JumpTV Chooses Abacast for Hybrid P2P CDN Solution
TORONTO and CAMAS – November 6th - JumpTV, a leader in broadcasting international television and sports over the Internet, has chosen Abacast, as their hybrid P2P CDN technology partner.
JumpTV represents an opportunity for broadcasters, worldwide, to develop a new online audience for their networks, enhance internationally based revenue streams, and develop previously unavailable demographic targeting of their audience. With more than 300 channels from 75+ countries, JumpTV delivers its audience news, sports and entertainment content on a real-time basis (live) from all corners of the globe. Using Abacast’s unique hybrid P2P technology will enable JumpTV to more economically offer its exclusive, hard to reach content for its broadcasters without sacrificing quality or performance. JumpTV offers video at 100Kbps, 450Kbps, and 1000Kbps.
Abacast created the hybrid P2P technology that takes the quality and control of central server (unicast) technology and seamlessly and dynamically couples it with the scalability and efficiency of P2P. The result is high quality live delivery to any size audience while providing a significant reduction in bandwidth costs.
“JumpTV has looked at virtually every P2P streaming media delivery solution”, said Sean Coutts, Group Head, Business Operations of JumpTV, “ and we are very impressed and excited about Abacast’s capability to deliver a high-quality broadcasts with peer to peer cost efficiency.”
“JumpTV represents a great opportunity to further showcase Abacast’s unique hybrid technology,” said Mike King, president of Abacast. “Our solutions were designed specifically for content distributors like JumpTV. We are thrilled to have a customer of JumpTV’s caliber utilizing this technology. ”
About JumpTV:
Live Television From Around the World – online, anytime, anywhere.
JumpTV (AIM, TSX: JTV) is a leading distributor of live international television and sports over the Internet. With over 300 TV channels from 75+ countries, JumpTV delivers full-screen sports, news and entertainment content on a real-time basis from all corners of the globe to computers, Internet-enabled TV sets, IP set-top-boxes and cell phones with browser access.
JUMPTV PR / IR Contact
North America:
Lewis Goldberg
KCSA Worldwide
+1-212-896-1216
lgoldberg@kcsa.com
www.jumptv.com
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.
Abacast PR Contact
Jessica Sinn
+1-360-834-5229
jsinn@abacast.com
