Microcast Establishes The World's Largest Video Delivery Network
Network Can Stream To 1,000,000 + Viewers Simultaneously
On its way to building the ""Broadband Standard of the Internet"" Microcast has succeeded in establishing the world's largest video delivery network. With over 80 gigabits of connectivity across all of the major Internet Service Providers, Microcast is massively peered to deliver desktop television to more than 1,000,000 viewers simultaneously. Their unique solution integrates the high performance of a private network service --Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) - utilizing the power of multicasting to propagate broadband signals to its worldwide array of video content servers. This distributed network architecture insures the efficient distribution of content across its backbone of network providers. ""The recent AOL/Time-Warner deal really validates the whole convergence issue,"" said Paul Nash, Microcast founder and CEO. ""Our high speed network capacity should accelerate an already high demand for a quality televisual PC experience."" With over 1.5 terabytes (6,000 hrs) of edge video content storage per server farm and 300 terabytes planned for its core in Danbury, Connecticut, Microcast will be able to stream live video and provide archived video for ""Video on Demand"" from its users. Placing both high capacity video servers and massive video content storage so close to the end user enables the highest quality of service. Additionally, the Microcast Intelligent Management System avoids the traditional Internet congestion points such as long cross network backhauls and public and private peering points further enabling the finest video experience possible. Microcast's Internet connectivity spans the World with its partners AT&T, MCI Worldcom (UUNET), Sprint, Cable & Wireless, CerfNet, Qwest and Frontier Global. About Microcast Microcast, founded in 1998 and based in New York City, is the broadcast standard of the Internet. The company provides content partners with a turnkey video streaming service, advertisers with unparalleled one-to-one relationship marketing capabilities and consumers with live and archived television programming on demand.