TV Everywhere is a now a routine demand on content providers, be they broadcasters, pay-TV players or OTT services. This means everyone has to engage with ‘The Cloud’ and make use of CDNs. How is the CDN market developing in terms of functionality, compatibility, hierarchies and business control? We brought together experts from Edgeware, Ericsson […]
In a move designed to deepen and enhance its video delivery and web services capabilities, US Verizon has revealed it is to acquire content delivery network specialist EdgeCast. Verizon Digital Media Services will integrate EdgeCast complementary capabilities to improve further and increase its ability to meet the exponential growth in online digital media content, as […]
Technicolor has been selected as the exclusive supplier of digital asset management services for StudioCanal’s theatrical and home entertainment releases. Through this agreement, StudioCanal will utilise Technicolor’s cloud-based portal that centralises distribution modules while providing unprecedented content security. This platform is intuitive, providing users complete control and offering on-demand access to their content – anytime, […]
Türk Telekom, Turkey’s leading communication and convergence technologies company, and Akamai Technologies, a provider of cloud services, have signed a strategic partnership to jointly build and manage a high-capacity Operator Content Delivery Network (OCDN) in Turkey for high-quality delivery of online content and video. The partnership aims to provid a significant increase in speed and […]
All Netflix members, regardless of their Internet Service Provider, now have access to the highest quality HD streams available on Netflix. Writing in a blog post, Joris Evers, director of corporate communications at Netflix, said this means that the great TV shows and movies on Netflix will look even better on HD screens with a […]
Pay-TV operators have been moving an increasing amount of their content online through TV Everywhere or multiscreen services, as well as seeing an increasing amount of Internet streaming via OTT services like Netflix and Hulu, according to MRG. As a result, cable, IPTV and satellite operators are seeing an increased need to manage what’s happening […]
Suggesting that the support and investment from parent company Comcast had enabled to re-evaluate its support to its content provider and pay-TV operator customers, white-label video publishing company thePlatform has unveiled a new Virtual TV Framework to enable cable, satellite and IPTV service providers to replicate their 24 hour, live, linear programming and video on […]
Rostelecom, Russia’s largest telco, has deployed the world’s largest operator content delivery network (CDN) – thanks to a solution developed and integrated by Ericsson. The CDN design and integration is ground-breaking in terms of both capability and geographic span, with content servers located in 30 major cities across all federal districts of Russia. In addition, […]
Witbe, the next generation Quality Monitoring company, is launching version 2.0 of its OTT Robots at IBC. They are designed to provide comprehensive Content Delivery Network (CDN) infrastructure monitoring to CDN Operators and Service Providers offering Multiscreen and OTT video services. As the industry is rapidly making video content available to any screen over any […]
Akamai has increased its market share of the cloud video service market serving Media & Entertainment companies to nearly 30 per cent in early 2013, from about 27 per cent in 2012, with no close competitor – other companies competing in the market all have less than approximately 5 per cent market share according to […]