Panther Express and Swarmcast Partner to Offer the Industry's Highest-Quality Video...

Panther Express and Swarmcast Partner to Offer the Industry's Highest-Quality
Video Delivery
Complete video solution includes live, on-demand and streaming video

NEW YORK, April 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Panther Express, a global provider of
high-performance, high value content delivery services, and Swarmcast, a
provider of multi-source streaming platforms, today announced a partnership
that integrates Panther's global CDN network with Swarmcast's Autobahn
Platform. Content owners now have a complete, integrated solution for
streaming the highest quality live and on-demand video content.
Together, Panther Express and Swarmcast are providing the world's most
reliable and scalable network for the delivery for streaming video, live video
events, and video conferencing. The Autobahn Platform brings HD live event
streaming and adaptive bitrate Flash video capabilities to Panther's high
performance, scalable and cost effective content delivery network. The joint
solution allows content providers to give consumers an extraordinary viewing
experience.
"Consumers now demand the high-quality video and viewing experience that
the Autobahn Platform brings to online video," said Justin Chapweske, founder
and CEO of Swarmcast. "The combination of the Autobahn Platform and Panther
Express' premier CDN gives content providers the integrated solution necessary
to deliver high-quality viewing experiences and to engage audiences with high-
quality content."
"As the industry's best value CDN provider, we are committed to providing
complete, high performance, reliable and flexible video solutions that cater
to the needs of our diverse customer base of content providers," said Aaron
Mittman, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Panther Express. "With the
Autobahn Platform and Panther Express' industry leading CDN, we're enabling
profitable business models around high quality video."
With the Autobahn Platform, the Panther Express CDN easily plugs in to
Microsoft's Silverlight and Adobe's Flash(R) rich media environments. By
seamlessly integrating with standard rich media environments, Panther now
enables content providers to stream the highest quality live and on-demand
video without committing to closed, proprietary delivery methods, and helps
content providers manage costs to build profitable businesses around online
video. Swarmcast encourages Flash developers to modify the Autobahn HD player
and to extend the Autobahn Platform capabilities to their own Flash sites.
Content providers with live content can extend their video capabilities to
provide full-screen, high-quality, reliable live streams with Autobahn Live.
As measured with Gomez and other reporting services, Panther Express
consistently provides some of the industry best performance among the leading
content delivery networks. This reliability and scalability, when combined
with Panther's unrivaled pricing and customer service, is why every day, more
and more of the world's content providers rely on Panther Express to deliver
the goods to their online customers.
About Swarmcast
Swarmcast empowers content providers to build profitable businesses around
high-quality online video. Swarmcast's Autobahn Platform delivers full
screen, high quality video that sharpens to the best experience for each
viewer, without buffering or stalling. Engaging global audiences for both
live and on-demand video, Swarmcast is redefining what is possible for
Internet video.
Swarmcast is privately held and backed by Bridge Capital Fund (BCF) and
Nippon Venture Capital.
For more information about the Autobahn Platform, please visit
http://www.swarmcast.com.
About Panther Express
Panther Express Corp. is a high-performance content delivery network (CDN)
with an innovative low-cost infrastructure. Founded in 2005 by former
DoubleClick CEO Kevin Ryan and DoubleClick Co-founder and former CTO Dwight
Merriman, Panther Express ensures rapid, reliable and scalable performance
without long-term contracts or monthly minimums to Internet sites worldwide.
Panther Express is privately held and based in New York. Panther Express has
over two years of experience in Content Delivery and over 250 customers using
our solutions on a daily basis.
For more information regarding Panther Express, please visit
http://www.pantherexpress.net.
Contact information:
Judy Baliman, Panther Express
pr@pantherexpress.net
+1. 646-747-0941

Michelle Homes, Swarmcast
LEWIS PR
415 992 4400
Swarmcast@LewisPR.com

SOURCE Panther Express

Judy Baliman of Panther Express, +1-646-747-0941, pr@pantherexpress.net; or
Michelle Homes of Lewis PR, +1-415-992-4400, Swarmcast@LewisPR.com, for
Swarmcast