Complete video solution
includes live, on-demand and streaming video
New York, NY – (April 17, 2008) –
Panther Express, (http://www.pantherexpress.net) a global provider of
high-performance, high value content
delivery services, and Swarmcast, a provider
of multi-source streaming platforms, today
announced a partnership that integrates
Panther’s global CDN network with
Swarmcast’s Autobahn Platform. Content
owners now have a complete, integrated
solution for streaming the highest quality
live and on-demand video content.
Together, Panther Express and Swarmcast are
providing the world’s most reliable and
scalable network for the delivery for
streaming video, live video events, and
video conferencing. The Autobahn Platform
brings HD live event streaming and adaptive
bitrate Flash video capabilities to
Panther’s high performance, scalable and
cost effective content delivery network.
The joint solution allows content providers
to give consumers an extraordinary viewing
experience.
“Consumers now demand the high-quality video
and viewing experience that the Autobahn
Platform brings to online video,” said
Justin Chapweske, founder and CEO of
Swarmcast. “The combination of the Autobahn
Platform and Panther Express’ premier CDN
gives content providers the integrated
solution necessary to deliver high-quality
viewing experiences and to engage audiences
with high-quality content.”
“As the industry’s best value CDN provider,
we are committed to providing complete, high
performance, reliable and flexible video
solutions that cater to the needs of our
diverse customer base of content providers,”
said Aaron Mittman, Vice President of Sales
and Marketing at Panther Express. “With the
Autobahn Platform and Panther Express’
industry leading CDN, we’re enabling
profitable business models around high
quality video.”
With the Autobahn Platform, the Panther
Express CDN easily plugs in to Microsoft’s
Silverlight and Adobe’s Flash® rich media
environments. By seamlessly integrating with
standard rich media environments, Panther
now enables content providers to stream the
highest quality live and on-demand video
without committing to closed, proprietary
delivery methods, and helps content
providers manage costs to build profitable
businesses around online video. Swarmcast
encourages Flash developers to modify the
Autobahn HD player and to extend the
Autobahn Platform capabilities to their own
Flash sites. Content providers with live
content can extend their video capabilities
to provide full-screen, high-quality,
reliable live streams with Autobahn Live.
As
measured with Gomez and other reporting
services, Panther Express consistently
provides some of the industry best
performance among the leading content
delivery networks. This reliability and
scalability, when combined with Panther’s
unrivaled pricing and customer service, is
why every day, more and more of the world’s
content providers rely on Panther Express to
deliver the goods to their online customers.
About Swarmcast
Swarmcast empowers content providers to
build profitable businesses around
high-quality online video. Swarmcast’s
Autobahn Platform delivers
full screen, high quality video that
sharpens to the best experience for each
viewer, without buffering or stalling.
Engaging global audiences for both live and
on-demand video, Swarmcast is redefining
what is possible for Internet video.
Swarmcast is privately held and backed by
Bridge Capital Fund (BCF) and Nippon Venture
Capital.
For
more information about the Autobahn
Platform, please visit
http://www.swarmcast.com
About Panther Express
Panther Express Corp. is a
high-performance content delivery network (CDN)
with an innovative low-cost infrastructure.
Founded in 2005 by former DoubleClick CEO
Kevin Ryan and DoubleClick Co-founder and
former CTO Dwight Merriman, Panther Express
ensures rapid, reliable and scalable
performance without long-term contracts or
monthly minimums to Internet sites
worldwide. Panther Express is privately held
and based in New York. Panther Express has
over two years of experience in Content
Delivery and over 250 customers using our
solutions on a daily basis.
For more information regarding
Panther Express, please visit
http://www.pantherexpress.net
Contact information:
Judy Baliman, Panther Express
pr@pantherexpress.net
+1.
646-747-0941
Michelle Homes, Swarmcast
LEWIS PR
 415
992 4400
Swarmcast@LewisPR.com
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