KPNQwest, which claims to be the leading pan-European data communications and hosting company, has announced the signing of an agreement with RTL NEWMEDIA.

As per the agreement KPNQwest will provide a scalable content delivery and backbone infrastructure to support the increase of streaming services across the portal http://www.RTL.de . RTL Newmedia is the Internet subsidiary of RTL Television, a general interest web site in Germany. An official release informs that since October 2001, RTL carried some 11 terabytes of streamed content to provide services for over 440,000 viewers.

In the fourth quarter of 2001, RTL claims to have registered 1.6 billion hits (the equivalent of 6 terabytes). The company registered around 800 million hits for the first six weeks of 2002. KPNQwest will provide a robust and scalable solution to support the streaming of live events including; news from key announcers and video chats with celebrities from the music, television and film industries. The solution has also been used to stream public events like the Dutch Royal Wedding and the Pet Shop Boys concert.

Since the streamed solution allows users to access and download media programmes on-demand, it provides the flexibility to view live events from anywhere in the world.

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