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Compared to a decade ago, the B2B sales landscape has dramatically changed and many industries are feeling the heat. Physical presence has transformed to digital, and many businesses are closely examining their own online presence and systems in addition to capabilities of competitors and future business partners. Traditionally, the B2B procurement...

4K and HEVC are exciting and the direction the market is headed towards, until AV1 takes their place. However, vendors, content owners and the media need to have realistic expectations of what is possible with 4K streaming and utilize accurate estimates when it comes to bitrates, costs, efficiencies, and Internet speeds. Based on the HEVC testing t...

IP networking is the future of broadcast plants. In contrast with traditional SDI cabling, IP offers significant benefits of scale, flexibility, and economy. However, the transition of live broadcast workflows to IP has been slow. Hurdles include cost, uncertainty regarding reliability, lack of trained personnel to install and maintain these networ...

Given how popular OTT services are, it isn’t immediately apparent how OTT providers are actually going to make money and become profitable. For years, it was assumed that the key to the success of any OTT business was simply to get enough scale and subscribers to cover the costs of licensing and distributing content. While there are a lot of choice...

With customers having so many different CDNs to choose from, both regionally and globally, and the ease of use of switching between multi-CDN vendors, media delivery simply isn’t a sticky product. Media delivery pricing continue to fall and since CDNs are not able to make up for the lower price based on additional traffic volume on a consistent bas...

CenturyLink’s acquisition is motivated by improving the performance for viewers of live events and day/date content releases to reduce buffering and failed starts during peak hours and catch up TV. Streamroot leverages a software-based mesh network and a deterministic data science methodology, providing device awareness to ensure that consumers hav...

Most large broadcasters and OTT services have deployed multi-CDN solutions to improve the end-user experience for video. There have been many instances where a multi-CDN strategy was a key component in the overall OTT workflow.There are a lot of different ways to implement a multi-CDN strategy and much of it is dependent on how much the customer wa...

Reducing video rebuffering can be difficult. Going multi-CDN can provide several benefits for customers, such as better geographic coverage and, possibly, better economics. Adding live switching logic between the CDNs goes a step further and enables load balancing and redundancy in case of problems. Different layers of redundancy and different leve...

Fastly has the potential to become a $500M company in 3 years and hit $1.5B in revenue within 10 years, while also increasing margins in the 70% range. All of the market trends and data points to a big growth opportunity for companies like Fastly over the next few years as more customers demand greater flexibility and better performance across thei...