CDNetworks and Nexway power large e-commerce and gaming sites worldwide

CDNetworks, the world's third largest, and Asia's #1, full-service content delivery network, and Nexway, a European leader in digital distribution of software and video games, today announced an expanded strategic relationship. The agreement extends the scope of service delivery beyond Europe to worldwide delivery, adds CDNetworks Web Acceleration services, and includes a mutual customer-referral program. Nexway powers software providers and video-game publishers, in more than 50 countries around the globe, with turnkey e-commerce solutions. It provides front-office, back-office, secure-payment functions, and an e-commerce distribution platform for content delivery via its network of e-channels on major portals. Having achieved over one million paying downloads in 2008-with over 500 software and game publisher partners-Nexway further expanded its program, in January 2009, with the acquisition of Boonty, a market leader in Asia. Boonty added 400 casual-game publishers and the management of 200 international game channels on global e-merchant sites. To power this rapid global expansion, Nexway selected CDNetworks' global network infrastructure to accelerate Nexway's customers' content delivery. Nexway leverages the strong local European presence of CDNetworks and will now deliver its solutions through more than 80 full-service POPs in Europe, North America, Latin America, Asia, and Australia. CDNetworks Content Acceleration Network, with whole site acceleration, global downloads, and robust security, provides fast, secure, reliable, and smooth delivery of content for Nexway to extend its reach throughout the world. Franck Giroudon, COO of Nexway, said: " With CDNetworks, we found not only a robust CDN service provider with the highest quality of services, competitive pricing, a large network, and a global footprint, but also a true strategic partner that will share leads and ideas with us and help support our global expansion strategy."