The 10 companies most likely to acquire Raystream
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1. YouTube (Google)
375 million people worldwide will watch 75 billion YouTube videos this year. Raystream can eliminate the annoying buffering that frequently happens when viewing YouTube videos while enabling the company’s existing network infrastructure to handle the ever-increasing number of home-made videos posted on the site.
2. Netflix
During peak periods, Netflix consumes as much as 40% of total Internet bandwidth. Last year, its subscriber base increased 52%. With Raystream’s compression algorithm, Netflix can improve the experience of watching movies streamed over the Internet while allowing the company’s network to handle the massive volume of traffic that sending all these movies generates.
3. Facebook
With more than 600 million users worldwide, Facebook is a bigger consumer of bandwidth than YouTube, and accounts for almost 14% of all network traffic. Users watch 2 billion videos every month on Facebook. By increasing network capacity by as much as tenfold, the Raystream system can reduce the need for Facebook to add more servers (the company spends a million dollars a month on electricity alone) and ensure that videos run without glitches.
4. Brightcove
Although not a household name like many of the other companies on this list, Brightcove boasts the most widely adopted online video platform on the Web. Within the past 12 months, Brightcove has increased video streams from 400 million to 700 million a month. They will derive benefits from Raystream similar to those experienced by YouTube and other major video distribution services.
5. Hulu
Hulu attracts 8.5 million visitors a month and generates $65 million in annual ad revenue; 90% of its video streams have advertising attached. Raystream’s enhanced video quality will help Hulu attract more advertisers, and the compression will enable Hulu to stream more videos without adding servers.
6. Amazon
Amazon is getting into the streaming video-on-demand business in a big way, providing over 90,000 movies and TV shows you can watch on your PC, Mac, or Internet-connected TV. As with YouTube and Netflix, Amazon stands to improve video quality, enhanced the customer experience, and free up bandwidth by employing the Raystream algorithm.
7. Level 3
The more traffic a network handles the more bandwidth Raystream’s 10:1 compression algorithm can save them. Level 3 is a leader in the industry, having built the world’s first continuously upgradeable network fully optimized for Internet protocol. Today they are one of the world’s top three Internet traffic carriers.
8. Akamai
Akamai operates a global computing platform comprised of tens of thousands of servers. They routinely deliver between 15% and 30% of all Web traffic, reaching more than 4 Terabits per second. With Raystream, Akamai can continue to handle this large volume of traffic with a minimal expansion of infrastructure.
9. AT&T Content Distribution Network
The AT&T CDN enables fast content distribution with a quality user experience. The Raystream algorithm can enable the AT&T CDN to handle higher data volumes with superior image quality.
10. America Online
After undoing its $124 billion merger with Time Warner Inc., AOL is repositioning itself as a provider of online content. Earlier this year AOL paid $315 million for Huffington Post, but Raystream could be an even more profitable investment for its online video offerings.
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