IUMA Selects Speedera Networks to Deliver Online Music Worldwide; Deal Provides Further Evidence of Speedera's Growing Momentum in Music and Entertainment Industries.Business Editors/High-Tech and Entertainment Writers SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 31, 2000 Speedera Networks, the first single-source provider of global traffic management, content delivery, and streaming media See streaming audio, streaming video and digital media hub. services for the Internet, today announced that the Internet Underground Music Archive The Internet Underground Music Archive (IUMA) was a pioneer of on-line music. IUMA was started by Rob Lord, Jeff Patterson and Jon Luini from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1993, for the purpose of providing a venue for unsigned artists to share their music and (IUMA IUMA Internet Underground Music Archive IUMA Interim Use Material Authorization ), one of the premier destinations for new music and unsigned artists, has tapped Speedera to be a primary provider of content delivery services See CDN. for its site. A member of the EMusic network of music sites along with RollingStone.com, IUMA will rely on Speedera's Universal Delivery Network (UDN UDN Unión Democrática Nacionalista UDN Universal Domain Network UDN Unreal Developer Network UDN Ubiquity Developer Network UDN University Developers Network ) for high speed, reliable delivery of rich web content. IUMA features over 20,000 artist web sites and provides its users with downloadable music from thousands of emerging artists. IUMA allows bands to publish music in MP3 format, sell CDs, create message boards, post fan lists, and provide email services. Over 250,000 unique users frequent the site each month. "Our users have come to rely upon the fast and easy experience that Speedera provides," said Jeff Patterson, founder and director of technology of IUMA. "With the amount of traffic we get each day, it's imperative that we have the best content delivery solution available. Speedera was the top choice." Customers employing the Speedera Universal Delivery Network experience rich quality, enhanced availability, faster data access, and improved scalability of their web sites. Content is served from hundreds of servers strategically located around the globe to improve response time and enhance the quality of the user experience. Equipment and IT costs are reduced because Speedera UDN customers do not need to buy, deploy, or maintain complex, rapidly evolving server and networking systems. "This is the latest entertainment company to sign on with us," said Gordon Smith
Gordon Harold Smith (born May 25, 1952) is Oregon's junior United States Senator, currently serving his second term. He is a member of the Republican Party. , vice president of marketing at Speedera. "We are delighted to provide content delivery services for IUMA, the very first site dedicated to online music. We think that their fans worldwide will be very happy with the new dimension of quality that we are helping IUMA bring to the online musical experience." About IUMA IUMA pioneered the delivery of music on the Internet in 1993 and is one of the premier destinations for new music. IUMA showcases the artist web sites and music of thousands of emerging artists to millions of music fans through the IUMA web site and syndication partners like EMusic.com (Nasdaq:EMUS), Rollingstone.com, Yahoo! and Listen.com. About Speedera Networks Speedera Networks, Inc. is a rapidly growing Internet infrastructure company that provides services for accelerating the Internet through superior performance, reliability, and scalability. Speedera's Universal Delivery Network (UDN) features a unique set of next generation global load balancing The fine tuning of a computer system, network or disk subsystem in order to more evenly distribute the data and/or processing across available resources. For example, in clustering, load balancing might distribute the incoming transactions evenly to all servers, or it might redirect them , failover, content delivery, and streaming services, all based on a common global traffic management infrastructure. Together, these services ensure fast and reliable access to Internet applications, streaming media, and other web content. Speedera Networks is located at 4900 Great America Great America is a name shared by two American amusement parks opened by the Marriott Corporation in 1976. Both parks are now under different ownership and are known as:
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