DALLAS – October 30, 2003 – Masergy Communications, Inc. and RealCast Corporation today announced the creation of an easy-to-use transport service for high-quality Internet broadcasting. RealCast Corporation of Miami, Florida, a leading provider of streaming media services, provides high quality broadcasts for live and recorded events across the Internet. RealCast is offering 600 minutes of free Internet broadcasting for customers signing up for this new service.

By connecting its Broadcast Center directly to the MASERGY network, RealCast has created a cost effective solution for businesses to transport high quality video directly to its production studio for quick distribution via the Internet.  This optimizes video delivery over the Internet for multiple uses including corporate training, distance learning, or special events.  The enterprise simply needs to provide a local connection to MASERGY’s international network for immediate high quality IP transport to RealCast’s broadcast Center. As a special introductory offer to the service, RealCast is providing 600 free Internet Broadcasting minutes with the purchase of MASERGY’s video-grade IP transport services.

“Businesses no longer have to bear the time and expense of sending their broadcast video via satellite or private lines to ensure the deliver of high quality video,” says Steven Kimmel, president of RealCast. “Companies can quickly deliver high quality video input directly to our Broadcast Center via MASERGY’s advanced IP network to get high quality Internet broadcasts.”

Traditional IP backbones were not designed to handle the demanding performance requirements of high quality videoconferencing, a critical requirement for delivering live content from the source to the broadcasting studio using IP videoconferencing equipment.  Factors such as packet loss and out-of-order packet delivery often result in degraded video and audio quality.  In contrast, the MASERGY network ensures that video information packets travel in-sequence and at the highest priority, end-to-end, thereby delivering video-over-IP with guaranteed quality of service (QoS).

Key performance metrics of the MASERGY network for video traffic include:

• 100 percent packet delivery
• 100 percent in-sequence packet delivery
• Maximum latency variation (jitter) of 10ms
• Sub-1 second fast fail-over (network recovery)

These industry-leading performance metrics are possible because of the Class of Service (CoS) and QoS capabilities inherent in MASERGY’s native Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) IP backbone.

“MASERGY is excited about teaming with RealCast because of the quality and flexibility of their solution,” said Chris Carr, director of video markets for MASERGY. “We believe that this partnership will deliver great benefit to business customers by giving them an ‘always-available’ method of delivering live content through a cost-effective, high quality broadcast solution with global reach.”

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About RealCast

REALCASTLIVE, the leading provider of web Broadcasting/Conferencing services announces a new paradigm in Continuing Medical Education (CME).  REALCAST’s solution creates an environment for real time interaction and feedback, providing a truly personalized learning environment via the Internet.  This unique Video Streaming solution is state of the art and introduces the audience to top industry leaders and influencers offering the most up-to-date healthcare information.  These courses make it easy to pursue your education without the cost and hassle of traveling to a conference or being in class.

RealCast Corporation. Contact Ella Sherman, VP of Marketing at 866 893-6455 or via email at   ella@realcastlive.net for more information, or online at www.realcastlive.net

About Masergy Communications

Masergy Communications, Inc., is a privately held global service provider offering dramatic improvement in business application performance while lowering network costs.  Serving customers in 18 countries throughout Europe, Asia, Latin and North America, MASERGY leverages Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) across an Internet Protocol (IP)-based network to cost-effectively deliver multiple services over a single connection with all of the security and performance benefits that until now have been limited to expensive private networks.  MASERGY's customers include companies from the financial/banking, health care, entertainment broadcasting, hospitality/hotels and manufacturing industries. 

For more information, visit the company Web site at http://www.masergy.com or call 866-MASERGY.