VANCOUVER, Wash., April 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Electric Lightwave Inc.
(Nasdaq: ELIX), one of the nation's top integrated communication providers of
enhanced data and business Internet access solutions, today announced a
three-year agreement to join broadcast.com's (Nasdaq: BCST) Multicast
Affiliate Program.
Under terms of the agreement, broadcast.com and Electric Lightwave will
work together to multicast-enable Electric Lightwave's network, giving
Electric Lightwave customers access to selected multicast and high-speed audio
and video programming hosted by broadcast.com. Electric Lightwave will also
showcase broadcast.com's multicast events to its customers through a
co-branded page on the broadcast.com site.
"This direct peering arrangement with broadcast.com will enable Electric
Lightwave to streamline delivery of audio and video content directly to our
customers' desktops," said Fletcher Keister, Internet product manager for
Electric Lightwave. "This agreement is an example of Electric Lightwave's
objective to connect our customers to the most sought after content on the
Internet."
"Broadcast.com has built a scalable distribution network designed to
deliver streaming audio and video to mass audiences, through any delivery
mechanism or access device," said Brokaw Price, director of multicast and
channel sales, broadcast.com. "Working with Electric Lightwave and our other
multicast affiliate partners underscores broadcast.com's commitment to
providing consumers with compelling broadband and multicast content while
enhancing the overall listening and viewing experience."
Multicast technology delivers a single audio or video stream to many users
simultaneously and ensures a high-quality experience for users with high-speed
Internet access. Broadcast.com, the leading aggregator and broadcaster of
streaming media programming on the Web, is developing the Internet's first
large-scale commercial multicast network. Through its Multicast Affiliate
program, broadcast.com is working with leading Internet service providers and
Internet backbone providers to help multicast-enable their networks so they
can deliver compelling, high-quality live video content to their subscribers
in the most efficient manner available today.
The agreement with broadcast.com comes on the heels of a recent
announcement about Electric Lightwave's enhanced dial-up Internet access
service, Remote Systems Virtual Portal(SM) (RSVP). For Internet Service
Providers using ports on this dial-up Internet access network, a
multicast-enabled system allows these ISP customers to receive streaming video
content directly from Electric Lightwave. The result is faster, less jittery,
more reliable access to broadcast.com content, as well as direct access to
exclusive broadcast.com events.
Electric Lightwave's dedicated Internet access and RSVP services are
offered in major markets across the country, including San Jose, San Diego,
San Francisco, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Dallas, Denver, Chicago, New York,
Washington D.C., Atlanta, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Seattle, Spokane, Wash.,
Portland, Ore., Sacramento, Calif., Phoenix, Salt Lake City and Boise, Idaho.
About Electric Lightwave
Electric Lightwave Inc. is a leading integrated communications provider of
enhanced data services, frame relay, ATM and Internet access solutions to
bandwidth intensive businesses and the growing e-commerce market. The company
offers long distance, data and prepaid services nationwide, with points of
presence in New York, Los Angeles, San Diego, Palo Alto, San Francisco,
Washington, D.C., Las Vegas, Denver, Dallas, Chicago and Atlanta. As a
full-service provider, the company offers local, long distance,
videoconferencing and high-speed broadband transport via an expanding fiber
optic network that interconnects major markets in the West. Headquartered in
Vancouver, Wash., the company employs 1,100 and earned revenue of $101 million
in 1998, up 65 percent from 1997. Electric Lightwave Inc. is on the World Wide
Web at http://www.eli.net and http://data.eli.net.
SOURCE Electric Lightwave, Inc.
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CONTACT:
Jack Hardy, 360-816-3602, or
jack_hardy@eli.net, or Enid Lamey, 360-816-4682, or
enid_lamey@eli.net, both of Electric Lightwave
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