JumpTV Chooses Abacast for Hybrid P2P CDN Solution

By Derrick on January 28, 2008 12:57 AM | Permalink | TrackBacks (0)

JumpTV represents an opportunity for broadcasters, worldwide, to develop a new online audience for their networks, enhance internationally based revenue streams, and develop previously unavailable demographic targeting of their audience. With more than 300 channels from 75+ countries, JumpTV delivers its audience news, sports and entertainment content on a real-time basis (live) from all corners of the globe. Using Abacast's unique hybrid P2P technology will enable JumpTV to more economically offer its exclusive, hard to reach content for its broadcasters without sacrificing quality or performance. JumpTV offers video at 100Kbps, 450Kbps, and 1000Kbps.

Abacast created the hybrid P2P technology that takes the quality and control of central server (unicast) technology and seamlessly and dynamically couples it with the scalability and efficiency of P2P. The result is high quality live delivery to any size audience while providing a significant reduction in bandwidth costs.

"JumpTV has looked at virtually every P2P streaming media delivery solution", said Sean Coutts, Group Head, Business Operations of JumpTV, " and we are very impressed and excited about Abacast's capability to deliver a high-quality broadcasts with peer to peer cost efficiency."

"JumpTV represents a great opportunity to further showcase Abacast's unique hybrid technology," said Mike King, president of Abacast. "Our solutions were designed specifically for content distributors like JumpTV. We are thrilled to have a customer of JumpTV's caliber utilizing this technology."