IZI Media Deploys Limelight Technology to Support Digital Entertainment Portal

Several days ago, Limelight Networks (News - Alert), Inc., a dealer in digital presence management, announced that to support its new MAXMAN.TV channel in Malaysia, Asia's burgeoning digital entertainment portal, IZI Media, has deployed Limelight's Orchestrate Digital Presence Platform.

"The Orchestrate platform offers the ideal solution and fit to support IZI Media's vision of liberating entertainment and becoming Asia's premier digital and interactive entertainment portal on the web, on mobile platforms, and through connected TV distribution services,” said Ahmad Izmir, CEO, IZI Media.

He added that demanded by its users, Orchestrate can quickly respond to the viewing habits and anytime-anywhere access. Limelight gives an edge to deliver HD-quality streams to any desktop, tablet or mobile device, even in places where Internet connection speeds are often an issue.

Including an online video platform, that enables companies to create and deliver a consistent content experience across Web, tablet, mobile, social, and large screen channels, the Limelight Orchestrate Digital Presence Platform is a powerful suite of cloud-based services.

Every way and everywhere, from videos to tweets, Orchestrate empowers organizations to deliver their content efficiently. Allowing subscribers to access its content when, where and how they want it, via digital platforms. IZI Media provides on-demand premium content from around the world to the Southeast Asia region's population.

Within the next 12 months, IZI Media's first of three IPTV (News - Alert) channels that it plans to launch is MAXMAN.TV. Being the first Malaysian IPTV channel to use Limelight's Web acceleration services and video platform, MAXMAN.TV is an online video service that aggregates premium, professionally produced content and is part of the Orchestrate Digital Presence Platform.

Based on the available bandwidth and user device, including iOS, Windows, and Android (News - Alert), the Limelight Video Platform offers an easy to use interface and dynamic video streaming that chooses the optimal stream for each subscriber. MAXMAN.TV will soon include deep social media integration like chat and real time feeds to Facebook (News - Alert).