ROAD-SHOW.COM, Q4i.COM CHOOSE ENRON TO DELIVER FINANCIAL WEB CONTENT
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Wednesday, February 2, 2000
HOUSTON – Enron Broadband Services (EBS), a wholly owned subsidiary of Enron Corp. and a leader in the delivery of high-bandwidth application services, announced today content delivery contracts with Road-Show.Com, an online resource for individual investors, and Q4i.com, a financial services provider offering an online broker resource called BrokerIQ. The two financial services companies will use Enron’s ePowered™ Market Cast and the Enron Intelligent Network™ (EIN) to enhance the quality and speed of content delivery to their investors. Enron’s solution provides TV-quality streaming video with delivery speeds up to 50 times faster than the public Internet.
“These agreements reflect the financial services industry’s need for better and faster delivery of online content,” said Joe Hirko, co-CEO of Enron Broadband Services. “The Enron Intelligent Network allows visionary companies like Road-Show.Com and Q4i.com to serve their customers with video to the desktop that has unparalleled speed, clarity and quality.”
Road-Show.Com is a fully integrated producer of online streaming media. The company’s Xvenue™ platform offers clients a turn-key solution for personalized live or on-demand webcast communications. Road-Show.Com broadly streams the presentations that companies typically give on road shows prior to an initial public offering to audiences that include individual and professional investors.
“The Enron Intelligent Network and Market Cast technology will allow Road-Show.Com to offer our customers something they have never had access to before – real-time company presentations and one of the fastest, richest viewing experiences possible. This will enhance their ability to make fully educated investment decisions,” said Trey Fecteau, president of Road-Show.Com.
Q4i.com provides “one-stop” advanced technology solutions for financial services companies and their clients. With its flagship product, BrokerIQ™, professional brokers and their firms have a complete broker management system at their fingertips. Q4i.com will utilize EBS to distribute financial video clips to clients via its BrokerCity™ product. In addition, Enron will deliver Q4i.com’s live and on-demand streaming video clips of golf resorts, golf courses, golf real estate, equipment and golf travel for Internet users around the world through GolfTV™, Q4i.com’s online video network.
“Our clients now have streaming video features available on their desktops via Enron’s network,” said J. Frederic Storaska, chairman and co-CEO of Q4i.com. “They not only will enjoy on-demand streaming video of financial and golf information, but they’ll have the opportunity to take advantage of special vacation and equipment offers reserved exclusively for our broker-dealers.”
Enron’s ePowered Market Cast Solution
ePowered Market Cast, an application of the Enron Intelligent Network, is an end-to-end streaming media solution for banks, brokerages and other financial services firms. Using ePowered Market Cast, companies can enhance investor relations, conduct virtual road shows and stream analyst presentations from their websites. In addition, ePowered Market Cast is a powerful intranet solution for providing real-time financial news, data feeds, training and presentations to an internal audience. The application streams video at an average bit-rate speed of 200 kilobits per second (kbps).
The Enron Intelligent Network is based on distributed server architecture, a pure Internet Protocol (IP) platform and embedded software intelligence that sets it apart from other networks. The EIN’s enhanced performance is due to its ability to deliver streaming media content “one hop” away from the user at the closest EIN edge server. The result is a TV-quality viewing experience for the user. In contrast, the public Internet’s ability to deliver the broadband content businesses need is often hampered by packet loss, interference and other disruptions that slow down transmission speed and compromise the end user’s experience.
About Enron Broadband Services
Enron Broadband Services, formerly Enron Communications, Inc., is a leading provider of high quality, broadband Internet content and applications. The company’s business model combines the power of the Enron Intelligent Network, Enron’s Broadband Operating System, bandwidth trading and intermediation services, and high-bandwidth applications, to fundamentally improve the experience and functionality of the Internet. Enron introduces its Broadband Operating System to allow application developers to dynamically provision bandwidth on demand for the end-to-end quality of service necessary to deliver broadband content. Enron is also creating a market for bandwidth that will allow network providers to scale to meet the demands that increasingly complex applications require. A wholly owned subsidiary of Enron Corp. (NYSE: ENE), Enron Broadband Services can be found on the Web at www.enron.net.
About Enron
Enron is one of the world’s leading electricity, natural gas and communications companies. The company, which owns approximately $34 billion in energy and communications assets, produces electricity and natural gas, develops, constructs and operates energy facilities worldwide, delivers physical commodities and financial and risk management services to customers around the world, and is developing an intelligent network platform to facilitate online business. Enron’s Internet address is www.enron.com. The stock is traded under the ticker symbol, “ENE.”
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