LOS ANGELES, April 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Streaming Media West -- Surgient
Networks, the industry's first "real-world" open platform for rich media and
other I/O-intense applications, today announced the addition of three industry
experts to its professional Advisory Board in order to strengthen Surgient's
positioning in the rich media and platform application markets.
New Advisory Council members include, Christopher Levy, from Austin; Dan
Rayburn, from New York; and John Studarus, from San Diego. Christopher is co-
founder of DRM Networks and is a driving force in the evolution of the
streaming market. He has worked with NaviSite, and supported a number of
companies such as Universal Music, Microsoft, Anheuser-Bush, NFL Films, and
Grand Royal Records. http://www.drmnetworks.net
Dan Rayburn is recognized as one of the Internet industry's foremost
authorities on Interactive Web Technology with 7 years in the streaming
sector. Prior to becoming a consultant, he worked for the Globix Corporation,
and co-founded one of the industry's first streaming media production
companies that was successfully acquired by Digital Island.
http://www.danrayburn.com
John Studarus, President of JHL Consulting, specializes in building
Enterprise and Internet Content Delivery Networks (CDN). He was instrumental
in the development and deployment of the Intervu CDN (acquired by Akamai). He
holds patents in Virtual Reality Modeling and Distributed Systems.
http://www.jhlconsulting.com
"We are excited to add such talented and experienced professionals to our
advisory board and look forward to learning from their market expertise," said
Nagi Rao, President and CEO of Surgient Networks. We consider our Advisory
Board to be a strategic part of Surgient's overall market positioning,
relationship and sales process."
About Surgient Networks
Surgient Networks is focused on fundamentally changing the economics of
the data center. Surgient's eQualibrium(TM) architecture is the first to
effectively converge the functionality of core networking, computing and
storage technologies into a single, scalable, and open platform that offers
multi-gigabit throughput capacity and customer defined resource control.
Surgient's eQ2500(TM) product platform is optimal for rich media, middleware
and other I/O-intensive applications. The company has successfully completed
both an A and B round of funding, and is backed by a prestigious group of
institutional and private investors, including Austin Ventures, JAFCO
Ventures, Sternhill Partners, and Cisco Systems. Surgient Networks is based
in Austin, Texas and was recognized by Network World, Computerworld and
Network Computing as one of the top companies to watch in 2002.
(http://www.surgient.com )
Contact:
Phil Bode
Director of Corporate Communications
512-241-4837 (office)
512-461-6115 (cell)
phil.bode@surgient.com
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CONTACT:
Phil Bode, Director of Corporate
Communications of Surgient Networks, +1-512-241-4837, or
cellular, +1-512-461-6115, or phil.bode@surgient.com
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