Entertainment and Media

Over-the-top (OTT) video services is considered a complementary entertainment option and is already widespread in Latin America; however, this industry still has growth opportunities, driven by the desire for a cheap service that is available anytime, anywhere, and on any device such as notebooks, tablets, smartphones, smart TVs, and gaming console...

The North American Residential Multichannel Video Tracker has been reformatted to reflect feedback received from Stratecast's clients. The new format provides detailed information for several companies in the consumer communication services market for US and Canada. The aggregated data—delivered by country, technology, and company—includes subs...

Since their launch, content owners have raised concerns over how the iPhone 6 and 6+ have made it harder for some CDNs to deliver their content to these devices with good quality. Apple’s new phones challenge CDNs by creating a perfect storm of significantly larger images and a non-negotiable requirement to deliver images generated on the fly eve...

In recent years, the spotlight on video has burned so bright that next-gen audio has been covered to a much lesser extent. This relative obscurity is unwarranted, however, given both the complementarity of these two next-gen technologies and the imminence of important standards-based decisions. There have been dramatic technological improvements in...

Cisco and Ericsson formed a partnership in 2015 as a decisive countermeasure to the significant threat posed by the merger of services giant Alcatel-Lucent with equipment vendor Nokia. Through this unique partnership, the two companies also aim to capture the immense revenue potential offered by service providers aggressively modernizing their bro...

Following the growth in the sophistication of mobile applications, many congestion points have been identified. This in turn has given rise to several specialized solutions to resolve these congestion points. The primary solution for working around Internet congestion and slowdowns has long been the edge delivery and caching provided by content del...

The demand for protocol manipulation technologies that impact the quality of delivery for streaming content is increasing. However, mobile broadband performance is a problem, as poor quality delivery is the key reason consumers give up on apps and streaming content. To address this issue, Kwicr launched its mobile delivery network to manage mobile ...

Ustream has developed a reputation for its ability to host some of the world’s largest streaming events via its HD broadcast video platform. In 2015, Ustream created a unique solution that is the result of seven years of development—a technology called Software-defined CDN or SD-CDN. If Ustream takes what it has built and offers it as a stand-...

In recent years, content owners have not only become smarter about delivering digital content but they have also learned to develop workflow processes and integrated systems designed to publish, manage, and deliver digital content. From Websites, to software downloads and games, these workflows have become the backbone of how organizations deliver...