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iBEAM Broadcasting Corp. has announced an agreement with the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute (USC-ISI), to provide high quality streaming content to more than a half-million end users throughout Southern California.
The agreement will enable service providers and networks using the ISI-operated facility known as the Los Angeles Access Point (LAAP) to deliver live on-demand streams and related revenue-generating services though iBEAM's MaxCaster serving systems.
Through the agreement, iBEAM will provide streaming support to both academic and commercial LAAP-served networks, including USC, UCLA, UC-Irvine, UC-Santa Barbara, UC-San Diego, California Institute of Technology and all California state and community colleges, as well as DigiLink, Interworld, Zocalo, Warenet, and through Los Nettos TRW, the Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL), and Centergate Research Caltech.
LAAP estimates that it now serves more than 600,000 of the most highly sophisticated, computationally intensive and demanding end users in the Southern California area.
"This agreement reinforces the importance of streaming media as a powerful element that enables students to use the Internet to enrich and enhance their knowledge and experience," said Peter Desnoes, president, chairman and CEO of iBEAM. "We are glad to have an opportunity to serve college students and corporate users through our streaming media solution and touch their lives in a positive manner."
LAAP spokesman Jim Pepin, director of the center for high performance computing and communications at USC-ISI, said: "We have witnessed an increasing demand for streaming content lately, and partnering with iBEAM will assist us in providing an improved experience of the Internet to students, as well as to the hundreds of thousands of end users who access the Internet through LAAP member networks."
iBEAM's distribution network is connected by satellite and augmented with fiber-optic cable, which enables signals to bypass the bottlenecks and avoid subsequent packet loss that often snarl traditional streaming media. iBEAM provides streaming media services to more than 400 different companies and delivers in excess of 60 million streams per month across its network.
About LAAP
LAAP is managed by USC's Information Sciences Institute as part of the MAE-LA/LAAP exchange in Los Angeles. Founded in 1972, USC-ISI is a leading world center for computer science research. One of the birthplaces of the Internet, it now provides top-level infrastructure and research services, and its hardware and software prototypes have been incorporated into thousands of commercial and public systems.
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