Inktomi Enterprise Communications Suite (ECS) empowers the organization to surpass these challenges and fully leverage its knowledge base. The Suite is comprised of a complete set of products that create a 'content aware' application layer on top of your existing network infrastructure. ECS enables the most efficient, cost-effective means of securely publishing, distributing, managing and retrieving all types of content, including streaming media.

Enterprise Communications Made Simple:

• Deliver job-specific knowledge online, live or on-demand, including executive presentations, earnings announcements, distance learning and sales training—regardless of distance or underlying bandwidth.
• Create and publish rich-media, traditional-media, and real-time content from any location—including Word documents, Web pages, PowerPoint presentations, streaming media, graphic images, and more.
• Generate a portal guide for users to easily access live and on-demand media content.
• Offer a sophisticated search functionality that provides fast and timely retrieval of mission-critical information, regardless of physical location, data repository, language or file type.

• Lower administrative costs by centralizing the management of network resources.
• Reduce travel expenses by delivering company conferences, sales training, and other mission-critical content, online.
• Decrease bandwidth usage by transmitting only one copy of a stream to multiple recipients—as opposed to router level multicasting, which transmits multiple, redundant streams.

• Route around network failures or trouble spots, enabling seamless distribution of live and on-demand streaming media without negative impacts to your network.
• Avoid hardware upgrades and costly network reconfigurations, since these are not necessary with ECS.
• Monitor stream quality, bandwidth usage, and node performance in real time, from anywhere in the world.