NaviSite Selected as Official Streaming Provider for Wimbledon Championships; All England Club Selects NaviSite For Real Time Streaming to Global Audience.Business/Technology/Sports Editors ANDOVER, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 25, 2001 NaviSite, Inc. (Nasdaq: NAVI) has been chosen as the official streaming provider for the Wimbledon Championships. Starting today, coverage of the world famous sporting event will be shown on the Wimbledon Channel section of the official Wimbledon website (www.wimbledon.org), which is being developed and hosted by IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) and managed by TWI Twi n. A variety of the Akan language spoken in Ghana. Interactive. It is anticipated that the Wimbledon Channel will deliver over 200,000 streams to viewers in over 99 countries. Using its streaming media See streaming audio, streaming video and digital media hub. management and distribution system, streamOS(TM), NaviSite will be streaming footage of player interviews, press conferences and tennis news as well as classic match footage. Streaming audio A one-way audio transmission over a data network. It is widely used on the Web as well as company networks to play audio clips and Internet radio. Computers in home networks stream audio (mostly music) to digital media hubs connected to home theaters. and video will be delivered via the NaviSite network to desktop audiences worldwide during the Wimbledon tournament, which takes place from June 25 to July 8. "We have taken the strategic initiative to invest in new and reliable technology to make 2001 the best Wimbledon ever," stated Jeff Lucas, IT Director for the All England Club. "We are delighted that NaviSite and TWI Interactive will be working together to bring extensive tournament coverage to Wimbledon's ever-expanding audience in an innovative fashion." "NaviSite is proud to be affiliated with one of the most prestigious sporting events in the world, and together with TWI Interactive, we will be expanding and enhancing the experience of Wimbledon through cutting edge use of streaming technology," said John Muleta mu·le·ta n. A short red cape suspended from a hollow staff, used by a matador to maneuver a bull during the final passes before a kill. [Spanish, small mule, crutch, muleta, diminutive of , Executive Vice President of NaviSite. "NaviSite's ability to leverage multiple content delivery networks makes streamOS(TM) one of the most powerful and reliable streaming media management platforms available." Patrick McNerney, Director of Europe at TWIi commented, "NaviSite will enable us to deliver reliable, high-quality audio and video to a very large number of simultaneous users. These are key capabilities that will allow us to meet and exceed the expectations of tennis fans around the world." NaviSite has streamed a number of high-profile events, including one of the largest live Internet broadcasts - Madonna's London Brixton Academy concert in November 2000. NaviSite was also responsible for recording and streaming footage of the dramatic re-entry RE-ENTRY, estates. The resuming or retaking possession of land which the party lately had. 2. Ground rent deeds and leases frequently contain a clause authorizing the landlord to reenter on the non-payment of rent, or the breach of some covenant, when the of the MIR space station, as well as streaming the popular Budweiser "Whassup?!" commercials. NaviSite's sophisticated streaming media solutions are also used by a variety of corporate clients including Microsoft, KPMG KPMG Klynveld Peat Marwick Goerdeler (accounting firm) KPMG Kaiser Permanente Medical Group KPMG Keiner Prüft Mehr Genau (German) KPMG Kommen Prüfen Meckern Gehen , Anheuser-Busch and NFL NFL abbr. National Football League NFL (US) n abbr (= National Football League) → Fußball-Nationalliga Films. A scalable, cost-effective platform for high-performance streaming content management and delivery, NaviSite's streamOS(TM) enables customers to use drag-and-drop functionality to deploy, organize, and manage streaming content on their Web sites via a browser-based interface. streamOS(TM) employs a utility service approach that allows customers to leverage the high-performance streaming infrastructure provided by streamOS(TM) CDNs, as they need it. Allowing customers to pay on a usage basis with instant resource provisioning, streamOS(TM) makes streaming more cost effective and flexible while speeding the deployment of streaming content and events. About NaviSite, Inc. NaviSite's Streaming Media Group offers a single source for all streaming media needs, built around their flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. streamOS(TM). NaviSite's streamOS(TM) is the most comprehensive, high-performance, easy-to-use, streaming media management and delivery platform available. And the company's aggregated content delivery network gives customers an unequalled streaming media delivery system with unparalleled scalability and reach. For more information about NaviSite Streaming Media, please visit www.streamos.com or call 858-453-0333. NaviSite Streaming Media Group is located at 4225 Executive Square, La Jolla La Jolla (lə hoi`yə), on the Pacific Ocean, S Calif., an uninc. district within the confines of San Diego; founded 1869. The beautiful ocean beaches, in particular La Jolla shores and Black's Beach, and sea-washed caves attract visitors and , California 90237. NaviSite, Inc. is a leading provider of outsourced Web hosting Making a Web site available on the Internet. Many ISPs host a few personal Web pages for an individual at no additional cost above the monthly service fee, but the address is subordinate to the ISP; for example, www.friendlyisp.com/pat_smith. and managed application services See ASP and Web services. for companies conducting mission-critical business on the Internet, including enterprises and other businesses deploying Internet applications. The Company's goal is to help customers focus on their core competencies by outsourcing the management and hosting of their Web operations and applications, allowing customers to fundamentally improve the ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). of their web operations. NaviSite is a majority-owned operating company operating company A business that engages in transactions with outsiders. of CMGI CMGI Commonly Maintained Grounds Infrastructures CMGI College Marketing Group Information (Services) , Inc. with minority investment from Microsoft Corporation. NaviSite's SiteHarbor(R) solutions provide secure, reliable, co-location and high-performance hosting services, including high-performance Internet access, and high-availability server management solutions through load balancing, clustering, mirroring and storage services. In addition, NaviSite's enhanced management services, beyond basic co-location and hosting, are designed to meet the expanding needs of businesses as their Web sites and Internet applications become more complex and as their needs for outsourcing all aspects of their online businesses intensify. The Company's application services, which include application hosting, management and rental, provide cost-effective access to, as well as rapid deployment and reliable operation of, business-critical applications, including managed services for streaming media. For more information about NaviSite, please visit www.navisite.com or by phone on the East Coast call 888-298-8222, on the West Coast call 888-755-5525. NaviSite is headquartered at 400 Minuteman Road, Andover, MA 01810. About TWIinteractive TWIi is the interactive media and technology arm of IMG IMG International medical graduate, see there , the world's premier sports management agency. TWIi has been pioneering innovations in interactive media since 1996 and has established a worldwide leadership position in digital sports & entertainment. In addition to Wimbledon, TWIi is managing integrated media initiatives for over 35 premier brands including the British Open, New England Patriots  Editing of this page by unregistered or newly registered users is currently disabled until (UTC) due to vandalism. , Tiger Woods and Manchester United. TWIi's other business areas are: supporting the development of leading interactive media networks; working with the corporate community to develop cost-effective interactive media strategies and sponsorship investments; and developing technology solutions, partnerships and alliances to support our clients and the broader digital sports & entertainment marketplace. This release contains forward-looking statements based on current expectations or beliefs, as well as a number of assumptions about future events, and these statements are subject to important factors and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements in this release address a variety of subjects including, for example, the expected benefits to be derived from and functionality of the NaviSite's streamOS(TM) product and the expected functionality of NaviSite's other products and technologies. The following factors, among others, could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in these forward-looking statements: difficulty integrating streamOS with NaviSite's other products, services and technologies and those of other providers; any failure of a content delivery network; any failure of streamOS to function as designed, and any failure of systems or internal infrastructure. For a detailed discussion of these and other cautionary statements, please refer to the filings made by each of NaviSite and CMGI with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q Form 10-Q See 10-Q. of each of NaviSite and CMGI for the most recently ended quarter for each company. NaviSite, streamOS(TM) and SiteHarbor(R) are trademarks of NaviSite, Inc. All other trademarks are the properties of their respective owners. |
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