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
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…
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
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
Although I am not a chauvinist, I want to share some insights about the Netherlands and why Dutch companies are influential, even though we are a tiny country.
Dutch people speak two, three, sometimes four or even five languages. We are a very open society and we have always been internationally oriented, both culturally and trade-wise. We are are open to do business with anyone. As long as you pay :-)
We tend do do things lean and mean: innovative, efficient to the bone, so we can be competitive, even though salaries and taxes are higher than in most other countries.
We happen to sit on top op the world’s largest internet hub: the Amsterdam Internet Exchange. Many gigabits per second of global Internet traffic flow through the Netherlands.
Telecom operators have a four-way strategy to own an on-net CDN. On-net CDNs offer deeper network penetration with better QoS and larger capacity. The CDNs that we deploy support all popular delivery technologies for the web, mobile and IPTV. This means that the telecom operators can:
External CDNs could only have addressed number 3 in this list. Read more