GUARD AGAINST DOWNED" STREAMS StreamGuard Keeps You Running with Unique Stream Alarm" System

StreamGuard is a new and unique monitoring service for live and on-demand streaming for all types of organizations needing to ensure delivery.

Troy, OH--27 May 03-StreamGuard announces the availability of the first automatic interactive monitoring service for both and on-demand streaming media and internet radio. This low-cost system makes it simple for a large number of companies streaming content to ensure their streams are being seen and heard as conceived.

Streaming video has become ubiquitous for businesses across the board in recent years. The ability to disseminate timely information, intra-company, inter-company and publicly is an essential for leading organizations. Adding audio to the mix brings these communications capabilities to new levels of utility.

For many streaming media web sites, your content is unavailable or cannot be viewed 5% of the time or more. This downtime and performance related non-viewable time has serious negative impact on revenue and profits. The situation is made even worse when viewers have poor experiences and leave, never to return to your site.

StreamGuard is the first to bring you the ability to automatically find and identify streaming media on your site, add these streams to our monitoring agent process and check the streams 24/7, monitoring audio as well as video.

Efficient delivery of your streaming content can fail for many reasons: some are 'server side when source fields are corrupted, missing or improperly linked to web pages. Others are 'network side when streaming service providers and network performance issues affect the availability of your content.

StreamGuard acts like a security system monitoring your streaming content to constantly evaluate for both types of problems. We report all problems to you as e-mail, SMS or pager alert for serious outage problems. Our drill down process shows who was notified, when and what problems(s) were seen. You can even adjust expected service levels to avoid unnecessry notification. On-line flexible reporting for system and vendor evaluation purposes are available at any time. You can establish escalation processes and notification methods -- all for the same low cost.

StreamGuard makes it fast, easy and simple to monitor your streaming content around the clock. Sign up for a 30-day FREE trial. Just give us the domain to be monitored or add a list of your streams and StreamGuard goes to work.

If you change your streams, add new ones or delete others, StreamGuards StreamBot automatically knows and changes the streams we guard automatically and seamlessly. All other services require lengthy, manual and tedious stream management efforts on your part. StreamGuard is completely automatic.

StreamGuard agents operate throughout the Internet, monitoring and guarding streams from dozens of different service providers and cross checking each other every few seconds to assure your streams are being guarded universally.

StreamGuard gives you carefully manager user-controlled professional escalation notifications processes so that problems are detected early. And the system is user-configurable at any time. If you know you are going down for maintenance or for any other reason, the monitoring can be disabled by log-in, so you will not be inadvertently notified of failure.

StreamGuard is available now for Windows Media versions 6, 7, 9, Real Networks Real Server up to helix and QuickTime video and audio streams.

Reseller programs are available, giving isps, streaming media production houses, ad agencies and streaming media hosts (specialized isps) the opportunity to bring added value to their customers. Please contact us for more information.

StreamGuard is a reconnaissance partner for all firms producing streaming content. StreamGuard is your stream insurance and your alarm system.

StreamGuard is a product of LiveStreamWorks, Ltd, an Atlanta-based streaming technology company. LiveStreamWorks has developed a full range of streaming services and solutions, custom development programs and StreamTools, a group of powerful software tools that simplify and automate many of the complex processes associated with large-scale around the clock streaming. LiveStreamWorks clients include Dragon Networks and The Guest House Live. Check out our website at www.streamguard.net.