While the overall LCD TV market has reached a certain level of maturity and has been experiencing shipment declines in many regions, the emergence of 4K TVs is driving demand in developed markets as well as price-sensitive countries like China. Unit shipment for the global smart TVs market is expected to increase from 193.7 million in 2017 to 249.9...

Tablets are a category of mobile devices that provide advanced capabilities on a larger (6"+) screen, but do not have traditional integrated phone functionality. Tablets run complete operating system software that provide a standardized interface and platform for application developers. Global tablet device unit shipments reached 172 million, a sli...

Set-top box vendors are focused on supporting devices that enable seamless rendering of high-quality video on a powerful user interface. The global set-top box market crossed 300.8 million in unit shipments in 2017 and is expected to grow to 359.2 million units, recording a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 3.6% (2017–2022). The ongoing analo...

Worldwide PC shipments have been sharply declining over the last 4-5 years. This is due to a combination of factors including market saturation; extended replacement cycles; economic instability in emerging markets; and competition from other consumer devices like smartphones and phablets. The unit shipments for the global PC market is expected to ...

The European Over-the-top (OTT) video executive brief captures the key market highlights of the OTT video services market in Europe over the last quarter, based on Frost & Sullivan’s industry tracker. It gives an insight into the market scenario and growth prospects for key market participants and new entrants and the impact of triple-play and qu...

The potential use cases for enterprise streaming are vast, with applications such as executive presentations, all-hands employee meetings and townhalls, HR benefits presentations, employee exit interviews, and marketing product launches. However, enterprise streaming is harder than it looks, especially for those just getting started. As companies n...

Many CDNs focus on overall cache hit rate because they do not encourage their users to cache HTML. Although a 90% cache hit rate sounds high, it is not the case when it is taken into account that the most compute-intensive 10% of elements are not cached. Developers can understand their caching and optimize it effectively only when the cache hit rat...

Web performance had always been the stand-out product with high margins, although pricing is eroding for that service. It is not expected to drop as steeply as the media segment in the pricing declines, but web performance services are no longer a moat around any CDN’s core business. The bottom line is that the web performance market is starting ...

The partnership between Limelight Networks and Qwilt is meaningful as it marks the first public announcement of an operational integration between a commercial CDN and open caching systems deployed in last mile networks. The growing maturity of open caching is further evidence of industry progress to address the reach, scale, and quality needed to ...