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CDNs

Vimond partners with Fastly

Vimond Media Solutions has entered into a commercial partnership with Fastly, a real-time CDN. Vimond now offers the benefits of Fastly’s technology, enabling an end-to-end solution for customers. Fastly gives businesses complete control over how they serve content, unprecedented access to real-time performance analytics, and the ability to cache frequently changing content at the edge. […]

March 14, 2016

Expway unveils FastLane CDN

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 […]

February 23, 2016

Ericsson establishes content distribution ecosystem

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 […]

February 22, 2016

Akamai Predictive Content Delivery solutions

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 […]

February 22, 2016

Broadpeak teams with NexStreaming

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 […]

February 22, 2016

Netflix cloud migration targets four 9s uptime

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 […]

February 12, 2016By Colin Mann

Viaccess-Orca launches cloud-based TV Everywhere

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 […]

January 28, 2016

Tata powers live OTT F1

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 […]

November 26, 2015

Anti-piracy VoD platform from Vision247

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 […]

November 24, 2015By Colin Mann

PLDT, Akamai partnership

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 […]

November 23, 2015