Beijing Fastweb-The Solar Eclipse Live Broadcast's Network Service Expert
2009-07-22
(July 22, 2009, Beijing) Millions gathered on the banks of China's Yangtze River to see the solar eclipse. From 7:30am, several national and local television stations, as well as many websites who were broadcasting the eclipse live. During the solar eclipse, behind the scenes, a company called Beijing Fastweb was behind the curtain. Beijing Fastweb Technology Co., Ltd (www.fastweb.com.cn) was responsible for speeding up the live feeds with their CDN service technology. Cooperating with Google and China Academy of Science, they provided fast service to all the people around the globe who wanted to enjoy the solar eclipse live.
Bejing Fastweb CEO Zaide Liu said in response, "We are very grateful and pleased that the Chinese Academy of Science and the East for trusting Bejing Fastweb. We create ways to stream media and static pages and speed up connection, and also have a wealth of practical experience. Broadcasting the solar eclipse live created extremely high traffic and was a difficult test for us, but our team was working around the clock, the day before and the day of the eclipse in order to insure the effectiveness of our technology."
The Chinese Academy of Science - Speeding Up A Static Page (FastStatic)
Playing the solar eclipse on 6/22/09 live was not the first time Bejing Fastweb took on such a task, especially considering the co-coordinator, the Chinese Academy of Science. In 2008 other solar eclipses were played live in the Chinese Academy of Science. This year Bejing Fastweb has a new product - Faststatic, which speeds up static pages, confirmed by the Chinese Academy of Science as a product of the highest quality and reliability.
With this cooperation, Bejing Fastweb, with their professional DNS cache optimization technology makes sure that each page loads as smooth and as stable as possible, so people can view real time solar eclipses though the web. In accordance with background statistics, the total count for the views of the Live Soal Eclipse was more than 800 million.
Oriental TV Broadcast the Solar Eclipse Live with Google's Co-operation in Order to Speed Up Streaming Media (FastLive)
In Shanghai, Google, Oriental TV, and Bejing Fastweb cooperated to broadcast the eclipse, and also banded together to offer live, on-demand, interactive, and other forms of media to "enhance the everyday viewing expirience."
Bejing Fastweb also speeds up streaming media broadcasts with Fastlive, which redirects website users to the nearest node, instead of them having to go very far to get their data. Web site users across the country help provide stable and reliable streaming video services.