Ipercast, Uses New-York DCIA Trade Show to Announce the Acquisition of the Peer to Peer Editor 1-Click Media
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
PARIS--(Business Wire)--
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-York(1) 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 Laveissiere, 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 Laveissiere 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
(1) DCIA : Distributed Computing Industry Association, From 10th
to 14th March 2008 NYC.
Ipercast press contacts
Jean-Marie Amoros
Axicom Paris
Tel: +33 (0)1 41 06 18 05
jeanmarie@axicom-france.com
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