAP) to implement the distributed network, which works in conjunction with Internap's intelligent routing services at both hubs, to greatly improve the delivery of media over the Internet for PlayStream's customers. Internap has connections to nine major backbones that integrate with the enhanced content delivery services.
The enhanced network service is provided to all customers, without any increase in pricing, with packages starting for less than five dollars per month. Unlike many distributed networks that employ caching devices that retain only the more popular viewed files, PlayStream's new Atlanta hub fully replicates all customers' content in real-time, retaining all customer files, regardless of content viewing popularity, until the customer elects to remove the files from their account. Now, viewers, watching media delivered by PlayStream, are routed to the hub that will deliver the optimal viewing experience for that viewer. Live Streaming customers also get to take advantage of the new distributed network, as all live streams will be delivered from both hubs. Having fully replicated content delivery systems on both U.S. coasts provides added integrity and security in the event of a system failure, as all traffic will be automatically routed to the other hub.
To accommodate the new network architecture, PlayStream rolled out new media reporting services that integrate both hubs to provide many improvements, including on demand intelligent analyses of the server log-files, data filtering and sorting options, custom date-ranges, individual clip analyses, and column sorting capabilities. All Customers receive enhanced reporting services and PlayStream reduced its pricing by over 50% on its deluxe reporting options.
About PlayStream
PlayStream provides content delivery services for thousands of businesses and consumers worldwide. PlayStream's proprietary technologies empower customers with advanced capabilities to manage, deliver and monitor audio, video, and multimedia content over the Internet. PlayStream's services are unique because they integrate the Industry's most popular formats: RealNetworks' RealMedia, Microsoft's Windows Media, Apple's QuickTime Media, MP3 and ClipStream's Java Streaming, with PlayStream's proprietary technologies to provide customers with a level of value, quality and simplicity unparalleled in the industry. Privately held, PlayStream maintains its main office in Seattle, WA. For more information, visit www.playstream.com.
About Internap
Internap provides customers with certainty over the Internet through its patented route management technology and service guarantees. This managed IP service intelligently routes data across the major Internet backbones through a single connection from a customer's network to one of Internap's Service Points. Internap's customers bypass congestion points on the Internet, avoiding packet loss, latency and other difficulties that can plague conventional Internet connectivity. Founded in 1996 in Seattle, Internap offers services in numerous key markets throughout the United States, Europe and Japan including Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, London, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle, Tokyo and Washington, DC. Internap(R) and P-NAP(R) are registered trademarks of Internap. All other trademarks and brands are the property of their respective owners. For more information, visit www.internap.com.
Internap "Safe Harbor" Statement: This release may contain projections or other forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Readers are cautioned that these statements are only predictions and may differ materially from actual future events or results. Readers are referred to the documents filed by Internap with the SEC, including without limitation its most recent Reports on Forms 10-K and 10-Q, which identify important risk factors that could cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements, including, among other things, Internap's history of operating losses and expected future losses, Internap's limited operating history, fluctuations in Internap's quarterly operating results, ability to maintain Nasdaq listing, Internet infrastructure and regulatory changes, volatility of stock price, deployment of new Service Points, integration of acquired businesses and rapid technological and market change. All forward-looking statements are based on information available to Internap on the date hereof, and Internap assumes no obligation to update such statements. This release contains certain metrics, such as "EBITDA," "direct cost of network," and "direct margin" that are not computed in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States ("GAAP"). In practice, companies apply these definitions in a variety of ways.
c 2002 PlayStream, LLC. All rights reserved. PlayStream and the PlayStream symbol are trademarks of PlayStream, LLC., in the United States and other countries. For more information on PlayStream, visit its web site: playstream.com . For more information on Internap, visit its Web site: internap.com .
All other products and companies mentioned are registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective owners.
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