ABACAST AND TUKATI ANNOUNCE THE FIRST UNIFIED REAL-TIME STREAMING AND ON-DEMAND DELIVERY SOLUTION UTILIZING SECURE PEER TO PEER NETWORKING.

New DualGrid™ Delivery Service relies on proven secure P2P technologies from Abacast and Tukati to provide a single, low-cost solution for both real-time and on-demand digital delivery. 

San Jose, CA – November 1^st, 2006 – Abacast, Inc., a leader in real-time streaming solutions and Tukati, Inc., a leader in on-demand file delivery solutions today announced the unified DualGrid™ 1.0 Delivery Service at the 2006 Streaming Media West show in San Jose, CA.  DualGrid™ 1.0 enables content publishers to deliver live events and the after-event archive, as well as any other on-demand content, using a single, low-cost, content delivery solution.

“We’re excited to launch the first unified peer to peer solution covering the spectrum of real-time and on-demand distribution,” said Michael King, President of Abacast.  “Combining these two proven platforms enables content publishers to make a single platform choice for reliable content distribution, while getting a huge leap in price/performance.” 

DualGrid™ 1.0 enables customers to securely and reliably deliver higher volume, higher quality movie, music and game content for up to 98% less than traditional content distribution networks.  Content publishers have multiple delivery options including real-time streaming, on demand file distribution, progressive video delivery, and push delivery.  Content demand and end-user performance metrics are offered in real-time, allowing marketing campaigns to be adjusted based on consumer usage patterns. 

At the heart of the DualGrid™ 1.0 service are the combined, proven technologies of Abacast and Tukati.  Abacast's Distributed Streaming Network harnesses unused listener or viewer capacity to serve other nearby listeners or viewers, enabling Internet broadcasters and their service providers to stream to a virtually unlimited audience. The Abacast server continually monitors the network, achieving up to 98% efficiencies in content distribution, which translates directly into cost savings for content producers.  Tukati’s Media Delivery System (MDS) is a private, centrally controlled, secure peer to peer network containing thousands of network nodes.  MDS utilizes unused bandwidth and small amounts of disk space to efficiently and securely distribute content at up to 90% lower bandwidth costs.  Built on top of these core technologies are a set of services to promote and monetize all digital content for content publishers and producers, broadcasters, corporations, Internet TV providers, video on demand services, and games publishers. 

“Abacast and Tukati clearly understand the needs of content publishers for reliable, secure, large-scale content distribution that drives content marketing and monetization,” said Jim Kott, CEO of Tukati.  “With DualGrid™ 1.0 we have leveraged our cumulative 10 years experience running large-scale, secure peer to peer networks to offer a single vendor solution with breakthrough capabilities in both real-time and on-demand content distribution.”

DualGrid™ 1.0 will be available beginning November 15^th, 2006. 

For more information go to www.dualgrid.com or email sales@dualgrid.com. 

About Abacast, Inc: 

Abacast solutions make it possible to stream the highest quality media to huge audiences with unparalleled scalability and bandwidth efficiencies. Unlike traditional "unicast" servers that send streams directly to each listener/viewer - each Abacast listener/viewer redirects the stream to one or more downstream listener/viewers using idle upstream bandwidth based on direction from the Abacast server. This creates a closely-monitored Distributed Streaming Network that delivers a higher quality, more stable, more adaptable connection while at the same time significantly reducing bandwidth requirements by up to 98%. Abacast, Inc. is headquartered in Washougal, WA and is a privately held company.  For more information call +1-360-834-5229 or email sales@abacast.com.

About Tukati, Inc:

Tukati is a supplier of managed services and software providing large-scale, secure, and legal distribution of digital media.  Their flagship service, Tukati Media Delivery System, is based on Tukati's patent-pending secure peer to peer network, a centrally controlled yet highly distributed network that securely stores and distributes content over the Internet. The secure peer to peer network dramatically improves the efficiency of content distribution, resulting in high performance for end users and significant cost-savings for content publishers.  Founded in October 2001, Tukati launched the Media Delivery System in September 2002.  Tukati is headquartered in Kirkland, WA and is a privately held company.  For more information call (866) 926-2836 or email sales@tukati.com.