Sony Pictures Selects Digital Island's 2Way Web Service for [...]

Sony Pictures Selects Digital Island's 2Way Web Service for Broadband Content

📅 January 7, 2002 - Digital Island, Inc. (digitalisland.com), a Cable & Wireless company, today announced an agreement to provide 2Way Web Services to Sony Pictures Digital Entertainment Inc.. Digital Island's 2Way Web Services allow SPDE to cost-effectively deliver its online digital entertainment business and dramatically improve the performance and reliability of SPDE's Web sites, including www.sonypictures.com and www.screenblast.com.

SPDE's 2Way Web Services design includes Digital Island's 2Deliver service. The 2Deliver service provides an Web experience, boosts online transactions and reduces the cost ofdelivering content ranging from banner ads and static images to dynamic content and streaming media files.
On Sony Pictures Entertainment's Web site, operated and managed by Sony Pictures Digital Entertainment, visitors can watch video clips, purchase movies and merchandise, access entertainment information and engage in activities designed around the company's film and television properties.
SPDE's recently launched Screenblast.com is a broadband creativity platform that lets users experience original entertainment, create, edit, publish and share their own music and video. The site offers a suite of creation software and studio-quality video and audio assets to enhance original creations.
Digital Island's 2Deliver service leverages both centralized and distributed edge computing resources to ensure companies serve a compelling online experience by improving speed, enhancing the quality of multimedia applications, expanding coverage, augmenting capacity onan as-needed basis and providing control in the form of identifying and flagging content, all in a secure and guaranteed setting.
The underlying technology components of Digital Island's 2Way Web Services include Footprint Service Enabled Technology, which features a number of technology components, including transport, traffic management, content management, control systems and peeringsystems.

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