RawFlow, a provider of live P2P streaming technologies, has partnered with ChinaCache, the largest content delivery network (CDN) in China. RawFlow and ChinaCache will jointly promote Peer-To-Peer technology in the China market. ChinaCache will deploy the technology for its media delivery network and serve customers with P2P live broadcasting. China has the world's second largest internet population, with more than 132 million connections and 42 million broadband subscribers; making internet broadcast an incredibly attractive medium.

"ChinaCache is a key player in the global CDN market and well positioned in a market where live events attract the world's largest audiences online by far", Mikkel Dissing, Chief Executive Officer of RawFlow commented. "This rich live media demand introduces capacity problems and peak demand risk. When RawFlow's P2P solution is employed on top of ChinaCache's Content Delivery Network, it creates a distributed broadcast approach which not only decreases risk and cost, but also maximises scalability, thereby allowing more people to watch good quality live TV online".

With more and more content being consumed online, it becomes increasingly critical to implement new and more efficient distribution technologies such as peer-to-peer (P2P). When ChinaCache implements RawFlow as its P2P partner for live streaming, it will be able to deliver live simultaneous streams to an almost unlimited number of viewers without network congestion or server breakdown. Bandwidth peaks are removed making it possible to manage large live events.

ChinaCache announced earlier this year that the total capacity of its nationwide CDN network reached 100Gbps at the end of 2006, an event which marked yet another historical milestone in the development of ChinaCache's CDN network and further demonstrates its capability in network construction.

The announcement of RawFlow's partnership with ChinaCache follows announcements of strategic partnerships with other major CDNs, namely Tiscali Business in Germany (16.10.06) and CacheLogic in the UK (19.06.06).