NGCDN to offer “Seamless Streaming Servers” powered by TVU

Dec. 9, 2008 - PRLog -- Mountain View, CA and Atlanta, GA - TVU Networks, Inc. and NGCDN (an operating unit of Tulip Systems, Inc.) today announced the launch of NGCDN’s “Seamless Streaming Server” solution powered by TVU.  At the core of the “Seamless Streaming Server” solution is TVU’s Seamless Streaming technology, which together with NGCDN’s high quality, dedicated Windows Media hosting and distribution services, enables broadcasters and content owners to stream live at a pre-determined, known low cost with the assurance of high quality for the optimal viewing experience.

Today, TV broadcasters and content owners wanting to provide live streaming are often deterred by high costs and the inability to control these costs.  CDNs charge by band¬width, flash crowds and increased viewership mean higher bandwidth and higher streaming costs.  Not allocating enough bandwidth means a less than desirable viewing experience.  

NGCDN’s “Seamless Streaming Servers” powered by TVU differ greatly, in that the solution enables live streaming at a pre-determined, known low cost – with the assurance of high quality for an optimal viewing experience.  

“Seamless Streaming Servers” offer a hybrid model that combines the instant-on, always-on access of NGCDN’s hosting and distribution services, with the quality, low cost, and unlimited global scalabil¬ity of the TVU live P2P solution.

NGCDN is the first company to license TVU’s Seamless Streaming technology.  

This technology, based on P2P, offers the following benefits:

-   Low broadcast costs: an unlimited number of viewers can be served with no incre¬mental cost per viewer.  Broadcasters need only dedicate a single ADSL-sized “pipe” to TVU to reach an unlimited number of viewers worldwide.  
 
-   Unlimited scalability: the TVU technology has no limit to the number of viewers who can watch simultaneously and the viewer experience does not degrade as the number of viewers increases.

-   High quality everywhere:  unlike traditional CDN streaming services, the TVU technology delivers a high-quality viewer experience everywhere in the world.
“Seamless Streaming Servers allow the broadcaster to completely control the cost of the live streaming event while providing the high quality necessary for the viewer’s experience” said Nino Doijashvili, CEO of Tulip Systems.  “We are very excited to combine our hosting applications with licensing of TVU Networks’ Seamless Streaming technology.  We believe that their broadcasters will find our program extremely valuable and cost effective”.

“We are very pleased to be partnering with NGCDN, our very first licensee of Seamless Streaming,” said Paul Shen, CEO of TVU Networks.  “Together we are able to offer a very attractive, low cost hybrid model combining the easy, instant access of streaming with the unlimited global scalability of the TVU solution coupled with NGCDN’s dedicated always-on hosting solution.”

“Seamless Streaming Servers” are available to consumers in two different plans.  The first plan offers dedicated servers with a 10 Mbit Dedicated Bandwidth Port.  The second plan offers dedicated servers as well but with a 100 Mbit Dedicated Bandwidth Port.  It also includes: no set up fee, 24/7 network monitoring, customizable multi-bitrate streaming and scalable bandwith.

For more information  about NGCDN’s Seamless Streaming Servers go to www.tvunetworks.com, www.ngcdn.com or http://tvu.ngcdn.com

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About NGCDN:

NGCDN (an operating unit of Tulip Systems, Inc) provides hosting services for those companies and organizations with high bandwidth needs and the desire to broadcast linearly 24/7 365 or offer VOD and PPV (both archived and Live Events) to their audience. NGCDN offers: Windows Streaming, Flash Streaming for iPhone, 3GP Streaming, IPTV Streaming as well as progressive download technologies. Utilized by Independent Producers, Content Aggregators and Independent Television Stations (domestic and international), NGCDN provides content delivery outside of normal channels and common distribution.