Professional Web Design - Colocation, VoIP Firm, Level 3, Deploys Streaming Services
December 8, 2007 – 6:30 pmSan Jose, California - (The Hosting News) - December 7, 2007 - Colocation, VoIP, and Internet backbone company, Level 3 Communications, has expanded its global content delivery portfolio to include streaming services. Formerly in beta, Level 3’s streaming service is being launched today on one of the world’s largest and most connected IP networks.
According to the company, third party research firms rank Level 3’s network number one in terms of connectivity, based on the Level 3 network having the fewest average hops or connections to any given IP address in the world. When combined with Level 3’s direct Internet connectivity to the largest broadband providers in North America, Level 3 facilitates the shortest route to 75 percent of ”eyeballs” in the United States.
H.S. Kim, Chief Executive Officer and President of World Cyber Games noted, ”Content delivery services are the most critical infrastructure of World Cyber Games’ (WCG’s) global on-line practice, and we are very pleased to procure these important services from Level 3. Using Level 3’s streaming service, in October we organized and streamed our grand final event and other national operations from Seattle, Wash., to 74 countries and made the grand final available to our 1.5 million global WCG tournament participants.”
From a standing start in May of 2007, Level 3 has already deployed 700 Gbps of CDN capacity. Capacity is expected to exceed one terabit per second by the end of the first quarter of 2008, less than one year after launching CDN services. Industry-leading connectivity and significant deployed capacity provide streaming customers with a robust streaming solution that efficiently delivers content worldwide in multiple formats with varied streaming rates. Level 3 plans to complete the full integration of the video management platform it acquired as part of its acquisition of Servecast in the first quarter of 2008.
Level 3’s streaming services enables content providers to distribute rich media content from a global network of streaming servers. The deployment of these streaming servers enables content providers to reach millions of users worldwide with Level 3’s portfolio of services. Level 3 helps its streaming customers to provide end users with a dependable and refined video experience.
Brady Rafuse, President of Level 3’s Content Markets Group noted, ”Content owners such as sports broadcasters, movie studios, television networks and others are delivering more of their digital assets via the Internet, dependable streaming services are of paramount importance. Level 3 is a major player in this space, our network and content delivery services uniquely position us to meet the challenge of delivering massive amounts of rich media content over the Internet.”
Level 3 plans to support all of the leading streaming media formats for live and on-demand viewing including Microsoft Windows MediaTM, video for Adobe FlashTM Player, Real Player TM, QuickTime TM, and the Move TM Media Player.
John Edwards, Chief Executive Officer of Move Networks added, ”We are thrilled to be working with an industry leader like Level 3 to deliver Move Media Services. Move Media Services build audiences and bind consumers to broadcasters and advertisers like never before. We were attracted to the Level 3 streaming platform because of its cost advantages and ability to continually scale to meet the growing demands that increased adoption of HD streaming places on networks.”
Additionally, as a member of the Microsoft Silverlight TM Partner Initiative, Level 3 is supporting Microsoft Silverlight, a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of media experiences and rich interactive applications for the web.
Sean Alexander, Director of Silverlight Media at Microsoft Corp. added, ”Our relationship with Level 3 enables Silverlight users to develop engaging video applications with the confidence that Level 3 will deliver their content over a high-performance, scalable and dependable platform.”
Since announcing the availability of caching and downloading services in May of this year, Level 3 has been focused on building a new, high-capacity platform that supports competitive features and enhanced performance. The company has been working closely with customers that serve large volumes of digital content online to develop solutions and pricing structures that meet their needs.
Consistent with its previously determined pricing strategy for its caching and downloading services, Level 3 has aligned its prices for streaming services with its prices for high-speed Internet access. The unit price of High-speed Internet access, Caching and Downloading, and Streaming Delivery are the same. There will be additional charges for certain player formats due to their licensing arrangements, except for Windows Media Format, which has no additional charges. Furthermore, there will be no premium charges for bursts or large file sizes for any of the streaming formats - an industry first.
Level 3’s comprehensive content delivery portfolio provides a full suite of services to its customers. From the acquisition of HD programming and live events on the Vyvx Broadcast Services platform to the streaming of that content in HD to display screens around the world, Level 3 can provide solutions for virtually every element in the HD supply chain. From camera to display, Level 3 enables its customers to distribute and monetize their digital assets. Major television networks, top advertising agencies, 8 of the top 10 most visited Web sites, top movie studios, and many of the biggest social networking sites all trust Level 3 with their business.
Level 3 Communications, Inc., an international communications company, operates one of the largest Internet backbones in the world. Through its customers, Level 3 is the primary provider of Internet connectivity for millions of broadband subscribers. The company provides a comprehensive suite of services over its broadband fiber optic network including Internet Protocol (IP) services, broadband transport and infrastructure services, colocation services, voice services and voice over IP services. The services are designed to provide building blocks that enable Level 3’s customers to meet growing demands for advanced communications solutions.The principal components offered by Level 3’s (3)VoIP Enhanced Local service include network trunking, local telephone numbers, local number portability, the safety of E-911, operator assistance, caller ID, directory listings, and directory assistance. The service is designed to allow Level 3 customers to retain the flexibility to manage and control end-user features without the difficulties of implementing complex interconnection arrangements.
For more information about Level 3, please visit: www.level3.com.
Sydney, Australia - (The Hosting News) - December 7, 2007 - Shared, reseller, dedicated and managed web hosting solutions firm, Crucial Paradigm, has released plans to market to the Australian hosting community with a newly launched division, Crucial Paradigm Australia.
The new division, will guarantee to customers that all hardware and operations of the company are physically located in Australia. The company has seen strong demand from businesses in the local market looking for such a guarantee.
Aaron Weller, Director of Crucial Paradigm noted, ”For our Australian clients, locating hardware locally offers increased speeds, lower latency, and a better peace of mind. We are excited about this launch, as our extensive research and development is finally coming to fruition. We are sincerely looking forward to developing new relationships with local businesses.”
Crucial Paradigm Australia has been in development for about a year. The company hopes to expand Australian operations in the coming months, and introduce new services, such as Virtual Dedicated Server (VDS) plans. Additional announcements will be made as new products and services are added.
Servers will be located in Sydney, Australia in the Equinix Datacenter. Shared hosting plans start at AUD $14.95/monthly for 1,000MB of storage space and 3,000MB of monthly data transfer. Business plans start at AUD $29.95/monthly for 1,000MB of space and 5,000MB of data transfer. All plans include 24×7 technical support and a variety of value-added features.
For more information about Crucial Paradigm, please visit: http://www.crucialp.com.
For more information about Crucial Paradigm Australia, please visit: www.crucial.com.au.
Founded in 2003, Crucial Paradigm operates in multiple locations around the world. The privately-owned, debt-free company offers a wide range of hosting solutions from Basic Web Hosting to Reseller Hosting, Virtual Dedicated Servers, Dedicated Servers and High Traffic Clusters, custom designed, based on each client’s individual requirements.
For more information about reseller hosting from Crucial Paradigm, please visit: Crucial Paradigm Australia (http://www.crucial.com.au).
To learn more about Crucial Paradigm, please visit: www.crucialp.com.
Chicago, Illinois - (The Hosting News) - December 6, 2007 - Managed dedicated and virtual private server (VPS) hosting solutions provider, WiredTree, has selected 427 LaSalle Street in Chicago, as the location for its most recent datacenter expansion.
Zac Cogswell, President of WiredTree remarked, ”After an extensive evaluation process, we selected this facility because it has the redundant infrastructure and controls in place that our mission-critical hosting requires. Not only has the facility been recently renovated, it’s located just a couple of blocks from our corporate headquarters in downtown Chicago.”
The new datacenter, which provides up to 60,000 square feet of conditioned datacenter space for WiredTree to move into immediately, is hoped to allow the company to expand its product and service offerings while still maintaining its rigid quality control standards. The new facility provides WiredTree with three 3,000 AMP 480Volt 3 Phase ComEd electrical feeds from multiple power sub-stations; three 2-megawatt electrical generators; four 500KvA UPS systems; and four 300-ton chillers. The new datacenter also provides 24×7 security staffing, including digital security cameras, a key card access system, and data tracking and recording.
Additionally, the facility has automated logic monitoring of all electrical equipment, as well as connectivity to multiple backbone providers, including Savvis, Level3, AT and T, Qwest, XO, Sprint-Nextel, Verizon, Abovenet and Cogent.
Mr. Cogswell continued, ”Our new datacenter will allow us to continue to both serve our existing client base and expand our network to additional Tier-1 providers. It’s always been our goal to provide the latest technology - whether it’s datacenter capabilities or server hardware - to meet the growing needs of our customers. This new facility is latest step in that process.”
Formed in June, 2006, WiredTree provides Fully-Managed Dedicated and Virtual Private Server (VPS) hosting, with customer support, a suite of service offerings, and comprehensive network design.
To learn more about WiredTree, please visit: www.wiredtree.com.
San Francisco, California - (The Hosting News) - December 5, 2007 - Data center developer and operator, 365 Main, will join IBM in a panel discussion at the inaugural Hollywood Goes Green conference, which will take place Dec. 11-12 at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.
The event will address environmental issues in entertainment and related industries, including Hollywood’s role in reducing global warming. 365 Main Vice President of Marketing and Strategy Miles Kelly, along with Derek Wise, president and CEO of Global Netoptex, a 365 Main customer, will participate in an IBM-sponsored roundtable discussion of innovative technology solutions for green data centers. The 50-minute session, called “IBM Project Big Green Panel Discussion, will take place on Dec. 11 at 2:15 p.m.
In recent years, Hollywood has significantly stepped up its efforts to become more eco-friendly, and this conference will allow us to further promote environmentally responsible business practices,” said David Ng, business development manager of iHollywood Forum. Having a leader in energy efficiency like 365 Main on the IBM Project Big Green panel will help educate our attendees who are serious about going green inside the data center.
According to the Report to Congress on Server and Data Center Energy Efficiency by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (August 2007), data centers consumed about 60 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) in 2006, roughly 1.5% of total U.S. electricity consumption. The energy consumption of servers and data centers doubled in the past five years and is expected to almost double again in the next five years to more than 100 billion kWh costing about $7.4 billion annually. IBM estimates that under Project Big Green, a 25,000-square-foot data center should be able to achieve a 42 percent energy savings, which could equate to 7,439 tons of carbon emissions saved per year.
In May IBM announced Project Big Green, a $1 billion annual commitment to increase the level of energy efficiency in IT. The plan is designed to help IBM and its clients sharply reduce data center energy consumption, transforming the world’s business and public technology infrastructures into green data centers.
Mr. Kelly remarked, ”At 365 Main we’ve made a broad commitment to energy efficiency, so we’re extremely honored to participate in this groundbreaking event. We’re looking forward to a productive discussion about environmentally responsible data center development.”
Earlier this year 365 Main joined the Green Grid, a global nonprofit consortium of technology companies and professionals dedicated to advancing energy efficiency in data centers and business computing ecosystems. The company was also recognized by PG and E for its noteworthy energy-reduction accomplishments in its founding San Francisco data center and has since made its energy best-practices available to PG and E to share with other data center providers.
In May 365 Main became the first data center developer and operator to commit to full compliance with the building certification system put forth by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), a non-profit organization of leaders from every sector of the building industry. In August the company announced the development of a new data center in Newark, Calif., the first data center west of the Mississippi to adopt USGBC standards and seek LEED-certification (Newark is approximately 35 miles southeast of San Francisco). The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, Green Building Rating System is the nationally accepted benchmark for the design, construction and operation of high-performance green buildings.
Other Project Big Green panelists include:
- Rich Lechner, vice president, IT optimization, IBM Systems and Technology Group
- Phil Nail, Founder and CTO, Affordable Internet Services Online Inc.
- Dave Laux, global executive, games and interactive entertainment, IBM
- Tom Burns, director, post-production infrastructure, Technicolor
- Larry Kasanoff, CEO, Threshold Animation Studios
According to the conference Web site, Hollywood Goes Green is designed for any professional with ties to the entertainment industry who wants to learn how environmental strategies will create new business opportunities. The two-day event will include a number of speakers, demos, workshops, discussions and breakout sessions. Registration information and event details can be found at www.hollywoodgoesgreen.com. For questions please contact 310-566-7745 or email zahava@ihollywoodforum.com.
365 Main Inc. develops and operates data centers, developed and certified to compliance requirements, including SAS70, and feature 24/7/365 power, cooling, connectivity and security capabilities to ensure mission-critical operations and business continuity for tenants. Hundreds of hosting, telecommunication and Fortune 1000 enterprises utilize 365 Main’s privately held services, based in San Francisco, California.
For more information about 365 Main Inc., please visit: www.365main.com.
Mobile, Alabama - (The Hosting News) - December 5, 2007 - Goodfellow Hosting, has changed its name to GoodFella Hosting, to correlate with the mafia theme of the website from which it operates, after Blue Aegis Software’s acquisition of the domain name GoodFellaHosting.com.
Enhancements to the operations web site include a searchable articles database. Articles within the database cover topics such as domain name registration, investing and speculating in domain names for profit, benefiting from expiring domain names in the Yahoo!, and DMOZ directories, selecting a web host that’s right for you and much more. The site also offers RSS feeds to the article database so that webmasters can add the article headlines to their sites for additional content — a feature which search enigne spiders love to gobble up.
Efforts at GoodFella Hosting are also underway to integrate an Expiring Names search engine into the site. Completion of this project is expected no later than December 8, 2007, but could come even sooner than that if everything goes as planned. Once completed, the search engine will allow users to locate domain names within the Yahoo! directory that are expiring, or that have recently expired. The search engine will feature display of not only the domain names that are expiring, but also Google page ranks, and a count of both Google and Yahoo! backlinks.
According to Roy Pope, owner of Blue Aegis Software, the name change to GoodFella Hosting is a huge accomplishment. To celebrate the acquisition of the new domain name and the name change of the company, GoodFella Hosting has begun offering domain name registration services, at prices far below market prices. This celebration will last up to Midnight (CST) December 25, 2007, after which time prices of all products and services will be adjusted. Goodfellow Hosting, Blue Aegis Software have always priced its domain names and web hosting services at less than a third the price of domain name giants Network Solutions, Register.com, and Enom.
To learn more, please visit: www.goodfellahosting.com.
Overland Park, Kansas - (The Hosting News) - December 7, 2007 - Web host and online presence solutions provider, Aplus.Net, has introduced gift cards into its suite of products and services available for consumer purchase.
Clarke Caines, Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales at Aplus.Net noted, ”We’re excited to provide consumers with an opportunity to interact with Aplus.Net on a whole new level. Internet services - such as web hosting, web design, and dedicated servers - are traditionally not easy to provide as gifts. This initiative changes that, while also providing consumers with the opportunity to introduce Aplus.Net’s award-winning products and services to family, friends, and anyone else who can benefit from gaining a dynamic and exciting online presence.”
The introduction of the gift cards is timely, coming in the midst of the holiday season. However, the company plans to offer the gift cards indefinitely, extending past the traditional holiday season in order to best facilitate the needs of all consumers throughout the entire calendar year. The gift cards are configured in increments of $20, $50 and $100.
Mr. Caines continued, ”The advantage of our gift cards, and the main appeal of them, is their lack of limitations. Recipients can use them for any of our products or services, anything available on our website are subject to reimbursement via the Aplus.Net Gift Cards. And, since they’re available year-round, their potential as gifts goes well beyond the standard holiday season timeframe.”
Aplus.Net has provided web services since the Internet’s commercial start in 1995. Aplus.Net is one of the top ten privately held hosting companies in the United States. Specializing in helping small businesses build a customer base via the Internet, Aplus.Net offers web hosting and design, dedicated servers, online marketing, e-commerce, and domain name registration, among other services. Aplus.Net has been awarded many honors for excellence, including the prestigious CNET Editors’ Choice Award, and has been featured in top U.S. business publications such as Forbes, Entrepreneur, Black Enterprise, and PC Magazine.
To learn more about the gift cards, please visit: www.aplus.net/giftcard.html.
For more information about Aplus,Net, please visit: www.aplus.net.
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