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Broadpeak takes the CDN further into the home

From www.v-net.tv - February 27, 2014 8:26 AM

As we reported previously, the Broadpeak solution introduces very lightweight clients into the home router/gateway and these intercept the unicast stream requests made by a tablet or smartphone to an origin server. The client looks for a multicast stream of the linear content instead. The platform operator works with a content owner to make the most popular channels available in multicast, perhaps during peak times or for popular shows or live sports, or even 24/7. The nanoCDN client receives this multicast stream instead, then converts it to unicast ABR (adaptive bit rate) inside the home so it can be watched on the multiscreen devices without any changes to their apps.

By replacing multiple unicast streams with a single multicast stream in the broadband network, nanoCDN reduces the bandwidth demands for linear/live video. nanoCDN is pioneering because of the way it harnesses multicast within a CDN environment and because it makes in-home devices an extension of the CDN.

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Nitin Narang's comment, March 2, 2014 9:07 AM

interesting read.. Thanks

Nitin Narang's curator insight, March 2, 2014 9:07 AM

Role of nanoCDN to bring IPTV like service to OTT world..

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Akamai gives new clues to the future of Internet video delivery

From www.v-net.tv - January 30, 2014 5:23 PM

Akamai has been providing a number of clues about how the company intends to dramatically increase the performance of the Internet for video streaming to support Ultra HD and ultimately match the scale and quality of broadcast TV. One big clue could be found on the Qualcomm stand at International CES 2014 when that company’s subsidiary, Qualcomm Atheros, was demonstrating its IPQ home gateway. Among other things this included a proof-of-concept client software from Akamai that is designed to optimize the delivery and pre-positioning of content like video and software.

The client software is not a product yet but Akamai is certainly talking as if it will be. Kris Alexander, Chief Strategist, Connected Devices & Gaming at Akamai, says, “The demo offers a glimpse into the future of the Akamai platform as we explore ways to move beyond the edge and onto devices of many types – not only gateways but game consoles, set-top-boxes, Blu-ray players, connected TVs and more.”

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nanoCDN could change live multi-screen economics

From www.v-net.tv - January 25, 2013 12:25 AM

Broadpeak’s nanoCDN solution will be launched commercially early this year, giving telcos and cable operators the opportunity to reduce bandwidth consumption and simultaneously increase the QoE for customers watching live streaming video on multiscreen devices. This product has the potential to change the economics of streaming but until now there have been only limited details available about how it works and what it can achieve. Broadpeak has just started releasing more details.

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Multicast nanoCDN might redefine streaming economics

From www.v-net.tv - November 9, 2012 12:14 PM

Broadpeak was demonstrating its nanoCDN technology at the OTT TV World Summit this week, outlining how the innovative solution can dramatically reduce bandwidth requirements and also reduce costs for streaming video. The use of multicast, rather than unicast, for the streaming is at the heart of the solution. Broadband service providers with multicast networks (like telcos where they have a classic IPTV footprint) can harness this approach.

A video stream is duplicated (multicast) within the local CDN and client software on the home gateway is then used to convert a multicast stream back to unicast. This means that once in the home, there is no change to how the video is delivered from the gateway to the various multi-screen devices, whether these are laptops, tablets or mobile phones.

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Sports still drives new distribution models

From www.v-net.tv - October 4, 2012 7:20 AM

Sporting events have long driven innovation in video distribution. It was boxing in the mid-70s (e.g. “The Thrilla’ in Manila”) that introduced large-scale satellite video transmission to the Pay TV industry. More recently, the 2008 Olympics in China was the occasion for the first highly scaled use of adaptive bit rate (ABR) streaming.

Epic TV, owned by Nordic communications service provider Elisa, is an example of the latter. As recently announced, Elisa has built out a 15-country CDN with help of Edgeware to bring its online mix of premium adventure sports video to the European market. What has not been reported is Elisa’s partnership with a global CDN provider to reach even further afield. “We do work with Epic TV,” said Jason Thibeault, Senior Director at Limelight Networks.

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The new frontiers of OTT delivery: Multicast, P2P & Hybrid

From blog.eltrovemo.com - February 2, 2014 1:29 PM

4K streaming, mobile broadcasting for the crowd, generalized delinearization, worldwide video events…

OTT delivery is just multiplying the challenges, as customers’ expectations are raising each day in terms of video fast-start, instant channel switching, lack of buffer and high frame size/rate – on all devices in all network conditions. To answer those challenges, OTT delivery answer today is basically more unicast sessions, more servers, more peering – and less and less guarantee of satisfying end-user experience as long as there is no specific end-to-end paid agreement to guarantee that the path will be provisioned from the origin server up to the video device. Even in this ideal scheme, the device might still suffer from poor wireless conditions which jeopardize the experience. So, how do we deal with all this stack of potential problems: do we stick to the aging receipts, rely blindly on Moore’s law and perpetuate a hopeless CDN weapons race? Or do we try to find smarter ways to make the OTT growth reach a sustainable delivery model ?

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Les nouvelles frontières de la diffusion OTT : Multicast & P2P [Conférence OVFSquad]

From ovfsquad.fr - January 28, 2014 2:51 PM

Avec le passage au full HD et bientôt à la 4K de a diffusion OTT, le modèle de distribution unicast montre ses limites. La course à l’armement des CDNs dans le déploiement de baies de serveurs et la multiplication des points de peering n’est pas scalable à l’infini, et pourtant le traffic vidéo ne cesse d’augmenter de manière exponentielle, y compris – et surtout – sur les terminaux mobiles. La recherche de modèles de distribution OTT complémentaires avec le multicast est donc une priorité pour continuer d’assurer la qualité de l’expérience utilisateur et optimiser les coûts de diffusion. Les regards se tournent de plus en plus vers le transport multicast qui a fait le succès de l’IPTV, ainsi que le Peer-to-Peer qui, malgré sa réputation sulfureuse, a déjà fait ses preuves pour la diffusion de chaines live OTT à très grande échelle.

Pour tout savoir du multicast et du P2P, et apprendre des retours d’expérience et de recherche des membres de la Squad qui travaillent sur ces systèmes hybrides, OVFSquad organisait le 23 janvier 2014 une soirée spéciale de présentations (aka « Conférensquad ») dont voici le compte-rendu et les présentations.

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Octoshape and Juniper Networks Collaborate For TV Quality Broadband Video Distribution Using Multicast [PR]

From www.octoshape.com - December 5, 2012 6:06 AM

Octoshape, an industry leader in cloud-based streaming technology, has developed an integrated technology showcase with Juniper Networks to provide a foundation for Broadband TV with the scale, quality and cost efficiency of broadcast TV. The showcase is being hosted from Juniper Networks New Jersey-based OpenLab, the Junos® Center for Innovation, which facilitates a collaborative environment for Juniper’s customers, partners and academia to learn about and develop new network integrated software applications.

The showcase integrates Octoshape’s Infinite HD-M Federated Multicast platform with Juniper Networks® MX Series 3D Universal Edge Routers for both Native Multicast, and Automatic Multicast Tunneling (AMT). The HD-M solution for high definition Internet video has been in production since April 2012, and now utilizes the first commercially available AMT relay from Juniper.

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SoftAtHome Operating Platform pre-integrated with Broadpeak nanoCDN

From www.v-net.tv - October 27, 2012 4:07 AM

A collaboration will combine Broadpeak’s nanoCDN with SoftAtHome’s convergent services home operating platforms. The result is that operators can cost-effectively deliver high-quality live OTT video services to millions of simultaneous viewers, consuming only a few megabits per second on the operator’s network, the companies say.

SoftAtHome announced its latest software release SOP5 during IBC2012. SOP5 takes SoftAtHome’s segmented software solutions further in enabling the managed IPTV and OTT adaptive streaming technologies gateway box (gBox) and IP set-top box (ipBox) to be used together. “Operators can now use their traditional IPTV back-end or rely on a unique TV back-end to address retail and managed devices,” the companies explain. These two products have now been pre-integrated.

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Octoshape launches multicast service over broadband

From www.rapidtvnews.com - June 8, 2012 5:34 PM

Octoshape, a company involved with cloud-based global streaming technologies, has launched a service offering deployment of multicast over broadband for high quality linear video delivery using its unique Infinite HD-M technology.

The Infinite HD-M service was developed from a proof of concept where the company powered the First Global Internet Multicast Event.

Infinite HD-M leverages and enhances industry-standard multicast infrastructure, allowing carriers and operators to utilize existing hardware and capital deployments instead of investing in new proprietary content distribution platforms. This new service enables the most predictable, affordable, and scalable prices for linear broadcasters by being the first technology to enable reliable multicast over best effort networks combined with a pricing model that is easy and simple to understand.

SEE SERVICE PAGE : http://octoshape.com/?page=services/infinitehdm

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