Soccer dip
An interesting traffic pattern on the Amsterdam Internet Exchange during the live webcast of the year: the World Soccer game between NL and DK. Instead of a traffic spike, overall traffic was lower. A dip! (updated chart)
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An interesting traffic pattern on the Amsterdam Internet Exchange during the live webcast of the year: the World Soccer game between NL and DK. Instead of a traffic spike, overall traffic was lower. A dip! (updated chart)
Many companies are investing in online content services. YouTube, Hulu, broadcasters, publishers. These companies build business cases on the boom of online video: advertisement models, subscription models and pay-per-view models. Their business cases depend on scalability and performance of the internet, both broadband and mobile.
Internet vs cable
Cable operators offer good quality and quality of service, but their limited number of channels and titles can never compete with the vast number of internet channels and billions of online videos. Consumers don’t want to be locked into a package anymore. They want to pull content. Subscribers want to be in control. The internet is open and therefore the distribution infrastructure of today and the future. Digital television operators who ignore this fact will face a very difficult future.
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
The term CDN is not well-defined. It covers many solutions and applications to geo-optimize delivery.
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
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 :-)
Today I was at the Network Neutrality Workshop, organized by the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs. I was 45 minutes late because of the traffic jams…
We had a Net Neutrality discussion a few years back (I was in the panel) and the conclusions were that there were no real net neutrality issues but that the telcos should be more transparent.
No new developments today. There were some presentations, but no real debate. Because Net Neutrality isn’t really an issue.
I liked the presentation of Dialogic. The Minister of Foreign Trade held a speech…