-- German Online Gaming Company Leverages CDN and Storage
Services to Improve Performance
FRANKFURT AM MAIN, Germany and BROOMFIELD, Colorado, Aug. 6, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Famobi,
a German HTML5 games distributor with an international focus, is
using Level 3 Communications, Inc. (NYSE: LVLT) content delivery
network (CDN) and storage solutions to address the important
challenge of improving end users' gaming experience.
Famobi was created by most of the former KaiserGames team, which
launched SpielAffe.de and made it Germany's most visited gaming portal, with
more than 250 million page impressions at its peak. Since the
founding of Famobi, the user base and business relationships have
become more international, with the company focused on
providing the best experience for gamers and partners both in
and outside Germany, and business
partners requiring a quick and easy-to-use distribution
platform.
Challenges Famobi faced included users' demand for easy and
quick access to games, as well as a storage solution that could
handle large amounts of data. These challenges were addressed
through a combination of Level 3's CDN and cloud-based storage.
Famobi reports that its users now stay on the sites for longer and
dropout rates have decreased.
"Since we've been using Level 3
CDN services, gamers come back even more frequently, as the
experience is excellent," says Ilker
Aydin, CEO at Famobi. "This benefits us as a growing
company, because repeat visits increase the page impressions and
ultimately our revenue. The Level 3 storage solution saves us money
on hardware and administration while giving us the peace of mind of
knowing we can scale up as our needs change."
Following tests to select a provider, Level 3 came out on top in
Famobi's international performance measurement tests. The company
added the Level 3 storage solution to relieve the load on its own
servers and support fast file transfer into the delivery network.
As a result, the site responds much faster and more smoothly to the
gamers' actions – regardless of where they are based. Level 3
recently added GZIP, the function to compress files, which has been
shown to further reduce download times. Level 3 also provides
technical support to Famobi, delivering a rapid response to queries
as the support is located in the same time zone.
"Network service quality makes all the difference in helping our
customers grow their business efficiently. For online gamers, the
speedy delivery of games is critical," says Gerald Rubant, director of sales, Enterprise
Business for Germany, Austria & Switzerland at Level 3. "Interruptions and
jittery content delivery will stop them from coming back to a site.
Level 3 offers solutions that provide smooth, fast and
uninterrupted game play."
Level 3 counts top names in the gaming market among its
customers, due to its proven and reliable CDN services. The company
provides safe, secure, reliable high-quality service. The network
includes private connections to many ISPs and telecom carriers,
thereby enabling smooth traffic flow without traversing public
peering points that can become congested and slow down content
delivery.
About Famobi
Famobi GmbH is an affiliate and distribution platform
specialized on the delivery of high quality HTML5 games with a
cross-platform approach. The company offers comprehensive gaming
channel solutions to media companies as well as single games to
existing gaming portals or partners who need to extend their reach
from mere desktop traffic to mobile devices such as smartphones and
tablets. Famobi's ease of use enables every partner to quickly
choose single games or the whole catalogue to implement into their
portals, thus establishing an additional revenue stream while
offering their users a future-proof entertainment platform. Visit
www.famobi.com for more information.
About Level 3 Communications
Level 3 Communications, Inc. (NYSE: LVLT) is a Fortune 500
company that provides local, national and global communications
services to enterprise, government and carrier customers. Level 3's
comprehensive portfolio of secure, managed solutions includes fiber
and infrastructure solutions; IP-based voice and data
communications; wide-area Ethernet services; video and content
distribution; data center and cloud-based solutions. Level 3 serves
customers in more than 500 markets in over 60 countries across a
global services platform anchored by owned fiber networks on three
continents and connected by extensive undersea facilities. For more
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The information contained under the caption "About Famobi"
has been provided by Famobi, which is solely responsible for its
content.
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forward-looking in nature and are based on management's current
expectations or beliefs. These forward-looking statements are not a
guarantee of performance and are subject to a number of
uncertainties and other factors, many of which are outside Level
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include, but are not limited to, the company's ability to:
successfully integrate the tw telecom acquisition; manage risks
associated with continued uncertainty in the global economy;
increase revenue from its services to realize its targets for
financial and operating performance; maintain and increase traffic
on its network; develop and maintain effective business support
systems; manage system and network failures or disruptions; avert
the breach of its network and computer system security measures;
develop new services that meet customer demands and generate
acceptable margins; manage the future expansion or adaptation of
its network to remain competitive; defend intellectual property and
proprietary rights; manage continued or accelerated decreases in
market pricing for communications services; obtain capacity for its
network from other providers and interconnect its network with
other networks on favorable terms; attract and retain qualified
management and other personnel; successfully integrate future
acquisitions; effectively manage political, legal, regulatory,
foreign currency and other risks it is exposed to due to its
substantial international operations; mitigate its exposure to
contingent liabilities; and meet all of the terms and conditions of
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release should be evaluated in light of these important factors.
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obligation to, update or alter its forward-looking statements,
whether as a result of new information, future events, or
otherwise.
Contact Information
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Famobi
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Business Relations:
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Lars Tillmann
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+49 221 788 06 20
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lars.tillmann@famobi.com
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Level 3
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Media:
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Investors:
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Beatrice Martin-Vignerte
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Mark Stoutenberg
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+44 (0) 330 060 7342
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+1 720-888-2518
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Beatrice.Martin-Vignerte@Level3.com
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Mark.Stoutenberg@Level3.com
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Germany
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HBI Helga Bailey GmbH
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Corinna Voss
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+49 89 993887 30
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corinna_voss@hbi.de
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