[0] Speedera Networks Adds Streaming Media Service to its Universal Delivery Network; Streaming Media Network Implemented on Global Scale.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 19, 2000

Speedera Networks, the world's first single-source provider of global traffic management and content delivery services for the Internet, today unveiled Speedera Streaming, the streaming media service component of the Speedera Universal Delivery Network (UDN). Speedera Streaming offers content and service providers the power to deliver rapid, reliable, audio and video streaming for such applications as e-learning (video-based training), news (downloadable clips), and entertainment (movie trailers, music videos). With Speedera Streaming, the Speedera Universal Delivery Network combines comprehensive traffic management capabilities with a worldwide delivery network and is the first service offering able to deliver all content types--static, dynamic and streaming media--while eliminating the performance and reliability issues common to standard streaming methods.

"The Speedera Streaming service eliminates many of today's challenges facing Internet service providers, content providers and production house encoders," said Gordon Smith, vice president of marketing for Speedera. "Speedera Streaming dramatically increases performance and reduces delays, eliminating the poor image quality that end users have had to tolerate with traditional content delivery services. With Speedera Streaming, users now have almost instantaneous access to the rich, high-bandwidth multimedia content they demand, and content providers have the ability to quickly deliver even richer, more creative web content that takes full advantage of the speed of the Internet."

As part of the Speedera Universal Delivery Network, Speedera Streaming leverages more than 30 points of presence (POP) worldwide, providing e-businesses an extremely scalable, reliable and high-performance solution for delivering streaming media content to Internet users around the globe. By pushing customer media content to one of Speedera's strategically located edge servers, close to users, Speedera Streaming offers customers the most extensive coverage and advantageous Internet locations for media content while optimizing performance, availability and cost.

"Speedera is clearly delivering on its vision to accelerate the Internet," said Greg Howard, principal analyst with the HTRC Group. "By adding the ability to deliver streaming media, Speedera now makes it possible for companies to add the bandwidth-intensive media that makes the Internet more exciting to users, without sacrificing image quality and overall performance. In addition, Speedera delivers a service, not a product, so companies can quickly and affordably take advantage of streaming capabilities, without the enormous infrastructure and management costs that a streaming web site otherwise demands."

Speedera Streaming is an ideal solution for content providers that leverage streaming media as an interactive approach to promoting and selling products and services over the web.

"The ability to rapidly deliver rich, multimedia content over the Internet has made it an essential marketing vehicle for the movie industry," said Greg Harrison, producer/director of "Groove", the Sony Pictures Classics film that is hitting the box office this summer. "We are relying on the Speedera Streaming service to deliver the trailer for "Groove". Performance has been excellent, with the quality and speed that is needed to attract and keep the attention of viewers."

"Speedera has helped make this year's Indy 500 race even more interesting to race fans," said Michael Hughes of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Corporation. "Using Speedera Streaming, we have been able to flawlessly deliver video clips from our film archives showing the greatest moments of Indy 500 racing. We have received fabulous feedback from our fans, who have spent hours on the site enjoying these great moments in race history."

Speedera Streaming Delivers Flexibility and Global Reliability

Speedera Streaming is designed to support the widest possible array of steaming media formats, including Apple's QuickTime, Microsoft's Windows Media, Real Networks' RealServer, MP3, MPEG-1, MPEG-3, MPEG-4 and RTSP. This breadth of supported formats allows users to enjoy the steaming media content of their choice, and allows content providers maximum flexibility in determining how to deliver their content.

Speedera's streaming media solution achieves a high degree of robustness since it was developed in-house by the company's own development team as an integral part of the Universal Delivery Network architecture. This seamless integration also enables Speedera Streaming to deliver advanced, flexible management capabilities, leveraging the management capabilities of the Universal Delivery Network such as global load balancing, intelligent failover, packet loss measurement, and e-commerce transaction support.

Speedera further ensures robustness through the Speedera Network Operations Center (NOC), which operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Customers can verify the status of the delivery of their content through Speedera's monitoring and administration service, SpeedEye. SpeedEye provides up-to-the-minute usage statistics, including real-time and historical data, enabling companies to track the popularity of their content, the geographical location of users and the quality of content delivery.

Availability and Pricing

Speedera Streaming is in beta testing now with multiple content providers. The service will be fully available in July. Pricing is based on the quantity of content streamed from edge servers, with additional cost for edge storage.

About Speedera Networks

Speedera Networks, Inc. is a dynamic, rapidly growing Internet infrastructure company established in 1999 to provide services for accelerating the Internet. These services enrich the web experience through superior speed, reliability and scalability. Speedera offers a unique set of next generation network services, including its flagship Universal Delivery Network (UDN) service. UDN includes Global Traffic Management, Content Delivery Network and Streaming services. Together, these services enable moving content from web sites to the edge of the Internet for fast access while also providing global traffic management for accelerating access to Internet applications, streaming media and other web content. Speedera is a member of the Broadband Content Delivery Forum. For more information about Speedera, please call: 408-970-1500, visit www.speedera.com or send email to [e-mail].