Digital Pipe and Design Media Partner to Offer Media-Rich Custom e-Learning Programs; Pioneering End-to-End Solution

Business Wire, Nov 14, 2000

Business Editors/Technology Writers

FOSTER CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 14, 2000

Digital Pipe, the leading outsourced provider of intranet-based content delivery networks and Design Media, a top full-service instructional design/multimedia production company, today announced a strategic partnership to bring e-learning programs to their customers using television-quality streaming media applications.

Through the partnership, Digital Pipe and Design Media will act as referral partners, bringing value-added services to each other's customers and prospects. Design Media designs and produces custom instructional and corporate communications programs, and Digital Pipe provides the infrastructure or intranet content delivery network (iCDN) and management services. Design Media - which recently launched its IgniteoRe-Ignite Recruitment, Retention and Renewal(TM) product to help companies orient and retain their people - will offer its clients Digital Pipe's nCORE(TM) solution for the highest quality package using streaming media services when appropriate.

"Design Media's clients will now have a new, modern distribution infrastructure for their custom training and communication programs," said Chris Wallace, Digital Pipe's President and CEO. "Digital Pipe's technology basically turns a corporate PC into a desktop TV. It is point-and-click convenience for just-in-time training. It offers a visual way to communicate with and train employees without the expense and disruptions of meetings and travel or the complex distribution of VHS tapes or CD-ROMs."

According to Design Media President and CEO Pamela May, "The partnering of our companies makes good sense because our clients have the same needs. They require quality instructional content delivered in an easy to access format. Design Media has over two decades of experience creating custom learning and communication solutions for Fortune 500 companies. Now, our programs that use innovative streaming audio, video and animation applications will be delivered to employee desktops and learning centers with the best technology available. Companies looking for e-learning content and delivery that is customized for their specific audience now have a one-stop solution."

About Digital Pipe

Digital Pipe, Inc., based in Foster City, Calif., is the leading provider of intranet-based content delivery networks (iCDN), enabling TV-quality video to the corporate desktops of Global 2500 companies. Digital Pipe's patent-pending technology enables local storage and delivery of streaming media and other bandwidth intensive applications within enterprise communications networks. Digital Pipe's nCORE(TM) solution includes everything from infrastructure deployment and management, to scalable content distribution and delivery, to professional services. Digital Pipe's customers are up-and-running in a matter of weeks with little or no dedicated resources, and see immediate improvements in communications and training- with significant cost savings. For more information, contact Digital Pipe at 650-212-2300 or visit www.digitalpipe.net.

About Design Media

Design Media is a full-service instructional design/multimedia production company specializing in the development of interactive learning solutions for Fortune 500 companies. Design Media provides complete consultation and in-house production capabilities, from needs analysis to creative concept/design, scripting and storyboarding, media production, digital video editing, programming and compression. Depending on the client need, delivery methods include traditional media as well as CD-ROM, DVD, touch-screen kiosks, Internet or intranet web delivery, instructor-led training and hybrid solutions. The company's client list includes Apple Computer, Bank of America, Bechtel, Charles Schwab, Cisco Systems, Intel, Levi Strauss and Co., McKesson, Oracle Corporation, Stanford University, Sun Microsystems, Sybase and Visa. For more information, contact Design Media at 415-641-4848 or visit www.designmedia.com.