Refreshing Barrages and Snatching Red Envelops While Watching Spring Festival Gala, with ChinaCache to Assist Beijing TV in Building a "New Media" Spring Festival Gala

The Beijing TV Spring Festival Gala this year has innovatively presented a brilliant “new media” gala by breaking through traditions, such as releasing real-time barrages about comment on gala programs, snatching red envelops by shaking mobile phones, giving interdisciplinary performances,  and performance by popular idol stars. Fresh and direct interactions together with wonderful performances have made 2015 Beijing TV Spring Festival Gala, themed as Harmonious and Beautiful Beijing’s Chinese Dream, outstanding among various satellite TV stations.

It won’t work without smooth network to make timely comment barrages to like or dislike the singing of Fan Ming, the actor, or snatch red envelopes from Beijing TV Gala. ChinaCache has offered full-course technical services for this year’s BRTN spring festival gala webcasting, achieving an amazingly zero claim and zero fault result, making audience to snatch red envelopes in time, to comment on the gala constantly, and to enjoy this Spring Festival Gala presented by Beijing TV.

During this cooperation, ChinaCache provided comprehensive content-aware one-stop solution of Cloud plus CDN for the live broadcasting of the BRTN gala, offering super-large bandwidth service and independent resource pool service. The average online population for this year’s BRTN gala is three times the peak number in the previous spring festival galas. In addition, audience interaction such as snatching red envelopes caused big challenges to the stability of video program playing. In the face of these difficulties, ChinaCache has made large-capacity files transmit in high-speed and stable links through cloud hosting and cloud storage, leading to smooth flowing even in the case of steep rise in user numbers. Under the situation of a vast number of audiences, people could still watch the gala programs smoothly and obtain the signals for snatching red envelopes. Besides, ChinaCache offered complete monitoring service to monitor website service quality and customer source site pressure for timely troubleshooting in case of abnormities, thus boosting the viewing experience of BRTN gala, and ensuring safety and controllability of the live broadcasting.

Facing the issues that traditional network radio and television stations have, such as, non-diversified website business, high operating costs and limited website extension capability, the Information Network Management Department of Beijing TV has chosen to take the initiatives for change. Since October 2012, they have started strategic cooperation with ChinaCache thanks to its good reputation and excellent professional CDN service. Since then, Beijing TV has effectively saved operating costs, reduced resource inputs, shortened service deployment time, and ensured premium experience of multiple end users.

ChinaCache has been committed to providing customers with comprehensive network content distribution solutions, with rich technical application experience in media industry. In addition to Beijing TV, ChinaCache has provided services for domestic well-known radio and television broadcasting customers, offering strong technical supports for big campaigns and events such as CCTV Spring Festival Gala, the Two Sessions, the China National Games, the Asian Games, and Xiaomi Online Panic Purchase.

Beijing Federation of Supply and Marketing Cooperatives Cooperates with ChinaCache for Data Center Field

On Jan 16, Beijing Federation of Supply and Marketing Cooperatives (BJ Co-ops) and ChinaCache International Holdings Ltd. ("ChinaCache") hold a strategic cooperation signing ceremony in the conference center of Beijing Tianzhu Free Trade Zone. It was decided by both companies to develop their strategic cooperation in data center filed, start from Beijing and Guiyang.

In 2010, ChinaCache started planning to build Shouming International Data Center in Beijing Tianzhu Free Trade Zone, which was officially started for construction in 2014 and expected to be completed in July 2015 with a total construction area of 80,000 square meters. Upon completion, this center can accommodate more than 7,500 cabinets, as China's most competitive high-level large-sized cloud data center, and will mainly offer large-scaled customers with customized data centers and provide subsequent professional operation and maintenance.

During the period when ChinaCache was building its Shouming Center, BJ Co-ops was also actively seeking new business growth points, and making development plans of big data industry, with determination to take data center infrastructure as the breakthrough point, which matches the development direction and positioning of ChinaCache. After more than one year’s investigation, communication and argumentation, ChinaCache and BJ Co-ops both agreed on the development trend of domestic data center industry. On this basis, both companies signed a strategic cooperation agreement. Under the framework of the strategic cooperation, they reached a specific agreement for data centers in Beijing and Guiyang, including that BJ Co-ops will customize a data center in ChinaCache’s Shouming International Data Center with RMB 960 million, BJ Co-ops will delegate ChinaCache to run its data center resources in Beijing, and both companies will jointly invest and build a large-scale high-grade data center in Guiyang.

Founded in 1998, ChinaCache has been one of the earliest domestic high tech companies offering Internet services, with 30,000 clients around the globe, owning over 4T bandwidth core networks and 25,000 servers deployed in 110 cities in the world. ChinaCache has always been offering Internet acceleration and content delivery service to government, enterprises and consumers, leading the industry in the past dozen years. In 2010, ChinaCache made its debut on NASDAQ market, and began working on cloud computing and big data market deployment. Given its own advantages accumulated in the early period and market trends, ChinaCache finalized the data center – the infrastructure for cloud computing and big data - as key point, which also becomes a new growth point for ChinaCache in the future development.

BJ Co-ops is an affiliated unit to Beijing Municipal SASAC, with a long history. In recent years, through elaborate arrangement, BJ Co-ops has been progressive and initiative, developing several business sectors such as financial investment and commercial real estate development. It is known that BJ Co-ops has stock asset of about 11,000 acres of land and 3.4 million square meters building area currently in Beijing; it also has more than 20 financial business licenses and a professional financial services group, with private equity fund management companies, petty loan companies, pawn companies, guarantee companies, land consolidation companies, trust companies, and consulting services under the group. In this way, the choice of BJ Co-ops to enter the data center sector will be backed up by its rich land resources and strong investment and financing ability.

Mr. Wang Song, Founder, Chairman and CEO of ChinaCache, mentioned in the signing ceremony that:” with this strategic cooperation, both companies will set up an all-around consortium from land acquisition, financing, construction and development, marketing sales, to long-term operation, committed to constructing domestic high-grade, large-scale data center infrastructure and offering high-end clients at home and abroad with infrastructure service of cloud computing and big data.

This time, the two companies are working together to enter the data center industry, achieving a win-win situation. For ChinaCache, the financial operations and commercial development business of BJ Co-ops can give strong support in terms of capital, land and development to the construction, development and operation of ChinaCache Shouming Cloud Data Center support. And for BJ Co-ops, entering into a new territory will encounter all sorts of issues, and the cooperation with ChinaCache will help it to develop in a healthy and rapid way in the data center field.

ChinaCache Cooperating with Beijing Federation of Supply and Marketing Cooperatives for Tailored Cloud Data Center

At the beginning of 2015, ChinaCache is starting cooperation with Beijing Federation of Supply and Marketing Cooperatives to build it a customized cloud data center in ChinaCache’s Shouming International Data Center.

 Located in Beijing Tianzhu Free Trade Zone, ChinaCache’s Shouming International Data Center was planned in 2010 and has officially started construction in 2014, with expectation to be completed in July 2015. Since its construction, this project has been completely designed and built to high-level cloud data centers. Upon completion, this center can accommodate more than 7,500 cabinets, as China's most competitive high-level large-sized cloud data center. The major business model of ChinaCache’s Shouming Center is to offer large-scaled customers with customized data centers and provide subsequent professional operation and maintenance.

 Beijing Federation of Supply and Marketing Cooperatives, with its long history, once played an important role in Chinese national economy. In recent years, big data and cloud computing have demonstrated huge development potentials, while as the infrastructure for the development of Internet, mobile Internet, cloud computing and big data industries, data center industry has huge development potentials, showing strong market demand not only in Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou, but in regions such as Guiyang, Wuhan, Xi 'an, and Chengdu. Entering this industrial domain reflects the sensitive market sense and initiative spirit of Beijing Federation of Supply and Marketing Cooperatives. Its existing financial and commercial development business is able to provide strong support in capital, land, development and O&M for the construction, development and operation of the data center. The close cooperation with ChinaCache will provide strong guarantee for Beijing Federation of Supply and Marketing Cooperatives to enter into the data center industry.

ChinaCache Enters Into Agreement With Beijing Federation of Supply and Marketing Cooperatives to Form Strategic Partnership With Cloud Data Center

ChinaCache International Holdings Ltd. ("ChinaCache" or the "Company") (Nasdaq:CCIH), the leading total solutions provider of Internet content and application delivery services in China, today announced that it has entered into an agreement with Beijing Federation of Supply and Marketing Cooperatives ("BFSMC") on a customized Cloud Data Center relating to ChinaCache Atecsys International Data Center ("Atecsys"). ChinaCache will also provide operation and maintenance service under the agreement.
When completed, Atecsys is expected to be the largest (One Campus) International T3+ cloud infrastructure in Beijing, with total number of racks over 7,500. Atecsys will be strategically located in the city's largest custom bonded zone, Shunyi Tianzhu.
"BFSMC is our second customer of Atecsys, after People.cn. The signing of this agreement demonstrates ChinaCache's leading position in the industry and the capability of partnering with sizable enterprise," said Mr. Song Wang, Founder, Chairman and CEO of ChinaCache.
BFSMC was founded in 1949 by All-China Federation of Supply and Marketing Cooperative (China CO-OP) and Beijing Municipality Government. With proactive innovation, BFSMC has achieved significant progress and developed the business in financing service and commercial real estate.
About ChinaCache International Holdings Ltd.
ChinaCache International Holdings Ltd. (Nasdaq:CCIH) is the leading total solutions provider of Internet content and application delivery services in China. 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 visit ir.chinacache.com.
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