Envivio and KenCast Team to Offer Secure MPEG-4 Digital Delivery System for Military, Government, Commercial, and Enterprise Applications
Envivio to Demonstrate at NAB 2003 Conference in Las Vegas
San Francisco, CA – April 1, 2003 – Envivio, a leading provider of MPEG-4 broadcast and streaming solutions, and KenCast, Inc., a leading provider of multicast systems for satellite delivery, announced today that the two companies have entered into a partnership to provide a secure MPEG-4 distribution solution for military and government applications, as well as for the commercial and enterprise markets. As part of the solution, KenCast’s flagship product, the Fazzt® Digital Delivery System, integrates with Envivio’s MPEG-4 content creation and distribution platform to deliver large digital files reliably to many remote military stations and other government facilities at high speeds. The technology also works with commercial and enterprise applications.
Envivio will be demonstrating the MPEG-4 satellite technology at Envivio booth SL3639 at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Convention, April 7-10, in Las Vegas, Nevada. The joint solution between KenCast and Envivio will also be shown in KenCast’s booth N1345.
The Envivio-KenCast solution brings reliability, security, and efficiency to satellite broadcast of important multimedia content. Fazzt's innovative Forward Error Correction (Fazzt FEC®) enables reconstruction of damaged files, even after extended outages, and validation that they are identical to the files as sent. Fazzt FEC technology can also be applied on-the-fly to streams of live MPEG-4 data.
Envivio’s end-to-end MPEG-4 platform provides a complete, secure solution to create, distribute, and view time-critical content. Envivio’s encoders provide content creators with broadcast quality realtime and offline encoding using patent pending technologies. Envivio’s players are the most advanced MPEG-4 players in the world. Combined with Envivio’s server technology and KenCast’s open standards datacasting products, providers can deploy complete, interoperable secure MPEG-4 services.
“By integrating Envivio’s MPEG-4 platform with the Fazzt Digital Delivery System, the military and other markets can reliably, efficiently, and economically distribute timely data over any satellite network,” said Julien Signes, president and CTO of Envivio. “We are excited to be working with a partner that has deployed their solution to thousands of locations worldwide and who has set an industry standard for mission-critical reliability and performance.”
“We are partnering with Envivio to allow our customers to take advantage of the broad capabilities, speed, and efficiency of the MPEG-4 standard,” said William E. Steele, chairman and CEO of KenCast. “With the integration of Fazzt and the Envivio MPEG-4 platform, these customers get a secure system that saves them time and money and ensures that data arrives intact despite adverse conditions that inevitably arise.”
About Envivio
Envivio is a leading provider of complete MPEG-4 solutions, which consist of a rich set of integrated streaming media tools and systems including high-performance audio and video, two-dimensional graphics, and animation. The company has established itself as the most experienced creator of high-quality MPEG-4 solutions that enable broadcasters, network operators, and content developers to build new revenue streams and use the efficiencies of delivering content to the full range of MPEG-4 capable devices. The Envivio solution includes various components to create, encode, protect, distribute, and view MPEG-4 content.
About KenCast
KenCast, Inc. provides multicast systems for satellite and other networks. A privately owned company, KenCast was founded in 1994 by William E. Steele. The expertise of KenCast is in ultra-reliable, error correcting, digital broadcast over point-to-multipoint networks. KenCast's flagship product is the Fazzt® Digital Delivery System, which has set an industry standard for reliability and performance. The KenCast website is at www.kencast.com.
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Media Contact:
Envivio
Barry Strauss
(650) 243-2718
bstrauss@envivio.com
KenCast
William E. Steele
(203) 359-6984
fazzt@kencast.com
