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CDNs

Akamai CDN for Sky Italia

Akamai Technologies, a provider of cloud services for delivering, optimising and securing online content and business applications, today announced that Sky Italia has selected Akamai’s Aura Managed Content Delivery Network (MCDN) solution for its online content including live and on-demand video. With the Aura MCDN, which provides Sky with dedicated CDN capabilities that are maintained […]

February 5, 2015

Neotion partners with Verimatrix

Neotion, the French solutions provider for international Digital Television, has successfully integrated the Verimatrix Video Content Authority System (VCAS) for Broadcast-Hybrid revenue security solution in its latest generation of CI Plus 1.3 Conditional Access Module (CAM). Neotion has reinforced its partnership with Verimatrix, the specialist in securing and enhancing revenue for multi-network, multi-screen digital TV […]

January 27, 2015

Selevision teams with du, Akamai for OTT

du, the Saudia-Arabian telco, and Akamai Technologies have announced that Selevision, the Saudi Arabian on demand service provider, has selected the companies’ content delivery services to support OTT delivery of its channels throughout the MENA region. As part of the agreement, du’s broadcasting services division will provide first class CDN services from Akamai to Selevision, […]

January 21, 2015

Embracing the cloud

Advanced Television talks to Yvette Kanouff, SVP Cisco Service Provider Video Software and Solutions, about Cisco’s increasing commitment to the cloud, V2P and the benefit of comprehensive virtualization, RDK and bringing Internet speed innovation to cable, data security in the age of the IoE and encouraging more women into technology careers.   [bitsontherun VJ0BU0SB-Nz9lx6T9]

January 20, 2015

Vualto chooses THEOplayer

Vualto, global specialists in content delivery and management, has signed an exclusive UK reseller agreement with Belgian company OpenTelly to incorporate THEOplayer into its video delivery solutions. THEOplayer from OpenTelly is a fully HTML5 based player that allows a common streaming format, such as Apple’s HLS (HTTP live streaming), to play on a wide range […]

January 15, 2015

Elemental solutions for Pac-12

Pac-12 Networks has formed a partnership with Elemental Technologies, a supplier of software-defined video solutions for multiscreen content delivery, to provide live simulcast streaming to its Pac-12 Now TV Everywhere service as well as the video processing for its YouTube international subscription service. Each year, Pac-12 Networks will deliver live coverage of 850 sporting events […]

January 13, 2015

Broadpeak upgrades Cloud-PVR Solutions

Broadpeak, a provider of content delivery network (CDN) technologies and live and VoD servers has announced new impulsive recording capabilities for its cloud-PVR solution. By enabling video content for multiple end-users to be recorded and stored only once, either on managed or unmanaged networks, Broadpeak’s impulsive recording technology significantly reduces operators’ storage expenses. “Time-based and […]

January 13, 2015

Akamai: “Critical inflection point for CDNs”

Akamai Technologies, a provider of cloud services, has released a report in which online video professionals in North America and Europe share insights about how their organisations leverage content delivery networks (CDNs), as well as how they consume content both personally and professionally. The report found

December 18, 2014

Media workloads converging on x86 processors

The shifting media consumption landscape, in which IP distribution and IP consumption are important imperatives for traditional broadcasters as well as new media companies, is driving uptake of x86 processors within media workloads. According to ABI Research, these changes, which rely on

December 15, 2014

Anevia partners with Cedexis

Anevia, a global player in the development of software infrastructure for delivering live television and VoD services over the Internet, has announced a partnership with CDN load-balancing specialist Cedexis. A newly signed agreement between the two companies sees Cedexis technology implemented by Anevia to enhance the quality-of-service monitoring capabilities of ViaMotion Plus. Integrating Cedexis technology […]

November 27, 2014