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Orvis FanU Planetvu Featured Case Studies: Atari: Online Gaming :::::::::: To support a dramatic expansion of its web-based consumer business, Atari, Inc., a global leader in the development, publishing and distribution of interactive entertainment, decided to outsource all of its consumer-facing websites. To accomplish this successfully, Atari realized that network performance and architecture were critical. The company needed a turnkey solution to deliver extraordinary bandwidth to support its new online gaming environment, as well as world-class hosting and fail-safe Internet connectivity. See how Internap helped Atari :::::::::: Canada Web Hosting: Web Hosting Provider :::::::::: When it came to building their new data center in Toronto, Canada Web Hosting knew they could no longer rely on manual intervention to manage Internet latency, routing issues and network outages, if they were to meet new performance goals designed to give them a competitive edge. This required the use of dynamic route optimization and automated Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) management for their Internet connectivity, which would reduce Mean Time to Repair (MTTR) and free up technical resources that were consumed with manual BGP management. Lastly, they needed a reporting tool that could supply their Network Operation Center (NOC) with enhanced troubleshooting capabilities, giving them visibility into both real-time and historic events at the routing, ASN and ISP level. Any platform they selected would also need to scale with network growth and not introduce a single point of failure in their redundant network design. See how Internap helped Canada Web Hosting :::::::::: Diesel: Apparel :::::::::: Diesel needed to create an interactive online campaign that would consist of live video taken from five web cameras positioned in a single location in Spain. The live content would then be streamed 24 hours a day over a five-day period. The site required interactivity and needed to be available on a wide variety of platforms. Diesel needed a partner that would be able to provide continuous, uninterrupted transmission of the live feed as well as the excess capacity to handle the high level of not only sustained traffic, but the spikes in traffic as well. Site visitors were expected to reach over 250,000 people during the course of the campaign. See how Internap helped Diesel :::::::::: FanU: Sports Community and Social Networking :::::::::: Privately-held and headquartered in Knoxville, Tennessee, Action Sports Media (ASM) is a full-service marketing company specializing in collegiate sports game day multimedia. Comprised of 10 leading NCAA universities and 22 collegiate venues across the United States, ASM was founded in 1997 to meet the increasing need for sales and marketing expertise in college athletics. As the company embarked on the launch of their college sports-focused social networking site, FanU.com, ASM needed to establish an infrastructure that would successfully manage surges in traffic, meet demand and expand the site, while ensuring members enjoy 100 percent uptime. Because FanU.com is first and foremost a social networking site, the automated upload and encoding of user-generated content (UGC), storage and reliable delivery of that content is crucial to the success of the business. In addition, with the launch coinciding with the fast-approaching college football season, an accelerated, accurate execution was a must. This represents unique physical challenges both in acquiring live television signals, and distributing them to subscribers while maintaining a high quality of service. Adverse network conditions at any stage of this process are immediately apparent to viewers in degradation of the television signals. See how Internap helped FanU :::::::::: Frictionless Commerce: Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) Software :::::::::: When Frictionless® Commerce, a leading provider of Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) software, discovered that some of their U.K. customers were having network latency problems, they knew this was also going to be problematic for their customers in Asia. Frictionless needed a cost-effective solution to mitigate the slow connectivity of the Internet and to better serve their customers worldwide – without the expense of building out their own private network. See how Internap helped Frictionless :::::::::: FreshDirect: Manufacturing :::::::::: FreshDirect, a leading online fresh food manufacturing company, depends on Internap for its primary network connectivity, which runs the company's state-of-the art 300,000 square foot processing plant in New York. All of FreshDirect's operations, from its online shopping cart to its processing plant, are tied to the performance, reliability and uptime of the network. Hear FreshDirect's CTO discuss Internap's role in delivering fast site response time, which significantly improves its customer shopping experience and sales cycle. See how Internap helped FreshDirect :::::::::: Friendster: Online Community and Social Networking :::::::::: Privately owned and headquartered in Mountain View, California, Friendster supports a worldwide online community that boasts more than 18 million registered users and hundreds of millions of stored ‘friend relationships.’ Since its founding in 2002, the company has witnessed dramatic growth, including a tripling of traffic to its website between Spring 2004 and 2005. The company needed to manage its continuously escalating monthly bandwidth costs and have a better picture of how its frequent software releases and applications traffic – essential to support the dynamics of a worldwide, online community – were impacting its website performance. See how Internap helped Friendster :::::::::: Fry, Inc.: Technology :::::::::: Fry, Inc., a leading e-commerce design, development and managed services provider, was dealing with expensive contracts with multiple Network Service Providers (NSPs) and expending significant internal costs to manage those relationships. Additionally, these providers – individually and collectively – were not providing the flexibility and redundancy that Fry’s clients demanded. Following a peak holiday season plagued by network problems, Fry realized it needed a better way to do business. See how Internap helped Fry :::::::::: Ice.com: Online Retailer :::::::::: Ice.com is one of the largest and most respected online Jewelers serving more than half a million satisfied customers since 1999. Continuing in the company's innovative approach to providing an immersive shopping experience, Ice.com wanted to establish a way for their worldwide customers to visualize what jewelry would look like when worn. They also wanted to provide their customers with access to movie trailers, interviews and behind-the-scenes sneak peeks of celebrity jewelry sold on the site. See how Internap helped Ice.com :::::::::: Leader in Specialty Services: Manufacturing :::::::::: A U.S.-based specialty materials manufacturer produces high-performance foams and circuit board components used in many applications - from packaging and wireless telecommunications to imaging and shoe insoles. Theirs is a global enterprise with locations in the U.S., Europe and Asia. In 2002 the company opened a plant in China to achieve lower manufacturing costs. But it experienced long delays transmitting time-sensitive, sizable data files between its Chinese and U.S. facilities. These delays impacted the effectiveness of shared software applications, the company's ability to collaborate over their Intranet and threatened to compromise a low-cost manufacturing opportunity in China. See how Internap helped a leader in specialty services :::::::::: Leading Toy Manufacturer: Retail :::::::::: This leading global toy manufacturing company needed a more efficient and reliable solution to support an outstanding web experience for its consumers, who have made one of its flagship web properties among the most trafficked – and profitable – in the world. See how Internap helped a leading toy manufacturer :::::::::: NCsoft Corporation: Online Gaming :::::::::: For NCsoft, a leading online computer game developer, it’s all about giving their customers the best gaming experience possible. In order for end-users to truly enjoy the dynamic action, vivid scenarios and interactive real-time competitions of the company’s popular role-playing games, NCsoft needed to provide uninterrupted connectivity and instant response times – all the time. Quite a challenge when you have to keep tens of thousands of gamers connected to the same “massive multiplayer online role-playing game” (MMORPG) simultaneously. See how Internap helped NCsoft :::::::::: Orvis Case Study: Retail :::::::::: Sporting goods icon Orvis, America's oldest mail-order company, today depends on the Internet as its principal revenue source. The retailer's online store augments its catalog and brick and mortar stores to reach millions of consumers around the world every year. Although adding e-tailing to its channel strategy has allowed the company to expand its brand footprint, the Internet also brought inherent challenges such as network outages, performance issues and latency that Orvis felt powerless to manage or control. As a result, some customers experienced unacceptably slow performance on Orvis' website, causing them to abandon the site, while others were unable to access the site at all. See how Internap helped Orvis Case Study :::::::::: Planetvu Case Study: IPTV :::::::::: Like traditional television distribution services such as cable and satellite, Planetvu licenses and distributes live and on-demand television services to its subscribers. However, unlike traditional cable and satellite, Planetvu has a global distribution footprint, and its programming is distributed across public networks rather than private networks such as cable. This represented a unique physical challenges both in acquiring live television signals, and distributing them to subscribers while maintaining a high quality of service. Adverse network conditions at any stage of this process were immediately apparent to viewers in degradation of the television signals. See how Internap helped Planetvu :::::::::: Rackspace: Managed and Application Hosting :::::::::: Leading managed-hosting company Rackspace needed a more intelligent and cost-effective route optimization solution than was available through the Internet’s BGP protocol. The tools they had to monitor and shift traffic required manual intervention by network engineers and technicians – a process that was time-consuming, costly, prone to human error and an inefficient use of resources. See how Internap helped Rackspace :::::::::: Saatchi & Saatchi: Advertising Agency :::::::::: Global advertising firm Saatchi & Saatchi is known for creating ad campaigns with impressive creativity and cutting-edge techniques. This creativity was showcased when Toyota Motor Sales, USA, Inc., a leading manufacturer of energy efficient vehicles, looked to Saatchi & Saatchi to develop and re-launch its website for Toyota Hybrid owners – a community that has grown exponentially in recent years. The new community site would invite Hybrid owners to join and create the site’s content by uploading personal photos and video clips of their experiences with their vehicles. Toyota wanted to create the ability to accept user-submitted content in multiple formats and still provide an end-user viewing experience that was consistent across the site. The burden of converting and encoding the content prior to upload needed to be taken off of the user as well to ensure ease of use. See how Internap helped Saatchi & Saatchi :::::::::: Stack, LLC: Media :::::::::: At the heart of STACK Magazine’s online efforts was a drive to create an extension of the printed magazine. A complementary portal provides its subscribers access to additional information and features, as well as provides STACK a wider reach into the high school demographic. MyStack.com was created. Although the ability to upload and view video online is no new feat, MyStack.com wanted to create the ability to accept user submitted content in multiple formats and still provide an end-user viewing experience that was consistent across the site. Since the site is targeted dominantly to a high school audience, the average user would not have the technical expertise to convert and encode prior to upload in order to obtain the quality of experience that STACK was looking to achieve. See how Internap helped Stack, LLC ::::::::::

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