AduroNet Chooses Multicast Media to Distribute Streaming Media to pan-European Market.Business Editors NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of & LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 31, 2000 Deal Will Provide European Distribution to Multicast Media's Streaming Media See streaming audio, streaming video and digital media hub. Content Providers and Deliver Premium Content to AduroNet's European Customer Base AduroNet Ltd, the high performance web platform, and Multicast Media Network, Inc., the world's leading provider of multicast streaming media by satellite, today announced an alliance to deliver multicast streaming media to AduroNet's European customer base. The alliance will offer AduroNet's subscribers access to hundreds of streams from Multicast Media's content providers, which include, among others, Bloomberg TV, C-SPAN and Yahoo!. This alliance will give access to an audience of 5 million potential subscribers for Multicast Media's content partners. Multicast Media delivers a best-of-breed streaming media product to the desktop. Using a satellite-based infrastructure and IP multicasting A one-to-many transmission of data over an IP network. It is used for a myriad of purposes including updating routers, announcing and discovering services and streaming media. IP multicast saves network bandwidth, because packets are transmitted as one stream over the backbone and only software, Multicast Media distributes broadcast-quality audio and video from globally recognized content providers like Bloomberg TV. The suite of technology solutions offered by Multicast Media enables its partners to distribute real-time streaming media by satellite directly to a potentially unlimited number of end-users. The Company is aggregating business-related content into channels for viewing by business and professional subscribers. AduroNet's intelligent IP network and hosting services provide one-hop connectivity to more than 4,000 nodes throughout Europe, thanks to the company's innovative partnering strategy. AduroNet's revolutionary dynamic content delivery and transit capability ensure guaranteed continuous broadband access See broadband and wireless broadband. , while the unique topology topology, branch of mathematics, formerly known as analysis situs, that studies patterns of geometric figures involving position and relative position without regard to size. inherent in the AduroNet web enables business customers to create company-specific Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), which benefit from unprecedented speed, security, reliability and resilience resilience (r  ·zilˑ·yens),n . Reynie Ortiz, Chairman and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , AduroNet Ltd., commented: "Europe is the most rapidly evolving Internet market in the world. Our integrated IP network services and advanced hosting solutions for businesses, combined with Multicast Media's technology and content, will accommodate the projected growth of business Internet usage in Europe. Our partners will now be able to offer Multicast Media's streaming content as a value-added service A value-added service (VAS) is a telecommunications industry term for non-core services or, in short, all services beyond standard voice calls and fax transmissions. to their customers. We continue to take the lead in providing our partners with cutting-edge technology solutions." Perwaiz Nihal, President and CEO, Multicast Media, added: "Adding AduroNet's European network to our satellite-based Internet delivery system offers our content providers a European market accessing 9 countries and approximately 5 million potential subscribers. We are aggressively expanding our global content delivery network, and are equally committed to enhancing the finest aggregated suite of compelling, mission-critical content available today." About Multicast Media Network, Inc. Multicast Media Network, Inc, headquartered in Wappingers Falls, NY, is the leading multicasting broadband network in the world. The Company is a pioneer in the developing technology of Internet-based, real-time multicast content distribution by satellite. The Multicast Media network utilizes commercial communications satellites communications satellite artificial satellite that functions as part of a global radio-communications network. Echo 1, the first communications satellite, launched in 1960, was an instrumented inflatable sphere that passively reflected radio signals back to and multicast Internet protocol See Internet and TCP/IP. (networking) Internet Protocol - (IP) The network layer for the TCP/IP protocol suite widely used on Ethernet networks, defined in STD 5, RFC 791. IP is a connectionless, best-effort packet switching protocol. to distribute streaming media and large files real-time to an unlimited number of end-users. Multicast Media's content and access provider partners provide their end users a multimedia Internet experience whose quality approaches that of the traditional broadcast formats of radio and television. For more information, visit the Company's website at www.multicastmedia.tv. About AduroNet Ltd AduroNet was launched to revolutionize rev·o·lu·tion·ize tr.v. rev·o·lu·tion·ized, rev·o·lu·tion·iz·ing, rev·o·lu·tion·iz·es 1. To bring about a radical change in: Television has revolutionized news coverage. 2. the Internet, taking European businesses to the forefront of the emerging new economy. The unique architecture inherent in the AduroNet web breaks through the current performance limitations of the Internet, which is structurally unable to deal with the requirements of modern business. The company was co-founded by Reynie Ortiz, well known in the communications arena for his successes at Qwest International and US West International Telewest/MediaOne. Further information on AduroNet Ltd is available from the website, which is maintained using AduroNet's web hosting Making a Web site available on the Internet. Many ISPs host a few personal Web pages for an individual at no additional cost above the monthly service fee, but the address is subordinate to the ISP; for example, www.friendlyisp.com/pat_smith. and intelligent IP network, at: www.aduronet.com or by calling +44 (0)20 7292 3840. |
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