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
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
CDN Sales is tough, but its also fun. Every deal you close has a story behind it. Many years ago, CDN Sales were easier to close, since there were fewer CDNs. Akamai, Limelight and Internap were the rain makers back
Some people see Netflix as an HBO, Comcast or Lions Gate; in other words traditional entertainment. Others view Netflix as an Uber, WhatsApp, Airbnb or Facebook; an extremely disruptive business that has surpassed all imagination. Categorizing Netflix in the proper
Let’s ask the crazy question – Can Netflix surpass Comcast in market valuation in the next five years? First, let’s dive into a recent study by MTM, a London based consultancy catering to the who’s who in media. The study
Back in April 2014, Comcast Chief CDN Engineer, Jan van Doorn presented “Comcast CDN Architecture”. Comcast is likely the only Cable Operator in the world to have built its own CDN platform from scratch with open source software. Apache Traffic
Netflix and Amazon have a very complicated relationship. It’s a marriage of economic convenience, with lots of love and hate thrown in there. Jeff Bezos and Reed Hasting are the stuff of legends, but how long will this friendship last?
Wowza Media Sytems, based in Evergreen Colorado, was started in 2005 by David Stubenvoll and Charlie Good. In the beginning, Wowza started off as a video blog, but then the two co-founders saw an opportunity to develop a product for
