Nimbus Communications’ cricket portal, Cricketnirvana.com will stream live cricket matches using Tata Communications CDN (Content Delivery Network) platform.

Tata Communications’ CDN platform includes LiveBroadcastTM service which promises to eliminate the need for expensive hardware and proprietary software and streams live content over Flash.

Nimbus has already streamed live content including cricket series of India – Srilanka, India – Srilanka- Bangladesh and the India- South Africa series using Tata Communications CDN platform receiving more than 8 million page views per match-day. 

 “We are extremely happy to serve Cricketnirvana.com to deliver our flash-based live video service. This will allow millions of cricket enthusiasts across the world to watch live cricket matches on their computers. The win showcases the superiority of our CDN solution on quality, scalability and cost effectiveness,” Genius Wong, Sr. Vice President, Global Network Services, Tata Communications said.

 “We were moving to the ad based revenue model which requires a cost effective solution without compromising on the features and quality of the live broadcast and this is where Tata Communications’ CDN services proved to be a better fit. Its distributed origin architecture along with clean pricing model makes it an ideal CDN services for portal like ours which receives millions of hits per match day., Mr. Jose Felix  - Head, Nimbus Communications, New Media said.”