Giraffic Secures $800,000 Funding, with Leading Online Video Websites and Millions of End-users Now on its Video Acceleration Cloud.

Giraffic offers Online Video sites, IPTV and Over-The-Top TV operators a distributed streaming technology that accelerates Video delivery over the open internet to their end users, enabling smooth, buffering-free HD and adaptive video streaming.

The Giraffic Video Accelerator has enabled customers to: 

• Offload over 80% of their video traffic from their video servers and CDN into the cost effective Giraffic fully-distributed streaming acceleration cloud.
• Reduce unnecessary bandwidth use.

• “Flatten” their  bandwidth consumption during peaks hours almost entirely
• Enable their users superior end-user streaming performance substantially higher video quality on existing internet connections, less re-buffering pauses and smoother video playback.

Giraffic had announced 1 Million end users on its distributed video streaming cloud only a few months ago and has exceeded its user growth expectations. The Giraffic's collaborative cloud has been growing continuously since then and by now millions of end users who have chosen to accelerate their video streaming experience.

Giraffic’s innovative streaming technology is being used daily by millions of end-users on leading online video sites such as Veoh.com , Craze Digital and others.

Every day over 10,000 new users join the Giraffic Accelerated Video Cloud – affording them a higher quality and smooth video streaming experience over their existing internet connections.

Giraffic’s technology is based on its unique protocol that relies on the Giraffic user cloud and a fraction of their excess bandwidth resources   in order to stream the video from multiple sources and overcome the inherent internet bottlenecks.

The Giraffic Video Accelerator is a simple add-on that integrates easily into the customer’s video player or Set-Top-Box. The add-on supports multiple devices and operating systems, bitrates (High Definition Video) and protocols (Progressive, HTTP Adaptive Streaming …).

The company has integrated its video accelerator into one of the leading Set-top-Box platforms in order to enable TV class quality Over-the-Top.

Giraffic (www.giraffic.com) was founded in December 2008 by Yoel Zanger (CEO), and Dr. Gil Gat (CTO), and is backed by leading technology and media industry veterans from Sling Media (now Echo-Star/Dish Networks), CNN and Warner Brothers.