DIGITAL FOUNTAIN ADVANCES NEW ERA OF RICH CONTENT DELIVERY THROUGH PARTNERSHIPS WITH INDUSTRY LEADERS.

Digital Fountain, which recently announced the availability of its rich-data delivery products, is partnering with best-of-breed solutions and technology providers to help proliferate the cost-effective delivery of digital content over the Internet. Together these partners make up the Digital Fountain Ecosystem, a group of companies whose combined capabilities offer a comprehensive solution that includes reporting, security and distribution functions. These are critical elements required to deliver extremely large files such as software and manufacturing design files or popular content like streaming video and audio, software downloads, over the Internet and other IP networks.

"In today's business climate, it's not enough to provide a single piece of the content-delivery puzzle," said Charlie Oppenheimer, vice president of marketing and business development for Digital Fountain. "It's also not enough just to focus on technology without delivering a solid business solution. We must proactively bring all the necessary pieces together in an environment that the customer can implement and see results from immediately."

Digital Fountain's new Fountain Servers -- Streaming Fountain(TM) and Download Fountain(TM) -- provide the core data transport component of the Fountain Ecosystem.

Using Digital Fountain's Meta-Content(TM) technology, network owners -- service providers, enterprises and content delivery networks -- can achieve an unsurpassed level of distribution reliability by guaranteeing that a perfect copy of the original file is delivered every time. The technology also significantly lowers their cost of delivering rich content by not requiring additional bandwidth for additional users. Using Digital Fountain products, network owners can handle increasingly larger audiences without consuming more network bandwidth or without having to add more servers. Fountain Servers make it possible to have the predictable, flat-cost model of traditional broadcasting with the reliability and security of private networks and the on-demand access of the Internet. Fountain Servers can serve a large audience with a single server and let users get a perfect copy of the content they want, when they want it. Since Fountain Servers are neutral to data format, the Fountain Client is also interoperable with all the major media players. Fountain Servers offer the most cost-effective means of delivering rich content available today.

"Currently, network owners are faced with many challenges -- mix-and-matched delivery and management technologies, a variety of rich-content types, and users who expect fast, on-demand access," said Greg Howard, Principal Analyst with The HTRC Group, LLC. "No single-vendor solution puts it all together. Trying to integrate reporting, billing, analysis, and security with a content delivery system in a piecemeal fashion is inherently complex, Fountain Ecosystem partners provide a simpler answer -- they interoperate to provide a more comprehensive solution."