Cidera Inc. of Laurel, Md., announced that it will work with Intel Internet Media Services to optimize the distribution, performance and scalability of streaming content via the Internet.

Intel explained that Internet Media Services is part of Intel’s New Business Group, which was established to develop new Internet-related services and products in support of the parent company’s “mission to be the building block supplier to the worldwide Internet economy.

Cidera, formerly known as SkyCache, is a leader in the use of satellite communications to deliver broadband, Internet content to the edges of the Internet, thereby avoiding congestion in terrestrial portions of the Internet backbone.