Streaming.com_Europe’s Biggest BMX & Skateboarding Event (January 31)

31.01.2008

Live Flash HD Streaming Taken to Extreme with Europe’s Biggest BMX & Skateboarding Event

Simpel Session 08 Freecaster.tv Webcast a Success, Thanks in Part to Wowza Media Systems, Interoute, Kulabyte, & Master Developer, Stefan Richter

San Jose, CA (January 31, 2008) - The future of Flash streaming was showcased this past weekend, January 25 – 27, 2008, at Simpel Session 08, Europe’s most popular wintertime BMX and skateboarding competition, which, for the first time in the event’s seven-year history, was Webcast live in high-definition by Freecaster.tv.

Held at Saku Suurhall in Tallinn, Estonia, Simpel Session 08 attracted thousands of spectators from around the world, and some 118,000 more unable to attend who were treated to a real-time and uninterrupted front seat-look at all the action, which took place over three days and came to a rousing conclusion on Sunday, Jan. 27, with a marathon 8-hour live Webcast.

“It was our most popular event to date, and we couldn’t have done it without our technology partners,” said Raymond Dulieu, CEO, Freecaster. “In particular, we would like to acknowledge the rock-solid network support of our CDN, Interoute; the superior stability and scalability of Wowza Media Systems, makers of award-winning Wowza Media Server™ Pro server software; and the 2-Pass VBR live encoding of Kulabyte’s XStream HD encoder, which delivered real-time HD-quality content.”

“On a more personal note,” he added, “We would also like to thank Stefan Richter, the master Flash developer and founder of FlashComGuru (www.flashcomguru.com) who built our player and advised us on many of the logistics of streaming such a large event. We are now gearing up to migrate all our H.264 content to the new Flash 9 player in order to reach the widest possible audience with our state of the art action sports content.”

For more information on Simpel Session 08, including the full list of winners, photos and on-demand video of the competitions, visit: http://www.freecaster.tv/live/simpelsession2008/ or http://www.session.ee/2008/.

About Wowza Media Systems
Wowza Media Systems, a software company headquartered in San Jose, CA, is a developer of interactive streaming media server software. Its flagship product, Wowza Media Server Pro, features an innovative server architecture that delivers unmatched performance, functionality, and scalability. Wowza Media Server Pro enables customers like Macy’s, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Cengage (formerly Thomson Learning), Interoute, and Julius Blum GmbH to deliver interactive and entertaining Flash applications and content, including video on demand, live video distribution, video recording, and chat. Wowza Media Server Pro is deployed by over 4,700 global licensees in a broad range of industries, including entertainment, social media, advertising, enterprise, education, government, and Internet commerce. For more information, visit Wowza Media Systems at www.wowzamedia.com.

About Interoute
Interoute is Europe's fastest growing communications technology provider and owner operator of Europe's most advanced and densely connected voice and data network, encompassing over 53,000kms of fibre extending throughout Europe (including Central and Eastern Europe), to USA, Tunisia and Dubai. Its full-service, next-generation network serves more than 12,000 customers from retail to aerospace, every major European incumbent as well as the major operators of North America, East and South Asia, governments, universities and research agencies. These organisations find Interoute the ideal partner for managing business critical systems, firewalls and information security solutions, disaster recovery and corporate access. With established operations throughout mainland Europe and in North America, Interoute also owns and operates dense city networks throughout Europe's major business centres. More than EUR1 billion in e-commerce transactions flows through its data centres each day, making Interoute a key part of Europe's Digital Supply Chain. For more information, visit www.interoute.com.

About Kulabyte
Kulabyte LLC. is a leading developer of advanced video processing technologies. Based in San Marcos, Texas, Kula Media Group’s engineering and management team is focused on delivering the fastest video encoding solution in the industry, while also achieving the highest video quality available. Products include XStream Live servers, XStream Voyager laptops and Express software SD and HD encoding solutions. For further information, please visit the company Web site at www.kulabyte.com or contact us at 512-795-4228.

About Freecaster
Freecaster is the world’s largest online video platform dedicated to action sports. On its 13 channels, Freecaster.tv offers event coverage, rider profiles, film teasers, and TV shows. The content is accessible free of charge in high quality either live or as video on-demand. In 2004, Freecaster won the apple design award for best QuickTime content for entertainment. Visit Freecaster at www.freecaster.tv.

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