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Highwinds Network Group, Inc., a multi-platform IP services and content distribution provider, and Incited Media, LLC, whose services combine streaming media expertise with production capabilities, announced that their partnership creates an end-to-end solution for the production, encoding and streaming of live events to online viewers. This announcement follows on the heels of several collaborative successes, including the 35th Annual People's Choice Awards on January 7th, during which hundreds of thousands of streams were successfully delivered to online audiences tapping into extensive coverage of red carpet events, backstage interviews and post-show festivities. All live streams were produced in real time by Incited Media, alongside the traditional broadcast coverage on CBS, and delivered over the Highwinds content delivery network (CDN) to broadband viewers.

Tomorrow looks to be an exciting day for Americans and the Presidental family, but it will be also be a huge day for video content delivery networks.  Inauguration Day 2009 will be unprecedented as it relates to Webcasts.  Many stations and broadcast will have live streaming of the ceremony.  The technical side of me is excited about monitoring many of the webcasts available. 

Inlet Technologies, the leader in advanced encoding solutions for new media, announced today that Netherlands-based Cross Media Ventures is employing its SpinnakerTM encoding solution to stream a variety of live events, including the 2008 Wimbledon tennis championships and A1GP Motor Races held in the Netherlands, as well as a classical music concert in Amsterdam.

Cross Media recently produced and managed ten live streams from the Wimbledon tennis championships over the Netherlands' NET5 station Web site using the Microsoft Silverlight platform.  In addition, viewers can watch the Wimbledon matches on-demand through the NET5 portal.

If you are serious about taking your webcasts to the next level or simply wanting to launch live streaming for your organization, you should know that Viewcast's Go Stream SURF is a superior tool for Live Webcasting. The portable live encoder comes from the manufacturers of the Osprey capture cards which have been the de facto standard for many building live encoders in the streaming space. Enter the Go Stream SURF live encoder, which is portable and user friendly with an easy to use push button interface and common audio and video inputs for ease of use. The Go Stream SURF, which can be accessed via the internet for set-up and use, has three buttons on the front panel that can be programmed for live encoding to specific datarates. You can program three different encoding datarates and have them all performing live streaming and the same time. The live streaming solution is qualified and very heavy duty.

Streambox announced that the Columbia University Journalism School is expanding its presidential election night coverage on November 4 to include a live streaming component in addition to its radio coverage. To help facilitate the live video webcast, a number of Streambox ACT-L3 Software Encoders will be deployed to student journalists on location. The Streambox solution will provide an easy-to-use and reliable means for students to gather live reports to supplement the upcoming election webcast as well as content for New Media and TV Broadcast during the course of the academic year.

ON24, Inc., the global leader in Webcasting and Virtual Events solutions, announced that Denise Persson has joined the company as Chief Marketing Officer. With over 15 years of sales, marketing and product management experience, Persson will drive the company's global marketing efforts for its integrated family of Webcasting and Virtual Events solutions across the United States, Europe and Asia-Pacific Regions.

Persson was formerly Executive Vice President of Global Marketing for Genesys where her marketing strategies and programs helped the company build a customer base of more than 200 of the Global Fortune 500. During her tenure, she was an integral member of the executive team that grew the company tenfold - from $20 million to more than $200 million. She also helped earn the company a number of prestigious industry and product awards as well as spearheading a variety of innovative green initiatives.

Netbriefings, a webcasting services provider that specializes in helping businesses communicate with video, provided live streaming video of the 2008 Wainhouse Collaboration Summit. The event took place on July 16-18 in Boston, will also be available via an on-demand archive from Netbriefings.

Wainhouse Research is an independent market research firm that focuses on critical issues in the unified communications and rich media conferencing fields. The Wainhouse Research Collaboration Summit, now in its eighth year, is devoted to exploring all aspects of conferencing and collaboration technologies and solutions. Netbriefings, which also provided webcasting services for the past two year's Collaboration Summit, streamed live video of the entire summit program.

ON24, Inc., the global leader in webcasting and rich media marketing solutions, announced that it has been selected to provide a range of webcasting solutions to the Praetorian Group, the leading online media and technology company in the public safety market. ON24's solutions will enable Praetorian to expand existing revenue opportunities by offering webcasts as part of an integrated offering that combines print, online and live components.

Praetorian provides up-to-date information to first responders and public safety professionals through the publisher's online properties www.PoliceOne.com, www.FireRescue1.com, www.EMS1.com and www.CorrectionsOne.com. Praetorian will leverage ON24's scalable and reliable webcasting platform to introduce webcasting programs in the publisher's key public safety verticals, including EMS, fire, police, corrections and homeland security.