Digital Fountain to Preview TV-Quality Content Delivery Network for Streaming Video at NAB Show.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. Leverages the Company's Globally Standardized DF Raptor(TM) Technology FREMONT, Calif. -- Digital Fountain, Inc., a leading provider of advanced standardized software solutions for optimizing digital media delivery, today announced the development of a new content delivery network (CDN) for streaming video, which significantly improves the way people watch video over the Internet. This new CDN provides an immediate full-screen, TV-quality experience, eliminating many of the common problems associated with today's CDNs, such as poor video quality, small picture size, slow loading, and frequent buffering. The company will demonstrate this new solution to select content providers, ISPs and members of the press at NAB in Las Vegas, April 16-19, Booth #1054. "There has always been a compromise when watching video over the internet; Do I want to immediately watch a poorer-quality video, or do I want to wait and watch it with better quality?" 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. "With Digital Fountain's streaming CDN, viewers will no longer have to make a choice. They get instant access to full screen streaming video with TV quality." Digital Fountain is currently partnering with content providers and ISPs to engage them as active, vested participants in the new CDN. The new solution, which will enter trials this fall, leverages numerous Digital Fountain technologies including DF Raptor(TM) technology, which has been deployed and standardized for 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. and mobile multimedia services, as well as DF ToughStream(TM), which makes IP streaming highly resilient to common network impairments. Digital Fountain's optimized media delivery solutions improve quality of service, provide more content to more customers, and use bandwidth more efficiently. DF Raptor is a universal technology that has been adopted by many leading standards bodies for IPTV and mobile broadcast, 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. (Digital Video Broadcasting) 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 (3rd Generation Partnership Project). The company is scheduling a limited number of demonstrations of this new solution at NAB to select content providers, ISPs, and members of the press. If you would like to request a demonstration, please contact: Jim Campbell at Digital Fountain (jcampbell@digitalfountain.com). About Digital Fountain Digital Fountain software optimizes the delivery of digital media over any network, even in the most challenging environments. The company's proprietary DF Raptor technology redefines the science of forward error correction A communications technique that can correct bad data on the receiving end. Before transmission, the data are processed through an algorithm that adds extra bits for error correction. If the transmitted message is received in error, the correction bits are used to repair it. (FEC See forward error correction. FEC - Forward Error Correction ) and sets the standard for efficient and reliable transmission of digital media. Digital Fountain solutions and services are used today in advanced mobile broadcast, IPTV, streaming video, file transfer, and national defense applications, and are recognized by leading international standards bodies including DVB, 3GPP and IETF See Internet Engineering Task Force. IETF - Internet Engineering Task Force . Partners and customers include leading global companies such as Cisco Systems, Sumitomo Electric Networks, Scientific Atlanta, Northrop Grumman, Pioneer, KDDI, Sirius Satellite Radio
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