ChinaCache Cooperates with Youku Router, Creating New CDN Ecosystem

On August 26, ChinaCache, the leader in China’s CDN industry, announced its cooperation with Youku Router, the game changer in routing industry, to jointly create a new ecosystem in the CDN field in China. Both sides have reached strategic cooperation for intelligent terminal content sinking program, to build together a completely new CDN acceleration ecosystem and establish a win-win strategy pattern for ChinaCache, Youku Tudou and terminal users. Li Hua, Senior VP of ChinaCache, Gao Jun, VP of ChinaCache, Fu Liang, VP of ChinaCache, Zhang Xianguo, GM of Operator Products Division, Yao Jian, CTO of Heyi Film and President of Cloud Entertainment BU, Wu Yi, Intelligent Hardware GM, and Yang Jingyu, Technology Development Director,  attended the strategic cooperation signing ceremony.

The intelligent terminal sinking program creates a new CDN business model, taking Youku Router as the carrier for network content storage to achieve network content scheduling, traffic guidance and content delivery for end users by means of built-in intelligent delivery software independently developed by ChinaCache, push CDN acceleration service to household sides, and become the “CDN acceleration nodes” closest to the end users. This acceleration model will completely improve terminal users’ online surfing experience and fully accelerate the access speed for large-traffic content such as file downloads and video watching.

The intelligent terminal sinking program establishes access and return mechanisms between equipment and ChinaCache nodes, between equipment, and between equipment and source sites, to realize comprehensive and efficient content scheduling. ChinaCache will push the content to the storage space offered by Youku Router, directly return the content sources to the end users or through node scheduling, schedule the access and request of the end users to the location closest to the users, select the optimal data return path for the users, and realize the fastest access speed. Meanwhile, the user access paths build a big data resource pool, which can help to decide in advance the user consumption mindset and access habits based on the analyses on user behaviors, geographical locations and browsing hobbies, push the Internet content in advance which the users may be interested in, and maximize network access experience.

The imbalance of China's bandwidth resources and the characteristics of north and south areas operated by different operators have led to poor experience of China broadband users. When online videos become the channel for users to obtain basic information, bandwidth resources have become the section which needs the most improvement. Although video sites and CDN service providers are trying to improve the bandwidth resources of Chinese users, in fact, due to limited user coverage of the CDN service providers and the fact that video websites won’t focus on improving user bandwidth as its operating priority, the users cannot smoothly watch big stream HD video content though the current video websites have a large number of HD videos. The cooperation of ChinaCache, the leader of Chinese CDN industry, and Youku Router, the game changer in the router field, is expected to fundamentally change the bandwidth issue of Chinese Internet users when they are watching videos.

Currently, Youku has had 250 million active users. Through the cooperation with ChinaCache, each Youku user is expected to turn to a CDN node. Once achieved, Youku users will use ChinaCache’s network acceleration technology to rebuilt a virtual CDN network owning over 100 million nodes on top of China backbone network, which will completely satisfy the hunger for bandwidth resources of Chinese Internet users.

In fact, every Youku user or Internet user mainly uses downlink channels (download) when using broadband, and their uplink channels (upload) are mainly in idle state. To make full use of the idle resources of the users (Youku has already tried to give the users subsidies) and rebuild virtual CDN network based on China backbone networks are the most economic way to improve the current bandwidth situation for Internet users. Comparing to the construction of Chinese backbone networks, this measure is fast, effective, more cost saving, and green.

ChinaCache will surely expand its node number rapidly through the CDN acceleration technology embedded in Youku Router, while Youku, by means of subsidies, can turn over 200 million users to CDN nodes quicily, which has immeasurable values in the future for the CDN industry. At present, there is no such enterprise in the world which can expand its CDN nodes rapidly to the level of millions. It can be said that the cooperation between Youku and ChinaCache will not only change Youku user’s experience, but also bring a new ecology to Chinese CDN industry.

In the future, based on ChinaCache resources in operators, and broadcasting and television industry, Youku Router will be integrated into tailor-made customer solutions in a package, to meet their content acceleration and optimization demands, while ChinaCache also conducts technical exploration and sharing with Youku Router in the fields of application download delivery and game acceleration.

ChinaCache Announces Share Buyback Program

BEIJING, Aug. 24, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ChinaCache International Holdings Ltd. ("ChinaCache" or the "Company") (Nasdaq:CCIH), the leading total solutions provider of Internet content and application delivery services in China, announced today that its Board of Directors (the "Board") has approved a share buyback program, under which the Company is authorized to repurchase, through open market purchases or privately negotiated transactions, up to US$6 million worth of outstanding American Depositary Shares ("ADSs") of ChinaCache over the next 12 months, depending on market conditions, share price and other factors, and subject to relevant rules and regulations under the U.S. securities laws. This buyback program is in addition to the program previously approved and announced on December 18, 2014 (the "2014 Buyback Program"). The 2014 Buyback Program authorized the Company to repurchase ADSs of ChinaCache not to exceed US$10 million in the aggregate, of which authorization US$8.72 million remains available as of today for repurchase by the Company.

Both share buyback programs will be funded by the Company's available cash balance. As of June 30, 2015, the Company had cash and cash equivalents of approximately US$104.8 million.

About ChinaCache International Holdings Ltd.

ChinaCache International Holdings Ltd. (Nasdaq:CCIH) is the leading total solutions provider of Internet content and application delivery services inChina. As a carrier-neutral service provider, ChinaCache's network in China is interconnected with networks operated by all telecom carriers, major non-carriers and local Internet service providers. With more than a decade of experience in developing solutions tailored to China's complex Internet infrastructure, ChinaCache is a partner of choice for businesses, government agencies and other enterprises to enhance the reliability and scalability of online services and applications and improve end-user experience. For more information on ChinaCache, please visitir.chinacache.com.

Safe Harbor Statement

This announcement contains forward-looking statements. These statements are made under the "safe harbor" provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements can be identified by terminology such as "will," "expects," "anticipates," "future," "intends," "plans," "believes," "estimates" and similar statements. ChinaCache may also make written or oral forward-looking statements in its reports filed or furnished to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, in its annual reports to shareholders, in press releases and other written materials and in oral statements made by its officers, directors or employees to third parties. Forward-looking statements involve inherent risks and uncertainties. A number of factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statements, including but not limited to the following: the Company's goals and strategies, expansion plans, the expected growth of the content and application delivery services market, the Company's expectations regarding keeping and strengthening its relationships with its customers, and the general economic and business conditions in the regions where the Company provides its solutions and services. Further information regarding these and other risks is included in the Company's filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. All information provided in this press release is as of the date of this press release, and ChinaCache undertakes no duty to update such information, except as required under applicable law.

CONTACT: For investor and media inquiries please contact:



         Investor Relations Department

         ChinaCache International Holdings

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ChinaCache Smart Net throughout Communities, Opening up CDN Overall Deployment

On August 14, ChinaCache, the leading total solutions provider of Internet content and application delivery services in China, announced the release of ChinaCache Smart Net solution, which has innovatively opened up the “last kilometer” from Internet service providers (ISPs) to community side and client side, to realize CDN acceleration deployment.

ChinaCache has been committed to CDN network acceleration technology breakthroughs and innovations, to improve end user experiences through continuous optimization of network resources deployment, create “the first kilometer” at any where from the nodes deployed all over the world, optimize “the middle one-kilometer delivery” from content sinking to base stations, and push the content to the community nodes closest to terminal users through ChinaCache Smart Net by means of its unique inter-network acceleration technology, and achieve closest possible access to break “the last kilometer” transmission bottleneck.

According to the statistics, in 2014, the number of the community broadband households has exceeded more than 200 million, including about 37-million small and medium-sized operators ISP subscribing households accounting for about 18.5% of the total market share. As Chinese broadband access market is gradually opening to private owned capitals, this proportion is expected to increase again. The ISPs will play more and more important role in China's broadband market.

Upon the approaching of the market opportunities, however, the ISPs are facing many challenges. One challenge is that the users have high broadband expectations with unlimited expansion, which exceeds the speed of ISP infrastructure construction. The second is that the application and HD video business are developing very rapidly, but stable quality can not be ensured due to inter-networks, leading to potential user loss. The third is big pressure of regional bandwidth exit, resulting in growing inter-network settlement bandwidth costs for ISPs.

As a long term partner for operators, ChinaCache, targeting at the problem hindering the development of the ISPs, has launched the industry’s iconic and innovative solution – ChinaCache Smart Net solution. By increasing exchange centers within the ISP network, ChinaCache will push video contents to the community node closest to the online users, to enable them access to the nearest video content. One of the benefits to the small and medium-sized operators is to greatly save the ISP inter-network settlement expenses, solve connectivity problems and insufficient bandwidth, provide end users with more stable and higher quality video service, improve user access experience, and ultimately help the ISPs and content providers to establish good brand image in the market.

In addition to providing targeted solutions, ChinaCache Portal statistic platform provides small and medium-sized operators with many types of data statistics and analyses, such as, save bandwidth (out) and back to the source bandwidth (in), online traffic usage according to website/user/ terminal, to provider the operators with better support.

In terms of service, ChinaCache Smart Net can offer customized solutions, 7*24 hours real-time monitoring and 5*8 hours senior operational support service, ensuring timely response to diversified needs of the ISPS to offer better support, properly deal with emergencies and solve troubles.

Relying on the advantageous resources of ChinaCache’s backbone networks, ChinaCache Smart Net features seamless connection with the ISPs, offering compatibility with all the core services provided by ChinaCache intelligent routing scheduling SSR system.

At present, ChinaCache has implemented cooperation with more than a dozen of ISPs such as Great Wall Broadband Network, Aipu Broadband, and Gehua Cable. In the future, ChinaCache will continue its commitment to improving and optimizing network transmission quality, proactively establishing comprehensive cooperation with middle stream and downstream companies in the industrial chain, integrating resources and advantages, creating maximum network transmission value, and promoting healthy development and prosperity of the broadband market in China.

The Fast and the Furious, ChinaCache to Assist Full Course Live Broadcasting of Hong Kong-Beijing Rally

ChinaCache, the leading total solutions provider of Internet content and application delivery services in China, reached strategic cooperation agreement days ago with Beijing Jingang Group for the 30^th Anniversary of Hong Kong – Beijing Rally, to provide network service and guarantee for full-course communication, broadcasting and coverage of the rally through ChinaCache’s content delivery network. It is also another example of ChinaCache to help traditional enterprises to conduct Internet-enabled transformation, demonstrating “the fast and the furious” on the road of pursuing changes together with Jingang Group. 

“The 30th Anniversary of Hong Kong - Beijing Rally", organized and promoted by Beijing Jingang Group, will officially kick off on Sep 12, 2015, starting from Hong Kong, crossing seven provinces and municipalities such as Guangdong, Hunan, Hubei, Henan, Hebei, and Beijing, lasting 14 days, travelling more than 3000 kilometers. The finish location for the rally will be in Beijing Audi Jingang Auto Park - Audi Beijing Sports Car Experience Center. There were more than ten teams and several world-class champions attending this rally from 1985 to 1996. As Ye Mingqian, Chairman of Jingang Group, said, “the Hong Kong-Beijing Rally is a manifesto to modern motor sports.” To commemorate this grand event 30 years ago, also in order to achieve the transformation of Jingang Group from focusing on racetrack management to promoting motor culture, Jingang Group will conduct both online and offline promotion and communication about this unprecedented motor event.

ChinaCache, as the leading CDN service provider in China, has been committed to providing Internet end users with superior network service experiences by using its 28,000 servers deployed in 118 cities around the world, to maximize customer values. For this rally, ChinaCache will provide Jingang Group and its partners with high quality CDN service for the full course, to ensure the smooth operation of rally broadcasting with its CDN network acceleration, operating maintenance and technical supports. ChinaCache will support and drive the rapid fusion of this rally and Internet+, vigorously promoting Internet-based transformation of traditional sports and traditional enterprises.

2015 Hong Kong-Beijing Rally will not only be a speed and passion in the great journey of modern sports car movement, but also a splendid racing between Internet high speed and real-life high speed. To speed up at every moment, please focus on the live broadcast of 2015 Hong Kong – Beijing Rally. The registration is going on now. Please visit the website at www.hongkong-beijing-rally.com for more details.

In the future, ChinaCache will cooperate with Jingang Group in more projects, to assist Jingang Group, a traditional enterprise, to make its Internet transformation and achieve mutual benefits and win-win. 

ChinaCache MPlus, Saying Goodbye to Online Flow Cost Anxiety

Facing the issues such as slow App refresh speed and poor App access experience at peak hours and under complex network environments, ChinaCache, the leading total solutions provider of Internet content and application delivery services in China, based on its 17 years of leading technology research and development strength in CDN field, combined with rich communication operator platform cooperation experience, has successfully launched the industry’s first Internet acceleration product, MPlus, to provide optimization specially for wireless communication network traffic, applicable for many mobile Internet fields such as electric commerce, finance, information, and social network.

 In the era of mobile Internet, a useful App product can not only help enterprises to quickly capture the user's focus, but also make enterprises to obtain comparative advantage in competition and have bigger development space and more business opportunities.

 Therefore, what features will a useful App offer? In addition to meeting user demands in terms of function design, the importance of page viewing speed and access experience is self-evident. An App with high-speed access, smooth traffic flow experience, even reduction and mitigation of online flow cost will become very popular among Internet users without any doubt.

 ChinaCache’s MPlus has realized the breakthrough in wireless transmission optimization technology, to deliver high quality data content in a dynamic way within the shortest possible time and increase the transfer efficiency of the mobile network by 60%, through technical means of intelligent caching, terminal recognition, dynamic data reduction, application protocol optimization, and transmission protocol optimization.

In addition, through integrating the operators’ rear flow resource, MPlus combines flow pool with mobile acceleration products through technical means, offer customized and integrated flow packages, and efficiently improve the performance of mobile acceleration solutions.

 Nowadays, because of “online traffic cost anxiety", many users will purposely download and install Apps under Wifi environment, which undoubtedly causes Internet content providers to loss some potential users. MPlus one-stop service can offer customized services from free online flow for download, to a series of free online flow for upgrades, to enable users to download and experience products with zero cost even under non-Wifi environment. In this way, there will be no obstacles for downloading Apps, solving online traffic cost anxiety instantly, improving App’s cashability.

 MPlus one-stop service, through intelligent integration of redundancy traffic within mobile traffic tunnel, can build a flexible service product of innovative marketing and operating modes in connection to mobile Internet content providers. The service will bring mobile terminal users with convenient and rapid access experience, greatly decline or eliminate online traffic expense, improve user experience, decrease users’ online traffic costs, effectively inspire a large number of users to focus, improve user activity and viscosity, stimulate related products consumption, and achieve product revenue.

 At the same time, App content providers can provide users with traffic access packages for free, to continuously ensure high hit rate of users, and enable online users to say goodbye to online traffic issues such as expensive cost. The service lets users no longer worry about online flow loss, fully releases high-value users from Internet traffic demand, and bring effective support to revenue capability of the App content providers.

 The MPlus solution can be widely used in many mobile Internet fields, including e-commerce, finance, information, social networking, and O2O online to offline. Once launched, the MPlus solution has won “Best Innovation Award” issued by IT Time Weekly, and has been applied by many renowned Internet enterprises, such as Nice and In, and Good Doctor Online, the offline medical service platform.

 ChinaCache’s MPlus mobile Internet-aware service has many core advantages such as crossing over complex networks, integrating complicated contents and optimizing transmission content. New technology breaks down industry conventions, promote product thinking and innovative spirit, implement technology and service innovation, help content service providers to make end users have high quality online experience anytime and anywhere, which is the direction for ChinaCache to work on.

ChinaCache Attended the Trusted Cloud Services Conference, Sharing Online Game Acceleration Experience

On July 30, 2015, the 2^nd Trusted Cloud Services Conference (TRUCS2015) was held in Beijing International Conference Center. ChinaCache International Holding Co., Ltd (hereafter referred to as ChinaCache (Nasdaq: CCIH), the leading total solutions provider of Internet content and application delivery services in China, was invited to attend the conference as the Data Centre Union Directing Member, and won the Cloud Delivery Service Certificate issued by the Data Center Union. During the conference, Xu Huiquan, VP of ChinaCache, gave a speech themed as Easy Game and Credible Service, sharing the cutting-edge solutions in online game industry with over 100 industry participants.

The Trusted Cloud Services Conference is the only conference focusing on accreditation to cloud computing trust systems. With one year’s precipitation and accumulation, the conference of this year has caught the attention of the industry and become a major event in China's cloud computing industry. ChinaCache, thanks to its 17 years of leading technical research and development strength, combined with rich practical experience in CDN field, has launched a range of trusted cloud services solutions, which have been widely recognized by industry associations and customers. During the Trusted Cloud Service Conference in 2014, ChinaCache’s cloud hosting and EBS cloud storage service successfully passed strict inspections, according to 13 evaluation indexes such as data storage durability, migration, privacy, availability, resource allocation capacity and fault recovery capacity. In this way, ChinaCache became among the first group of Trusted Cloud Service Providers. In this year’s conference, ChinaCache’s cloud delivery service also won the trusted cloud certification. Hence, ChinaCache has become one of very few enterprises among China's cloud service providers which have won three product certificates.

 Xu Huiquan, VP of ChinaCache, is giving a speech on Easy Game and Credible Service

During the conference, Xu Huiquan, VP of ChinaCache, in his speech on Easy Game and Credible Service, analyzed the IT challenges facing the gaming industry, introduced ChinaCache’s game solutions, and stressed on supporting game providers from developing, public testing, promotion to consistent high-speed development by means of one-stop cloud service. In terms of data security and service quality due to rapid growth of cloud computing industry, Xu Huiquan mentioned that for the cloud service’s availability index, ChinaCache promises 99.9% as its availability level, which is a strict standard to ensure ChinaCache to provide users with higher quality, more trusted and more secure cloud services.

As one of the first group of certified trusted cloud service providers, ChinaCache will speed up its cloud technology R&D, continuously enhance its trusted cloud service capacity, provide Internet enterprises with higher efficiency, lower cost and more reliable cloud services, and drive China's cloud service market to develop in a healthy and orderly way.

Approaching E-commerce Front - China Big Data Forum Successfully Held in ChinaCache

On the afternoon of July 24, 2015, China Information Industry Association, together with ChinaCache, successfully organized the 7^th China E-commerce Big Data Forum. This Forum attracted about 100 enterprises to participate, including Gome Online, Yihaodian and Jingdong. During the forum, participants discussed diversified applications and practices of e-commerce big data, and the future development direction and actions in the e-commerce industry.

Fu Boyan, Standing VP of Big Data Branch of China Information Industry Association, said that e-commerce enterprises were not only the producers of the big data, but also the owners of the big data, as well as the users of the big data. In the aspect of big data industry development, the e-commerce enterprises in China are growing ahead. In the future, the e-commerce enterprises in China will also continue to introduce more innovative applications, to better serve our society and promote the upgrades and developments of the Internet industry in China.

Fu Boyan, Standing VP of Big Data Branch of China Information Industry Association, is giving a speech at the forum

Chen Jinghong, VP of ChinaCache and GM of ChinaCache Atecsys International Cloud Data Center, also addressed to the forum participants, mentioning that in the last twenty years, the Internet had changed the world, while the Internet itself was also in constant evolution. The rise of mobile Internet has brought us not only challenges but also new opportunities. The development of the future’s big data industry needs to rely on a complete ecology, in which ChinaCache Atecsys International Cloud data center has been playing an important role and will make every effort to promote the healthy development of the whole industry.

Chen Jinghong, VP of ChinaCache and GM of ChinaCache Atecsys International Cloud Data Center, is addressing

Wang Jinfeng, Senior Design Director of ChinaCache Atecsys, mentioned that ChinaCache had made completely new deployment in big data industry chain. Since IDC is the foundation of the big data, ChinaCache also hopes to guarantee the development of our country’s big data industry by means of CDN service, IDC services, and data asset service. 

Wang Jinfeng, Senior Design Director of ChinaCache Atecsys, is sharing his opinions with participants