Digital Fountain Advances New Era of Rich Content Delivery through Partnerships with Industry Leaders.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 21, 2001 BroadStream, Lariat, Secure Media Join Digital Fountain to Provide End-to-End Solutions (jargon) end-to-end solution - (E2ES) A term that suggests that the supplier of an application program or system will provide all the hardware and/or software components and resouces to meet the customer's requirement and no other supplier need be involved. Compare: turn-key solution. Digital Fountain, which recently announced the availability of its innovative rich-data delivery products, is partnering with best-of-breed solutions and technology providers to help proliferate pro·lif·er·ate v. To grow or multiply by rapidly producing new tissue, parts, cells, or offspring. 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 A one-way video transmission over a data network. It is widely used on the Web as well as company networks to play video clips and video broadcasts. Computers in home networks stream video to digital media hubs connected to a home theater. and audio, software downloads, over the Internet and other IP networks. "In today's business Today's Business is a show on CNBC that aired in the early morning, 5 to 7AM ET timeslot, hosted by Liz Claman and Bob Sellers, and it was replaced by Wake Up Call on Feb 4, 2002. 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." Fountain Servers Provide Core Transport Mechanism 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 Greg Howard (born 1964 in Washington, DC) is a Chapman Stick player from Charlottesville, Virginia. Originally a keyboardist and saxophonist, Greg took up the Stick in 1985. Over the years Greg has performed thousands of shows in Charlottesville and around the world. , Principal Analyst with The HTRC HTRC Heat Transfer Recent Contents Group, LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control . "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." Partnerships Cornerstone of Fountain Ecosystem Using the services and products of the partners in the Digital Fountain Ecosystem, network owners have access to the critical components they need to build efficient content delivery systems. Lariat provides software for reporting access statistics. Broadstream's products report on end-user activity. Secure Media's encryption software Encryption software is software whose main task is encryption and decryption of data, usually in the form of files on hard drives and removable media, email messages, or in the form of packets sent over computer networks. is used to secure digital content in storage and distribution to consumers over IP networks. Other partners will be added to the Fountain Ecosystem in the near future. Lariat Software's product monitors Fountain Server data to generate reports, charts, and graphs describing access statistics for rich content for service providers. "Our partnership with Digital Fountain is designed to give major enterprises an efficient, measurable platform to deliver rich content and the reporting mechanism to evaluate, track and capitalize on Cap´i`tal`ize on` v. t. 1. To turn (an opportunity) to one's advantage; to take advantage of (a situation); to profit from; as, to capitalize on an opponent's mistakes s>. their investment," said Andrew Fry, Chief Strategist strat·e·gist n. One who is skilled in strategy. Noun 1. strategist - an expert in strategy (especially in warfare) strategian market strategist - someone skilled in planning marketing campaigns with Lariat Software. "Content providers who have a mission to improve ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). , not only need a state-of-the-art delivery system like Digital Fountain's, but also the critical traffic, trend, and network performance analysis from Lariat MediaReports to fine tune their content strategies." BroadStream has created the only unified platform for managing the delivery of digital assets by enterprises, service providers and media and entertainment companies. BroadStream's Digital Media Platform (DMP DMP Dossier Médical Personnel (France) DMP Debt Management Plan DMP Debt Management Program DMP Digital Media Project DMP Dot Matrix Printer DMP Designated Mailer Protocol DMP Dynamic Multi-Pathing ) aggregates all the necessary services to support the commercialization of digital media, allowing content providers to focus on the key objective: the best end-user experience at the lowest cost. The only viable way to accurately measure and manage content distribution is at the user device. BroadStream offers Audience Metrics, Performance Assurance and Diversified Delivery Network services to content providers through a patent-pending, client-side, real-time technology. BroadStream and Digital Fountain have collaborated to ensure the two companies' technologies work together seamlessly. Enterprises, service providers and media and entertainment companies can use Digital Fountain for scale/reliability while maximizing the effectiveness of the streaming through BroadStream. "We are very excited to partner with a company that has done so much to reduce the cost of content delivery," said Eric Shepcaro, 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. of BroadStream. "Digital Fountain's revolutionary, cost-effective streaming technology, coupled with BroadStream's services, gives content providers a low-cost, high-quality streaming server Refers to a dedicated computer system delivering streaming media or to a streaming service within a Web or application server. See streaming audio and streaming video. that can also deliver real-time user statistics and services that maximize revenues and reduce costs." Secure Media provides a comprehensive, end-to-end digital media conditional access Conditional Access (acronymized CA) is the protection of content by requiring certain criteria to be met before granting access to this content. The term is commonly used in relation to digital television systems, most notably satellite television. solution with powerful encryption The reversible transformation of data from the original (the plaintext) to a difficult-to-interpret format (the ciphertext) as a mechanism for protecting its confidentiality, integrity and sometimes its authenticity. Encryption uses an encryption algorithm and one or more encryption keys. and rules-engine technology. Secure Media's Encryptonite System(TM) persistently protects digital content from the point of origination at the content owner to the point of consumption. The Encryptonite System is an open standards Specifications for hardware and software that are developed by a standards organization or a consortium involved in supporting a standard. Available to the public for developing compliant products, open standards imply "open systems;" that an existing component in a system can be replaced solution that integrates with a wide variety of delivery, reporting and billing solutions to ensure the delivery of rich media to authorized users authorized user Radiation physics A person who, having satisfied the applicable training and experience requirements, is granted authority to order radioactive material and accepts responsibility for its safe receipt, storage, use, transfer and disposal only and enable the capture of the complete revenue associated with such digital content. "We are extremely pleased to be partnered with Digital Fountain and believe that their revolutionary Fountain Servers combined with our Encryptonite System provides the leading platform for economically viable and secure digital media services over the Internet and IP networks," said Gary Ambrosino, President of SecureMedia. Additional information about Digital Fountain and its partners is available on the Web at www.digitalfountain.com. About Digital Fountain (www.digitalfountain.com) Digital Fountain is the leading innovator in large, critical file transport over the Internet with its patent-pending Meta-Content(TM) technology. The family of Fountain Servers(TM) includes Download Fountain(TM), used for delivering rich data such as software and application upgrades, anti-virus files, or music and movie downloads and Streaming Fountain(TM), used for streaming on-demand rich media such as corporate communications Corporate communications is the process of facilitating information and knowledge exchanges with internal and key external groups and individuals that have a direct relationship with an enterprise. , training, and movies. Fountain Servers are unlike any other server technology in that they generate Meta-Content equations that mathematically represent the content, from which an unlimited number of users can reconstruct a perfect copy of the original content. This enables Content Owners, Service Providers, and Enterprises to build new business models for content delivery. Additional information may be obtained by calling Digital Fountain at +510/284-1400, sending a fax to +510/284-1499, or sending e-mail to press@digitalfountain.com. Company information is also available on the Web at www.digitalfountain.com. |
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