EVERGREEN, CO, May 21, 2009—In what was Belgium’s largest live streaming event on May 16-17, more than 30,000 concurrent online viewers, some as far away as New Zealand, Aruba and Argentina, witnessed the birth of Kai Mook, the first-ever elephant born at the Antwerp Zoo. The 42-hour non-stop live streaming was orchestrated by the cutting-edge Belgian content delivery network Rambla using Wowza Media Server® Pro for Amazon® EC2, which gave them the elastic capacity to manage the flood of global viewers.

“Wowza Pro for Amazon EC2 was truly a saving grace for us,� said Jo Martens, Managing Director, Rambla. “We needed to increase our CDN’s capacity quickly to insure the event’s success. Wowza’s media server software combined with Amazon EC2 Web Services was the perfect solution. It scaled beautifully and reliably to handle peak viewer loads and proved to be an extremely economical short-term capacity boost for us. It was cloud computing at its best.�
Wowza Media Server Pro for Amazon EC2 is a self-managed cloud-based solution that can be used by streaming providers as a core platform for building media delivery services or, as was the case with Rambla, to cost-effectively gain instant extra capacity.
Based on a Web 2.0 portal conceptualized by the ad agency Boondoggle, the weekend-long spectacle surpassed a number of milestones:

• About 50,000 people registered for an SMS alert that notified them right before the elephant’s birth

• Viewership peaked at over 30,000 concurrent users at the time of elephant’s birth

• In all, the stream reached more than 350,000 unique visitors

• The average viewing time throughout the event was 1 hour and 35 minutes
For more information on Wowza Media Server Pro for Amazon EC2, visit: www.wowzamedia.com/ec2.html.

About Wowza Media Systems
Wowza Media Systems is a leader in streaming media server software. With the February 2007 introduction of its award-winning product, Wowza Media Server® Pro, Wowza has taken a leadership position in redefining Flash streaming. Wowza has not only radically changed Flash streaming economics, it has also revolutionized online media by introducing innovative and exclusive capabilities that make multi-protocol 3-sceen live and on-demand media streaming a reality. Deployed by more than 20,000 global licensees in entertainment, social media, advertising, enterprise, education, government, and Internet commerce, Wowza customers include such well-known companies as Macy’s, Sun Microsystems, Mirror Image, Interoute, RAINet, Astral Media, and T-Systems. For more information, visit Wowza Media Systems at www.wowzamedia.com.

About Rambla
Rambla is webtelevision, Rambla is interactive advertising, Rambla is live and on-demand concert broadcasting, Rambla is e-learning, Rambla is film festivals and movie trailers, Rambla is business news from the heart of Europe and Burning Man video diaries from the heart of the Nevada desert. But quintessentially Rambla is a high-speed and reliable Content Delivery Network which delivers any rich media content, regardless of audience demand and peak loads. Rambla’s broad customer base includes top media companies and interactive advertising agencies delivering campaigns and projects for well-known brands like Nokia, Volvo, Microsoft, Carlsberg, Intel, Grohe, Playstation, Coca Cola, Neckermann, Heineken, KBC, Proximus, and more. For more information about Rambla, visit www.rambla.be

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