STRATACACHE—the Software Behind the Screen

STRATACACHE—the Software Behind the Screen

Based out of Dayton, Ohio, STRATACACHE is a privately held software and services company founded in
1999 by Chris Riegel. STRATACACHE is serial entrepreneur Riegel’s third successful startup in his 16 years in systems and network technology ventures. With the rise of the Internet in the mid-1990s, Riegel turned the resources of his successful businesses to fund and develop the core technology of the STRATACACHE architecture that is used today by enterprises all over the globe.

Today, with almost 100 employees worldwide and offices in the United States, Europe, Middle East, Africa,
and Asia STRATACACHE has completed over 1.2 million software and appliance installations worldwide. STRATACACHE specializes in technologies that distribute, accelerate, and present media for use within enterprise, telco, service provider, and entertainment applications. STRATACACHE has three primary products on the market—ActiVia for Media, OmniCast and StrataCORE—each designed to provide efficient, scalable, and cost-effective content distribution and application acceleration solutions to highly distributed network-connected organizations. STRATACACHE software provides solutions for:

• Digital signage and in-store media
• IP/TV business video distribution
• Application acceleration
• Digital cinema distribution
• Software and patch distribution
• Catalogue replication
• E-Learning video replication
• CEO broadcasts/corporate communication
• Database replication and synchronization

STRATACACHE specializes in highly distributed enterprise customers,
typically distributing heavy media to 100+ edge sites.

Highly Distributed Digital Signage Installations

STRATACACHE has worked with digital signage customers from global 2,000 enterprises. For instance, STRATACACHE’s role and technology in AT&T Mobility’s digital signage initiatives in 2007 won the company two awards for best retail application of digital signage. During the 2008 Digital Signage Expo, STRATACACHE and AT&T were collectively awarded a 2008 DIGI Award and a Digital Signage and Interactive Technology Award for implementing digital signage in AT&T’s Experience Stores and as part of new product kiosks in 1,840 AT&T Mobility stores.

AT&T Mobility’s digital signage installations began in March 2007 with the launch of its first Experience Store in Houston. The Experience Store came to life through guided selling kiosks (GSKs) powered by STRATACACHE ActiVia for Media, which drives content onto 32" flat screen displays.

The AT&T Experience Stores house ten zones, each with one or two digital signs that display content ranging from games and ringtones to mobile productivity. The GSKs include a 19" touchscreen self-service device with the 32" mounted digital sign hanging behind it. In addition, three 52" displays located in the central part of the store highlight new AT&T media offerings.

AT&T used the same technology (ActiVia) to spearhead its launch of the summer of 2007’s hottest tech product. The result was the largest single rollout of digital signage in retail of last year.

STRATACACHE currently holds business alliances with leading organizations, including IBM, AT&T, Sony, Microsoft, Verizon, Dell, EchoStar, and LG.

STRATACACHE’s Award-Winning Digital Signage Solution

STRATACACHE’s award-winning digital signage software, ActiVia for Media is the software solution behind the largest digital signage rollout in retail of 2007. ActiVia is a highly optimized, web-accessible solution for powerful digital marketing that combines STRATACACHE’s patented content delivery platform with state-of-the-art digital broadcasting technology.

ActiVia for Media delivers mixed digital media, such as high-quality video advertisements, animated presentations, HTML files, flash demonstrations, and text-based messages to plasma screens or digital playout devices around the globe. With its new multi-layering features, recently released ActiVia 3.2 can manage the digital signage lifecycle for multi-layered playlist creation, distribution, and monitoring of digital signage networks containing up to 100,000 concurrent devices.

The STRATACACHE family of multi-platform software and network acceleration appliances is the result of an intensive study of content rich Internet and Intranet traffic patterns, and the network performance effects of this traffic in large, distributed Wide Area Network infrastructures.

STRATACACHE research and development is carried out by a core group of network engineering and software development specialists located in the company’s Dayton, Ohio headquarters and at development centers in Montreal, San Jose, Salt Lake City, and Boston.

STRATACACHE
1031 E. Third Street
Dayton, Ohio 45402

Toll Free: (800) 244-8915
Office Phone: (937) 224-0485
Fax: (937) 224-8184

Website: http://www.stratacache.com