ANYwebcam.com Announces New Technology to Accommodate up to Five Million Users; V3 Technology Launch: Reinforces Company's Leadership in Online Video, Voice & Text Interaction.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers MELBOURNE, Australia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 28, 2003 ANYwebcam.com Pty Ltd PTY LTD Propriety Limited (company structure in Australia) , the world's leading webcam chat community site, announced today it has launched the third generation of its online video, voice and text chat technology called V3. With this new system, ANYwebcam.com is capable of growing its current 750,000 customers worldwide to over five million in the next two years. V3, the in-house In-house In the context of general equities, keeping an activity within the firm. For example, rather than go to the marketplace and sell a security for a client to anyone, an attempt is made to find a buyer to complete the transaction with the firm. technology developed in Australia by ANYwebcam.com breaks new ground in speed and quality of webcam video, far surpassing that of videophones, and without special equipment or call charges. "ANYwebcam developed its web video broadcast and high speed image handling technologies in-house, due to a fundamental philosophy shift from traditional webcam sites," explains Gordon Williams This article is about the novelist. For the United States Air Force officer, see Gordon E. Williams. Gordon M. Williams (born 1934) is a writer. Born in Paisley, Scotland, he moved to London to work as a journalist. , co-founder of ANYwebcam.com. "Typically, webcams work in 'point-to-point' mode, where the computing computing - computer and connectivity load falls on the person broadcasting. The result? As the number of viewers of one 'broadcaster' increases so does the number of video streams sent to viewers, the 'broadcaster' can not shoulder the demand and the show typically grinds to a halt -- this is known as 'death by demand' in the industry," says Williams. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Williams, in-house development was necessary, as no existing solutions investigated by the company could cost-effectively deal with more than 30,000 hours per week of live web broadcast video, 1.5 Terabytes of monthly web traffic, or 50,000 daily chat sessions the site was already receiving, let alone scale to meet its growth targets. Williams explains, "With ANYwebcam.com, where many thousands of simultaneous viewers is typical, the V3 systems relieve the computing load away from the person on cam and constantly adjusts the quality and speed of the experience according to the computing power and modem speed of for each individual viewer." V3 powers the company's web site at www.anywebcam.com where hundreds of thousands of people each day in over 100 countries communicate and interact using low-cost webcams, personal computers and standard Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the connections. V3 is "pre-built" for future developments in wireless communication, ready to stream to personal hand-held devices and video-enabled mobile phones. On any given day, ANYwebcam.com supports over 50 million images that are streamed as live video to hundreds of thousands of viewers around the world. The new system is poised to support a tenfold tenfold Adjective 1. having ten times as many or as much 2. composed of ten parts Adverb by ten times as many or as much Adj. 1. increase in customers in the next 24 months. ANYwebcam.com is the world's most popular webcam chat community (Hitwise statistics - February 2003), Internet site where real people watch, show, talk, chat and interact in real-time 1. real-time - Describes an application which requires a program to respond to stimuli within some small upper limit of response time (typically milli- or microseconds). Process control at a chemical plant is the classic example. . For business, technical & human interest backgrounders, visit: www.anywebcam.com and click the Corporate/Media Info link |
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