VitalStream, Inc. has launched VitalStream Professional Services, a core group of technical staff and select industry partners experienced in streaming technologies dedicated to delivering quality, tailored solutions for customers with specific streaming needs, such as IPTV and podcasting.

VitalStream Professional Services will assist customers in all phases of product implementation with proven software development methods and a structured project management process to ensure project success. It will help design, build and deploy custom solutions that integrate with existing customer systems to meet their particular business needs.

VitalStream's core product suite consists of VitalStream's Streaming Service for Flash, Streaming Service for Windows Media and Content Delivery Service. The customized solutions created by VitalStream Professional Services will integrate with these products and enhance them to make them more useful for specific customer applications, and can be delivered through VitalStream's MediaConsole. Specific services available include:

• Customized video players
• Podcasting
• IPTV
• Digital rights management
• Control panels for content management and reporting
• Advertising- and subscription-based service models
• Authentication Web services and Flash Communication Server applications
• Encoding
• Live event production

"As a pioneer in video streaming, we are dedicated to providing our customers with full-service audio and video Web solutions," said Jack Waterman, CEO. "Based on the belief that companies in need of a Content Delivery Network are seeking a high-quality network with fully scaled capacity solutions dedicated specifically for their needs, we created VitalStream Professional Services to add to the value of our modular product line. We can now tailor services and reporting tools while accelerating implementation to better meet the increasingly unique needs of our customers more quickly and cost effectively than outsourcing can accomplish."

VitalStream's customer base includes Fortune 500 corporations, movie studios, news broadcasters, music companies and advertising agencies. For more information, please visit www.vitalstream.com.