ChinaCache Drives Huomao TV Game Live Broadcasting to New Heights

Amid rising demands for watching video live broadcasting, as well as explosive consumption of online video traffic, live video broadcasting is becoming the next Internet area with heated competitions. ChinaCache, the leading total solutions provider of Internet content application and delivery services in China, through its independent research and development, has introduced the Smart Media Server (SMS) – streaming media acceleration delivery system – focusing on interactive live broadcasting, providing Huomao TV, a large-scale bullet-type game online broadcasting platform, with strong guarantee for online game live broadcasting, enabling users to enjoy and experience passionate game feast.

Successful online live broadcasting for DOTA 2 Asian Cup Championships Tournament by Huomao TV

Established by Wuxi Qiaoxi Culture Media Co., Ltd in 2014 in Shanghai, Huomao TV is a bullet-type game online live broadcasting platform, built by the industry’s flagship management team and operation and technical experts, having exclusive live broadcast rights for domestic and international major gaming events, presenters and anchors. As the leader in the present game live broadcasting field, Huomao TV has successfully offered live broadcasts for a series of the industry’s top game tournaments such as DOTA2 Asian Cup Championships, TI5 China Qualifying Match, and MDL Spring Match.

ChinaCache, as the leading CDN service provider in China, has been committed to offering superior video viewing experiences for Internet users through its 28,000 servers in 118 cities around the world. Since becoming the cooperating partner for Huomao TV in November 2014, ChinaCache, thanks to its SMS streaming media acceleration delivery system for interaction live broadcasting with its independent research and development, has completely solved a series of bottleneck issues for Huomao TV during its game online live broadcasting process, such as image delay and voice delay, enabling its users to watch the games clearly and smoothly and enjoy excellent visual effect.

The reason why ChinaCache can create high quality video live broadcast service is its strong technical strength. The secret weapon of the SMS streaming media acceleration delivery system is its powerful technical performance. The SMS live broadcast service can be applied in RTMP (Real Time Messaging Protocol) live broadcast with interactive demand and ordinary RTMP live broadcast. It can also support FLV and HLS pull stream broadcasting. The RTMP live broadcast streaming delivery can support standard RTMP’s push stream, pull stream and broadcast, to realize smooth live broadcast service and offer a minimum delay of 1.2 seconds (under R&D lab environment) to effectively solve the delay issue due to over load on servers. Meanwhile, the SMS can also support SWF, Token and Refer encryption authentication, to support video stream encryption process. In addition, the SMS system features time stamp to zero, hotlink prevention, IP strategy, live recording support, and small image preview of videos. The diverse functions of the SMS can effectively solve various personalized needs of video live broadcast, completely satisfying multiple-scene and multiple-application video live broadcasting, covering every aspect in the live broadcasting technically.

At present, the SMS service targets six kinds of customer groups in the field of video, including media customers such as HD video network televisions, gaming related portals such as live broadcasting game events and game portals, show-type live broadcasting field such as anchor activities and girl’s interactive live broadcast, education, portal websites for interviews, sports events, launches, and entertainment, and wireless value-added services such as mobile live broadcast. It can be said that the SMS service platform can fully support each segmented application for video live broadcast industry, providing unprecedented strong driving force for the development of video live broadcast.

Today, the number of the global users for electronic sports has already exceeded 1.55 billion, with a market size of $86 billion. In the aspect of core electronic sports events, Huomao TV will deepen its cooperation with e-sports manufacturers and continue to build a more professional tournament, while ChinaCache works together with Huomao TV in developing and creating new e-sports ecosystem and continue to make deeper strategic cooperation in multiple fields, aiming at mutual benefits and win-win results, driving Huomao TV’s game online live broadcasting to new heights!

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.

“Webluker” Solving Online Game Enerprise Transnational Operating Pain Points

In recent years, with China online game giants expanding their games overseas, domestic small and medium online game enterprises have also began to aim at overseas markets, while increasingly mature and saturated Japanese and Korean online gaming enterprises are entering into Chinese online game market. Through exploration and development in stages, domestic online game enterprises already have mature localization and internationalization strategies in overseas markets. However, the high cost of IT infrastructure construction and poor Internet speed experience of overseas game players have always bothered these "overseas expanding" Chinese online game companies.

Webluker, not a tycoon, but capable of overseas accelerations

ChinaCache’s Webluker is a CDN acceleration platform for small and medium sized enterprises, not only lowering the thresholds for their CDN acceleration, but also helping them to improve online revenue and increase user experience without additional hardware investment. Webluker is aimed to provide these “overseas expanding” Chinese online game enterprises with overseas CDN acceleration service, and also offer the overseas online game enterprises “coming to China” with full acceleration service for releasing their game network, to solve bidirectional cross-nation network operating problems.

Webluker is designed specifically to the demands of small and medium-sized enterprises, offering various kinds of service packages for these small and medium-sized enterprises. Webluker uses online self-help visualized purchase mode, enabling these enterprises to adjust their purchased service to their own demand change, offering a very simple and efficient process.

Depending on powerful resource, building excellent service capability

Depending on ChinaCache’s strong technology and resource strength, Webulker has very powerful service capacity, owning large-scale CDN node distribution in China, with broad coverage of node resources in Southeast Asia, Middle East, North America, Europe, Australia, and South America where domestic online game companies have developed relatively mature overseas markets. Besides, Webluker is still gradually improving its global CDN network deployment, with the nodes to fully cover network-developed areas such as Asia-Pacific, North America, and Europe, to meet overseas business CDN acceleration service of Chinese online game enterprises.

Webluker’s overseas CDN acceleration service will greatly improve Internet speed experience of overseas game players, enhance overseas operating level of these domestic online game enterprises, and effectively reduce operating costs in overseas markets for these enterprises. In addition, for these overseas game enterprises entering Chinese market, Webluker can provide them not only with complete CDN service, but also with a full package of solutions for the release of overseas games in China, including cloud host, database, and virtual machine.

Leading small and medium sized enterprise CDN service, to speed up again in 2015.

Since its establishment in 2010, Webluker has been devoted to offering complete and efficient network services for a wide variety of customers. In the last four years, Webluker has been transformed very rapidly, from initially single cloud product to diversified development such as cloud platform based CDN service, and self-service HD video live broadcasting business, from zero to over 200,000 active registered users.

In 2015, with full upgrade and relaunching of a new generation of cloud platform, Webluker will have its operation and service capabilities move into a new milestone. Webluker’s new generation of cloud platform CDN service will make full use of its high applicability, availability and stability to offer strong support to Chinese online game companies expanding to overseas markets and overseas online game enterprises entering into Chinese market, and provide global game players with smoother and more exciting game experience.

About Webluker

Webluker, a sub brand under ChinaCache, relies on ChinaCache’s strong technology and resource advantages, committed to offering high-quality self-support CDN, cloud hosting, domain name hosting, and intelligent resolution services for small and medium-sized enterprises and individuals, to speed up their business. Webluker has been focusing on continuous business optimization and technology innovation in CDN field, to offer customers with optimum CDN service and experience. For more information, please visit Webluker website: http://www.webluker.com/