Digital Fountain Joins Content Alliance; Content Delivery Solutions Provider Joins Initiative to Create Open Standards for Content Networking.Business Editors & High Tech Writers SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 30, 2000 Digital Fountain, the leading innovator in delivering high-demand rich content to television-scale Internet audiences, today announced that it has joined the Content Alliance, an open industry organization founded by Cisco Systems “Cisco” redirects here. For other uses, see Cisco (disambiguation). Cisco System,Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO, HKSE: 4333 ) is an American multinational corporation with 54,000 employees and annual revenue of US $28.48 billion as of 2006. , Inc., to accelerate the market evolution of content network services by fostering interoperability of Content Delivery Networks. Digital Fountain develops technologies that enable existing server architectures to deliver rich content to virtually limitless audiences, eliminating content brown out caused by increasing Internet 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. . The Content Alliance, which currently includes more than 60 companies, is an open industry body comprised of technology vendors, service providers, and content providers that support the development of 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 for the advancement of content networking. Founded in August 2000, the Content Alliance is developing foundations for standardization standardization In industry, the development and application of standards that make it possible to manufacture a large volume of interchangeable parts. Standardization may focus on engineering standards, such as properties of materials, fits and tolerances, and drafting of content peering between separately administered content delivery networks. Content Peering allows CDNs to share resources for greater scale and reach than would be possible without such sharing. Content delivery networks can use Digital Fountain's meta-content delivery technology to further decrease server load in shared resource Sharing a peripheral device (disk, printer, etc.) among several users. For example, a file server and laser printer in a LAN are shared resources. Contrast with shared logic. environments by several orders of magnitude. "Peering is an excellent way to ensure that the best benefits of each approach to content delivery are realized for service providers, content providers, and users," said Cliff Meltzer, 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 Digital Fountain. "Digital Fountain is excited to contribute its advances in rich content delivery technology to the Content Alliance, and we look forward to working with other members toward the development of a content delivery standard." Digital Fountain's unique patent-pending technologies enable reliable delivery of high demand content from a single source to an unlimited number of content recipients. Digital Fountain is developing products and services based on those technologies, as well as partnerships with content providers, Internet Service Providers Internet service provider (ISP) Company that provides Internet connections and services to individuals and organizations. For a monthly fee, ISPs provide computer users with a connection to their site (see data transmission), as well as a log-in name and password. , infrastructure suppliers and other corporations. "We are pleased to have Digital Fountain join the Content Alliance," said Krish Ramakrishnan, vice president and general manager at Cisco. "As an open industry group working on open standards and interoperability, the Content Alliance is the best way to advance the content networking market." About Digital Fountain(www.digitalfountain.com) Digital Fountain is a leading innovator in content delivery with its patent-pending technology that dramatically reduces system resources (1) In a computer system, system resources are the components that provide its inherent capabilities and contribute to its overall performance. System memory, cache memory, hard disk space, IRQs and DMA channels are examples. by transforming original media into a unique meta-content structure. This technology enables Digital Fountain content and streaming servers 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. to support any user-base regardless of its size or concurrency Operations that are performed simultaneously within the computer. For example, dual-core CPUs provide complete overlapping of two independent processes. See dual core, hyperthreading, multiprocessing, multitasking, multithreading, SMP and MPP. concurrency - multitasking while utilizing system loads that can be orders of magnitude less that other techniques. Digital Fountain servers further optimize existing enterprise or service provider infrastructures by making all requesters appear as a single virtual user and thus enable unconditional user concurrency, maximized resources and complete system predictability. Additional information may be obtained by calling Digital Fountain at +415/401-2100, sending a fax to +415/401-2199, or sending e-mail to info@digitalfountain.com. Company information is also available on the web at www.digitalfountain.com. |
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