Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category:
CDN federation, standards
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 »
IBM partnership, IBM CDN
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 »
CDN variations
The term CDN is not well-defined. It covers many solutions and applications to geo-optimize delivery.
VDO-X new release…
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 »
2009, 2010
Ttime for a quick look back on 2009. This was an important year for Jet Stream, VDO-X and StreamZilla:
Logical CDN Layering
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 :-)
Modern CDN requirements
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 »
Edgeware support in VideoExchange
Today we announce support for Edgeware appliances in our VideoExchange CDN software suite. This helps telecom operators further densify their CDN infastructure. Edgeware can burst 20Gbps capacity out of a single 1U solid state rackserver. Read more »