lundi 17 mars 2008
Ipercast announces the Acquisition of the Peer to Peer Editor 1-Click Media
Par Arthur Madrid, lundi 17 mars 2008 à 19:41 :: General
A new union between the best Content Delivery Network and a specialist in peer-to peer networks will see the emergence of a unique hybrid solution, providing the media with a new economic model and the general public with high definition technology
Ipercast, a company specialising in the technical and legal management of digital media on IP networks, today announced at the DCIA Trade show taking place in New-York1 its takeover of 1-Click, the French peer-to-peer solution provider for businesses, in particular media companies. Ipercast and 1-Click already have a connection, because the two companies worked together in 2004 on the launch of the first legal P2P platform with M6.
The market for broadcasting video content on the web is very buoyant at the moment. The exponential demand for high-definition video content from users, as well as the fact that media companies are enriching their contents catalogue in order to satisfy this demand, mean that the issues of high-speed internet for everyone and bandwidth requirements have reached a new critical level. It has therefore become necessary for technology to evolve, following the example of the various takeovers that have recently taken place in this sector in the United States. This explains why Ipercast's European development strategy is based on the implementation of a reliable global infrastructure in order to provide universal access to high-definition and legal video content.
At a time when websites broadcasting video content are struggling to find a viable economic model, due in particular to increased broadcasting costs, the announcement of this takeover will allow Ipercast to offer content publishers and broadcasters a hybrid broadcasting solution, guaranteeing an unrivalled quality of service and faster broadcasting speed at a reduced cost.
This alternative solution relies partly on Ipercasts's CDN (Content Delivery Network) solution, which has a global network and provides high definition content, and partly on the 1-Click peer-to-peer platform, which has installed more than two million peers (broadcast points)
during the last 3 years and the technology of which allows the costs of bandwidth to be reduced by almost 90%. In other words, the contents will be initially delivered via the CDN then after a few seconds of reading, via “peers” (other people which already saw the video and are used as mini-servers).
Jean-Michel Laveissière, President of Ipercast said, "This acquisition represents an important stage in our development, because it will enable us to extend our network by multiplying our broadcast points. This is of major importance to us at the moment because we will now be able to offer our customers an "intelligent" network, generating high-definition content more rapidly and with improved legal and security conditions.”
Arthur Madrid, CEO of 1-Click commented, "The synergy of our peer-to-peer platform combined with Ipercast’s broadcast network and its expertise in content management responds to all the current requirements of content providers and broadcasters. In other words, we have found a vikable, reliable, high-quality and secure economic model for broadcasting multimedia content on the Internet."
About Ipercast
Set up in 2001 by Jean-Michel Laveissière and co-directed by Jean-David Fogiel since 2003, Ipercast specialises in the operation and supervision of broadcasting solutions on IP networks and DSL. High service quality combined with great customer satisfaction has enabled the company to expand rapidly but in a controlled way.
The rapid development of high-speed Internet for the general public, a wider range of Internet access offers, the emergence of "triple play" technology and a high level of competition for VOD have led to upheaval in audiovisual broadcast methods. Ipercast develops and offers interactive services over IP networks such as Video on Demand (online video clubs), Television on Demand (TVOD) and music platforms for television and the Internet.
Website: www.ipercast.net
About 1-Click
Created in 2001 by Arthur Madrid, 1-Click Media is editor of a Peer-to-Peer diffusion solution secured and private especially designed for the Medias. Peer-to-peer diffusion makes possible to save up to 95% of band-width cost and to diffuse into High Definition.
1-Click Media installed a network of more than 2 millions plug-ins which behaves like multi-media contents mini-server.
The solution is used today by TV channels for their video On Demand (VOD) service and for large audience events.
The challenge for online video diffusion is to offer more quality for users and better cost control for the editors.
Website: www.1-click.com
DCIA : Distributed Computing Industry Association, From 10th to 14th March 2008 NYC.
The Zuuuuune. The new gadget of the end of the year will use peer-to-peer. Why and by what should people replace my iPod? Because people want to share their music. Zune will offer the feature to share the music stored on your mobile device for 3 days and 3 times to listen, after which they can flag the song for purchase on the Zune Marketplace. Zune-to-Zune sharing is where the real action! Legal file-sharing is possible!
1-Click Media technology is now used by TF1 to deliver video with p2p system. Before watching all the videos, the audience must install our plug-in. The peer-to-peer downloading system, fully embedded inside their webside, enable them to save thousand of Giga Bytes per day. Sometime during the day the p2p rate is 100% meaning the delivery is free.
In term of installation, we can not communicate but we expect 300,000 plug-ins at the end of the operation. Theses results will enable TF1 to extend our paretnership and use new features.
If you want to try it; just click on this link