Bonn, January 2009 - Today, Deutsche Telekom ICSS, the international wholesale division of Deutsche Telekom, announced the launch of a new innovative content delivery solution developed in partnership with EdgeCast Networks, Inc., a leading global content delivery network (CDN).
Targeted to fulfill the needs of premium video, audio and content publishers, gaming companies, advertisers or service or hosting providers, ICSS’s global Content Delivery Solution improves the performance of both live and on-demand content delivery via the Internet. The CDS solutions support streaming video delivery for live and on-demand content (including HD) as well as web content acceleration for ensuring fast page load times for high availability web sites.
“The combination of Deutsche Telekom’s powerful global network and EdgeCast’s cutting edge content delivery technology offers a tremendous value proposition to publishers” says James Segil, President of EdgeCast Networks, “we are delighted to be partnering with Deutsche Telekom as they introduce this service to both their existing and new customers.”
CDS is the latest solution to be born from ICSS’s new Innovation model that marries best-in-class partners with Deutsche Telekom’s best-in-class International IP backbone.
CDS brings to the market a complete set of global content delivery services, including sophisticated content management tools and reporting suites designed to give customers unsurpassed control over distribution of their content. With best in class infrastructure and next-generation routing software technology, CDS services improves the viewing experience of our customers while maintaining competitive pricing. Furthermore, our innovative reporting and analytics suite ultimately leads to lower costs, better predictable usage patterns and an improved content delivery experience.
With CDS, a new innovative product is added to the ICSS product portfolio in an efficient, timely manner. "We focus on products that meet the demands of our customers for better solutions and new business models that secure and improve their revenues," Helmut Angst, Head of ICSS, says. "By the end of this year, additional innovation products and solutions will follow the launch of CDS."
About Deutsche Telekom International Carrier Sales & Solutions (ICSS)
ICSS, the international wholesale arm of Deutsche Telekom Group, is one of the biggest voice carriers worldwide and an increasingly important IP player across a growing European market with excellent interregional connections between Europe, the Americas and Asia.
With continuously changing markets, ICSS has redesigned its portfolio from traditional voice and transport services to advanced innovative wholesale services and customized IP solutions. The business activities and efforts of ICSS focus on serving the following market segments: broadband operators (ISPs, WISPs, and VoIP SPs), mobile operators and MVNOs, content, application and media providers, corporate service providers and VNOs, fixed voice carriers, and carriers’ carriers and their customers through a worldwide sales network. The basis for the delivery of the services of ICSS is an expanding ultramodern infrastructure - Deutsche Telekom’s international network. For further information, see http://www.deutschetelekom.com/icss
About EdgeCast Networks, Inc.
EdgeCast offers a superior, cost-effective global content delivery service that gives our customers and partners competitive advantage in the delivery of digital media. Our world-class content delivery platform provides customers the cost benefits and flexibility of controlling their own content delivery network while freeing them from capital investments and operational hassles. To learn more, visit www.edgecast.com.
Contact
Deutsche Telekom AG
Corporate Communications
Tel.: +49 (0) 228 181 – 49 49
E-mail: presse@telekom.de
Further information is available for journalists at www.telekom.com/media
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