PlayStream Rolls Out New Price Plan for Its Live Web Casting Service.Business Editors & Technology Writers SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 18, 2003 PlayStream launched a new price plan designed to enhance its popular Live Web casting services. The new plan provides customers with a budget friendly alternative way to broadcast live over the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the . The new plan, titled "Live 24x7 Per User" plan, enables customers to pay for bandwidth based on a maximum simultaneous user limit rather than on a per-megabyte transferred basis, as its current "Live 24x7 Per Megabyte One million bytes, or more precisely 1,048,576 bytes. Also MB, Mbyte and M-byte. See mega and space/time. (unit) megabyte - (MB, colloquially "meg") 2^20 = 1,048,576 bytes = 1024 kilobytes. 1024 megabytes are one gigabyte. " plan charges. For customers who deliver a steady stream of data, the new "Live 24x7 Per User" plan will provide significant savings over PlayStream's current price plan. Types of customers anticipated to benefit under the new plan include radio stations, security monitoring services The general surveillance of known air traffic movements by reference to a radar scope presentation or other means, for the purpose of passing advisory information concerning conflicting traffic or providing navigational assistance. and other entities that have fairly consistent demand for their media on an ongoing basis. This new plan, which at this time is available in Microsoft Windows See Windows. (operating system) Microsoft Windows - Microsoft's proprietary window system and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of MS-DOS. Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then. Media format, enables customers to stream any amount of data, subject to a maximum allowed bit rate and simultaneous user limit, at a fixed monthly rate. PlayStream is currently offering this plan as a beta service, providing access to raw log files for customers to download To receive a file transmitted over a network. In any communications session, "download" means receive, and "upload" means send. The download/upload often implies a big/little scenario, in which data is being downloaded from the "big" server into the "little" user's computer. and run their own reporting tools at this time. The full version of this service will include PlayStream's popular online reporting services, which should be available by the end of this year. The new plan offers attractive packages starting as low as $36.00 per month (this package provides for twenty-five maximum simultaneous users with an eight kilobit per second “KBPS” redirects here. For the AM radio station in Portland, Oregon, see KBPS (radio station). A kilobit per second (kbit/s or kb/s or kbps) is a unit of data transfer rate equal to 1,000 bits per second. maximum bit rate). Packages with larger user limits and bit rates are available. PlayStream's current "Live 24x7 Per Megabyte" plan, enables customers to stream any bit rate and pay based on data actually transferred, providing the flexibility to meet unanticipated, high volume demands. Under that plan, data transfer is billed according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a Tier Data Plan selected by the Customer. The larger Tier plans provide deeper discounts based on volume of data transferred. Online advanced reporting features are included with the current plan and are updated daily. The company, now serving over 2,000 customers, operates as a private limited liability company in the State of Washington. About PlayStream PlayStream empowers thousands of businesses and consumers worldwide with rich capabilities to track, manage, and deliver audio, video, and multimedia content over the Internet. What is unique about PlayStream is that it integrates the Streaming Industry's most popular formats with PlayStream's own proprietary technologies to provide PlayStream's customers with a simple, yet powerful service that streamlines the delivery of media over the Web. Privately held, PlayStream maintains its main office in Seattle, WA. For more information, visit www.playstream.com. PlayStream and the PlayStream symbol are trademarks of PlayStream, LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control ., in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and other countries. For more information on PlayStream, visit its web site: http://www.playstream.com. All other products and companies mentioned are registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective owners. |
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