Expway, the wireless multicast provider, has presented FastLane at Mobile World Congress – a new Content Delivery Network (CDN) solution with a unique approach to optimising mobile content delivery. The solution focuses on optimising the link from the network cell to the devices using LTE Broadcast, Multicast Dynamic Switching and pre-emptive caching. FastLane uses LTE […]
Ericsson has teamed up with leading global service providers including Hutchison, Vodafone, Telstra and AIS, to launch a new ubiquitous content delivery ecosystem which aggregates regional service provider capabilities on a global scale. As highlighted by Ericsson’s latest Mobility Report, networks are suffering from increased strain as OTT and video becomes an ever-more dominating force […]
Akamai Technologies, a global player in content delivery network (CDN) services, has announced the commercial availability of the Company’s Predictive Content Delivery solutions. Intended to help solve the challenges of HD quality video distribution to mobile devices across all networks, the new solutions are designed to optimise secure content delivery and on-device caching to improve […]
Broadpeak, a provider of CDN technologies and live and VoD servers for cable, IPTV, OTT, hybrid, and mobile TV operators worldwide, have announced that its BkS350 origin server, BkS400 video cache server, and BkA100 analytics tool have been integrated with the NexStreaming NexPlayer SDK to improve OTT multiscreen delivery. Using an end-to-end solution that includes […]
Netflix has confirmed it has finally completed its cloud migration and shut down the last remaining data centre bits used by its streaming service, having begun the process in August 2008, when it experienced a major database corruption and for three days could not ship DVDs to its members. It suggests the development moves it […]
Content services protection and enhancement specialist Viaccess-Orca has launched Voyage – TV Everywhere as a Service (TVaaS), a new cloud-based over-the-top (OTT)/TV Everywhere (TVE) service designed to simplify multiscreen service delivery, increasing flexibility, reducing costs, and speeding up service launch times for operators. Running on Amazon Web Services cloud infrastructure, Voyage – TVaaS is integrated […]
Global communications provider Tata Communications has completed another successful proof of concept with Formula One Management during a recent Grand Prix. The new technology test delivered a live trackside feed from the track during the September Singapore Grand Prix to Formula One Management’s Technical HQ in Biggin Hill, UK – with no time lag between […]
Media content distribution and IPTV specialist Vision247 has created a bespoke VoD screening platform designed to enable content distributors to share and stream media assets with partners and clients around the world securely and without the risk of piracy. Vision247 has created a technology that transcodes content at source before leaving a dedicated server, stamping […]
Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT) has announced apartnership with Akamai, becoming the first local channel partner of one of the world’s largest Content Delivery Network (CDN) service providers and the first telecom company in the country to offer a full suite of CDN solutions for enterprises. The alliance is seen to boost businesses’ Internet […]
Software-defined video solutions for multiscreen content delivery specialist Elemental Technologies, has confirmed that African pay-TV provider MultiChoice is using Elemental for live streaming and video-on-demand (VoD) delivery of its DStv online service, which makes sports and entertainment content available on smart phones and tablets to more than 10 million subscribers in Sub-Saharan Africa. Rapidly expanding […]