Funshion is a Chinese
peer-to-peer
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streaming
video network software and website. Target users are on the Chinese mainland. The vast majority of content is from East Asia, mostly
Mainland China
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,
Japan
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,
Korea
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. It provides a free streaming service
and also has its own brand of
smart TV.
Company
Beijing Funshion Online Technology Co Ltd was established in 2005. The company initially focused on broadcast, content search and distributing streaming media.
Funshion Online was officially founded on September 28, 2005, with headquarters in
Beijing
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,
China
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. The company later partnered with SMG's BesTV.
In January 2016, Luo Jiangchun was Funshion's CEO, and the company was working on product development with other companies such as
Shanghai Oriental Pearl Media Co Ltd,
Shenzhen MTC Co Ltd,
Haier,
Panda Electronics Group, and
Gome Electrical Appliances Holding Ltd.
On December 10, 2016, Funshion released its first
smart TV model.
Applications
Funshion Online Technologies Ltd develops video software and offers online video and audio platforms.
In particular, Funshion provides
on demand
On-demand or on demand may refer to:
Manufacturing
* Build-on-demand
* Just-in-time manufacturing, a methodology for production
* Print on demand, printing technology and business process in which new copies of a document are not printed until ...
TV programs and movies to broadband users. Funshion uses
peer-to-peer
Peer-to-peer (P2P) computing or networking is a distributed application architecture that partitions tasks or workloads between peers. Peers are equally privileged, equipotent participants in the network, forming a peer-to-peer network of Node ...
streaming technology and supports high-volume traffic. At one point the company claimed the site had 290,000,000 registered users and 60,000,000 daily users.
See also
*
PPLive
*
QQLive
References
External links
Official site Weibo
File sharing networks
Streaming television
Peercasting
Chinese brands
Peer-to-peer software
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