This Tuesday (on January 31, 2012), VBrick Systems, the leading provider of IP video solutions for enterprises, announced the launch of a Video Conference Streaming Gateway module, which will integrate with its H.264 Distributed Media Engine (DME) and allow customers to connect tens of thousands of viewers in video conferences.
The current video conferencing technology works using various different streaming technologies, but this new solution is aimed at unifying the content delivery and format management by leveraging VBrick’s technology and infrastructure and allowing the content to be streamed to PCs, laptops, tablet devices and smart phones across multiple sites. Making use of VBrick Enterprise Video Architecture (VEVA), the system provides a centralized, cost-effective and optimized way of streaming and managing huge video conferencing events.
VBrick Systems had unveiled this solution at the ISE show in Amsterdam and the Company mentioned that the solution had already been tested with a variety of SIP-compliant video conferencing products from leading providers like Cisco Tandberg, Polycom, Avaya, LifeSize and Radvision among others.
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Created at February 2nd, 2012 in New Technology Announcements |
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Recently, Verizon, one of the leading providers of bundled solutions like wireless devices, TV, Internet and businesses, announced that it is working on a streaming video content delivery solution and video advertising platform for its customers. The solution is actually a Verizon-powered Content Delivery Network aimed at the enterprise customers of Verizon.
The Verizon platform supports true unicast delivery, with support for multiple screens, multiple networks and diverse devices. The system also makes use of adaptive technology and comes with various monetizing options so the customers can make use of the advertising solutions for their content. Apart from this, Verizon also mentioned that the new platform would allow its customers to have unmatched scalability and the wide array of analytics will also provide them with ability to make better marketing decisions.
The Company also leverages its internal backbone that has a capacity between 40-100 Gbps, has deployed 30 data centers around the globe, owing to which its customers can stream and manage data at extremely fast speeds.
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Created at January 20th, 2012 in Funding and Expansion |
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Yesterday (on January 18, 2012), StreamGuys, one of the leading providers of Content Delivery Networks and media streaming solutions, announced that it will be collaborating with Haivision Network Video, one of the leaders in live vide transcoding, to provide an end-to-end live video asset management offering to their joint customers.
Owing to this strategic partnership, StreamGuys will leverage the cloud-based and server-based live transcoding capabities of Haivision’s KulaByte solution to obtain video content of various bitrates for all leading protocols including the HTTP Live Streaming (HLS), Smooth Streaming and RTMP and RTSP among others. These will then be fed to the virtualized adaptive bitrate streaming service supported by StreamGuys to ensure that the visitors of their clients obtain the best suited stream based on their bandwidth on the device of their choice.
Both the Companies mentioned that they were happy with the strategic alliance and explained that the collaborative offering would be extremely useful to clients, both small and big, to meet their live streaming needs.
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Created at January 19th, 2012 in Agreements and Collaborations |
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Today (on January 19, 2012), Jet-Stream, one of the leading providers of next-generation Content Delivery Network (CDN) solutions and Xstream, one of the leading providers of streaming services and over-the-top video delivery platform, announced a strategic partnership to improve the offerings that the Companies offer to their global clients.
The partnership is expected to be symbiotic and Jet-Stream will leverage the MediaMaker, online video platform of Xstream for delivering streamed media on its Content Delivery Network. Similarly, the Xstream clients will be benefited by the innovative solutions, intelligent CDN technology and global network of Jet-Stream for faster and more reliable delivery of their content. The scalability and increased reach of the combined solutions is expected to help both the Companies in creating more value addition to their clients.
At their end, both Xstream and Jet-Stream mentioned that they were happy with this development and that the strategic alliance will help both Companies to reach mutual customers and also expand their reach into newer markets.
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Created at January 19th, 2012 in Agreements and Collaborations |
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This Thursday (on January 12, 2012), Technicolor, one of the leading providers of various technology and animation solutions, announced the launch of M-GO, a free application that allows the users to leverage cloud for storage and share media from participating content partners, by allowing them to access the content from various devices.
While the M-GO was initially announced by MediaNavi at the CES 2011, the M-GO application from Technicolor is expected to have all the similar features along with a better and more user-friendly GUI. The solution is expected to be bundled with all the latest Intel Ultrabooks through the Intel AppUp Center and also all the new Smart TVs and Blu-Ray disc players that will be launched by Samsung and Vizio in 2012. Technicolor is looking at a transactional business model for this offering and will also provide support for Ultraviolet.
Technicolor mentioned that it is currently working with films and videos for M-GO and it would also add support for music in the near future, and while the participating studios are still not announced, the names and new additions are expected to be announced shortly.
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Tags: cloud computing, streaming media, tech news, technology news, video streaming
Created at January 14th, 2012 in New Technology Announcements |
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Yesterday (on January 10, 2012), Cisco Systems, one of the technology leaders in network hardware devices, announced that it is expanding its Videoscape TV platform with various enhancements and new offerings. These enhancements will allow offering to use video from the cloud and also enable its users to stream to not only TV, desktops and laptops, but also handhelds, tablet devices and smart phones.
Among the changes, include the Cisco 9800 series gateway that support watching and recording of six streams in parallel and the Cisco QAM Video for differentiating video services. Apart from this, there will be a Videoscape Voyager Vantage platform for connecting set-tops and the Voyager Virtual cloud-rendered service to deliver IP video. Cisco has also added Cisco Media Processor and Transcode Manager for video management for supporting adaptive bitrate support and video transcoding and Videoscape Content Delivery Network Analytics solution, thus allowing customers to view and analyze the CDN usage in real-time.
Cisco unveiled all these products at the CES 2012 and also mentioned that these products had already helped it win customers in form of Rogers, Numéricable (France) and YES (Israel).
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Created at January 11th, 2012 in New Technology Announcements |
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Yesterday (on January 9, 2012), Level 3 Communications, one of the leading providers of Content Delivery Networks and other fiber-based solutions, announced that iMusti Inc., one of the global providers of Indian music and video content had selected its Caching and Download service for providing fast and reliable streaming services for their end-customers.
By leveraging the global infrastructure and the widely spread network of Level 3 Communications, iMusti would be able to scale up to the increasing requirements of bandwidth, storage and parallel connections needed by its customers. Apart from easily being able to store even the full-length movies, iMusti found the high upload and download performance of Level 3 critical for ensuring better streaming and quality-of-service to its customers irrespective of the device they are using, thus improving their overall experience and loyalty.
At its end, Level 3 mentioned that the popularity of Indian music and videos has grown exponentially in recent times and so it is honored to be selected by iMusti for the worldwide distribution of its rich media content.
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Created at January 10th, 2012 in Agreements and Collaborations |
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Today (on January 9, 2012), Akamai Technologies, the global leader in Content Delivery Networks and cloud-based web optimization solutions, announced that it is expanding and enhancing its intelligent platform to better meet the growing needs of the expanding online entertainment industry and providing them with support for models like Ultraviolet.
Akamai mentioned that it had standardized HTTP as the primary delivery protocol for its HD Network, thus ensuring that its clients can make the most of Adobe’s HTTP Dynamic Streaming Capabilities for delivering their content. To ensure the security of its customers’ content, Akamai also developed Akamai SecureHD, which leverages token authorization, player verification and media encryption along with content targeting to ensure secure and protected content delivery. Apart from this, Akamai will also support business models like TV Everywhere and Ultraviolet by acting as an integration point between Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (DECE), technology providers, content creators and device makers that power Ultraviolet. Akamai is also helping in streamlining and better management of code, accounts and streams with the Ultraviolet Coordinator.
These announcements were made by Akamai at the CES show in Las Vegas, and all the solutions are already made available to their customers.
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Created at January 9th, 2012 in New Technology Announcements |
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Yesterday (on December 19, 2011), VBrick Systems, one of the leading providers of online streaming solutions and IP Video technology services, announced that its VBOSS Online Streaming service has been leveraged by many of the leading real estate Companies including Zip Reality, MyNewPlace, weneedavacation.com and Fsbo.com.
With many people now going online to find homes or properties, website owners are looking at reliable and scalable solutions that can allow them to stream the content related to the properties and video-enable their websites. With its generic APIs, support for multiple players and management suite, VBOSS allows the real estate owners to easily share apartment tours with the prospective customers, thus allowing the latter to have 24/7 access to the property without even moving out of their homes.
VBrick mentioned that it is doing the best it can to help these customers and MyNewPlace also mentioned that it is using VBOSS to stream more than 100 thousand videos per month, and this is helping them get more leads as well.
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Created at December 20th, 2011 in Agreements and Collaborations |
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This Wednesday (on December 14, 2011), Skyfire, one of the leading specialists in mobile cloud computing industry, announced that its latest report of the top 100 global video streaming websites reveals that only 18 of the 100 make use of the adaptive bit rate (ABR) technology to improve streaming based on network speed and device capability.
Since the adaptive bit rate allows the system to automatically switch to a lower quality video version, not only does the use of this technology enable the viewers to have a smoother viewing with less buffering, but also it would reduce bandwidth usage and network congestion. With this in mind, and now that the various leading video streaming servers like Wowza Media Server have native support for ABR, it was expected that the technology would have been more widely used, but as per the current results, a wider deployment is still to happen.
Skyfire also mentioned that with videos accounting more than 50% of the mobile network usage, leveraging ABR and other such solutions would help in easing the network congestions significantly.
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Created at December 18th, 2011 in Uncategorized |
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