By Anastasia Tubanos, theWHIR.com
October 23, 2008 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — In a rather higher-than-usual volume of content delivery network news, online service provider Internap Network Services (www.internap.com) was the latest CDN to announce its newest partnership with Beautiful Stranger.TV (www.beautifulstranger.tv), a social networking website and online video channel based on fashion and style.
According to Internap’s announcement on Wednesday, ControlGroup, the technology partner to Beautiful Stranger.TV, recommended Internap’s CDN services over other providers because Internap provided the company with an easy-to-use solution that could scale as their web business grew.
Internap says its CDN includes a “100 percent performance service level agreement” and a portfolio of value-added services including live web events, transcoding, support for mobile devices, digital asset management and an analytics portal called MediaConsole.
“Beautiful Stranger.TV is turning a great idea into a growing business and our CDN is a reliable network platform to support that growth,” says Tim Sullivan, chief technology officer at Internap. “Internap’s outsourced technology services including CDN, data center colocation, IP networking and managed servers provide a menu of solutions that fit the unique needs of high-growth, media-centric businesses. These companies appreciate Internap’s expertise, flexibility and agility that is so important at this stage in their lifecycle.”
In other CDN news, on Tuesday content delivery network provider CDNetworks (www.cdnetworks.com) announced that Comflix Studios (www.comflix.net) has selected it CDN for its comic book inspired network, SPLASTK (www.splastk.com).
Comflix describes itself as “the creator and producer of a new generation of comic book and graphic novel-inspired digital entertainment based on an advertiser-supported business model.”
CDNetworks says it is delivering Flash progressive downloads to optimize end-user viewing of the rich content on the SPLASTK website. CDNetworks’ first project with SPLASTK was a two-week campaign, in August 2008, in support of the release of the movie “Babylon A.D.” This campaign generated 3.3 million page views in 20 days, says SPLASTK, which convinced the online video content creator to place all its CDN requirements with CDNetworks.
We recently reported on yet another CDN partnership late last week when BitGravity announced that Arizona State University has begun using BitGravity’s high-definition video delivery to help screen “realistic scenario modeling” projects enabled by the university’s Decision Theater.
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