All content delivery articles
-
Technical PapersIBC2023 Technical Paper Sessions: Streaming - improving delivery efficiency
Multicast has promised to solve the scale issue of delivering very popular television over the internet for a long time. In this session, speakers will present the first paper from BT Research, both a proof-of-concept architecture and field trial results are presented for a means to assist unicast delivery using ...
-
-
Daily News
Inside the IBC Accelerator exploring the success of future streaming services
Challenges that will shape the success of future streaming services and ultimately increase user engagement are the pain points targeted by one of eight collaborative projects in this year’s IBC Accelerator Innovation Programme.
-
Daily News
TAG Content Matching adds confidence to monitoring
A Content Matching technology set to be on show from TAG is claimed to be its most ground-breaking yet.
-
Daily News
Velocix to unveil hybrid-cloud CDN at IBC2023
Content delivery, origin and storage, and stream personalisation software provider Velocix is showcasing its newest hybrid-cloud CDN application, which the company says enables video service providers to combine elastic, cloud delivery with ultra-cost-efficient, on-premises streaming.
-
Industry Trends
Moving from LTO to Cloud – the Media Business Case
The increasing volume of digital content and the need to derive additional revenue from it has resulted in a shift in perspectives around storage strategies, as John Maxwell Hobbs reports.
-
Industry Trends
The Future of OTT Business Models: Localisation and Personalisation
The death of terrestrial TV has been a repeated topic of discussion ever since the first streaming services gained popularity. But how true is it today? Andrew Williams gets to grips with the reality…
-
Daily News
Varnish Software unveils MSE 4
Caching, streaming and content delivery software specialist Varnish Software unveiled Massive Storage Engine (MSE) 4, its latest solution for storing and managing cached objects and their metadata, and the latest addition to Varnish Enterprise 6.
-
Daily News
Qwilt partners with Telefónica to provide content delivery services in Spain
Telefónica, through its Telefónica Soluciones area, and North American company Qwilt reached an agreement to implement a content distribution system based on the union of both companies’ technologies.
-
Industry Trends
The benefits and challenges of cloud playout
Playout is the technology used in broadcasting to effectively transmit media content to target audiences. It has been gradually moving to the cloud for a number of years, as notably illustrated by Discovery Communications in 2018 when it moved playout of 300 channels to the cloud using technology from Amazon ...
-
-
Daily News
STC’s Intigral selects ThinkAnalytics for streaming services
Intigral, the media arm of Saudi Telecom Company (STC), is using ThinkAnalytics’ Think360 personalised content discovery and viewer engagement platform for its stc tv and Jawwy TV streaming services.
-
Daily News
Austria’s ORF implements Bitmovin Player
Austria’s public broadcaster ORF has implemented the Bitmovin Player to allow it to stream content across a broad range of device types.
-
Daily News
LTN appoints VP of business development for EMEA
Media technology specialist LTN appointed Justine Gardner as its new VP of business development for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA).
-
Daily News
3SS partners with Telus for Android TV service
Set-top box (STB) software provider 3 Screen Solutions (3SS) partnered with Canadian telco Telus to launch a next-generation entertainment service based on the Android TV operating system (OS).
-
Daily News
World Cup Qatar 2022 provides boost to pay-TV traffic
Pay-TV providers experienced unprecedented traffic demand on their video networks, driven by strong consumer interest in the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 according to content delivery software and service provider Velocix.
-
Daily News
Velocix appoints new CEO
Content delivery software provider Velocix has announced the promotion of Jim Brickmeier to CEO.
-
Daily News
Deutsche Telekom picks Comcast for Magenta TV
Comcast Technology Solutions announced that its Cloud TV Suite is being deployed by Deutsche Telekom to support the telco’s Magenta TV platform in selected markets.
-
Daily News
Synamedia buys Utelly
Video software provider Synamedia has acquired Utelly for an undisclosed sum, gaining a UK-based content discovery platform provider with products targeted at the entertainment industry.
-
Industry Trends
Evolving CDN strategies to satisfy the “content consumption boom”
Increased investment in content delivery, including multi-CDNs and open caching, remains among the most noticeable of all broadcast industry trends.
