TEMPE, Ariz., March 31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Limelight Networks, Inc
(Nasdaq: LLNW) today introduced Limelight Live Event, a complete suite of
professional services and advanced technology solutions that enables content
producers to broadcast live events to a global online audience. This end-to-
end turnkey solution builds on the company's seven-year expertise in large
online events, and its growing services organization and partner ecosystem.
The company also announced that Harpo Productions, Inc, WhiteBlox, and
Microsoft, Inc are broadcasting live events using the Live Event Services
solution.
"Over the past 7 years, Limelight Networks has delivered some of the
Internet's largest live online events. To make it easier for producers of all
sizes to 'go live', we've now packaged that expertise into a turnkey solution
that makes it easy to deploy a large-scale online event. Now, customers can
produce ground-breaking events, knowing that our solution will ensure a
brilliant user experience," said David Hatfield, senior vice president,
products, marketing, and sales, Limelight Networks, Inc.
Limelight Live Event Services ensures that all components of a live
broadcast come together at exactly the right time -- reducing the stress and
the risk of producing a successful event. A team of experts will work
alongside a content owner on critical items such as content distribution
strategies, pre-event testing, content origin infrastructure, live event
execution, real-time monitoring and best practices spanning format selection
and associated media players.
Oprah.com is using Limelight Live Event Services as a critical technology
component for its "A New Earth" ten-week webinar series (in support of her
latest Book Club selection) -- in which Harpo Productions, Inc. has broken new
ground in live online events by creating an interactive, two-way forum for
Oprah Winfrey, Eckhart Tolle, and a weekly international web audience in the
hundreds of thousands to connect and collaborate.
WhiteBlox is using Limelight Live Event Services to create a unique
experience for online viewers of Indy Racing League and other sporting events.
The webcast provides fans with multiple camera angles, real-time data from the
cars, as well as interactive components.
"WhiteBlox provides live interactive broadcasting solutions for content
providers with global audiences," said WhiteBlox CEO, Greg Demetriades. "Our
customers, including Indy Racing League, use a variety of video formats, all
of which we support in order to ensure the best possible viewing experiences
for end-users. Limelight Live Event Services helps enable our vision of
offering the greatest range of customizable solutions."
Additional components of the Limelight Networks Live Event Services
include:
-- Best practice advice on event set-up, marketing, and execution
-- Detailed planning and coordination, from the kick-off meeting to post-
event review
-- Access to professional signal transmission services around the globe
-- Pre-configuration of network assets to ensure massive scalability for
even the largest web events
-- Encoding and transcoding content to address requirements for multiple
delivery formats
-- Onsite engineering resources to test and support your solution
-- Centralized event monitoring and dedicated on-line support
-- Best-of-breed partner ecosystem that enables advanced capabilities
across the entire video delivery value chain
Limelight Live Event Services are available immediately. For more
information, visit www.limelightnetworks.com
About Limelight Networks, Inc.
Limelight Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq: LLNW) is a content delivery partner
enabling the next wave of Internet business and entertainment. More than 1300
Internet, entertainment, software, and technology brands trust our robust,
scalable platform to monetize their digital assets by delivering a brilliant
online experience to their global audience. Our architecture bypasses the
busy public Internet using a dedicated optical network that interconnects
thousands of servers and delivers massive files at the speed of light --
directly to the access networks that consumers use every day. Our proven
network and passion for service assures our customers that every object in
their library will be instantly delivered to every user, every time. For more
information, visit www.limelightnetworks.com.
SOURCE Limelight Networks, Inc
Contact: Paul Alfieri of Limelight Networks, Inc. +1-917-297-4241, palfieri@llnw.com