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Press Room
Fact Sheet
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WHO: |
Entertainment Digital Network "ednet"
| | WHAT: | ednet (that's "e - d
- net") is a managed network providing content collaboration and approval solutions for
the entertainment and advertising production professional.
Through its unique eLink service it connects recording studios. Record companies,
motion picture and television studios, advertising agencies, and post-production facilities
as well as music and voiceover artists, and their agencies and labels. |
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WHEN: | In 1991, while still
working for Skywalker Sound, a division of LucasArts Entertainment Company,
the ednet management group exploited innovative digital communications
technology, carried over fiber optics, to transmit high quality digital audio
between Skywalker's two facilities located over 400 miles apart.
The management group, formed ednet
in June 1992 to develop and market this new technology with a trial network of seven studios.
The ednet group moved from Skywalker Ranch in 1993 to set up headquarters
in San Francisco.
Today there are more then 700 sites on its managed network, and the network is a wholly
owned subsidiary of Onstream Media (Nasdaq: "ONSM").
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WHERE: |
200 Vallejo Street
San Francisco, CA 94111
tel 415.274.8800
fax 415.274.8801
www.ednet.net
| | WHO NEEDS
US: | Professionals who find themselves:
Needing to send or receive production quality audio and video
Fed up with slow "express" shipping services
Baffled by the complexity of digital phone connections
Annoyed by the lack of responsiveness of the phone company.
Unsure which equipment would best fit their needs
Working with a distant studio with incompatible equipment
Needing wide bandwidth Internet access
Needing Internet media encoding, hosting, and streaming services
| | PRODUCTS: | In addition to the services we offer,
ednet is an authorized outlet for the products of:
Dolby® Laboratories
Telos® Systems
Audio Processing Technology (APT®)
CCS/Musicam USA®
Telestream®
Polycom®
Colin Broad Engineering® . . . and related product lines. |
| THE NETWORK: | ednet manages a rapidly expanding global network of over 700 North American Affiliates, and
nearly over 200 International Associates, in cities throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, Europe, and the Pacific Rim. ednet has stratigically
utilized the extensive relationships and established reputation of its principals in conjunction with this market opportunity to quickly mark its position
as the most innovative value-added telecommunications network in the entertainment industry. endet provides international networking services not
only through its own private network, but through its managed gateway - eLink - to other affiliated networks and off-network studios in over 250
cities worldwide.
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