The goal : To satisfy supporters of European football throughout the world.
Here's why uefa.com teamed up with Smart Content Delivery to operate a site that has up to 7 million page views on match days.
| In response to the earnest wishes of Japanese fans of European football, the Japanese-language site, jp.uefa.com is now available. Match report of UEFA tournament play, plus news and background on the sport from uefa.com, has the solid support of NTT Communications Smart Content Delivery. |
Challenge
NTT Communications (NTT Com) established the Japanese-language version of jp.uefa.com, the UEFA portal site, in February 2003 to meet the ever-growing demands of Japan's enthusiastic fans of European soccer, in which Japanese players are a growing presence.
Verio inc., wholly owned subsidiary of NTT Com, has hosted the uefa.com site since 2001. For uefa.com, Verio distributed a video feed of the UEFA Champions League matches, establishing a stable network that supports the unprecedented traffic.
This portal site already has up to 7 million page impression on match days. To support the anticipated rapid growth in demand for broadband applications, stable, dependable hosting services and a reliable IP backbone are essential. This next-generation requirement is the big challenge NTT Com, as a host of uefa.com, is out to fullfill.
Why NTT Communications
A combination of Hosting Smart Content Delivery and global Tier1 status IP backbone was the perfect solution for uefa.com.
NTT Com was chosen to create the Japanese-language version of uefa.com, the site jp.uefa.com.
UEFA New Media anticipated the need for what would be the Europe's largest football web portal to address the rapidly growing Internet user base. The critical elements were powerful, leading edge Internet infrastructure. Expertise in operation of providing video streaming and accommodating high-volume access from all over the world.
NTT Com met these requirements with Verio. The global content delivery service, Smart Content Delivery, is an added benefit.
Smart Content Delivery realize high quality content distribution not only to Japan, the US and Europe but also to Asia. By connecting end users to the nearest cache server located in NTT Com Global IP Network, end user connection and download latency are dramatically reduced, providing a greater experience.
For uefa.com the Smart Content Delivery, with its robust hosting capability and its worldwide Global IP Network, provided the combination of expertise built upon broad experience and advanced technologies to handle any system integration and to do it on a very tight schedule.
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