Here's what Media Cast offers
With Media Cast and the Enron Intelligent Network (EIN), we provide an alternative to sending content through oversubscribed Internet pipes. Content sent over the EIN using Media Cast delivers stereophonic sound, a large viewing window, and virtually error-free bit-rates. Here are some highlights:

• Support for RealNetworks® G2 streaming technology, the most prevalent media player client software in the industry
• Support for Microsoft® Windows® Media Player
• Upcoming support for other popular media streaming solutions, including MPEG-1, QuickTime™ 4.0 and MP3 technologies
• Bit rate support from 20Kbps to 1000Kbps and higher
• Delivery of high-quality, high-fidelity audio and video in stereophonic sound and within a large viewing window
• Carrier-class network - Sun Microsystems, Cisco, Ciena, Compaq
• Elimination of frequent network congestion and buffering effects that can cause jitter and frozen frames during program delivery
• Support for large, simultaneous delivery of live and on-demand programming information
• Complete transparency to end users, and a premium experience that keeps them on your site
• Capabilities for ad-based, subscription and pay-per-view programming support
• Global reach
• Inktomi Hierarchical Cache Network

Here's what the Enron Intelligent Network offers
The Enron Intelligent Network (EIN) combines the high-speed transport of a private dedicated network, a set of distributed application servers and extensive quality-of-service features. The EIN's architecture sends content and application services out to the edges of the network, where they are nearest to end users. Here are some EIN highlights:

• As a Pure IP™ network built and operated by Enron Broadband Services over its fiber optic infrastructure, the EIN utilizes the latest in Internet Protocol technology and a high-capacity network built from the ground up for delivering content and applications to make broadband services a reality.
• With a distributed hierarchy of servers that host content and applications at the edges of the network. End users can access rich media content and applications without the time-consuming and costly burden of traversing the global public networks.

Command and Control Features
Our advanced control system monitors and manages the Media Cast service, and is used to reserve and maintain capacity and performance across the Enron Intelligent Network. Control system features include:

• Tracking and monitoring of scheduled reservations for network resources, including:
  • Backbone capacity
  • Server capacity
  • Appropriate storage capacity
  • Application session and software license capacity
• Reservations are controlled so that new events and transactions do not exceed the capacity of all resources for the time period specified
• Ensures quality-of-service for reliable, uninterrupted distribution of live webcast programming throughout the Enron Intelligent Network

Additional content and application delivery services offered by Enron Broadband Services utilize this same control system to ensure competition for resources does not occur among disparate services.

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(Latest network reach map through 2000 of the US with the connections to Europe and Asia.)

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