LOCAL FIRM TO PROVIDE AOL WITH AUDIO, VIDEO.Byline: Jason Z. Cohen cohen or kohen (Hebrew: “priest”) Jewish priest descended from Zadok (a descendant of Aaron), priest at the First Temple of Jerusalem. The biblical priesthood was hereditary and male. Staff Writer Sandpiper sandpiper, common name for some members of the large family Scolopacidae, small shore birds, including the snipe and the curlew. Sandpipers are wading birds with relatively long legs and long, slender bills for probing in the sand or mud for their prey—all Networks is expected to announce today that it has signed an agreement with America Online See AOL. to be the conduit for delivering audio and video broadcasts to the service's 18 million subscribers. The deal is the result of a relationship begun earlier this year, when America Online was the largest investor in a $21.5 million round of venture funding for the Thousand Oaks-based Sandpiper. Scott Yara, Sandpiper's vice president of marketing, said the agreement is the latest in a series of deals in which Sandpiper becomes the means for distributing content to large 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. . Sandpiper also has alliances with Inktomi, RealNetworks and Sun Microsystems, Yara said. Sandpiper provides Internet sites with a network of servers that duplicate content on multiple servers in order to speed access to information, Yara said. ``The real key to getting true quality performance is to avoid all of the net 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. that occurs,'' Yara said. ``To bring true broadcast quality, you need to serve the content as close to the edge of the media network as possible.'' Sandpiper's Footprint service delivers streaming audio and video to online customers. It allows for the live broadcasts of concerts and other events, Yara said. ``We're effectively building the broadcast networks of the Internet,'' Yara said. |
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