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Panther Express Powers LiveJournal

Tuesday 10. June 2008 - Panther Selected to Deliver Multimedia Content for Leading International Social Networking Site

Panther Express, a leading global provider of high-performance content delivery services, today announced that they have been selected as the content delivery network (CDN) for LiveJournal, one of the world’s most popular community and social networking web sites. After a successful trial in early 2008, LiveJournal signed up with Panther Express and has since been smoothly and efficiently delivering millions of images and photos every hour for their members.

“We are very pleased with Panther Express” said Sergei Komarov, CTO of SUP, the owner of LiveJournal.com. “Over the past months we have been delighted with their reliability and performance, consistently providing great user experience to our members around the world. We needed a company with a global reach — one that could scale and deliver on an international scale. Panther meets all our delivery needs.”

“Highly successful and immensely popular, LiveJournal is a leading example of a progressive Web 2.0 and social networking organization that knows how to provide the networking and communication services that are essential to the blogging and social networking community”, said Steve Liddell, CEO of Panther Express. “We are very proud to be selected as the CDN of choice to deliver LiveJournal’s multimedia content.”

“In addition to Panther offering the best value, we have been very impressed with their level of tech support and customer service,” added Komarov. “Whenever we had a question or a technical issue, they were very responsive and were able to provide us with the answers we needed. We view Panther as a partner for our continued success.”