Keynote Adds Support for Macromedia Flash Video

Keynote Systems (www.keynote.com), the worldwide leader in e-business performance management services, today announced that its market-leading Streaming Perspective® service for optimizing audio and video streams over the Web now includes support for Macromedia Flash video.

The Streaming Perspective 4.0 provides full support for monitoring streams using Macromedia Flash video, alongside existing support for formats using Microsoft's Windows Media, RealNetworks' RealMedia, Apple's Quicktime and AOL's Nullsoft.

Keynote Streaming Perspective continues to dominate the streaming performance monitoring industry both in functionality and market share and is the only service to offer support for all the leading streaming formats.

• Support for Flash Video Addresses Growing Market Interest in the New Streaming Format
• Fourth Generation of Industry Leading Service Features Faster and More Flexible User Interface
• Strong Growth for Streaming Recorded in 2004, According to Accustream Research

The increasing prevalence of broadband connections combined with improvements in streaming technology have made the Internet a viable and cost-effective way for companies of all types to market their products and services to consumers.
As user expectations rise, it is critical for content owners and hosting providers to measure the performance of their streaming content from the end-user perspective.

According to a report issued this year by Accustream Research, "streaming media registered yet another strong growth year in 2004, with video streams served up by 80% to 14.2 billion and aggregate tuning hours for Internet music radio 76% higher compared to '03.

"As companies increasingly look to online technologies to tap new markets and save money, streaming video and audio are essential aspects of that integrated strategy. It is important that our customers have a way to quantify the performance of all the streaming formats their customers use," said Carol Carpenter, director of product management at Keynote.

"Macromedia Flash is the online video format of choice because of the power it gives companies to provide an immersive, seamless experience regardless of connection speed, browser or platform," said Chris Hock, director of product management, Macromedia.

"As the first content delivery network to offer Flash Video Streaming Service, VitalStream has played a significant role in growing the marketplace for Flash video," said Philip N. Kaplan, president and chief operating officer of VitalStream, Inc.

As before, the Streaming Perspective Web interface organizes streaming data so users can quickly understand daily or weekly trends, spot common problems with streaming infrastructure, start and stop tests on demand for powerful diagnostic work and drill down to view packet statistics, trace routes and error codes for each individual measurement.

Keynote Streaming Perspective is the industry leading streaming measurement service featuring a real-time Web interface that organizes streaming data so users can quickly understand daily or weekly trends, spot common problems with streaming infrastructure, start and stop tests on demand for powerful diagnostic work and drill down to view packet statistics, trace routes and error codes for each individual measurement.