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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1999 CONTACT: AGENCY CONTACT: LAUREL, Md., September 14, 1999 – SkyCache, Inc., today announced that it is moving to T3 speeds for its’ innovative Internet datacasting service by using standards-based Digital Video Broadcast (DVB) technology, giving it the fastest satellite datacasting capacity in the Internet industry. The company is currently running trials in North America and expects to roll out the faster technology to all of its existing customers in North America and Europe by the end of the year. Service to Asia and Latin America will follow in early 2000. SkyCache, the world's premier global overlay network for satellite broadcast of Internet content and streaming media, will move over 150 customers spread across thirteen time zones around the world from its existing 4 Mbps service currently delivering cache turbocharging and Usenet News to a high-speed service eleven times faster. The new system will be capable of distributing bandwidth-intensive data such as streaming video and audio, large web sites, Usenet News, software updates, and other types of "one-to-many" Internet content. SkyCache currently supports IP Multicast for audio and video distribution and together with its Internet Broadcasting Partners will be delivering streaming audio and video using Microsoft's Windows Media Technology and Real Networks' formats in the fall. Apple QuickTime support is expected to be ready by early 2000. "The increased broadcast speed is a technical leap, and is really just the beginning," said SkyCache CEO Doug Humphrey, who noted SkyCache is the first in the industry to employ DVB for wide-scale high-speed Internet broadcasting and the first to build infrastructure for 45 Mbps datacasting. "Everyone wins with SkyCache technology bolted onto the Internet. Broadcast T3 services -- not requiring fiber and expensive hardware to terminate it -- will enable our ISP customers to offer their users more choices and faster services at magnitudes less cost than other alternatives. For users, this means the ability to see clean, high-quality streaming video and other 'rich' media offerings." Humphrey said the faster technology also better positions SkyCache to tap new customer markets, particularly as it negotiates to sell streaming audio, video and product update services directly to content delivery and software companies. "Content providers want big-pipe alternatives to deliver their goods directly to POPs -- the very edge of the network -- without getting hung up in bottlenecks. Next-generation broadcasters particularly need us for delivering high-quality video directly to DSL (digital subscriber line) and cable modem ISPs." SkyCache’s products and services are designed to deliver high quality, rapid transmission of content, as well as cost savings and improved end-user experience. Subscribers to SkyCache-powered ISPs receive access to high-demand, high-bandwidth content, free from server overloads and the Internet congestion problems associated with terrestrial networks. About SkyCache SkyCache is the world's leading global broadband broadcast network using the power of high-speed satellite technology to move high-bandwidth Internet data faster and more efficiently to ISPs, corporations and other enterprises. The Laurel, Md.-based company is operating and expanding its global broadcast network to improve movement of Web content, Usenet News and IP audio/video over the Internet, as well as to provide for FTP mirroring and web site replication. SkyCache currently serves over 150 North American and European customers, representing nearly 3 million Internet users. # # # "SkyCache" and its logo are trademarked throughout the world and "SkyCache Compatible" is a trademark of SkyCache, Inc. Other trademarks, service marks, and trade names belong to their respective owners. |
