The EU streaming market
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
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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
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
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 want to thank the people behind the CDN Strategies Summit and Streaming Media Europe for both London shows last week. It is good to see that business is growing and that the industry is professionalizing and that everyone is focussing on their own core. It is also very good to hear that the telco industry agrees on the views that I have been advocating in the past years, from both a strategic and technical point of view. We had a great (but extremely busy) week with many new opportunities and many new potential partnerships for CDN deployments and streaming services.
Thanks to you all for the great time too: it was good to catch up with everyone and the atmosphere was great: we had a lot of fun, besides the business, which is important as well. I also want to thank everyone for the compliments on this blog!
We need time in the next weeks to work on the current CDN projects and we have to setup many meetings to discuss he new opportunities and partnerships. We’re also growing fast, so we need some time to get our new staff members up and running. I will try to write some articles about the two most important issues that were discussed on CDN Strategies Summit (CDN standardization) and SME (cooperation in the EU market). I have published some articles on this blog that more or less cover these topics, so check the older articles.
Oh and: congratulations to the Readers’ Choice winners of 2009: we won last year and it is a great boost. Speak to you soon.
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
I am proud to announce Mark de Jong as our new international business developer.
In the past twelve months, Jet Stream has done a lot of new business:
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
Sometimes I am asked to give guest lectures at universities. Today, many universities have creative media or new media oriented study programs. Read more