Common use of Technology Platform Clause in Contracts

Technology Platform. Tudou's technology platform has been designed for reliability, scalability and flexibility and is administered by its in-house technology department. Tudou has access to a network of over 4,000 leased and self-owned servers across China with power supply and power generator backup. Tudou has contracts with certain top-tier vendors such as Dell and Cisco for warranty services for its hardware. Tudou has developed its server operations based on a LAMP structure, which is free, open source and easily adaptable software. This has allowed Tudou to lower software-related investment and enhance its network reliability. This structure, along with other features described below, contributes to the reliability, scalability and efficiency of Tudou's network. Bandwidth saving technology. Tudou's web server technology focuses on reducing bandwidth use by combining a CDN system and P2P technology. Tudou's self-developed CDN system focuses on connection capability and server capability at single points, and is capable of reducing the load on the central servers located at its Internet data center. A copy of data is placed at various points in its CDN to maximize bandwidth for access to the data from users throughout the network. Users may access a copy of the data near them, as opposed to all users accessing the Internet data center, to avoid a bottleneck near that server. To operate its CDN cost effectively, Tudou's CDN components are strategically deployed in cities where there is bandwidth with consistent quality at lower costs. Tudou also stores popular video clips temporarily on bandwidth lines Tudou rents from smaller telecommunications operators in third- and fourth- tier cities to reduce bandwidth cost. In addition, ▇▇▇▇▇'s proprietary web server software has allowed it to increase the utilization rate of broadband resources and improve content distribution speed. Tudou's proprietary "Fast Tudou" software, which functions as a P2P platform, helps improve the display speed of online video clips while allowing Tudou to substantially decrease its Internet bandwidth costs. Content management technology. ▇▇▇▇▇'s proprietary content management system reinforces network efficiency through real time calculations. Its servers convert newly uploaded videos to video clips viewable on its websites. In May 2011, Tudou launched an upgrade of its platform that enables uploading of UGC without compression and viewing of such UGC at higher definition. The CDN is capable of monitoring the load of each server and transfer work from a fully loaded server to a server that has capacity, which enhances the efficiency of Tudou's network. In addition, the audience's page-viewing volume will influence the "Top 10" ranking of each channel on a real time basis, which helps recommend the most popular video clips to ▇▇▇▇▇'s visitors. Content filtering technology. ▇▇▇▇▇'s digital audio and video identification system developed in-house enables Tudou to filter out illegal content, while the video fingerprint system Tudou has implemented will enable it to filter out infringing content matching copyrighted content in its system. Real time monitoring and support. Tudou's Internet data center and regional data center servers automatically report any detected malfunction on a real-time basis to its network control center. This allows ▇▇▇▇▇ to quickly respond to and resolve network malfunction issues. Tudou has a network operation support team responsible for the stability and security of its network on a 24-hour, seven-days-a-week basis. The primary responsibilities of the team members consist of monitoring system performance, troubleshooting, detecting system error, random sample testing on servers, maintaining equipment, and testing, evaluating and installing hardware and software. Data back-up technology. Different servers share and back up the data of one another, which increases the security of Tudou's network by allowing ▇▇▇▇▇ to provide backup to failed servers and prevent system-wide failures caused by area network failures.