Digital Fountain, Telestream Partner to Speed Delivery of Rich Media Files and Long-Form Content; Fastest, Simplest Media Encoding and Transport Solution.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers National Association of Broadcasters Conference FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 3, 2002 Digital Fountain has teamed with Telestream Inc., to provide extremely fast, highly reliable delivery of the most demanding media files. Movie studios, advertisers and broadcasters can now send "long-form" content -- files representing 20 minutes or more of programming -- or high resolution ad spots to any location around the globe at Internet line speed. By providing a straight-forward media encoding interface with an exponential increase in delivery speed for studios, editing houses and distribution facilities, this technological improvement cuts to the heart of media production, shortening product cycles, improving quality and reducing costs. The companies will be demonstrating their solution at the 2002 National Association of Broadcasters Conference in Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. , booth No. L20658, in the Las Vegas Convention Center The Las Vegas Convention Center is owned and operated by the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority and is located in Clark County, Nevada. It is one of the largest Convention centers in the world. At the end of 2004, the center had 3. . "Telestream is the media industry's premier media-encoding and exchange company," said Digital Fountain chief executive officer Cliff Meltzer. "Its forward-looking use of Digital Fountain transport technology creates an effective alternative to shipping tapes by mail or sending files via slower, standard FTP FTP in full file transfer protocol Internet protocol that allows a computer to send files to or receive files from another computer. Like many Internet resources, FTP works by means of a client-server architecture; the user runs client software to connect to connections." For long-haul digital media transport of over-sized files, TCP-based IP protocols begin to break down when packet loss and/or congestion The condition of a network when there is not enough bandwidth to support the current traffic load. congestion - When the offered load of a data communication path exceeds the capacity. are introduced. With Digital Fountain's patented Meta-Content(TM) technology, the effects of packet loss and network congestion In data networking and queueing theory, network congestion occurs when a link or node is carrying so much data that its quality of service deteriorates. Typical effects include queueing delay, packet loss or the blocking of new connections. are virtually eliminated, thus enabling maximum network efficiency and throughput. With network timeouts and failed downloads no longer an issue, exceedingly fast and reliable media delivery becomes possible. "Digital Fountain technology allows Telestream to boost the entire dynamic of digital media production," said Dan Castles, chief executive officer of Telestream. "Instantaneous content sharing among remote groups involved in the production of film, news and video will allow an unprecedented level of real-time collaboration in digital media editing, production and distribution." Telestream ClipMail appliances combine with the Digital Fountain Transporter Fountain to provide media digitization to MPEG (Moving Pictures Experts Group) An ISO/ITU standard for compressing digital video. Pronounced "em-peg," it is the universal standard for digital terrestrial, cable and satellite TV, DVDs and digital video recorders (DVRs). formats so that production companies can exchange master-quality media between creative partners or send approvals and dailies from remote locations to producers, post houses and clients. Companies can now use any IP network to send and receive broadcast-quality footage such as news, promotions and advertising spots. About Telestream Telestream products have set the standard with the most demanding media companies in the world for the encoding and delivery of broadcast-quality video and streaming media See streaming audio, streaming video and digital media hub. via IP networks. Telestream's MPEG appliances and streaming automation software products eliminate today's time consuming, manual process of media acquisition, encoding, transcoding and delivery to servers. Simple, fast and reliable are reasons why 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. , NBC NBC in full National Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. commercial broadcasting company. It was formed in 1926 by RCA Corp., General Electric Co. (GE), and Westinghouse and was the first U.S. company to operate a broadcast network. , Warner Bros BROS Brothers BROS Benefits and Retirement Operations Section (King County, Washington) BROS Barnes and Richmond Operatic Society (London, UK) . and other high profile media companies rely on Telestream technology. Located in the "video valley" region of Nevada City, California Nevada City is the county seat of Nevada County, California, USA, 166 miles (267 km) northeast of San Francisco. In 1900, 3,250 people lived in Nevada City, California; in 1910, 2,689 lived there. The population was 3,001 at the 2000 census. , Telestream is privately held and is funded by Intel, Shaw Venture Partners, Hallador Venture Partners and angel investors. For more information visit www.telestream.net or call 530/470-1300. About Digital Fountain Digital Fountain is the leading innovator in the delivery of high-volume, mission-critical data and media-rich files over IP networks. Unlike standard server-type products, the family of appliances and servers use Meta-Content(TM) technology, which encodes data into a series of equations from which an unlimited number of users can reconstruct a perfect copy of the original content. Meta-Content technology eliminates the need for retransmissions or receipt acknowledgement and makes data loss irrelevant. As a result, our products and solutions deliver data faster and more reliably than any other data transport technology or product. For more information please call 510/284-1400, send a fax to 510/284-1499 or send e-mail to press@digitalfountain.com. Company information is also available at www.digitalfountain.com. Note to Editors: Fountain Server, Transporter Fountain, Meta-Content, Digital Fountain and the Digital Fountain logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Digital Fountain, Inc. in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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