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News Release from: Astream
Edited by the Marketingservicestalk Editorial
Team on 26 March 2008
Astream named best streaming provider
Astream, the streaming solutions provider founded in 1999, has for the second year in a row won the coveted award for Best Streaming at the 10th Annual UK Internet Industry Awards.
The UK Internet Industry Awards, held at the Marriot, Grosvenor Square, London, have been described as the 'Internet Event of the Year' Judges from companies including Forrester, Jupiter, Ovum and Yankee Group voted Astream's customer service and server delivery platform to be the best in the industry
This article was originally published on Marketingservicestalk on 6 Mar 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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An ISPA spokesperson said: "The judges felt that Astream offer a professional service to its customers catering for the advanced consumer to the professional.
"They were pleased to see demos available on the site of the quality clients can expect provided by various bandwidths and media players".
As well as customer service, product variety and software, the testing process included network measurements of video availability, start-up time, non-playing time, rebuffering time, the percentage bandwidth used by the player compared with the bandwidth at which the feed was encoded, packet loss, packet out of order and non-cached download speed.
Astream's Managing Director, Alex Wolfe, said: "We are proud to be the winners of the ISP industry award and be proven for the second year running that we are the best streaming provider.
"We want to maintain our leading position moving forward as we have for the past 24 months, by working even harder to meet our client's needs".
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