VitalStream Launches Streaming Service for Flash Video

HostReview.com
Wednesday, October 19, 2005; 12:50 PM

VitalStream, Inc. (www.vitalstream.com), the world leader in video streaming, today announced its latest VitalStream® Streaming Service for Flash Video™, delivering interactive, rich media content with enhanced video components and expanded workflow management capabilities through its reliable, secure, award-winning content delivery network (CDN).

VitalStream’s Streaming Service for Flash Video supports Macromedia’s new Flash Media Server 2, which offers a unique combination of traditional streaming media capabilities and a flexible development environment for creating and delivering innovative, interactive media applications.

Working closely with Macromedia, VitalStream leads the market as the first Macromedia partner to power streaming services for Flash.

MediaConsole®, VitalStream’s workflow management toolset, now integrates with all streaming formats (including the new Flash 8), and includes a media manager, pre-built video skins and a real-time reporting dashboard.

Additional features include:
• High-quality video –As the founding member of the Macromedia Flash Video Streaming Service program, VitalStream delivers a higher capacity service than other, non-certified CDN Flash providers, delivering high-quality video, while ensuring faster and smoother video playback, now supporting Flash 8.
• Globally load-balanced trafficking – VitalStream’s system is architected specifically for massive capacity and scalability. Technology from Radware, a leading provider of integrated application delivery solutions, enhances VitalStream’s selection of the ideal data center from which to get a data stream, providing customers with quicker, more reliable delivery.
• Authentication services – VitalStream’s authentication services act as a gatekeeper by letting only authorized viewers access content on customer Web sites; now available for live as well as on-demand events.
• Support for raw data logs – VitalStream customers can now access raw data easily to quantify their streaming traffic, empowering them to create their own custom reports and analyze their Web traffic.
• Web services-based reporting – VitalStream’s reporting system offers an industry-standard SOAP-based portal, enabling users to connect to the server and create their own data feeds, target specific customers and identify problem areas.

In addition, agency-designed Flash templates give customers more choices and creativity for delivering their content. Professional and enterprise content management tools give users quick access to control the delivery of their live media assets.

“Over the last couple of years, we have seen rapid customer adoption of Flash Video streaming, proving that Flash is a competitive platform,” said Philip N. Kaplan, president and chief operating officer of VitalStream.

“As a Macromedia-certified partner, VitalStream continues to offer ground-breaking capabilities for delivering streaming Flash Video,” said Chris Hock, director of product management for Macromedia, Inc. “Now, compelling new features found in Flash Professional 8, Flash Media Server 2 and Flash Player 8 enable customers to tap into unprecedented levels of expressiveness and greatly improved video quality, meeting their demands for better ways to engage end users.”