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| VeriSign Teams with Entriq VeriSign has entered into a strategic alliance with Entriq, a company that provides pay media solutions to manage, protect, and monetize multimedia content worldwide. The new joint offering combines Entriq's rights-management and commerce solutions with the VeriSign Intelligent Content Delivery Network to offer media companies a solution for managing, monetising, and delivering their media assets online. Entriq's services include customer care, billing, content geographic controls, download controls and support for a wide variety of business models. The combined solution offers media and entertainment companies a variety of delivery options for monetising their valuable media assets, including streaming, download and progressive download, with the additional advantage of leveraging secure and legitimate peer to peer when delivery speed and cost advantages are critical business drivers. According to analyst firm eMarketer, Internet video is exploding. In the United States alone, the Internet video audience will grow 45.8 percent from 107.7 million in 2006 to 157 million by 2010. The VeriSign Intelligent CDN combines the attributes of a traditional CDN with the efficiencies of peer-to-peer technology as an end-to-end managed service. The scale of VeriSign's global intelligent infrastructure, combined with the patented and proven Kontiki peer-to-peer technology, enables media and entertainment companies to offer a superior download experience for end users. Entriq is also launching the 3.6 version of the Entriq Download Manager which along with incorporating the Verisign Intelligent CDN components has been upgraded to include: • Transfer to PlaysForSure Devices – Entriq Download Manager supports discovery of devices attached to the PC through USB ports. It also supports transfer of appropriate media and licenses to a PlaysForSure device. • Configurable Delay in Auto-Deletion – customers can now determine the interval for auto-deletion of the media file. write your comments about the article :: © 2007 Computing News :: home page |