The Fantastic Corporation Announces An Open Interface For Third Party Applications

In response to the rapidly expanding broadband marketplace, The Fantastic Corporation announced the release of an Application Programming Interface (API) for the Fantastic broadband broadcast platform. This API is the first in a series of tools designed specifically for application partners and customers to broadband-enable their products and services on top of Fantastic's end-to-end broadband multimedia platform. This released API is part of a larger Fantastic program to bring the power of broadband broadcasting to those companies and industries that are restricted by the bandwidth and performance limitations of traditional Internet environments.

"Fantastic's APIs will enable us to accelerate the rollout of the Wavexpress service across North America," said Cliff Jenks, President and CEO of Wavexpress. "We are pleased to have a strategic partnership with Fantastic to offer customers content-rich broadband media delivered directly to their PCs."

"Broadband access to multimedia services is poised for explosive growth, and many of our customers who are developing these services can shorten their time-to-market significantly by developing applications on top of our broadband distribution platform," said Peter Pircher, Chief Technical Officer of The Fantastic Corporation.

"Integration with the Fantastic platform not only provides our partners with a technical foundation for their broadband corporate strategy, but we can also assist them through our strong business relationships with global broadcast network providers."