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Inside Look: e-Media

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In contrast to traditional CDNs, e-Media is an "Integrated Streaming Solutions Provider" that focuses solely on streaming media and associated content and transactions. The company's extensive Pay Per View experience makes it a natural first stop for any company seeking to monetize content or enterprises requiring experience with secure video transmissions.

Like Activate, e-Media doesn't have its own edge network or private peering relationships, instead partnering with a Tier 1 provider, in this case AboveNet, which enjoys over 457 peering relationships with ISPs and other top tier providers. Briefly, AboveNet's "hub and spoke" architecture connects major cities like New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and Dallas with high bandwidth links (usually OC-48, 2.4 Gbps) and other dedicated links to Europe and Japan. This avoids crowded public data routes and network access points while peering arrangements with ISPs like AOL ensure fast delivery to and from private network users.

E-Media complements this architecture with e-MediaSphere, their own delivery network of redundant servers primarily co-located in AboveNet facilities in Vienna, San Jose and London, with load balancing and intelligent caching. All user connections are unicast to maximize e-commerce potential and reporting.
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While this would seem to disqualify e-Media for the largest blockbuster webcasts, the company did support 18,000 simultaneous streams while simulcasting the Drew Carey Show in 1999, and is currently serving over 10 million streams per month. Since 1998, e-Media has delivered over 4,800 live webcasts, and like most vendors, can provide soup to nuts production assistance.

However, e-Media's most impressive experience is in the pay per view arena, where they serve clients like the House of Blues and the World Wrestling Foundation. e-Media developed portions of Microsoft's Digital Broadcast Manager and can encrypt live or on demand streams using Microsoft's Digital Rights Manager, ensuring security.

e-Media can also implement media triggered content, which sends advertisements based upon the content of the video stream, and the company is currently handling over 90,000 e-commerce transactions daily. Using the same basic toolset, e-Media can deliver a very flexible range of training options, with pay per view, secured login, audience authentication, PowerPoint integration, polling and Q&A. E-Media was the only vendor with a multiple output streaming encoder, called Atlanta, that you can lease to help produce your events.

Though e-Media claims to be codec agnostic, most of its work centers around Microsoft Windows Media Technology, and many e-commerce features rely on Microsoft's Digital Broadcast Manager, so draw your own conclusions. Like most vendors, e-Media wouldn't get specific on pricing (at least on the record) though the rough numbers we discussed for media on demand were surprisingly reasonable.

e-Media also sets a high bar with reporting, with a browser accessible, real time SQL database that offers a high level of filtering for date and time, with general streaming queries for total streams, most popular streams, streams by format, total bit rate, megabytes transferred and activity by time of day.

End user reports include the number of streams served by player version, player language, player operating system and player CPU. Of course, seminars and pay per view activities enable whole new classes of reports, which can be saved and exported into Excel format or tab or comma delimited formats.

With proven PPV capabilities and a broad and flexible application base, e-Media may be the best unknown CDN in the business. With these critical strengths, our bet is that e-Media won't remain unknown for long.