I will attend the IPTV World Forum in London, on March 23 and 24. Let’s meet to discuss the future of CDNs for IPTV, OTT, mobile and web.
We are joining Edgeware at their booth (#115), come over for a demo! You can register here for free: http://secure.eventadv.com/iptv/step1.aspx
Looking forward to meet you there. Please send an email to my office make an appointment on March 23 or 24.
The number of deployed CDNs within telcos and hosting providers is growing fast. We have deployed a lot of CDNs in the past year, and there is a waiting list for deployments for this year. The need for connecting CDNs together is growing. This post gives more details about our inter-CDN / CDN federation standards and the pilots we do in this area. Read more
Jet Stream and IBM have formed a partnership to work together in CDN projects. Jet Stream was contacted by IBM about 9 months ago to learn more about our CDN technologies… Read more
The term CDN is not well-defined. It covers many solutions and applications to geo-optimize delivery.
Wanted: CDN engineer
Are you a senior engineer? Do you have a proven track record in PHP development, MySQL tuning and scalable software architectures? Do you have a background in IPTV or streaming media technologies? Read more
We just deployed a beta version of an upcoming VDO-X release on our public test platform. The most important new features are: Read more
The StreamZilla online store was updated to reflect the new 2010 pricing for premium streaming services.
Ttime for a quick look back on 2009. This was an important year for Jet Stream, VDO-X and StreamZilla:
Telecom operators have a four-way strategy to own an on-net CDN. On-net CDNs offer deeper network penetration with better QoS and larger capacity. The CDNs that we deploy support all popular delivery technologies for the web, mobile and IPTV. This means that the telecom operators can:
External CDNs could only have addressed number 3 in this list. Read more
U.S. based CDN’s often tend to think that they can enter the European market by having an office in London, Paris or Amsterdam.
Although there is a European Union, without borders, with free economics and a single currency, there is no single market like there is in the U.S.A.
There are over 25 countries and even more languages in Europe. You will encounter cultural and language barriers. Opening an office in London also means a geographical barrier.
The CDN industry is still very young. It is an immature industry. Technology is advancing. New players enter the market and existing players keep changing their proposition. They are in trouble.
Lack of focus is killing. I’ve been around 15 years in this industry and I have seen so many companies come and go. Their problem was lack of focus.
By patching their networks together, many small and large network operators around the world have built a global virtual network: the Internet. It offers open and global access to any server and service in any connected network. The open and neutral character is what made the Internet the next big thing in humanity. So it is important to keep it open and neutral. And it is important to keep it running.
Iin the past few years, there has been discussion about Net Neutrality. Are ISPs allowed to block services? No? What about spam? Are ISPs allowed to shape traffic? No? Not even if a small number of subscribers can take their entire network down? Are ISP’s allowed to rent network resources to service providers so they can accelerate specific services?
In the USA, the Net Neutrality discussion is very polarized: either you are ‘freedom fighter’ who want laws to make sure that no single bit is discriminated or accelerated, or you are against government involvement and want the TelCos to be able to tune their network.
In Europe, we have a different view… Read more
About twelve years ago – by lack of available CDNs and CDN technology – we had to develop our own basic CDN technologies, to be able to produce our large-scale webcasts for pop festivals, events, enterprises and governments.
Our requirements back then (1996/1997) were quite simple: Read more
London, October 16 2009 - One new CDN per month
Telcos and hosting providers move into the CDN market, powered by Dutch CDN technology
Jet Stream BV, CDN technologies market leader, announced on the Streaming Media Europe show in London that it has licensed and deployed eight CDNs since the latest release of their VideoExchange CDN software suite was launched in March 2009. This announcement was made exactly a year after the software was previewed on the very same show in 2008. Read more
I have been advocating cooperation between CDNs, telcos and content owners for many years.
CDN interoperability pilot
I am pleased to announce that we are formally starting a project in the Netherlands with the NPO (Dutch Public Broadcaster, best compared to the BBC), KPN (tier-1 Telco) and SURFnet (academic ISP). Read more
So there is no European market. So how do streaming providers make a living if the market is so scattered and diffuse? What are the opportunities and threats? Read more
The StreamZilla infrastructure page just got a refresh to reflect the current infrastructure status. The network is now connected to 17 Internet Exchanges throughout Europe and to the New York… Read more
On November 4 2009, we celebrate that it was exactly 15 years ago that I produced my first webcast, and probably the first one in Europe…
Personal frustration: Some U.S. based analysts and writers tend to ignore companies that are not active on the U.S. market:
Of the 22.5 billion professional video views served during 2009, Read more
Last week I attended Streaming Media West in San Jose. The show is a bit larger than the European show. Some impressions:
Last week, Deloitte published the EMEA 500: the fastest growing tech companies in Europe, Middle-East and Africa.
Jet Stream ranked #88 with 1823% growth in 5 years. Not bad :-)
The term ‘CDN’ is pretty broad and undefined. So there is a lot of misunderstanding on what a CDN actually is, what it does, what it can be used for, what the core features are, what a CDN should not do and where it is logically placed between the physical network and the content owners.
This document used to be covered under NDA, but I thought it would be informative to share our visions about how to design a CDN technology from the ground up. I get a lot of positive feedback when I present this, so this post is to help you understand our approach on logical CDN layering and hopefully it helps you not to make the design mistakes I have seen in other CDN projects.
This is one of the core IPR parts of our VideoExchange CDN solution. It is a reflection of our +10 years experience in designing, deploying and operating CDNs. There is some pretty unique stuff in here, which has helped us deploy many CDNs in the past years, and has helped our customers enter the CDN market much faster than anyone else… Now don’t copy this, it’s protected stuff and we don’t want to spend money on lawyers. Just license it :-)
As a CDN, we have access to detailed statistics that give us a great insight in trends in streaming media. But the stats aren’t ours, they are our customers’. So we can’t share them.
Therefore, traditionally, StreamZilla publishes a fireplace stream during the winter months on www.fireplacetv.nl. These streams are watched by ten thousands international viewers and generate many terabytes traffic.
Every year we publish a small report to update our relations on the trends in streaming media: Read more