Spacenet Forms Strategic Alliance Program to Offer Integrated
Digital Media Solutions to Enterprise Customers
STRATACACHE Joins as Charter Member of Spacenet’s Digital
Media Alliance
McLean, VA – October 27, 2008 —
Spacenet Inc., one of the world’s leading providers of satellite
networking solutions, has launched a strategic alliance program
to offer integrated digital media services. As part of the new
strategic program, STRATACACHE, a leading provider of advanced
digital media software, has joined as one of Spacenet’s
Digital Media Alliance charter members. Digital media applications,
including digital signage and interactive distance learning, are
increasingly being used by businesses as a way to increase revenues,
lower employee training costs, and improve efficiencies. Spacenet
has been expanding its presence in the digital media market, including
recent deployments to gas stations and convenience stores and
to big box retailers. Spacenet is also helping to drive standards
in this emerging market and is an active board member of the Digital
Signage Association, which serves as a collective voice for the
digital signage industry.
The Spacenet Digital Media Alliance combines the expertise of
some of the most respected companies in their fields to provide
a single-source solution for digital content delivery. The alliance
was developed with large enterprise environments in mind, like
big box retail and restaurant chains, that have hundreds or even
thousands of geographically dispersed locations. With a focus
on scalability and commercial grade quality of service, the new
alliance simplifies the challenge of implementing solutions for
digital signage, interactive distance learning, and other applications
for IP content delivery. The customized turnkey solutions provided
by alliance members include content creation and management, display
systems, multicast services, satellite and common carrier transport,
and in-store installation and integration.
As a Digital Signage Alliance member, STRATACACHE and Spacenet
will work together to provide an integrated end-to-end solution
to customers. STRATACACHE will provide its digital signage, IP-BTV,
content acceleration, content distribution and content management
services, and Spacenet will provide its high-performance network
services to enable cost-effective delivery of content to multiple
locations via satellite.
“Satellite services such as Spacenet’s are an ideal
match for STRATACACHE’s content delivery solutions and are
essential for providing a scalable, reliable, and cost-effective
delivery method,” said STRATACACHE VP of Marketing Louie
Hollmeyer. “The inherent multicast capabilities of satellite
play an important role in the value chain by providing a consistent
and efficient content distribution solution. Together, we are
providing a seamless solution that helps customers more easily
implement and manage digital media applications.”
Spacenet President and COO Glenn Katz said, “With literally
hundreds of start-ups competing for a piece of the on-premise
digital media 'ecosystem', finding a proven digital signage or
content delivery solution can be daunting. Spacenet's Digital
Media Alliance represents the industry’s first true collaboration
of providers for end-to-end in-store media distribution. Unlike
an individual company with only a single solution to sell, the
alliance enables customers to benefit from a broad choice of different
solutions tailored to their unique requirements. Collectively
and individually the members of the Digital Media Alliance are
committed to helping customers realize new possibilities for revenue
uplift and enhanced operational efficiency.”
Mr. Katz continued, “We have been selective in choosing
charter members of the alliance, looking for qualified companies
with innovative and field-proven solutions. We are proud to have
STRATACACHE, one the best recognized names in digital signage,
join as a charter member and add their award-winning solutions
to the collective expertise of the Spacenet Digital Media Alliance.”
About STRATACACHE
STRATACACHE is the world leader in efficient, scalable and cost
effective content distribution, digital signage/digital media
and application acceleration solutions for highly distributed,
network connected organizations. Serving Global 2,000 customers
in the retail, finance, service, manufacturing, and government
markets worldwide, STRATACACHE's products transparently solve
large-scale content distribution, digital media, and application
performance challenges while immediately providing tangible return-on-investment
and dramatically improved user satisfaction. STRATACACHE is based
in Dayton, Ohio, USA and is privately held. For more information
please visit www.stratacache.com.
About Spacenet®
Founded in 1981, Spacenet Inc. is one of the world’s leading
providers of high-performance satellite and hybrid terrestrial
networking solutions for US based enterprise, government and small
office/small business customers. Spacenet has a longstanding tradition
of industry leadership and innovation, and today has more than
100,000 operational network endpoints for customers including
many Fortune 500 companies and major government agencies. Spacenet's
services include its custom satellite and hybrid network solutions
for enterprise and government; Connexstar™ VSAT services
for primary, backup and disaster recovery networks; and StarBand®
broadband Internet by satellite. Spacenet is based in McLean,
Virginia, and operates its own end-to-end services infrastructure
including network management, field services and teleport facilities
in McLean, VA; Atlanta, Georgia; and Chicago, Illinois. Spacenet
is a wholly owned subsidiary of Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd.
(Nasdaq: GILT). Visit Spacenet at www.spacenet.com.
Spacenet Media Contact:
David Myers
Senior Vice President of Marketing and Corporate Development
(703) 848-1200
david.myers@spacenet.com
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