For Immediate release October 22th 2008
REALCASTLIVE is awarded by Broward County School District a Contract for three years, for the New Symposiumlive to manage their Multi Media Content and leverage Realcast’s Content Delivery Network to deliver all their Video content.
Realcast is very excited at the warm response to our New and improved Symposiumlive software solution. The contract awarded by Broward County School district (sixth largest in U.S.) has a base revenue of $150,000 in Revenue over the next 3 years, with monthly overreages based on usage. As an example, the Program Development and alignment division uses Symposiumlive for Advanced Live and archived Training for Teachers.
Also, Realcastlive will finalize it’s latest software development October 31, and launch our new Symposiumlive Standalone product to expand marketability to Corporate Training and Medical Education, as well as Distance education (school) markets. Several Non-Blackboard Universities are waiting anxiously to receive and test this new product, as well as Forbes.com for pay-per-view.
“Broward County Public schools is the sixth largest school district in the nation. Our distance learning department provide video streaming programs to every public school in Broward County. Realcast is an integral part in helping us provide anytime, anywhere video streaming programs via Internet webcasting for student enrichment and empowerment.
We have international partnerships with limited resources, so it's important for us to share our resources by sharing our student enrichment and empowerment distance learning video streaming programs. We excel in program development and partnerships because we can depend on Realcast reliability and quality of service. One of the few streaming providers that use videoconference to stream over the internet, Realcast makes streaming effortless!”
Joy Veasy
Distance Learning Outreach Specialist
Broward County Public Schools
SymposiumLive for Blackboard and Powerlinks version
SymposiumLIVE is a uniquely embedded Building block and power-link in that is solely contained within the Blackboard products (suite). This allows for zero learning curve as SymposiumLIVE plugs into the Blackboard Learning Management System you already use expanding the capability by adding streaming capabilities.
Utilizing our vast content delivery network of 25,000 servers in 69 countries, SymposiumLIVE has everything you need to deliver high-quality digital video to your students anytime, anywhere. All Streaming is hosted on our servers so this takes the bandwidth off the network and alleviates the need for additional servers and reduces the demand and cost of use and equipment on the IT department.
Learning Components include:
- Easy setup and fully scalable for any institution’s needs without multimedia size limitations
- Alleviates bandwidth issues from your network by using our Content Delivery Network’s infrastructure
- Redundant Content Delivery Network’s consisting of 25,000 servers in 69 countries worldwide
- Full support for Windows Media, QuickTime, RealPlayer, Flash, MPEG-3 and MPEG-4
- Manage multimedia and documents from within an integrated Digital Library
- Allows for Podcasting downloads and Student video uploads
- Integrates with the Blackboard reporting matrix and security administration
- Section 508 Compliance (captioning for ADA impaired)
- Discussion Board
- Upload Multimedia Course Assignments with Integrated Grading
- Secure Streaming for Supported Multimedia (Windows Media and RealPlayer)
- Live Webcasting
- Institutions’ Instructors and Administrators retain full content and copyright control (TEACH Act compliant)
“REALCAST is very excited to be involved in this growing Paradigm shift to distance Learning” says Steve Kimmel, CEO at REALCAST LIVE.
About RealCast
RealCast is a leading provider of web cast and multimedia communications solutions. RealCast technology enables world class services that integrate video, voice, and data to offer true interactivity and web communication across multiple geographies and platforms. RealCast is the developer of: RAVES - RealCast Application Video Enterprise Suite (CMMS), which provides the tools for your business or institution to manage and communicate with a variety of options including: on demand video, online web meetings, video email, and multimedia website management. RAVES and RealSuite™ provide essential and cost-effective website management solutions and delivery tools for your company in this fast-paced communications environment. SymposiumLive, (www.smposiumlive.com) delivers video for Distance Learning applications through its affiliation as a Blackboard Building Block Partner. RealCast was founded in 2000 and is a privately held company based in Miami, Florida.
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
