Archive for August, 2009
Let’s meet in Amsterdam, 11-15 September at the International Broadcasting Convention.
Our booth number is 3B.13 (Dutch Media Hub).
We have some meeting slots left on Friday August 11 and Monday August 14.
Feel free to claim a slot to meet us personally, discuss the CDN industry, and get a demo of our latest VDO-X CDN technology build!
Many years ago I had a bet that I could IRC from the beach in France. I placed my Palm and my Ericsson phone so the infra-red eyes could see each other. I dialed my ISP. 9600 Baud. I launched the IRC client and logged into my favorite channel. It was slow but fun. Until I got my phone bill…
So much has changed. Smart phones. 3G internet. Much better coverage. Great apps and services. Today I use an iPhone. These are my favorite vacation apps:
This summer we helped KPN to deploy their CDN. KPN has licensed our VideoExchange CDN software suite.
Like all telecom operators KPN has multiple strategical, technical and commercial reasons to deploy an on-net CDN.
Let’s start with some details about KPN for those who only know the US market players: Read more
2006. I was asked to demo H.264 HD content to a crowd of broadcasters, cable operators and telecom operators.
Cable companies had just broadcasted the 2006 world soccer games in High Def. It was the first public HD broadcast. MPEG-2 over DVB-C, 19Mbps. They had been able to ship around 10000 HD set top boxes. At that time, H.264 was not that known. The industry still thought they were going to broadcast HD in MPEG-2 at around 15-20Mbps. Read more
I get many questions whether CDN’s should be a horizontal or a vertical service.
I say horizontal. For a number or reasons:
StreamZilla introduced the CDN in a Box service. Wholesale CDN resellers want to offer white labelled services to their customers. They want to be able to provision their own customers.
The StreamZilla CDN in a Box service is powered by VDO-X, so all their customers have a market leading self-service cockpit to manage assets, live streams and statistics. The customers can use advanced, open standards based API’s to integrate and automate their workflow.
What makes the CDN in a Box service unique, is that the wholesale resellers get dedicated resources within the CDN.
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.