Hardware May Fix the OTT Infrastructure Challenge Rather Than Better Video Compression

Description

New offerings in the market by companies such as Hellastorm have the potential to change the way video is distributed. Their solution in particular takes the core functionality of an entire streaming video server and implemented it on a chip the company calls the “Stream Processing Unit”, which eliminates software layers from the data path. The result is that they can offload the heavy lifting of the streaming video workload, thereby freeing up valuable CPU resources to improve the performance of other tasks, dramatically increasing streaming video performance.