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D-Smart chooses Broadpeak

Broadpeak, a provider of content delivery network (CDN) technologies, has revealed that Turkish DTH provider D-Smart has deployed Broadpeak’s umbrellaCDN solution to support its OTT service offering. Using Broadpeak’s CDN selection tool, D-Smart can offload traffic to third-party CDNs in order to address peaks in live video consumption. By allowing D-Smart to manage many simultaneous […]

June 23, 2015

Peer5 ‘makes 1 server equal 20’

Peer5 has launched what it claims is the first WebRTC based Live CDN that enables scalable, cost effective live video streaming for video publishers. Live streaming video is exploding, but the underlying technology has not caught up yet. This situation has created a suboptimal user experience and increased costs for the content providers. The new […]

June 18, 2015

Irdeto secures Media Broadcast content delivery

Multiscreen, revenue assurance and media protection specialist Irdeto has confirmed a new deployment with Media Broadcast, Germany’s largest full-service provider for the broadcast and media industry. The Irdeto Integrated Management System, an essential pillar of the company’s end-to-end security offering, provides a hybrid platform which allows Media Broadcast easily to manage content security services across […]

June 10, 2015Colin Mann @ ANGA COM

Irdeto multiscreen for Genflix

Irdeto has announced that PT Mega Media Indonesia Group, owner of satellite pay-TV service, Orange TV, has selected Irdeto’s end-to-end Multiscreen services to support the launch of Genflix, Indonesia’s first-ever commercial OTT content delivery service. Genflix, also under PT Mega Media Indonesia Group, was established in September 2013 as the first OTT service in the […]

June 2, 2015

Level 3 and Optus CDN collaboration across Australia

Level 3 Communications  and Optus Wholesale and Satellite today announced that Level 3 is providing deep-edge caching services that will enable Optus to locally cache high-demand content on its network. The agreement gives Optus quicker access to content, while growing Level 3’s content delivery network (CDN) capacity in Australia by 300 per cent. The demand […]

June 2, 2015

Akamai, China Unicom cloud services partnership

Akamai Technologies, a global player in Content Delivery Network (CDN) services, has formed a strategic partnership agreement with China Unicom’s cloud division – CU Cloud. CU Cloud is one of the largest cloud computing service providers in China. As part of the strategic partnership, CU Cloud has agreed to complement its own Cloud services for […]

May 27, 2015

Norigin launches Cloudncoder.com

Scandinavian company Norigin Media has launched Cloudncoder.com, a platform for capturing, encoding and hosted Origin-server services for linear TV. The private cloud is launched with a pay-as-you-go business model to make online live-TV management affordable. Cloudncoder.com is a live-TV capture and transcoding platform, which is offered to broadcasting companies, news agencies, ad agencies, live content producers […]

May 18, 2015

ARRIS, Akamai advance IP video delivery

ARRIS Group has revealed will offer Akamai Technologies’ Aura Licensed Content Delivery Network (LCDN) as part of its end-to-end IP video portfolio. ARRIS will integrate Akamai’s LCDN and Aura Object Store into its IP video solutions – such as the ARRIS M3 Media Server, Spectrum CPC, and nDVR – to give operators a variety of […]

April 29, 2015Colin Mann @ TV Connect

Software-defined video market $10bn by 2018

Elemental Technologies, a supplier of software-defined video solutions for multiscreen content delivery, has announced that Gartner, the information technology research and advisory company, has issued its report Emerging Technology Analysis: Cloud-Based Solutions Change Video Delivery for CSPs and MSOs Globally. According to Gartner, “by 2018, at least 25 per cent (or over $10 billion) is forecast […]

April 29, 2015

Comigo partners with Broadpeak

Comigo, a multiscreen TV platforms, and Broadpeak, a CDN technology provider, have unveiled an integrated solution that allows IPTV operators to deliver live TV services to TV screens, mobile devices, smartphones, and tablets, in addition to personalised content, advanced social capabilities, and content-related interactive apps. Using the integrated solution that combines Comigo’s Android-based STB solution […]

April 29, 2015Colin Mann @ TV Connect