Speedera and ChinaCache Deliver Live Streaming of China's National TV Spring Festival Gala

Ringing in the Year of the Rooster" Gala Online, Asias Largest Ever Live Streaming Event Draws 1.6 Millions Web Visits Across the Globe in Just Four Hours

Beijing, China and Santa Clara, CA (PRWEB) February 19, 2005 -- Speedera Networks, a leading global provider of on-demand distributed application hosting and content delivery services, today announced that it partnered with ChinaCache to deliver live streaming of Chinas national TV (CCTV) recent annual broadcast of the Spring Festival Eve (spring.cctv.com) on the evening of Feb. 8. Statistics compiled following the event indicate this popular program resulted in Asias largest live streaming event over the Internet, drawing more than 600,000 unique visitors, over 1.6 millions visits in just four hours, and combined peak traffic loads of 12 gigabits per second delivered flawlessly.

CCTVs Spring Festival gala broadcast, streamed live over the Internet, enabled Chinese communities around the globe to share in the joy and magic festivities of ringing in the Chinese New Year -- the Year of the Rooster." At the peak of traffic, more than 132,000 people were concurrently viewing the program on the Internet, generating a total of more than 1.6 million total Web visits. ChinaCache provided live streaming for viewers in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong areas; while Speedera provided streaming to all viewers in other places of the world.

The Spring Festival gala is a must-see event for every Chinese person, is a most welcome annual celebration, and we are pleased to be a part of history in helping to create Asias largest ever live streaming event," said Ajit Gupta, CEO and President of Speedera Networks. ChinaCache wanted to ensure that people could view the songs, dances, operas, comedies, and dramas of CCTVs program over the Internet, and we were very happy to help them. While the American Super Bowl broadcast has become one of the most widely-seen programs on television and on the Internet, we believe the CCTV event was much bigger and sparked a larger surge in Web traffic."

We chose Speedera because we needed a partner that could help us deliver live streaming of this exciting and important event -- a partner with a robust enough network to handle even the largest spikes in traffic from all corners of the globe," said Song Wang, CEO of ChinaCache. Despite the complexity in interconnecting two Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), and other issues, Speederas network easily handled the peak load of 12 gigabits per second."

The sheer volume of data being moved across Speederas network emphasized the tighter connection between television and the Web, Wang added. He said he expected next years Spring Festival to be even bigger now that a global audience has had its appetite whetted from this years Spring Festive Eve experience as viewed over the Internet.

Speedera and ChinaCache saw no bottlenecks or slowdowns on its global network. ChinaCache Song made comments: Our mission is to guarantee the streaming quality to maximum amount of possible visitors." Gupta added. Our robust network performed flawlessly, delivering content to all customers, as always," he said.

About ChinaCache
ChinaCache was founded in 1998. It is the first Content Delivery Network (CDN) focused on servicing the Chinese market. Its goal is to build an Internet CDN platform for China to cover 90 percent of Chinas Internet network, to carry 60 percent of its content delivery, and become an influential platform for the Chinese language. ChinaCache customers include CCTV, Sohu, Netease, Sina, Xinhuanet, and the Peoples Daily newspaper. For more information, call +1 86-10-6437-3399, or visit www.chinacache.com, or send email to info@chinacache.com

About Speedera Networks
Speedera Networks, Inc. is a leading global provider of distributed application hosting and content delivery services. The companys SpeedSuite family of services provides on-demand services that cost-effectively solve the performance, scalability, availability and security problems of hosting distributed applications and Web sites. Speederas edge delivery network is deployed in the Americas, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region, controlled by a patented global traffic management system. Customers include leading organizations such as American Eagle Outfitters, DoubleClick, Fox Broadcasting, Macromedia, McAfee, NASA, Sony Music and Univision. The companys channel partners include Softbank Broadmedia/Club iT, BT, VSNL, Hewlett-Packard, AboveNet, and Inflow. For more information about Speedera, please call +1 408-970-1528, visit www.speedera.com or email info@speedera.com. To request a white paper, please click on http://www.speedera.com/reqtechpaper.htm. To request a demo, please click on http://www.speedera.com/reqdemo.htm.

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