Douglas Pasko, Director of Online Media Technology at Verizon, to Keynote the Content Delivery Summit

Pasko Will Discuss How Verizon Is Optimizing Its Global IP Network to Meet Content Providers' Needs for Faster Delivery and Improved Quality for End Users, Challenge Industry to Evolve

MEDFORD, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Douglas Pasko, Director of Online Media Technology at Verizon, will keynote the Content Delivery Summit on Monday, May 10, with an exploration of architectural breakthroughs in Internet content delivery. In his keynote, Pasko will focus on how Verizon is expanding and optimizing its global network to enable Internet and video content owners and aggregators to leverage their success, pumping massive amounts of data across the network.

"Content delivery is one of the most exciting and growing applications leveraging Verizon's global IP network," Pasko said. "The flow from content providers onto our network has now reached up to half a terabyte of data per second directly, speeding delivery and improving quality for end users.

“While Verizon's contributions as an infrastructure company to the high performance Internet is evident in our all-fiber FiOS offerings and in our leadership role in invigorating the LTE domain, we view our role as much greater,” he said. “More than an Internet Service Provider, Verizon is taking on a position as an ‘Experience Provider.’ When you view our role in that way, a lot of our recent advances in on-boarding content and content distribution services come into focus. For us, it's not just a matter of providing the superior technical solution, it’s about ensuring the better experience for users.”

Pasko's audience at the Content Delivery Summit, a featured event at the Streaming Media East Conference, will learn about Verizon's strategy, launched just over a year ago and offered in the U.S., for creating direct connections with content owners' servers at content delivery access points located around the country. "This approach, implemented through our Partner Port Program, allows content owners and aggregators to bypass the traditional 'peering' delivery system that involves multiple connections, or 'hops,' over several networks and causes latency and quality issues for data delivery to end users," Pasko said.

Pasko will also discuss Verizon's forthcoming content delivery initiatives. "To meet the growing appetite for content, we have invested in an Internet superhighway infrastructure that recognizes content providers' needs, including 10 gigabit Ethernet on-ramps for customer access, and active plans to scale this infrastructure with a 100 gigabit Ethernet backbone in the very near future.

“Verizon views content as the stock and trade of commerce in the coming decades. Today products and services move through the traditional economy and markets in ways far different than in the days of the Pony Express, so the future of the new commerce requires visionary models, architectures, and relationships. Fostering that evolution is the job of all of us in the industry, and we at Verizon take it very seriously,” he said. “I look forward to discussing these and other developments with the community of media professionals attending the Content Delivery Summit."

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About the Content Delivery Summit

The Content Delivery Summit has been created to bring together customers, vendors, analysts, and Wall Street to discuss and define where the video delivery industry is headed. Come share your insights, ideas, and experiences and get the knowledge you need to help navigate the ever-changing video delivery industry. This is the summit to attend to take home actionable advice and real tangible data that will help you choose the right technology, better understand customers' needs, and provide the vision of where the business and technology of online video delivery are headed.

About Streaming Media East

Now in its 13th year, the Streaming Media East show is the number-one place to come see, learn, and discuss what is taking place with all forms of online video business models and technology. Last year, more than 3,500 content owners, online marketers, enterprise corporations, broadcast professionals, ad agencies and educators, all came to Streaming Media East to see and hear the latest online video technology and discuss the business models that are coming of age. With more than 100 speakers over 30 sessions, four workshops and two keynotes, Streaming Media East combines cutting-edge exhibitors and intensive conference sessions, giving you the chance to hear and see the best and the brightest minds in the online video industry -- at the podium, in the Exhibit Hall, and among the attendees. For more about the event visit: http://www.streamingmedia.com/conferences/East2010/

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