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seven years on from that, it has evolved into a very competitive and complex business. Many – including us now provide content media management, transcoding, stream-
solution overcomes the limitations of the network.” “Increasing the ability of the network is certainly a defining characteristic of CDN,” agrees Jaques Le Mancq, president and CEO
Service providers are under increasing competitive pressure to get content to the consumer across many devices with excellent QoE and comprehensive functionality. A provider can no longer be a passive carrier but must be an active intermediary and the CDN is central to the process.
ing and even payment handling. The ordinary transit business represents less and less as margins have been reduced. We now provide the complete capability to an operator to run their channels and on demand portals.” EFFICIENCY. George Mikeladze, business development director for Qarva, notes their business is about boosting QoE and efficiency over the network for OTT and IPTV services so they can compete with cable and other providers. “A big example of improved efficiency is to make the channel change time match that of broadcast. If people have to wait seconds for channel change that’s unattractive – we have reduced that to 0.2 seconds. Our of Broadpeak, “and scalability is a key attribute. With OTT the consumption rate is exploding, and the latest demonstration of that was the Olympics in London when the consumption ran as high as 700Gbs for live TV online; that’s 10 times higher than for Beijing in 2008.” Surely a factor working against efficiency in the network is the myriad of streaming formats? “For many of our customers we are facilitating the same content will delivered at least in four protocols and under each protocol with typically five bit rates, so that’s 20 streams of the same content. And for VOD we would typically have at least three file formats. We hope
he term Content Delivery Network seems to cover a pretty broad waterfront from self-service Internet provision to major, complex, enterprise solutions. When we gathered three CDN experts in London, we began asking them for some defining characteristics for the CDN. “In the beginning CDN just meant servers that provided streaming on the public Internet,” says Matt Vidmar, chairman and CTO of Vision247, “now, I would say about
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nanoCDN from Broadpeak
nanoCDN is a patented video delivery technology that leverages Broadband Gateways and Set-Top-Boxes to make them an extension of cable and telecom operators CDNs into their subscribers' home network. The first application revolutionises live TV OTT delivery by removing all the hurdles related to peak hour consumption: whatever the number of viewers, the same amount of bandwidth is used over the network. By using subscriber’s
home broadband gateways or STBs as part of the Content Delivery Network infrastructure, nanoCDN makes live OTT video delivery to any device truly scalable. Cable and telecom operators deploying nanoCDN technology leverage their subscriber’s home network to cost-effectively deliver high-quality, live OTT video services to millions of simultaneous viewers using only a few megabits per second from the operator’s network. nanoCDN provides operators with a unique differentiator with respect to traditional CDN players when it comes to deploying operatorCDN at the best cost. nanoCDN is a technology that relies on the usage of home network equipment as elements
of the CDN, allowing to leverage on these equipment resources to boost the video delivery capabilities of a CDN. www.broadpeak.tv
Qarva
Qarva technology represents unique and innovative software designed and developed to provide an immediate enhancement of an IPTV service or ecosystem and, as a result, improve viewer QoE. The dynamic expansion of the IPTV industry presents many
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