ChinaCache Establishes Strategic Cooperation with XJTU, Promoting Together Internet+ in the West

On April 21, 2015, ChinaCache International Holdings Ltd. (hereafter referred to as ChinaCache) (Nasdaq: CCIH) announced the establishment of its strategic cooperative partnership with Xi’an Jiaotong University (hereafter referred to as XJTU). The signing ceremony was held in the Science Hall of XJTU this morning, attended by Wang Tiejun and Zheng Qinghua, Vice Presidents of XJTU, Guan Xiaohong, Director of Telecommunications Institute, Liu Yongzhong, General Office Director of Science Research Institute, Shi Feng, Vice Director of Telecommunications Institute, Peng Qinke, Dean of Automation Science and Technology Department, together with Wang Song, Founder, Chairman and CEO of ChinaCache, Wang Jiang, CTO of ChinaCache, Hu Shi, Senior Director of R&D Unit, and Jiang Xuexin, Senior Marketing Director. Relying on national Internet + new economic strategy, the two sides will make close cooperation in the construction of the Innovation Port in the west, and information network infrastructure technical support, scientific research cooperation and talent cultivation, to promote together the information development of the west.

Pushing western Innovation Port construction together, becoming innovation driven pioneers

The Science and Technology Innovation Port of XJTU is a high-end talent tank built together by Xixianxin district of Shaanxi province and XJTU, combining platforms such as national scientific research and high-tech achievement transformation, high-end talent training, hi-tech enterprises incubation, and core technology study, to deepen reform practice and provide regional planning and development. Aimed at national major demands and regional economic and social development needs, the port is to make a demonstration for the implementation of national innovation driven strategy. ChinaCache, as the leading total solutions provider of Internet content transmission and application service, has offered network application infrastructure service to above 30,000 enterprises at home and abroad, with business throughout Europe, Asia, America and Oceania, owning strong capital strength and rich capital operation experience. The cooperation of ChinaCache and XJTU will make full use of their respective advantages in the construction of the Science and Technology Innovation Port in the west,  release huge potentials, and play an important role in building "rich, beautiful, and harmonious Shaanxi".

Focusing on cloud computing, vigorously promoting information level in the west

The two sides will have in-depth cooperation in information network infrastructure construction and cloud computing service. XJTU, as a well-known high- level research university, will have extensive and deep cooperation space with ChinaCache in the aspect of network acceleration based services. Through infrastructure construction and its value-added services, cloud computing and its extension, the two sides will conduct deep cooperation in specific applications. At the same time, ChinaCache will offer strong technical support to the information network infrastructure construction in XJTU.

Building together a technology R&D center, leading technological frontier

ChinaCache and XJTU will build the "XJTU-ChinaCache Information Technology Research and Development Center", to push together further substantive cooperation in scientific research and technology development. Both sides will make full use of their own advantages in scientific research and network acceleration technology, and have comprehensive scientific research cooperation, to promote discipline construction of XJTU on one hand, and work together to solve key technical challenges of ChinaCache in intelligent information network, under the environment of Internet and mobile Internet rapid development on the other hand. In addition, both sides will apply together for national major science and technology projects and local government’s industry-university-institute cooperation projects, to conduct prospective technology project research on cloud computing, big data, and Internet of Things; through regular seminars on information network technology, both sides will have broad and deep discussions on most cutting-edge key technologies in technology and information field, to lead emerging technologies and jointly drive the development of electronic information network field

High-end talent cultivation, incubating innovation power

Relying on XJTU’s existing resources, both sides will jointly build a large heterogeneous information network teaching and research experiment platform, on which information transmission and processing experiment network technology environment at a certain complexity level will be created for university students, together with regular information network technology contests, to stimulate students' entrepreneurship, improve their innovation capability integrating theory into practice. In terms of the startup projects brought by XJTU’s teachers or students, an incubation supporting platform will be built to encourage and promote their technology entrepreneurship in Xi 'an. Both ChinaCache and XJTU have also reached consensus on high-end talent output. For example, XJTU will recommend its excellent graduates to work in ChinaCache and its affiliated companies each year, to guarantee the employment, training and career development of the high-end talents.

In regard to the in-depth cooperation at several levels for both sides, Mr. Wang Song, Founder, Chairman and CEO of ChinaCache, said: "XJTU has its long time development strategy oriented to national major demands, aiming at international forefront, focusing on independent innovation, and accelerating technical achievement transformation. The solid theoretical foundation and rich practical experience of XJTU in technology innovation and engineering development, in addition to its own rich human resource, have provided technical and talents guarantees for the stable cooperation of both sides. At the forefront of the national Internet+ strategy, ChinaCache and XAJT will grasp this strategic opportunity to jointly promote the development of China Internet network technology and new economy form."

ChinaCache has been committed to international cutting-edge network technology tracking, research and development, and talent training, with rich experiences in building R&D projects jointly with colleges and universities. ChinaCache has previously established a joint laboratory with Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, a content delivery network research institute jointly with the Institute of Information Technology of Tsinghua University, and a joint laboratory with Huazhong University of Science and Technology. As a leading professional CDN service provider in China, technology R&D and innovation has always been the driving power for ChinaCache, with many years’ continuous R&D investment in industry-wide network acceleration aspect, enabling ChinaCache to make breakthroughs and innovations, always leading technology trend. It’s believed that the comprehensive cooperation with XJTU will further enhance the innovation pace of both sides in the field of technology research and development, and witness the next peak of China Internet.

ChinaCache Streaming Media Acceleration Distribution System, Perfect Partner for Video Live Broadcasting.

Recently, ChinaCache, the leading total solutions provider of Internet content transmission and application service in China, with independent research and development, has released smart media server (SMS) streaming media acceleration distribution system, targeting interactive live broadcasting. The SMS’ powerful live broadcast acceleration technique brings subversive live webcast quality for video live broadcast industry, providing end users with unprecedentedly smooth viewing experience.

When Twitter made it possible to connect the world by using real-time and limited words, technology pioneers have started to think whether people can watch global news immediately by opening an application and clicking a button in PC/mobile terminals. At present, there has been booming development of video live broadcast in PCs. With rapid progress of mobile Internet, video live broadcast in mobile terminals has also been penetrating into end consumer's life. Live video is standing at the Internet’s next forefront. And ChinaCache is the one behind the curtain to drive video live broadcast industry to fly higher.

The SMS streaming media acceleration distribution system can completely solve a series of video live broadcast bottleneck issues such as image delay and voice delay, to fully enhance streaming media distribution acceleration quality. The SMS live broadcast service can be used in RTMP protocol live broadcast with interactive demand as well as ordinary RTMP protocol live broadcast. In addition, the SMS system can support SWF, Token and Refer encryption authentication, even in support of video streaming encryption processing.

The SMS service is targeted at six customer groups in video industry, including media clients such as HD video network television, gaming industry such as game live broadcast events and game portals, live shows such as anchor shows and beauty live shows, education industry, portal websites such as interviews, sport events, conference, and entertainment portals, and wireless value-added business such as mobile live broadcasting. The SMS service fully covers each segmented application in the video industry, offering strong support to the development of video live broadcast.

High quality service results from strong technical strength. The secret for ChinaCache’s SMS streaming media acceleration distribution system lies in its superior and rich technical performance. In this solution, the RTMP live broadcast streaming can support standard RTMP’s push stream, pull stream and broadcast, to realize smooth broadcasting service, with a minimum delay of 1.2 seconds (in R&D lab environment), and effectively relieve delay issue due to server overload; re-push live stream function can push live stream to the source station through edge nodes, used with domain name conversion; the system also supports Vhost (domain name conversion), to change uplink and downlink domain names during back to source process, to support different requests for uplink and downlink domain names of interactive live broadcasting anchor application, to avoid blank screens in user chains through maximum number of connections limit function and GOP buffer support; in addition, the SMS system offers more optimization functions such as time stamp return to zero, hotlink protection, IP strategy, and RTMP billing. Diversified functions of the SMS system can effectively solve various personalized needs of video live broadcast, fully meeting multi-scenario and multi-application video live broadcasting through comprehensive technical coverage.

ChinaCache have provided live broadcasting support services to Beijing Spring Festival Gala, the Two Sessions, China National Games, Asian Games and other large-scale activities for many times, having strong and profound video live broadcast technology capacity, operating and service experience. Thanks for many years’ R&D investment in the aspect of the industry's network acceleration, ChinaCache has accumulated core technologies, always leading the industry and driving fast development of the Internet in China and the world through continuous understanding and improvement of customer demands, and constant innovation of new products. The release of the SMS streaming media distribution acceleration system has brought new drives for ChinaCache in exploring and leading video live broadcast business.

ChinaCache Atecsys Data Center Participating in Upcoming 2015 Global Cloud Computing Conference

As one of the most popular cloud computing exhibition in the world, Global Cloud Computing Conference - Cloud Connect Las Vegas 2015 will be held from April 27 to May 1 in Las Vegas. ChinaCache Atecsys International Data Center (hereafter refereed to as ChinaCache Atecsys) will participate in this conference, as the first domestic cloud data center going global.

It is known that ChinaCache Atecsys is a high-end data center project initiated by ChinaCache in 2013. ChinaCache Atecsys, as the first domestic data center service provider of infrastructure design and construction, operation management, and operation maintenance, offers diversified products and services to meet users’ specific requirements, and also provide users with personalized services to further satisfy special requirements of large customers.

As early as 2013, ChinaCache Atecsys started building a new generation of green, ecological, low carbon, and environmental-friendly high-end data center project in Beijing Tianzhu Tax Free Zone, which includes 9 data center buildings and 1 content-aware experience center, accommodating 7500 cabinets, covering a total construction area of 80,000 square meters. The customers in this zone can enjoy preferential policies of “inside the territory while outside the customs” and tax refund and bonded tax. ChinaCache Atecsys computer buildings are designed to National Level A Computer Building standard and the U.S. Telecommunications Industry Association T3 + / T4 standard. Modular design and N + 1 redundancy configuration ensure equipments to operate safely and continuously, integrated with water cooling system using natural cooling technology, as a high-level data center in line with international standards.

     Participating in 2015 Global Cloud Computing Conference is not only a “going global” strategy to ChinaCache Atecsys, but also with an open, cooperation and win-win attitude, in order to achieve more cooperation with international enterprises during this conference, and realize flexible and versatile business models and expandable solutions.

     At present, ChinaCache Atecsys has had its main body structure completed, with strategic cooperation agreements signed with several enterprises. ChinaCache Atecsys is expecting to progress together with more domestic and foreign enterprises, building an industry iconic enterprise, creating industry miracles.

ChinaCache Cooperates with EverVC.com, Powering Start-ups up

Days ago, ChinaCache International Holdings Ltd. (hereafter referred to as "ChinaCache") announced the establishment of its cooperating partenship with EverVC.com. Through this cooperation, ChinaCache, the leading total solutions provider of Internet content transmission and application in China, and EverVC.com, the professional start-up invested equity crowd-funding platform, will put together its supeiror technology and product, complete service, strong financial support and professional teams, to provide start-up companies with comprehensive supports.

The rapid development of information technology and Internet industry has resulted in the emergence of many start-up companies. It’s shown in recent reports from CB Insights consultancy agency that the investment scale of venture capital institutions for start-ups reached $47.3 billion in 2013. The total financing scale of startups increased by 62% in 2014, comparing to the previous year. Startup companies are becoming a new force in driving the development of social productivity.

The strategic cooperation between ChinaCache and EverVC.com will focus on the demands of startup entrepreneurs on professional technology, capital and backend service, to help them start smoothly and grow rapidly. Through this cooperation, ChinaCache will provide all the startup projects in EverVC platform with preferenital service price, to reduce technical capital threshold for the startups. At the same time, EverVC will recommend the entrepreneurial projects in its platform to use ChinaCache’s network acceleartion service, to provide these startups with low cost but high quality service, improve their website content access quality, and meet the demand of burst user traffic.

ChinaCache has been focusing on and promoting the development of Internet industry, with the concept of constantly creating more professional products and more quality services. Thanks for the attraction of EverVC.com towards enterprenuers in the Internet industry, ChinaCache will quickly target these industry companies of huge development potentials, help them to grow in a healthy way. The cooperation with EverVC.com will promote ChinaCache to grasp Internet forefront development pulse, to understand Internet development needs in the first place, make continuous research and development to improve solutions to adapt to new and rapid development of the industry, enhance ChinaCache’s core technical strength, and better adapt to the rapid development of future’s reInternet.

CDN, the Key to Game Industry Transformation

Online gaming is transforming dramatically towards mobile end, leading to huge business opportunities for game operators, while facing many issues such as a sudden increase of users, shortened product market cycle, high requirements for user experience, and high operating costs, making unprecedentedly higher requirements on product and technology. How to guarantee mobile game user experience? How to realize industry transformation? On April 2, 2015, Mr. Fu Liang, VP of ChinaCache, shared his view on how CDN can effectively support mobile game network operation in the Second China Game Operation Technology Innovation Conference held in Shanghai.

In recent years, there has seen a rapid growth in China's online game market, among which mobile game attracts much attention due to its explosive growth. According to Niko Partners, an independent research company, Chinese mobile game market reached RMB 18 billion in 2014, catching up with client-end games, showing an annual growth rate of 37.6% from 2013 to 2018. The mobile market in China is very likely to surpass the U.S. market in 2015.

Users of online games, especially those of mobile games, have higher demands on game system’s stability, loading speed and security performance. It’s shown in the Online Game User Experience Optimization Research Report released by ChinaCache that 45.9% of the users mentioned that they would abandon the game due to poor system stability of the game, while 41.7% of the users may stop the game because of slow loading speed of the game. The demand of user experience of mobile games needs to be fulfilled. In the meantime, CDN network acceleration service is facing more complex online environment, more comprehensive business demands and higher service requirements.

Opportunities always come with challenges. Therefore, ChinaCache has its online game integrated solution launched, which provides CDN content distribution, online live broadcasting service, big data management, content loading, user behavior analysis, and operational service. This solution can completely ensure compatibility, availability and security, and offer full service support in cooperating with comprehensive operating from service plan, service deployment to service operation, with full guarantee of high quality network environment. Furthermore, this solution uses ChinaCache’s dedicated bearer network across the whole country, offering flexible scheduling flow, providing acceleration for online games through nationwide CDN nodes.

In addition, aiming at mobile game features, this solution specially offers staged operation planning, from game preparation stage, localization stage, market validation stage, release stage to market maturity stage, providing overall online planning, cloud platform planning, to super-large file high speed exchanging, security guarantee solutions and products, achieving smooth transition in various mobile game development stages.

ChinaCache Assists People.cn to Achieve Full Course Zero Error Live Broadcasting of Two Sessions

2015 is a key year for comprehensively deepening reforms, leading to universal attention to the Two Sessions. The Two Sessions this year has covered all-around heated topics from national strategy to ordinary people’s concerns, from macro economy to new finance, from capital market to labor market, from air pollution control to new property policies. ChinaCache, the leading total solutions provider of Internet content and application delivery, has been actively practicing Internet+ concept, offering secure, continuous, stable and reliable full-course Two Sessions network video live broadcasting acceleration service for People.cn, enabling Internet users to know hot topics of the Two Sessions in real time.

In Internet age, online population don’t watch TV as frequently as before, while online watching the Two Sessions is becoming popular nowadays. Rapid and convenient access to the Two Sessions information in the first place is the main reason for Internet users to choose online live broadcasting. The Two Sessions live broadcasting program offered in people.cn has become an important platform for Internet uses to access the information. During this period, ChinaCache offered comprehensive guarantee for people.cn to achieve zero error live broadcasting of the Two Sessions.

During this cooperation, ChinaCache provided people.cn with key guarantee plan, from general time to emergency accidents, to emergency special accidents, drawing up detailed systematic process, establishing a "Special Guarantee Service Team" to work shift duties for the full course. In addition to normal 7 * 24 duty work, 7 * 24 on duty engineers have been allocated during the key guarantee period to respond to customer requests timely. Meanwhile, ChinaCache has strengthened the frequency to inspect bandwidth resources, port resources and other cooperation line resources, and conducted real time monitoring of the operating condition of client connected ports through the monitoring platform. The comprehensive and multi-dimensional key guarantee work has ensured people.cn to fulfill zero error live broadcasting of the Two Sessions, with positive user experience.

Based on ChinaCache’s consistent high quality service and mutual trust, ChinaCache and people.cn has established long-term stable cooperative partnership, constantly deepening their cooperation level. As early as 2014, it was announced that ChinaCache signed a framework agreement with people.cn, using ChinaCache Atecsys International Cloud Data Center to solve increasing cloud computing and cloud storage demands of people.cn for its user base.

   Previously, ChinaCache offered strong technical support to large scale activities for many times, including CCTV Spring Festival Galas, the Two Sessions, China National Games, and Asian Games, with rich professional experience in ensuring and responding to unexpected mass flow network demand, viewed as the preferred partner for network content delivery service in radio and television, media, finance, government and enterprise industries.

ChinaCache Won Bidding in Mobile Cloud Business CDN Service of China Mobile Government and Enterprise Customer Company

Days ago, ChinaCache, the leading total solutions provider of Internet content and application delivery in China, won exclusively the bidding of mobile cloud business  CDN service from China Mobile Government and Enterprise Customer Branch. This cooperation will be effectively promoting business development of China Mobile Government and Enterprise Branch, significantly improving industry customer network development. Through the cooperation, ChinaCache will have its business scales and service levels step into new heights.

In recent years, with the commercial use of mobile cloud, China Mobile Government and Enterprise Customer Branch has been paying more and more focus on improving industry service quality and customer awareness, in order to achieve operational efficiency, low cost operations and continuous healthy growth. With this cooperation, ChinaCache’s quality network coverage and strong operations team will help China Mobile Government and Enterprise Customer Branch to solve network bottlenecks in its existing cloud business, dramatically increasing the response time of mobile government and enterprise customers in their access to internal and external network.  The integration of ChinaCache’s network acceleration solution will improve user engagement, enhance user experience, increase network access speed, effectively promoting the business development of China Mobile Government and Enterprise Customer Branch.

ChinaCache, based on detailed business needs and related technical planning requirements from China Mobile Government and Enterprise Customer Branch, will offer complete services, including project management, system design, training, technical support, operation management plan and human resource supply program, timely service change handling, service consulting, technical FAQs, troubleshooting, and service quality complaints, dedicated to providing comprehensive, convenient and rapid Internet service platform for mobile government and enterprise customers.

AS the pioneer and leader in CDN industry, ChinaCache has never stopped its innovation efforts, effectively combining CDN core technology, network technology and security technology through years of research and explorations in  professional fields, building a controllable, high-quality network of global connectivity, creating Internet application acceleration products with high availability, to meet network requirements in Internet age for cross-terminals, cross-carriers, and ever-changing mobile applications, providing Internet companies with complete network acceleration solutions, dramatically reducing network operating costs.