Cisco joins an extensive set of networking, technology, and infrastructure companies who are integrating RealSystem iQ platform products and solutions, ensuring that comprehensive network capabilities will be in place to efficiently and cost effectively deliver digital media. Cisco will include RealSystem Server 8 and RealSystem Proxy 8 within its content networking product line, and will resell the RealSystem iQ platform, including RealSystem Server Intranet products, to enterprise customers. Additionally, RealNetworks and Cisco will cooperatively market and sell digital delivery solutions to access ISP’s and network service providers.
The integration of RealSystem iQ, which enables peer-to-peer media delivery networking, with Cisco’s Content Distribution Manager and Content Engine appliances will provide customers with a tremendously scaleable and reliable solution. RealSystem iQ is designed to deliver the breakthrough quality of RealVideo 8 and RealAudio 8, MPEG1, MPEG2, MP3, Apple QuickTime, Flash, and over 45 media types to all devices. The RealSystem iQ universal delivery capabilities, available on all major operating systems, have been broadly deployed by the world’s leading content delivery networks and major broadcasters. The agreement with Cisco underscores this momentum, and paves the way toward powering the Internet community of broadcasters, enterprises, service providers, and consumers with RealSystem iQ-enabled networks, eliminating media delivery congestion and providing unprecedented flexibility, scalability, and mission critical reliability for rich media applications.
We designed the highly scaleable, reliable, OS-independent architecture of RealSystem iQ to easily integrate into the infrastructure of the Internet-infrastructure that Cisco helped to pioneer, said Rob Glaser, chairman and CEO, RealNetworks, Inc. That’s why it makes perfect sense for RealNetworks and Cisco to join forces and provide comprehensive media delivery solutions that enable customers to generate revenue and create new business applications.
Today’s Internet and corporate intranets have grown beyond simple text, to a world of rich media that requires a new approach to network architecture, said Mike Volpi, senior vice president and chief strategy officer of Cisco Systems. With this strategic agreement, Cisco and RealNetworks advance the delivery of the next generation of Internet business applications using digital media.
