MFN to Provide Infrastructure Services for Sony Pictures' Screenblast

📅 October 31, 2001 - Sony Pictures Digital Entertainment (sonypictures.com) has chosen Metromedia Fiber Network, Inc. (mfn.com), a provider of digitalcommunications infrastructure solutions, as its outsourced Internetinfrastructure managed service provider for the recently launchedScreenblast, a first-ever broadband creativity platform where people gatherto share their creative vision and express themselves through audio, video,music, movies, animation and special effects.

Screenblast is one of the first services to use the power of broadband andthe proliferation of digital devices to transform entertainment into atwo-way, interactive and immersive experience for the end user. SonyPictures Digital Entertainment selected MFN's Site Operations Platform andits comprehensive Internet infrastructure managed services solution for thefoundation of Screenblast.
MFN's Site Operations Platform provides Global 2000 companies with all ofthe critical elements required to create and maintain a world-class Internetsite including site architecture, hardware and software selection,co-location, network connectivity and ongoing management and services, allat a fixed monthly fee. Additionally, the SOP includes a 100-percent up-timeservice level agreement , which gives Screenblast the added confidence ofuninterrupted access to its content and services 24x7. The SOP also providesScreenblast with the ability to automatically add bandwidth and services asthe site grows.
"Outsourcing the infrastructure management part of its business to MFN notonly provides Sony Pictures Digital Entertainment with cost-savings, but italso enables the company to focus its attention on creating an engaging andcreative site for its Screenblast users," said Mark Spagnolo, president andCOO for MFN. "MFN's Site Operations Platform and our industry-leading 100percent uptime guarantee instills a confidence in our customers that theirsites are performing as expected and being monitored 24 hours a day, sevendays a week."

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