Cidera Announces Content Services Partner Program; Charter partners include e-Media and Speedera Networks.Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers STREAMING MEDIA See streaming audio, streaming video and digital media hub. WEST 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 Cidera(TM), Inc., the Internet Broadcast Backbone, an international leader in the delivery of broadband content to the edge of the Internet, today announced the creation of its Content Services Partner (CSP (1) (Certified Systems Professional) An earlier award for successful completion of an ICCP examination in systems development. See ICCP. (2) (Commerce Service P ) program. The program, which includes charter partners e-Media, Inc. and Speedera Networks, is designed to make available to content providers the full range of networks and content delivery services See CDN. provided by Cidera and its CSP partners. Through this program, Cidera now has the ability to serve a broader market by offering the services of its partners to meet the Internet media delivery needs of content providers. The CSP program allows Cidera to be the main point of contact for content providers, and offers them a robust managed solution for a broader footprint, turnkey content hosting, and content delivery services via satellite. The program extends Cidera's service portfolio by allowing it to offer the technology and products of its CSP partners, integrated with Cidera's services and network, thereby enabling new business opportunities. The program combines the high quality and low-cost delivery of Cidera's global content broadcast platform with CSP partners' edge services, offering customized solutions to content providers. Applications include: global load balancing The fine tuning of a computer system, network or disk subsystem in order to more evenly distribute the data and/or processing across available resources. For example, in clustering, load balancing might distribute the incoming transactions evenly to all servers, or it might redirect them ; pay-per-view and other e-commerce functions; digital rights management; and live event production, encoding and hosting for large-audience webcasts such as concerts, speeches, and other events. "We see this program as a deepening of our relationship with our Content Services Partners," said Cidera Chief Operating Officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. Bob Marggraf. "We're very happy to have e-Media and Speedera as charter partners, and we look forward to future growth of this program by having additional partners join." Ram Viswanathan, Cidera's Vice President of Corporate Development and Strategy, said, "Because of our horizontal broadcast platform strategy, Cidera has developed relationships with all of the industry's leading content service providers. We are uniquely positioned to serve as the main point of contact for content providers who are looking to access a broader range of technologies." Cidera's CSP program offers customers: -- Integrated solutions that blend CSP partners' services and technology with Cidera's Internet Broadcast Backbone -- A main point of contact for sales and support -- Networks and capabilities best suited to match customers' needs About Cidera Cidera provides a managed global Internet broadcast platform which improves the delivery of rich media. Cidera operates the world's largest distributed Internet content delivery platform, spanning 500 different data networks in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Europe, Asia and Latin America Latin America, the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. . The company serves content service providers, as well as broadband and dialup Internet access providers, offering superior quality and lower cost distribution and hosting for Web content, streaming media, and large databases. For more information, visit www.cidera.com. About e-Media Founded in 1995, e-Media originated the concept of "e-commerce streaming" by delivering unique and innovative approaches that tie revenues to video streams at incredible scale. Poised to revolutionize the broadband programming environment, e-Media's proprietary technology intelligently wraps micro-marketing and e-commerce applications around high-quality video streams. e-Media is headquartered in New Canaan New Canaan (kā`nən), town (1990 pop. 17,864), Fairfield co., SW Conn.; settled c.1700, inc. 1801. It is mainly a residential town and suburb of nearby New York City. Silvermine Guild Arts Center is located there. , Conn. and is a registered trademark of e-Media, LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control . For more information, go to www.e-media.com. About Speedera Networks Speedera Networks, Inc. is a rapidly growing Internet infrastructure company that provides services for accelerating the Internet through superior performance, reliability, and scalability. Speedera's Universal Delivery Network (UDN UDN Unión Democrática Nacionalista UDN Universal Domain Network UDN Unreal Developer Network UDN Ubiquity Developer Network UDN University Developers Network ) features a unique set of next generation global load balancing, failover, content delivery, and streaming services, all based on a common global traffic management infrastructure. Together, these services ensure fast and reliable access to Internet applications, streaming media, and other web content. Speedera Networks is located at 4800 Great America Great America is a name shared by two American amusement parks opened by the Marriott Corporation in 1976. Both parks are now under different ownership and are known as:
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