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Russia: Pandemic drives legal service usage

Findings from Group-IB, a global threat hunting and adversary-centric cyber intelligence company, estimate the revenue of the video piracy market in Russia in 2020 at $59 million. The market decline has slowed down, however, with 7 per cent drop in 2020 compared to 27 per cent in 2019. Online pirates were not quite successful in […]

April 1, 2021By Colin Mann

Datazoom releases data dictionary for CDN log streaming

Datazoom, the Real-time Video Data Platform, has announced its end-to-end data collection, data standardization, and routing service for streaming Content Delivery Network (CDN) log data. Datazoom’s CDN Data Dictionary has been defined in compliance with the Common Media Client Data (CTA-5004). An important service that CDNs provide is efficient caching of video assets on behalf […]

October 28, 2020

GeoGuard support for anti-piracy advocacy

Noting that online content piracy has surged during the pandemic, as more people at home are using VPNs and DNS proxies to circumvent territorial restrictions in order to illegally access content, and to help the media industry combat this serious and growing problem, geolocation-based security and digital content protection specialist of GeoGuard has joined the […]

October 22, 2020By Colin Mann

Varnish Software launches 5G CDN solution

Varnish Software has announced the launch of a new 5G-ready content delivery network (CDN) that enables customers to build new services that harness the power of 5G and mobile edge computing (MEC). The new offering, Varnish Edge Cloud, is a carrier-grade, 5G-ready virtualised CDN and edge caching software solution that will help network operators transform […]

September 18, 2020

Survey: Need for real-time QoE control among streamers

A survey from Edgeware and streaming media expert Dan Rayburn has highlighted streaming TV providers’ limited visibility into their customers’ QoE and means to correct quality-impacting problems in real time. The survey, conducted in May 2020 with 250 leading broadcasters, OTT service providers, cable companies, publishers and brands, explores the video quality issues facing streaming […]

September 17, 2020

Report: Global Internet disruptions spiked in March

Internet and Cloud Intelligence company ThousandEyes has revealed the findings of its inaugural 2020 Internet Performance Report, a first-of-its-kind study of the availability and performance of Internet-related networks, including those of Internet Service Providers (ISPs), public cloud, content delivery network (CDN) and domain name system (DNS) providers. Measuring performance over time, the report examines the […]

August 5, 2020