Oversi and RawFlow Announce Partnership to Boost Internet TV Delivery
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The Joint Solution Will Allow Broadcasters and Service Providers to Reach a Wider Audience for Online TV via a More Efficient use of Bandwidth
PETACH TIKVA, Israel and LONDON, July 16 - Oversi, experts in P2P (peer-to-peer) caching and content delivery solutions, and RawFlow, a leading provider of live P2P streaming technologies, today announced their collaboration to enhance the delivery of TV over the Internet. Leveraging P2P networks, the technology partnership will allow broadcasters and service providers to support the growing demand for high quality Internet broadcasts using less bandwidth.
The solution combines Intelligent Content Distribution (ICD), RawFlow's innovative technology for live streaming, with OverCache(TM), Oversi's powerful P2P caching and content delivery platform. This means that the ICD server software will interface with the OverCache nodes, allowing service providers to offer clients stable content delivery at higher bit rates.
Enhancing RawFlow P2P streaming technology with the OverCache platform also increases the robustness of the P2P network grid. Where there is limited upstream capacity, the OverCache platform can boost the limited resources in the network. The RawFlow ICD, supported by the high throughput caching grid, enables broadcasters to benefit from better quality of service for their Internet streaming and reduce their real-time online delivery costs. Additionally, by delivering most of the bandwidth from the local cache, the Oversi/RawFlow solution enables service providers to reduce the bandwidth load on their networks. Highly scalable, the integrated solution allows broadcasters and service providers to support a growing global customer base.
Eitan Efron, VP of Marketing and Business Development, Oversi,
said: "Our partnership with RawFlow enables service providers to offer their customers a wider variety of online TV content, including broadcaster channels and independent niche and user-generated content, with better quality of service. With the extra bandwidth coming from the OverCache, service providers don't have to worry about the new services overloading their existing network."
Mikkel Dissing, Chief Executive Officer of RawFlow, commented:
"This technology integration represents a major development in our product offering in terms of enabling higher bit rate AV streaming and maximizing the speed of the P2P network grid. The integration of Oversi's caching and RawFlow's ICD can act as a booster in the network when there is not enough upstream capacity. In simple terms, you could say that the P2P powered caches work as turbo chargers for Internet TV delivery".
About Oversi
Oversi is an expert in Peer-to-Peer (P2P) caching and content delivery solutions. Oversi's P2P caching solutions enable service providers to deliver more bandwidth on their existing infrastructures, optimize network performance and defer expensive upgrades. The same Oversi platform provides a critical building block for supporting the emerging services of P2P VOD (Video on Demand) and P2P TV, ensuring an improved customer experience.
Oversi has offices and representatives in EMEA, the US, Asia-Pacific and Latin America. For more information, please visit www.oversi.com.
About RawFlow
RawFlow is a leading provider of live peer-to-peer streaming technology that enables broadcasters, CDN's and webcasters to maximize the scalability and quality of their Internet broadcasts without increasing risk or cost. RawFlow is an international company with expertise in working with broadcasters around the globe. RawFlow increases steaming quality and capacity by using the spare upstream capacity in the network. It offers a secure digital media delivery solution which does not interfere with digital rights management. RawFlow was founded and managed by an experienced team of Internet entrepreneurs in 2000. In 2005, RawFlow received financial backing by leading venture capital firm Benchmark. RawFlow has also recently launched Selfcast - a new platform for User Generated Broadcasting. Further information can be found at www.rawflow.com.
Oversi Media Contact
Natalie Chouraqui
Director, Communications
T: +972-54-4750-889
F: +972-3-542-3165
E: nataliec@oversi.com
RawFlow Media Contact
Ingjerd Jevnaker
Marketing Manager
T: +44-(0)-207-480-4220
F: +44-(0)-207-480-4343
E: ingjerd.jevnaker@rawflow.com
Source: Oversi
