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Abacast has a patented hybrid peer-to-peer audio and video streaming technology system developed in the early 2000s. The grid technology can be used for either live or on-demand streaming. It is maintained by Abacast Inc. as a paid-use system, with a variety of additional services for supporting "ad injection" and digital rights management. It is primarily deployed with Windows Media streams, but also supports Shoutcast. The Abacast technology helps users save up to 98 percent on bandwidth expenses. The technology is the cornerstone of the full service offering which includes live and on-demand audio and video streaming, ad injection, digital rights management, iptv, subscription systems, complete user stats, custom web and player design, automatic pager alert systems podcasting, encoding and custom solutions.

The Abacast patented technology takes the security, quality, and control from central server (unicast) streaming technology and combines it with the adaptability, efficiency, and resilience of peer-to-peer technology. This combination of technologies into one Distributed Streaming Technology reduces the cost of live one-to-many audio and video streaming by up to 98%. Also, it includes qualiity of service monitoring which gives measurable improvement in the end-user experience.

Abacast does NOT collect nor share any information about individual clients or users.