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Avacaster is committed to constant research and development, and is always pushing the boundaries of what is possible, but always with an open ear to what our clients want and need. We created the AvaOffice prototype system as a testbed for emerging new technologies and methods which will be appearing in forthcoming releases of the Avacaster System. We'd love to hear your input!

One of Avacast's oldest clients is Kaplan, one of the largest providers of online educational content in the world. Kaplan uses the Avacaster system to teach a variety of online courses to students all over the globe, by the thousands, every day. The global classroom is a reality, thanks to Avacaster.

The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma is another longtime Avacaster user, and has been using the Avacaster System for some fascinating and important uses for many years. The distance-education programs made possible via Avacaster have been invaluable in the preservation of the Choctaw language and culture. Where once the future of the language was uncertain, thanks to the talented instructors and the bold use of Avacast technology, Choctaw will be spoken by a proud new generation.

When the National Community Reinvestment Coalition held their annual Congressional Lunch, they looked to Avacast to make it available to far more people than any hotel ballroom can fit.

The presence of keynote speaker Hillary Clinton and the large associated audience made the choice of Avacaster all the more clear: whether you’re doing an event with 100 users or 60,000, Avacaster is the obvious choice.

Avacast’s robust infrastructure and advanced video and audio features insured that the event went off without a hitch, and archives will be available for those who wish to view the speech.

When Intel wanted something impressive to showcase the power of their new line of servers and processors at their Developer’s Forum, they chose Avacaster. Avacaster had already proven its effectiveness to Intel in a variety of contexts, from online training, to distributed group meetings, to large-scale company-wide webcasts, and using it as an object lesson of what Intel servers are capable of seemed the next logical step. Needless to say, Avacaster was a hit at the Developer’s Forum.

TV Guide, a subsidiary of Gemstar is one of Avacaster’s latest clients, and is using the powerful system in some new and novel ways. TV Guide is no longer just something that sits on your coffee table; it’s now the sophisticated menu system you find on your cable box, and the Avacaster System was chosen as the method to train salespeople and support staff all over the world in these new, exciting tools.

“Avacaster has proven an amazingly effective tool for us here at TV Guide,” says Dan Ward, head of Training. “The Avacaster System has really opened up new markets; for example, we can train staff in South America via Avacaster even if they don’t have one of our cable boxes; we can stream the interface, with additional trainers’ videos, and answer questions in real time, and so much more. It’s great.”

GlaxoSmithKline chose Avacaster for their Canadian relaunch of their popular drug, Valtrex. They used Avacaster's powerful presentation and interactivity features for a series of webcasts and webconferences to get their message across effectively and provide sales staff the ability to ask questions and interact in real time, all across the vastness of Canada.

RTI International is global scientific research nonprofit, with over 2,500 employees with offices in over 40 countries. As you can guess, communication between employees in far-flung locations is mission-critical for RTI. Previously, this kind of communication had been handled via analog video transmission, satellite video uplink, and Polycom-style conferencing. For a variety of reasons, none of these were completely satisfactory. In 2004, RTI’s Video Services group began to investigate using Avacaster Enterprise to enable IP-based video to replace other forms of video transmission.

RTI spent most of a year using the Avacaster for small-scale events, to get used to the tools and to test their internal network. When the time came for the 2006 President’s Forum, which all RTI employees would be invited to view online, they were ready. more…

Avacast was selected to webcast the 2004 Democratic National Convention. The challenge no other webcasting company could accept: supporting up to 40,000 concurrent users in a single webcast; keeping the entire internet audience involved, with user-submitted questions submitted directly to on-screen politicians who would answer those questions immediately; and archive those sessions for immediate availability the next day.

To support an audience of that size, Avacast clustered eight Avacaster Enterprise servers (four in Los Angeles, and four in Boston) in a load-balancing configuration. Avacaster Enterprise’s optional clustering software automatically handled the chores of keeping servers synchronized. Should a server fail, it would be immediately removed from the queue and those users re-assigned to other servers. Unsuprisingly, there were no server failures during the four-fay event.

Avacaster’s incredibly flexible system of handling media streams allowed the DNCC to pick and choose streaming vendors, or even change streaming vendors, at any time.