Zeus Extensible Traffic Manager gets Skyrock closer to their listeners

Zeus Technology, the acknowledged leader in Internet infrastructure solutions, today announced that Skyrock, France's leading radio station, has deployed Zeus Extensible Traffic Manager as part of its expanding Internet platform.

Zeus Technology, the acknowledged leader in Internet infrastructure solutions, today announced that Skyrock, France's leading radio station, has deployed Zeus Extensible Traffic Manager as part of its expanding Internet platform.

Skyrock.com, together with its online listener forum, Skyblog.com, encourages interactivity between Skyrock and its community of over 4 million daily listeners. Serving more than 19 million pages a day and receiving around 220,000 hits per minute at peak times make Skyrock.com the number one media site in France†.

ZXTM was deployed on Skyrock's existing hardware for a quick and effective solution to their traffic bottlenecks. By implementing ZXTM, Skyrock have dramatically improved their sites' performance by reducing response times and server load, without the need for any additional hardware investment. The result has been a 'rock-solid' platform which Skyrock can rely on.

Frank Denis, Skyrock's system administrator commented, "When it comes to flexibility, ZXTM outperforms any other solution we've looked at including hardware appliances. Balancing traffic to multiple back-ends was traditionally a nightmare - solving the puzzle with ZXTM is a breeze. With Trafficscript, ZXTM's scripting language, we are able to quickly set up rules in order to direct a request to the optimal server". He continued, "The technical support we've received from Zeus is excellent, if an issue arises we know Zeus' support team will be on hand to fix it."

For more information about the Zeus Extensible Traffic Manager visit our website http://www.zeus.com/

† Source: CybereStat, May 2004

About Skyrock

Skyrock, created in 1986, is France's leading radio station for the under- 25s with an audience of 4 million listeners every day. Inspired by the free radio movement, Skyrock is the free-expression radio station of the new generation. The "Radio Libre" interactive talk programme hosted by Difool is the most popular radio programme in the evening slot France, all radio stations taken together. As a sounding box for street culture and the multicultural movement, Skyrock helped give birth to and remains at the heart of the new French music dynamic with its programme of the latest rap and r'n'b. Skyrock is also the first electronic radio community of the new generation through its interactive text-messaging, mobile and Internet platform. Skyrock is controlled by its founder Pierre Bellanger, associated with the UK investment fund Morgan Grenfell Private Equity.

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