[March 20, 2001]

Vividon Integrates Apple's Darwin Streaming Server Technology

Vividon, Inc., an Internet infrastructure company focused on improving the economics of delivering streaming media, announced that Vividon's streamers now support the QuickTime file format as a result of integrating Darwin Streaming Server technology from Apple. The integration of the QuickTime format into Vividon's streamers further advances Vividon's goal to eliminate cost barriers that exist in providing a consistent and reliable rich-media Web experience.

"Apple's QuickTime is a leading standard for audio and video on the Internet, and we are pleased to be delivering QuickTime to our many QuickTime users," said David Ellenberger, Vividon CEO. "We look forward to further integration of QuickTime technology into our product family to help provide high-performance streaming."

Vividon's streamers, a new category of streaming delivery device, improve the delivery of dynamic content by eliminating bottlenecks while providing a high-quality streaming experience to thousands of concurrent users. Vividon integrated QuickTime's open-protocols into its products to deliver QuickTime files with exceptional speed and quality. Vividon's streamer has shown sustainable throughput capabilities well above OC12 speeds to support over 700 megabits per second of concurrent QuickTime streams in a single low-profile device.

"Using Darwin Streaming Server technology to serve QuickTime streams, companies
can provide their users with the highest quality audio and video on the Internet," said Frank Casanova, Apple's Director of QuickTime product marketing. "We are pleased that Vividon has chosen to use Apple's streaming server technology to stay on the forefront of streaming media offerings."

Apple's Darwin Streaming Server is an open source server technology which allows you to send streaming QuickTime data to clients across the Internet using the industry standard RTP and RTSP protocols, and is based on the same code as QuickTime's Streaming Server. For more information on Apple's streaming server products you can visit: www.apple.com/quicktime/products/qtss/.

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