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The Planet Partners with EdgeCast for Content Delivery
2008-12-23
One Price for Streaming, Caching Content
HOUSTON, Dec. 22, 2008 ThePlanet.com Internet Services, the global
leader in IT hosting, and EdgeCast Networks, the superior, cost-effective rich
media content delivery network, today announced the selection of EdgeCast for
The Planets new hosted Content Delivery Network (CDN) product offering. The
EdgeCast CDN provides a world-class platform that offers customers the cost
benefits and flexibility for controlling their own CDN, while eliminating the
expensive capital investments and operational hassles typically associated with
the technology.
CDNs rapidly distribute Web content to end-users through an interconnected
computer network, caching data on multiple servers and delivering the content to
users based on their geographic location. It also dramatically increases the
number of concurrent users who can access data from a single Web site. EdgeCast
points of presence (POPs) are located in San Jose; Los Angeles; Ashburn, Va.;
New York; Chicago; Dallas; Atlanta; Seattle; London; Frankfurt; Hong Kong;
Tokyo; and Sydney.
Over the past year, weve received significant interest from customers who are
looking for an enterprise-class, cost-effective CDN solution to more quickly
deliver content to their geographically dispersed customers, said Bryce
Edwards, general manager for The Planets Complex Infrastructure Solutions. For
customers with complex content-driven sites, a CDN solution is absolutely
critical. Through our EdgeCast partnership, customers gain immediate access to
hundreds of edge servers located around the world.
The Planets live streaming CDN service provides both Windows Media and Adobe
Flash, as well as Silverlight and Move networks, for globally broadcasting to
audiences on a massive scale. The broadcast quality eliminates choppiness,
broadcast drops and excessive buffering. For live-event streaming, customers
receive optimal performance for both their specific global region and for their
last-mile bandwidth provider.
About The Planets EdgeCast CDN Solution
Customers now have the benefit of purchasing lower origin server bandwidth
utilization, while improving their own end-users experience:
Media Control Center: Provides customers with the ability to interact
with various products, obtain important information, view reports and analytics,
upload content and manage their media.
EdgeDirector: This patent-pending routing mechanism and global
load-balancing technology serves content requests from the location closest to
the end-user. Traditional CDNs use DNS routing methods that require multiple
levels of triangulation before content can be served. EdgeDirector combines
robust pre-set routes with proprietary routing protocols, which ensures that
client content is immediately delivered directly from The Planet CDN POP fastest
for them, regardless of location.
Delivery Speed: CDN edge servers are deployed around the world, so
EdgeDirector users receive requested content from the fastest point of presence.
This precise traffic router with its underlying routing logic makes
intelligent decisions based on the users IP address.
Scalability: The Planets customers gain immediate access to hundreds of
edge servers located around the world, with dozens of Gigabits per second Tier-1
bandwidth. In addition, customers no longer face issues created by special
events, traffic bursts and popular videos.
Redundancy: Each POP is highly redundant and resides in some of the
worlds most sophisticated data centers. If one POP should fail, other locations
assume the load, which offers a seamless user experience. With this
infrastructure backup, customers can be assured of redundancy in delivering
mission-critical data to their users.
One Price for All Services: The Planets CDN doesnt differentiate between
caching or streaming content delivery, which allows the company to offer a top
CDN experience at a very affordable price.
For more information on The Planets CDN offering, please visit the Web site at
the following address:
http://www.theplanet.com/dedicated-servers/hosting-products/cdn/
About EdgeCast Networks, Inc.
EdgeCast offers a superior, cost effective global content delivery service that
gives its customers and partners competitive advantage in the delivery of
digital media. Its world-class content delivery platform provides customers the
cost benefits and flexibility of controlling their own content delivery network
while freeing them from capital investments and operational hassles. To learn
more, visit www.edgecast.com.
About The Planet
The Planet is the leading provider of On Demand IT Infrastructure solutions,
hosting more than 25,000 small- and medium-size businesses and 13.3 million Web
sites worldwide. The Planet Alpha division provides the widest array of
self-managed dedicated servers and advanced services backed by 24x7x365 support.
The Planet Northstar Managed Hosting division combines a proactive methodology
and seasoned IT experts to deliver a fully managed hosting solution. With the
best choice of servers, software tools and world-class support, backed by
state-of-the-art facilities and an enterprise-class network, The Planet turns IT
into a powerful competitive advantage that enables customers to grow their
businesses. For additional information, visit
http://www.theplanet.com.
For information contact:
Yvonne Donaldson, The Planet
Director, Public Relations
Phone: (281) 714-3602
ydonaldson@theplanet.com
Catherine Leahy
Global Fluency
Phone: (650) 433-4150
cleahy@globalfluency.com
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