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Yesterday I pitched logistics to the ±200 people audience of Online Tuesday in Amsterdam, in less than 5 minutes.
I used crowdsourcing to demonstrate the limited capacity of mobile networks. I wanted to demonstrate how easy it is to disrupt a mobile network. It -uhm- worked. Sorry! :) The 5 min video is available below.
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.
Back in 1993 when I started experimenting with video on the web, there were a number of available video formats: MPEG, AVI and QuickTime. These codecs were optimized for NTSC/PAL encoding and playback from hard drives and CD’s. But they were horrible for the (dial-up) web. Way too large.
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