1Abacast - Confidential1 Hybrid Content Delivery Network (CDN) Technologies and Services

2 First-ever Live DCIA Conference Webcast - Goals Serve broader audience Constrained by place, time, cost Additional DCIA service Showcase member technology

3 Live Webcast –Overview, Value Propositions Key Value Propositions Branded/Targeted User Experience Live video, synced slides, submit question, poll Flexible, efficient delivery Unicast or Abacast Peer-Assisted PPV business model support After-event archive

4 Online Video Trends – Users and Content Owners Increasing Demand, Replacing TV Increasing Broadband Penetration Increasing Content Increasing Demand for Higher Quality 300Kbps 750Kbps

5 Observations - Mid-market Funding Low B/W Fees Large content owners and video Video is a marketing extension Paying relatively low rates Mid-market For them, increased quality = increased revenue Funding the big guys low priced b/w Not getting great performance (caching algorithms)

6 P2P Anyone? Reduced infrastructure/ bandwidth costs Margin relief Higher Quality Experience Longer engagement, more ads Industry Trend – Hybrid

7 Example Network Efficiency – Korea SBS Live Olympics Korea great use case for P2P - adoption, b/w, behavior SBS - over 12,000 simultaneous viewers 1.5Mbps Windows Media Video Over 80% efficiency, over 14Gb/s bandwidth savings Over 40% reduction in server and switching hardware Total Connections Unicast Connections

8 Industry Progress Open P4P Working Group Optimized utilization of network resources On-Demand Test Results 23% increase in DL speed Avg hops from 5 to less than 1 Providing real value to key part of distribution chain PBPG P2P Best Practices Standardizing client behavior, security practices

9 About Abacast Founded in 2000 by former broadcasters, technologists Commercial-quality Hybrid Content Delivery Network (CDN) Live and On-Demand content Unicast and Peer-Assisted Content Monetization plus additional services Key Markets Internet Television, Online Radio, Corporate, File Delivery Metrics > 300 customers 16 different countries 46,516,274 plug-in downloads (as of July 1st, 2008) ~10 million end-user hours per month ~3.6 million unique users per month

10 Abacast Solution Overview

11 Key Value Propositions – Consumers Getting highest quality content 72% choose higher bit-rate and install Ultimately drives demand and business models

12 Key Value Propositions – Publisher/Broadcaster The most choices for delivery Live and On-Demand content Windows, Flash formats plus others Hybrid Delivery Single-source (Unicast), multi-source (Secure P2P), or combination Flexible delivery options Mix and match based on content value, customer type, content type, or business model

13 Key Value Propositions (contd) Real-time QoS leads to higher quality connections Less skips, buffers, breaks Smart Analytics Real time and historical metrics Closed system, can measure client perf and behavior

14 Key Value Propositions – CDN Scale-up Live Delivery Increased margins/profitability Unicast only - 1,000 movies at 1Mbps, $x Peer-Assisted - 1,000 movies at 2Mbps, still $x If efficiency… Equal to 50%, break even, consumer wins Above 50% = higher profits

15 Technology Details – Live and On-Demand P2P Network

16 Evolution of CDNs TimeframeDescriptionTechnologyAudience/Quality Streaming,Simple 100s Real Networksdeployment32Kbps 96 –98Clusters,Increasing com-1,000s broadcast.complexity, better end-128Kbps user experience 99 – 04Edge, AkamaiMuch more complex, 10,000s Better performance Kbps 05 +Hybrid (Edge True distributed,100,000s + plus P2P)good perf for all300Kbps – 3Mbps market sizes

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