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Digital Rights Management (DRM) and Encrypted HLS are the most commonly used content protection technologies today. Both approaches have a strong track record in terms of securing proprietary content. However, content owners/providers that are focused on streaming media are  more likely to be interested in Encrypted HLS as it is simpler and less ex...

Over a period of roughly 3 years, Apple has taken a large percentage of its content delivery to its in-house CDN. It is using its own CDN for iTunes, iOS and OS X updates, music streaming, and a host of other assorted Apple content. Part of Apple’s reasoning for building its own CDN was because of performance issues with iCloud. In addition, Apple ...

This insight discusses the impact of digital learning services on education in North America. For this insight, Frost & Sullivan conducted a series of interviews with educators in North America, including primary and secondary school teachers, administrators and principals, and higher education faculty, heads of departments, and deans, to understan...

Akamai must formulate a viable strategy to succeed in an industry that is volatile with thin margins. The company has a commoditized service offering and deals with customers that compete against it. It is challenged both by cloud providers that have more scale and ways to make money, and by competitors that have distinct CapEx advantages. Akamai i...

This insight provides country-by-country subscriber data for DTT and forecasts for DTT equipment such as DTT-enabled set top boxes and IDTVs. It provides drivers and restraints for DTT vis-a-vis Pay TV and Internet TV alternatives. It also discusses relevant technical trends including compression formats and transmission standards.

Streaming media is not as tolerant of network delays as static content, primarily because the overriding qualification for streaming delivery is not download speed. Streaming media requires constant bandwidth availability and consistent connection reliability during transmission. There are several areas where providers of technologies and services ...

Cisco and Ericsson formed a partnership in 2015 as a decisive countermeasure to the significant threat posed by the merger of services giant Alcatel-Lucent with equipment vendor Nokia. Through this unique partnership, the two companies also aim to capture the immense revenue potential offered by service providers aggressively modernizing their bro...

The objective of this insight is to analyze growth opportunities in the virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) market, explore existing challenges in the market landscape, and present an overview the value proposition using Oracles Sun VDI product portfolio as an example to illustrate the points made in this paper.

This insight discusses the benefits of FEO services, how it can help in solving some of the Website efficiency challenges and the restraints in adoption. It also highlights who offer FEO services and how it is a logical value-addition to CDNs today.