Corporate Background

Corporate Profile

The Fantastic Corporation produces software for rich data distribution in corporate networks. Its product suite for enterprise Content Delivery Networks (eCDN) allows corporations to boost the performance of their existing IT-networks. Fantastic was founded in 1996 in Zug, Switzerland.

Corporate Headquarters

Zug, Switzerland

Regional Office

San Mateo, California

Stock Exchange

Fantastic went public on the Neuer Markt in Frankfurt, Germany, on Sept. 28, 1999. and is quoted on the Prime Standard of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (Symbol: FAN). Investor Relations

Partners & Customers

• Strategic Partners: IBM, HP, DMR Consulting (Fujitsu), EDS
• Customers: Beverly Enterprises Inc., Bloomberg, Boeing, BMW, Choice Hotels, Deutsche Telekom, Enel.it, Eutelsat, Ford Motor Company, General Motors, Goldman Sachs, HdPnet, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD), NavAir, Netdish, NOAA (US national weather service), Rite Aid, Shell, Sherwin Williams, ZDF
• Technology Partners: friendlyway AG, Microsoft, Minerva Networks, Oracle, Real Networks, Streaming21

Turnover

1999: USD 23 million
2000: USD 17 million
2001: USD 7,05 million
2002: USD 3 million

Management

Chris Wallace, Vice President Engineering
Soeren Lindkvist, Vice President Marketing &Services

Product Overview

Fantastic’s core technology and expertise include the following products:

OmniCast eCDN™ Dispatcher
Robust, easy-to-use software for reliably delivering files simultaneously across multiple networks, primarily in corporate environments, to hundreds of locations while fully leveraging existing network infrastructures. Free trial version is available for download here.

OmniCast eCDN™ Edge
OmniCast eCDN Edge (enterprise Content Delivery Network) is a content networking technology for distributing, delivering and managing multimedia applications in private IP networks. It combines local caching, content replication, load balancing and redirection technology with network intelligence to make bandwidth management and content routing decisions over enterprise WANs and LANs. OmniCast eCDN Edge enhances HTTP traffic delivery, file and database replication, and software distribution.

OmniCast eCDN™ Multimedia
Along with all OmniCast eCDN Edge features it enables companies to leverage streaming audio and video (live and on demand) over their network infrastructures.

BroadSphere™
Enables corporations to package, control and schedule multimedia content (live and on demand) and applications for broadcasting to precisely defined groups of end users or receivers. Using point-to-multipoint distribution to subscribers, the Fantastic platform suite allows close management and monitoring of public or corporate broadband networks for broadcasting multimedia content and applications.

• BroadSphere Application:
  
  RepliCast™
  RepliCast allows corporations of all sizes to more reliably deliver high-value, constantly changing data to many sites throughout the world. The product is designed to reduce data distribution costs while improving synchronization between data centres and regional operations.
  
  
• BroadSphere Receiver Software:
  
  MediaSurfer™
  Browser-based client software for end users and subscribers that allows any IP client to receive data-intensive, interactive multimedia content from any Fantastic-enabled broadband IP network.
  MediaACE™ (Actively managed Cache Environment)
  Enables Internet edge servers such as caching engines and video-on-demand servers to receive multimedia content broadcast via Fantastic’s distribution platform over broadband overlay networks such as satellite, digital terrestrial (DVB-T) or ATM to bypass Internet bottlenecks.

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