Alpha test winners get prizes (18. June 2004)

About Octoshape

Octoshape is a software company who enables live broadcasting over the Internet on a similar scale as traditional broadcasting. The technology makes it possible for broadcasters with new TV-channels to reach millions of users simultaneously without additional bandwidth or hardware. Octoshape is going to release the first product in the fall of 2004. A series of small tests has been conducted with great success and throughout the summer the product will be thoroughly tested.

The two winners of the test contest get their prizes

From the many testers that helped us two were drawn who each received DKK 5000 as a prize.

Martin Parm (in the middle), student at DIKU (Department of Computer Science University of Copenhagen) is presented with his prize by CEO Stephen Alstrup. The second prize, shown here by CTO Theis Rauhe, went to Thomas Andersen, student at IHA (University College of Aarhus).

Streaming with a minimal set up

The goal for Octoshape is to make it possible for TV-stations to broadcast live over the Internet to as many viewers as they would like without big investments in machinery and high-speed internet connections says Stephen Alstrup, CEO and co-founder of Octoshape. To make the tests as realistic as possible compared to this, we decided to use a minimal computer set up to do the broadcasting. In the Alpha test a $500 machine with 128 MB RAM was used to broadcast to the 100 concurrent users.

Over 200 test users have helped us

The tests carried out in the spring has all been technological tests, meaning that they helped us to cope with the many different computer configurations that exist. Test users from all over Denmark has installed Octoshape Streaming Services on their private computer and concurrently received live broadcasts from Octoshape.