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TV Worldwide and Limelight Networks
Engage in Strategic Alliance to Provide Specialized Streaming
Video Services
TV Worldwide's Internet TV Streaming Capabilities,
Limelight Networks' Digital Delivery Network to Support Major
Live and Archived Webcast Events
Thursday, March 18, 2004 - Chantilly, Va.
– TVWorldwide.com, a leading web-based TV network, and Limelight
Networks, a leading digital delivery network (DDN), today
announced they had entered into a strategic alliance to support
the rapidly developing market need for robust streaming media
and webcasting solutions. As part of the collaborative agreement,
TV Worldwide will provide front-end live streaming and webcast
support to the Limelight Networks customer base while TV Worldwide
utilizes the Limelight digital delivery network for its large
webcast applications that exceed 1000 simultaneous streams.
Through this partnership TV Worldwide will deploy a variety
of proprietary production processes it has used to build the
first network of community-based Internet TV channels including
including "Webcaptingsm", or open captioned video streaming
for those with disabilities , and the "Globeshowsm" interactive
video/power point presentation format for on-line education
and testing/accreditation applications. Limelight Networks
will provide its highly scalable delivery platform and end-to-end
network management services for TV Worldwide's larger webcasts.
"As strategic partners, TV Worldwide
and Limelight Networks offerings complement one another in
providing specialized streaming services to large audiences,"
said Erik Gabler, VP of Business Development for Limelight
Networks. "We are excited about our relationship with
TVWorldwide; their unique webcasting processes create new
streaming media applications for clients that fully leverage
our digital delivery infrastructure."
"Limelight networks is a great partner in
helping promote our offerings based on their expertise as
an infrastructure provider with a proven, reliable,and scalable
digital delivery network." commented Dave Gardy, Chairman
and CEO of TVWorldwide.com. "TV Worldwide's front-end webcast
and streaming processes used in support of live streaming
events for our Internet TV channels are a great fit with the
global distribution capabilities for larger webcasts that
only a company like Limelight Networks can offer."
About TV Worldwide
As a leading global Internet TV network and streaming media
company, TV Worldwide (www.tvworldwide.com)
is developing a network of video channels that is an affiliation
of community-based Internet television stations, each underwritten
by a strategic partner, "aimcastingsm" to targeted
demographic audiences worldwide. TVWorldwide.com works with
strategic partners to develop the latest in live and archived
state-of-the art video streaming content applications. TVWorldwide.com
was recently named one of the streaming video industry's "Hottest
Streaming Companies" by Streaming Magazine, www.streamingmagazine.com,
and CEO Dave Gardy was honored by the magazine as one of the
50 Most Influential People in Streaming Media. Mr. Gardy also
serves as President of the International Webcasting Association.
About Limelight Networks
Privately-held Limelight Networks (www.limelightnetworks.com)
is the first comprehensive digital delivery network, providing
essential media routing and distribution solutions that include
live and on-demand streaming media, content delivery, storage
and hosting as well as "Tier-1+" bandwidth services. Leveraging
an efficient network architecture with strategic distribution
points around the globe combined with powerful content management
and reporting tools, Limelight Networks enables some of the
industry's top content providers, webcasters and enterprise
customers to reduce the cost and complexity of delivery while
ensuring unmatched performance. Limelight Networks' innovative
delivery platform has been proven to dramatically cut the
costs associated with e-commerce, distance learning, online
entertainment and corporate connectivity.
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