Digital Fountain Leverages Amazon Web Services to Provide Scalable, Reliable Infrastructure for CDN Offering.Digital Fountain DF Splash, the Company's New TV-Quality Video CDN (Content Delivery Network) A system of distributed content on a large intranet or the public Internet in which copies of content are replicated and cached throughout the network. Solution, will be Built Using Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud This article or section needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. (Amazon EC2) SAN DIEGO -- Digital Fountain, Inc., a leading provider of advanced standardized solutions for optimizing digital media delivery, today announced it has selected Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) from Amazon Web Services  This article or section is written like an .Please help [ rewrite this article] from a neutral point of view. Mark blatant advertising for , using . as the infrastructure for its new TV-Quality CDN solution, which will be previewed today at DEMOfall 07 in San Diego. The company also unveiled the name of its new CDN offering-Digital Fountain DF Splash-which will launch early next year. "By combining our proven, patented and standardized delivery technologies with Amazon EC2 we are able to offer an instant-on TV-quality user experience without the requirement of a costly edge infrastructure," said Charlie Oppenheimer, 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. "In effect, our technology enables us to uniquely apply supply chain management strategies to achieve competitive advantage in the content delivery business." DF Splash is a CDN designed specifically for the delivery of high-quality streaming video with no video or audio degradation, and no buffering delays. Because DF Splash is highly immune to packet loss and latency, the company is afforded exceptional flexibility with respect to infrastructure deployment. This enables Digital Fountain to achieve scale and cost competitiveness without the hundreds of millions of dollars in capital investment normally required for CDN deployments. "We're excited to help Digital Fountain skip the heavy lifting and high price of admission required to have a web infrastructure that scales on demand," said Steve Rabuchin, Director of Development Relations for Amazon Web Services. "With the heavy lifting out of the way, Digital Fountain can focus on what they do best-working to provide a truly unique, game-changing solution for delivering video over the Internet." Amazon EC2 is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud Refers to the operation taking place within a network. See cloud. , providing clients with complete control of their computing resources on Amazon's proven, highly-scalable environment. Amazon EC2 also changes the economics of bandwidth consumption by allowing clients to pay only for the capacity they actually use. About Digital Fountain Digital Fountain software optimizes the delivery of digital media over any network, even in the most challenging environments. Digital Fountain solutions are currently deployed in advanced IPTV (Internet Protocol TV) Also called "TV over IP," IPTV delivers scheduled TV programs and video-on-demand (VOD) via the IP protocol and digital streaming techniques used to watch video on the Internet. , CDN, and mobile delivery applications throughout the world, and have been adopted by leading global standards bodies, including DVB (Digital Video Broadcasting) An international digital television (DTV) standard that is the European and Far Eastern counterpart of the North American ATSC standard. , and 3GPP GPP Government Performance Project GPP General Purpose Processor GPP General Physical Preparedness GPP Gambian People's Party GPP Good Pharmacy Practice GPP Gross Primary Productivity GPP Green Procurement Program GPP Generic Packetized Protocol . Many other standards bodies are currently evaluating DF Raptor as a best practices standard for digital media delivery. Partners and customers include leading global companies such as Cisco Systems, Sumitomo Electric Networks, Northrop Grumman, KDDI, SK Telecom, Sirius Satellite Radio
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