Teradata Chooses Abacast

Abacast, the industry leader in Hybrid CDN Services, announced that Teradata has licensed Abacast’s Live Peer-Assisted Delivery Service and ImageSync presentation software. The licensed Abacast servers are used for distributing live Windows Media video internally to over 5,000 Teradata employees.

Abacast’s enterprise-ready Live Peer-Assisted Delivery Service enables Teradata to broadcast live events including leadership communications, earnings announcements, and other strategic updates from members of the senior management team to its employees throughout the world.

“Abacast’s enterprise-targeted, peer-assisted video solutions have enabled us to incorporate important and informative live and on-demand presentations into our employee communications practice,” said Diana Bolden, Vice President of information technology (IT) at Teradata. “We are now serving high-quality and cost effective live video to our employees.”

Abacast’s Live Peer-Assisted Delivery Service is an enterprise-ready, licensed version of the software that powers Abacast’s industry-leading hosted live distribution service. As a licensed server running in an enterprise, Abacast Live effectively provides a software multicast solution by combining the security and control of unicast technology with the efficiency of peer-assisted delivery. The result is a secure, resilient, and stable network that delivers high quality video to thousands of simultaneous users while using significantly less network bandwidth and server capacity.

Abacast’s ImageSync software enables the streaming of live video synchronized with Microsoft PowerPoint slides. The synchronized video and slides are presented live to the end user in a unified player and also simultaneously archived for later, on-demand playback.

“Abacast’s Live Peer-Assisted Delivery provides enterprises with a tangible and significant ROI over multicast solutions and IT infrastructure upgrades,” said Jim Kott, Abacast Co-President. “It’s rewarding in these times to provide an enterprise video delivery solution with such a high ROI without sacrificing one bit on video quality.”

Abacast Inc. Announces the Acquisition of Tukati, Inc.

Abacast, Inc., a leader in real-time streaming solutions has announced the purchase of Tukati, Inc., a producer of peer-assisted on-demand delivery solutions. The acquisition brings a combined peer-assisted Live and On-Demand Service under a single entity, which was previously offered via a partnership between the two companies.

"The combination of these two companies' technologies enables the first hybrid peer-to-peer solution covering the complete spectrum of real-time and on-demand distribution." said Michael King, President of Abacast. "Bringing Tukati into the Abacast family enables content publishers to make a single vendor choice for reliable content distribution, while getting a huge leap in distribution efficiencies."

The combined product gives content publishers a rich suite of delivery options including real-time streaming; on demand video, game, and software distribution; progressive video delivery; and push delivery. In addition, content demand and end-user performance metrics are offered in real-time, allowing marketing campaigns to be adjusted based on consumer usage patterns.

"The acquisition of Tukati by Abacast is great news for customers wanting secure, reliable, high volume rich media and file delivery services," said Jim Kott, current CEO of Tukati who will transition to be the VP of Business Development at Abacast. "Sales, support, and product integration are now done by a unified team at a single location, leveraging our cumulative 13 years experience running large-scale, secure distribution networks.