Over the last couple of months, Google and Microsoft have each officially launched new game streaming services. Each is still under development; however, tech advances within each project could ultimately impact regular video streaming as well as potentially changing the
Limelight Networks recently launched Limelight Realtime Video Streaming, an industry-first sub-second, globally scalable live video streaming solution that is supported by major browsers and devices. It also supports integrated realtime data, enabling the creation of interactive live online experiences that
Varnish Software, the caching software pioneer, now supports 100Gbit video delivery over TLS with the latest Varnish 6.0 release and Varnish Streaming Server. “With this breakthrough, Varnish 6.0 offers certified 100Gbit video delivery over TLS,” Varnish Software VP of Technology
Netflix recently released details of how it enables multi-cloud continuous delivery via the Spinnaker platform. The streaming giant uses it to deploy more than 95% of its infrastructure in AWS, comprised of hundreds of microservices and thousands of daily deployments.
Ericsson is soon set to make its Unified Delivery Network (UDN) an independent operating company, which will further leverage the computerized edge facilities of Tier 1 network service providers around the world to support “the functionalities essential to meeting the
A prototype developed by engineers at the University of Washington is able to stream HD video at 10K lower than current methods and without batteries. The new HD streaming method doesn’t need to be plugged in, which is useful as
In a recent Netflix blog by Chaitanya Ekanadham, Manager, Analytics and Data Science, Ekanadham explained some of the technical challenges the company faces and why machine learning and statistical models are helping them to overcome these challenges. Netflix currently has over
Wowza Media Systems is a leading streaming software, services and hardware company. It has 22,000 primary customers in over 170 countries and is growing by around 2,000 paid customers year-over-year. Wowza’s customers are wide-ranging, from SpaceX to local churches, from
Multi-national telecoms and networking company Ericsson announced recently that it is bringing 80 broadband service providers worldwide into its unified delivery network (UDN) platform partnership, introducing what it describes as a shared CDN. The investment is critical to the company’s
Varnish Software, a long-time leader in caching software and digital content delivery, recently unveiled a new package for streaming content, the Varnish Streaming Server. The Swedish-headquartered firm has been providing streaming solutions for a number of years to various global
Netflix recently introduced its new Dynamic Optimizer, which employs AI techniques to analyse each individual frame of a video in order to compress it as much as possible without diminishing the image quality. This new encoding method reduces the amount
Over the last year, Limelight Networks has been busy increasing efficiency and growing its global network. In fact, they increased server capacity by 50% and network capacity 39%, opened 12 new Points of Presence (PoPs), including three in India alone,
Online video has long been plagued by buffering and pixelation challenges, leading to consumer drop-off, decline of advertising revenue and posing technical headaches to streaming engineers. A neural network AI from MIT CSAIL emerged earlier this month aiming to provide smooth
We have just finished our second interview with the CEO of Red5, a pioneer in live streaming. As part of our ongoing discussion with Red5, we’re going to dive into their auto-scaling feature, which automatically scales server instances to accommodate
A few weeks ago, we posted an introduction to Red5, the live-streaming juggernaut that nobody’s talking about–but everybody should be. Red5 is the team of developers who reverse-engineered RTMP back in 2005, before Wowza was even formed. Over the past
