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Cisco Accelerates Delivery of 'Any Stream to Any Screen' With Adobe Flash Streaming Enhancements to the Cisco Content Delivery System
Collaboration Enables the First Platform to Support Adobe Flash Streaming Capabilities for Television, the Internet and Mobile Devices
| Source: Cisco Systems, Inc.
SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwire - September 6, 2007) - Cisco® (NASDAQ : CSCO ) and Adobe® Systems
Incorporated (NASDAQ : ADBE ) today announced that the Cisco Content Delivery
System (CDS) will be the first system of its type to natively support Adobe
Flash® streaming capabilities, in addition to traditional progressive
delivery. Service providers and organizations of all types using the Cisco
CDS will be able to deliver Adobe Flash Player compatible video to PCs, and
TVs using Adobe Flash streaming capabilities, accelerating the Cisco CDS'
ability to deliver "any stream to any screen." This solution will include
the recently announced Adobe Flash® Media Server 3 software (see separate
release).
"The Cisco CDS combination of traditional content delivery and Adobe
streaming technologies in a single high-performance solution provides a
compelling infrastructure for reliably delivering high-quality content to
our customers," said Sam Schwartz, executive vice president of Comcast
Interactive Media. "CDS represents an important milestone in the evolution
toward a consistent content delivery architecture for both highly secure
and advertising-enabled media across Internet, mobile and traditional
platforms."
The Cisco CDS is a highly extensible platform for content and rich-media
service delivery including streaming intensive Web services, video on
demand, time shifted television, video ad insertion and next-generation
content delivery network (CDN) services. The Cisco CDS family is part of
the Cisco Internet Protocol Next-Generation Network (IP NGN) architecture,
a highly modular architectural framework based on international standards
and industry best practices. The Cisco IP NGN enables the development of
converged IP infrastructures designed to deliver next-generation video,
voice and data services with mobility.
The CDS implementation of Adobe Flash Media Server 3 will offer the full
benefits of Adobe Flash technology including improved performance for
faster user response and increased streaming protection to ensure that
valuable content is better protected as it is delivered to viewers. The CDS
platform provides additional benefits for the hosting and distribution of
Flash Player compatible video content and services including content and
service routing, dynamic hierarchical caching, load balancing, failover
protection, IP multicast extensions, unified management tools, and
end-to-end quality-of-service (QoS) support.
Adobe Flash Media Server 3 and the Flash product line are the leading
solutions for creating and delivering interactive rich-media applications
across browsers and operating systems. The ubiquity of the Adobe Flash
Player, coupled with an array of streaming options, enables users to view
interactive video online as a truly hassle-free, instant-on Web video
experience. The Flash family of products enables organizations to develop
customized Websites and applications with complete control over playback,
interactivity and branding. Rich media professionals have a complete,
cross-platform, integrated workflow that enables them to create and deliver
visually innovative projects once and deliver them to a variety of outlets
including television, the Web and mobile devices.
"With the addition of Adobe Flash Media Server 3 in the Cisco CDS, we are
expanding the Flash ecosystem and continuing to offer our customers more
deployment options," said Jim Guerard, vice president of Dynamic Media for
Adobe. "By creating a new integrated solution, Adobe and Cisco are offering
unique ways to create, distribute and consume content, bringing a new level
of interactivity and community to end-users while providing content
distributors with more delivery options than ever before."
"Cisco and Adobe share a common vision of delivering any content, anywhere,
anytime, to any device," said Paul Bosco, vice president of video and
broadband initiatives for Cisco. "Support for Adobe Flash Media Server 3
streaming on the CDS platform will greatly enhance our customers' ability
to deliver any stream to any of the wired, wireless and mobile devices in
our connected lives -- including an increasingly consistent user
experience. The Cisco CDS platform provides an ideal foundation on which to
build and scale the distribution and delivery of Adobe Flash Media Server 3
applications and streaming services."
Availability
The Cisco Content Delivery System is available now. Support for Adobe Flash
Player compatible video streaming is scheduled for availability in Q4 2007
to customers worldwide. For more information about Adobe Flash visit
www.adobe.com. For more information about the Cisco Content Delivery System
visit www.cisco.com.
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