Enron, Real Plan Broadband Streaming Service

Enron Communications
Inc. is teaming with RealNetworks
Inc. to deliver high-quality video broadcasts over Enron’s fiber-optic
network.

Enron specializes in delivering high-bandwidth content to businesses. The
Enron Intelligent Network uses distributed servers and messaging technology
to deliver the content over its network. Enron is expected to complete its
15,000-mile fiber-optic network later this year.

The system will use Real’s G2 streaming technology and will allow Internet
users to view video three times faster than regular telephone lines.

Len Jordan, RealNetworks’ senior vice president of media systems, said the
partnership is an effort to answer the challenges businesses confront when
seeking to deliver high-quality streaming media over the Internet.

“We believe that the Enron Intelligent Network is meeting this challenge…
This truly marks a pivotal event in the development of the Internet as the
next powerful mass medium,” he said.