Aeria Games Trusts CDNetworks for Seamless Scalability, Cost Savings, and Exceptional End-User Experiences
San Jose, CA – August 6, 2009 – CDNetworks (KOSDAQ: 073710), the world’s third largest, and Asia’s #1, full-service content delivery network (CDN), today announced that Aeria Games, one of the world’s fastest growing free-to-play online gaming publishers, has extended its agreement with CDNetworks, more than doubling its traffic commitment. CDNetworks provides Aeria Games with scalable infrastructure and high-performance technology for rapid client and patch downloads, astonishing Aeria Games’ end users with exceptional online experiences and providing Aeria Games with significant infrastructure cost savings.
Aeria Games, known for the variety and quality of its games, is a leader in the free-to-play, massively multiplayer online (MMO) games sector. Aeria Games’ focus on publishing a large variety of content, with consistently high-quality game play, has lead to the company’s growth in the past year – from 4 million users in 2008 to more than 7 million in 2009. Online gaming attracted 87 million U.S. visitors in May 2009, up 22 percent compared to last year, according to ComScore’s July 2009 report; ComScore also reported that the U.S. Internet audience, as a whole, grew by only 2 percent in 2009. Aeria Games’ rich portfolio of games includes Shaiya, Last Chaos, and Shin Megami Tensei. Additionally, Aeria Games will launch Hello Kitty® Online later this year. CDNetworks provides Aeria Games with seamless scalability, in both network capacity and geographic reach, key components of its rapid growth in both the U.S. and Europe.
CDNetworks speeds the content delivery process and reduces capital expenditure costs for many of the world’s top online gaming publishers including Aeria Games, Codemasters, K2 Networks, Nexon and OGPlanet. With more than 80 Points-of-Presence (POPs) in 52 cities around the world, CDNetworks is able to deliver downloads faster, by caching content “at the edge” and delivering it from the POP closest to each end user. This approach extraordinarily enhances the speed and reliability of delivery. In addition, CDNetworks is a “shock absorber” for traffic bursts and surges during peak transmission periods. Offloading the heavy download activity to CDNetworks not only improves performance, but substantially reduces the cost for data center infrastructure investment and management.
“Success in the free-to-play online gaming sector is all about the quality of each end user’s encounter with the game and the publishing website,” said Terry Ngo, Chief Technology Officer of Aeria Games. “We trust CDNetworks for reliable and trouble free customer service. This allows us to focus on the players’ activities, and the expansion of our portfolio and geographic reach, without worrying about the details of the infrastructure and content delivery cost control.”
“Aeria Games’ customer service focus and deep understanding of its community have been instrumental in its rapid growth and success,” said John Milburn, President, CDNetworks International. “These values match CDNetworks’ commitment to providing each customer with excellent CDN products and top-tier customer service which translates to the highest quality user experiences for their online users worldwide.”
About Aeria Games
Aeria Games is one of the fastest growing publishers of Free-to-Play online games providing an unrivaled MMO gaming experience to a growing community of over 7 million members. With a diversified portfolio of titles including renowned games, Shaiya, Shin Megami Tensei, and Hello Kitty Online, Aeria Games Games is committed to delivering a dynamic gaming experience with high-quality, innovative content combined with unprecedented quality customer service. Based in Silicon Valley, California, Aeria Games & Entertainment, Inc. was founded in 2006 and has offices in the United States and Germany. More information about Aeria Games & Entertainment can be found at www.aeriagames.com.
About CDNetworks
CDNetworks (KOSDAQ: 073710), the world’s third largest, and Asia’s #1, full-service content delivery network (CDN), provides technology, Content Acceleration Network (CAN) infrastructure, and customer services that accelerate the delivery of Internet content and applications to end users around the world. CDNetworks provides a comprehensive suite of technology for video streaming, large-volume-file downloads, and image caching, which delivers unparalleled quality of performance, service, and reliability. World-leading media and entertainment, technology, retail, and online gaming companies rely on CDNetworks to optimize their end users’ online experiences. CDNetworks, founded in 2000 in Seoul, Korea, has subsidiaries in the US, China, and Japan, and is publicly traded on Korea’s KOSDAQ exchange (KOSDAQ: 073710). For more information, please visit: www.cdnetworks.com.
