LONDON, July 3 /PRNewswire/ --

- Virtualization and Managed Hosting Technology Used to Absorb Peak 
Numbers of Online Football Fans and Video Users

LONDON, July 3 /PRNewswire/ --

NTT Europe Online, managed hosting provider to
UEFA official public websites and extranet platform reveals how
virtualization technology was used as part of its hosting platform to support
record levels of web traffic to http://www.euro2008.com, the official website
for the 2008 European Championships.

NTT Europe Online provides UEFA with dedicated architecture and design,
implementation service delivery and live event teams to ensure the smooth
running of the tournament online. The core managed hosting services consisted
of over 50 terabytes of storage, Content Delivery Network solutions, hosting,
virtualized servers and network-level security that ran over NTT Europe
Online's global IP network. There were also many virtualized production and
back-end environments to service the IT applications, portals and extranets
required for a global event web site such as euro2008.com.

Andy Pattison, Project Manager for www.euro2008.com said of the site:
"With 1.2 billion page views, 100 million visits by over 50 million visitors
from over 200 countries logging on within one month; it was paramount that we
delivered concise and quality coverage of the tournament online. We chose NTT
Europe Online as partners for their expertise in hosting large and complex
online events."

"euro2008.com offers live streaming of all 31 finals matches, footage of
130 games from previous tournaments as well as an archive of a few thousand
matches from UEFA competitions. Increased demand for online video was a
challenge that only a partner with technology and an international
infrastructure could solve."

Niels Hilbrink Account Director at NTT Europe Online added: "It was
expected there would be online demand like no other previous tournament and
that video would play a huge part in this. With live events, you only get one
shot at getting it right. www.euro2008.com is a testament to UEFA's
forward-looking perspective on technology and how it can be used to reach
more and more football fans across the globe."

"Virtualization was only one of a range of technologies used on this
occasion, but it was a perfect demonstration of how it can help deliver extra
computing resources when needed. The performance of the network as a whole
was vital too, especially given the peak traffic loads of 9.1 Gigabits per
second and a predicted 300 terabytes of traffic throughout the tournament."

About NTT Europe Online

NTT Europe Online provides managed hosting, security and application
management services to businesses globally. These services provide the
reliability, availability, security and scalability needed to underpin
business success online.

NTT Europe Online is certified to ISO27001 for Information Security
Management and, as part of NTT Communications, has the global reach and scale
to support businesses of all sizes. NTT Communications is the global data and
IP services arm of the Fortune Global 500 telecom leader, Nippon Telegraph &
Telephone Corporation (NTT). For further information visit 
http://www.ntteuropeonline.com

About UEFA and UEFA media Technologies

UEFA - the Union of European Football Associations - is the governing
body of football on the continent of Europe. UEFA's core mission is to
promote, protect and develop European football at every level of the game, to
promote the principles of unity and solidarity, and to deal with all
questions relating to European football. UEFA is an association of
associations based on representative democracy, and is the governing body of
European football.

UEFA Media Technologies SA ("UMET") is a fully owned subsidiary of UEFA
and UEFA's arm for digital media. UMET evaluates, implements and maintains
solutions for the web, IT needs and television production for UEFA and
develops know-how in digital media convergence for the benefit of football
fans and the football family.

Amongst its activity areas, UMET manages UEFA's websites, uefa.com and
euro2008.com, develops and implements UEFA's FAME system (the Football
Administration Management Environment, dedicated to the administration of
European football) and is in charge of UEFA EURO 2008(TM) host broadcast
operations for UEFA.

The core UMET team consists of 130 professionals from 18 different
countries, structured in Content, TV Production, ICT and broadcast Partner
Services. It provides multiple synergies dealing with complex projects in
converged media for UEFA.