Anystream and Excalibur Partner On End-to-End Streaming Media Solution.Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers Streaming Media See streaming audio, streaming video and digital media hub. West 2000 SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 12, 2000 Excalibur Integrates Anystream Agility Enterprise(TM)Encoding Platform within Screening Room(TM)Digital Asset Management System Anystream(TM), Inc., an Internet infrastructure software company specializing in enterprise-class streaming media encoding technology, and Excalibur Technologies Corporation (Nasdaq:EXCA EXCA Exchangeable Card Architecture EXCA European Expanded Clay Association (Brussels, Belgium) ), a leading provider of content management solutions for indexing and retrieving text, video and images on the Internet and intranets, today announced a partnership to provide customers with an integrated, enterprise-class software solution for digital asset acquisition, management, encoding and distribution. Under the agreement, Excalibur will integrate the Anystream Agility Enterprise encoding platform into Excalibur's award-winning Screening Room(TM) technology and distribute it as an optional component of the integrated system. The combined offering pairs Excalibur's digital asset management system with Anystream's streaming media encoding and distribution platform, and creates an unprecedented resource for the world's largest media creators. Now, media archiving, search, retrieval, encoding and distribution can be delivered via a single automated, enterprise-class solution that is based entirely on a scalable, extensible, programmatic software architecture. "Our clients, who include some of the largest digital video content entities in the world, are frustrated by the inefficiencies of trying to create and produce multiple content versions to match the variety of formats and access rates existing on the Web today," said Derek Gascon Gascon inhabitant of Gascony, France; people noted for their bragging. [Fr. Hist.: NCE, 1049] See : Boastfulness , vice president of Product Development, Excalibur Technologies. "Anystream's Agility Enterprise solves this problem and, when integrated with Screening Room, gives serious digital content producers a software infrastructure capable of managing tremendous volume," Gascon said. "We believe that the synergies between our technology and Excalibur's digital asset management system will greatly benefit the streaming media industry overall, as content producers can now exploit a single platform to cost-effectively leverage video assets and provide them in the formats that users desire," said Geoff Allen, president 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. , Anystream. Anystream Agility Enterprise applies the distributed computing (1) The use of multiple computers networked throughout a wide geographical area, or the world via the Internet, in order to solve a single problem. See grid computing. (2) The use of multiple computers in an enterprise rather than one centralized system. benefits of Internet technologies to traditional audio and video production processes, automating the production, management and distribution of streaming media for broadcasters, content delivery networks, ISPs, content syndicators and global corporations. Excalibur Screening Room is a comprehensive, integrated solution for capturing, searching, viewing, editing, and publishing video content. It provides scalable, high-performance access to any video asset (analog or digital) from an ordinary Web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. . With Screening Room, users can automatically capture video; browse visual summaries (called "storyboards"); catalog content using metadata, annotations, closed caption text, and voice sound tracks; search for precise video clips using text and image clues; and create rough cuts and "Edit Decision Lists" for further production. In short, Screening Room turns video assets into useful, profitable resources in a very cost-effective way. Anystream's Agility architecture-based product family includes: its flagship Agility Enterprise(TM) encoding platform, used today by clients such as CNN CNN or Cable News Network Subsidiary company of Turner Broadcasting Systems. It was created by Ted Turner in 1980 to present 24-hour live news broadcasts, using satellites to transmit reports from news bureaus around the world. Interactive, Digital Island, NFL NFL abbr. National Football League NFL (US) n abbr (= National Football League) → Fußball-Nationalliga Films and Weather.com to automate production, management and distribution of streaming media; the Agility Workgroup(TM) encoder, delivering streaming production automation to post-production houses, independent producers and media professionals; and Agility Edge, now bringing streaming media encoding to edge of the Internet for CDNs and ISPs. About Excalibur Technologies Corporation Founded in 1980, Excalibur Technologies Corporation (Nasdaq:EXCA) is a recognized leader in high-performance, search-powered, multimedia content management solutions for intelligently capturing, indexing, managing, accessing and utilizing valuable digital content - including text, images and video. Excalibur works with Global 2000 corporations, software developers, application service providers and government agencies to power Intranet and Internet solutions, corporate portals and eCommerce sites. Excalibur customers and partners include ABC News
ABC News is a division of American television and radio network ABC, owned by The Walt Disney Company. Its current president is David Westin. , BG Technology, British Telecom The telephone and communications carrier that provides services in Great Britain and Northern Ireland. It used to be a division of the British Post Office, but was privatized in 1984 under Margaret Thatcher's administration. , CareerBuilder.com, chicagotribune.com, CSC, DataChannel, Digital Island, Discovery Communications, Encyclopedia Britannica, Exodus, latimes.com, Loudeye, Microsoft, NCR (NCR Corporation, Dayton, OH, www.ncr.com) A technology company specializing in financial terminal transactions, retail systems and data warehousing. Until the late 1990s, NCR was heavily invested in the hardware side of the industry, known worldwide as a major manufacturer of computers , Nortel Networks (Nortel Networks Limited, Brampton, Ontario, www.nortelnetworks.com) A world leader in telecommunications products, which includes switching, wireless and broadband systems for service providers and carriers, telephones and systems for residential and business users, computer telephony , Parametric Technologies, QXL QXL Quixell (European online auction website) QXL Quark Express Element Library .com, Raytheon, RealNetworks, Reuters, Sony, StorageTek, Sun Microsystems, UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX , United Airlines, Warner Bros BROS Brothers BROS Benefits and Retirement Operations Section (King County, Washington) BROS Barnes and Richmond Operatic Society (London, UK) . Online and The World Bank. On May 1, 2000, Excalibur and Intel's Interactive Media Services Division announced an agreement to merge and form a new company, Convera Corporation. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions, including regulatory review and shareholder approval, and is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2000. Plans for the new company focus on achieving a leading role in web-based interactive media services. Contact Excalibur at 800/788-7758 or 703/761-3700, via e-mail at info@excalib.com or visit our web site at www.excalib.com. About Anystream, Inc. Anystream, Inc. (www.anystream.com) is an Internet infrastructure software company enabling the convergence of the broadcast and Internet content production environments. Its enterprise-class Agility encoding platform automates the creation and distribution of top-quality Internet streaming media to any platform or device, regardless of connection speed or media format. Anystream's scalable, mission-critical, IP-based software architecture was developed from decades of experience in distributed and parallel computing technologies and digital video and image processing, and is platform-, codec-, and device-independent. Anystream, Inc. is funded by the Intel 64 Fund, SCP (1) (Service Control Point) A node in an SS7 telephone network that provides an interface to databases, which may reside within the SCP computer or in other computers. Private Equity Partners, L.P., and Citigroup Investments, Inc. Anystream, Inc. is based in Sterling, VA. The Excalibur logo and the following are worldwide registered trademarks of Excalibur Technologies Corporation: Excalibur Technologies Corp.(R), RetrievalWare(R), ScreeningRoom(R), WebExpress(R) and their respective logos are trademarks of Excalibur Technologies Corporation. This release contains forward-looking statements, which are based upon current expectations or beliefs, as well as a number of assumptions about future events. The reader is cautioned not to put undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, as these statements are subject to numerous factors and uncertainties, including without limitation, business and economic conditions and growth in the computing industry and continued success in technological advances, any of which may cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the statements. |
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