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Abacast Appoints Veteran CDN and Software Industry Executive to Its Board of Directors


Rob Green Named to Abacast Board of Directors

CAMAS, WA, October 18, 2007 -- Abacast, the world leader in Hybrid Peer to Peer (P2P) technologies and services, announced today, that veteran CDN and software executive, Rob Green, has been appointed to the Abacast Board of Directors.

"Rob brings strengthened leadership and valuable experience to the Abacast board.  We are pleased to welcome his input and participation," said John Fluke Jr., Abacast board Chairman.

Mr. Green said, “I believe this is the future direction of CDN technology.  I am very impressed with Abacast’s technology suite.  I really believe the blending of traditional CDN services and P2P offers clients a ‘best of both worlds’ scenario: high performance and low distribution costs.  I am looking forward to working with such a dynamic company.”

Mr. Green brings 18 years of extensive industry experience and knowledge to Abacast.  Previously, Mr. Green served as Senior Vice President of Business Development and Strategy at Nine Systems, a CDN that was acquired by Akamai Technologies (NasdaqGS:AKAM) in December 2006.  Prior to Nine Systems, Mr. Green was the Group Manager of Business Development for Microsoft where he was responsible for the global advancement of Windows Media Technologies in the Broadcast Television and Content Distribution Network (CDN) markets.

About Abacast:
Abacast Inc. is a streaming technology and services provider founded in 2000. Abacast’s hybrid P2P technology takes the quality and control of central server (unicast) technology and seamlessly combines it with the scalability and efficiency of P2P.  Abacast Hybrid P2P technology is the cornerstone of a complete service including: live and on-demand streaming, ad-injection and gateway ad serving, enterprise streaming, subscription systems, podcasting, high-end audio processing/streaming PC cards, audio and video encoding software, custom media player/web design and 24/7 premium service, education and support. 

For more information, visit http://www.abacast.com/.


For Abacast PR contact:
Jessica Sinn
phone#: 360.834.5229
jsinn@abacast.com