Tata Communications Launches BitGravity Powered CDN Service

Tata Communications and BitGravity, a Content Delivery Network (CDN) for interactive broadcasting, have announced the worldwide launch of Tata Communications’ CDN service powered by BitGravity. With more than 300 points of presence worldwide, Tata Communications will now offer a global CDN service on a single ASN IP network throughout Europe, Asia, North America and India.

Tata Communications, which announced a strategic partnership with BitGravity in March 2008, has also invested $11.5 million in convertible debt in BitGravity, validating the company's content delivery platform as a key benefit in Tata Communications’ value-added services offering.

"The launch of Tata Communications' CDN service is a major milestone in our strategic roadmap to offer managed services globally. We chose to work with BitGravity because it has the best architecture and technology to deliver high quality content and video," said Vinod Kumar, COO, Tata Communications.

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Tata Communications' CDN service provides immediate access to content, including high-definition video. Fast forwarding, cache clearing, resolution switching and rate throttling are just a few of the features that enable customers to build a robust application into a Flash Player.

"Two essential ingredients of a superior CDN service include a strong IP network providing higher performance, and an efficient, scalable file distribution technology," said Genius Wong, Tata Communications' Senior Vice President of Global IP and VPN Services. "The design of Tata Communications' CDN service has taken into account these key factors to come up with a reliable IPv4 and IPv6 CDN service."

Tata Communications' suite of offerings includes Tata Communications CDN, Tata Communications CDN Plus and CDN Secure, and Tata Communications LiveBroadcast.