Source: http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/9/why-are-the-i-s-p-s-siding-with-hollywood-over-file-sharing-
25 Sept 2008
Short Summary: A new lobby called Art + Labs is backed by players you'd expect -- NBC Universal, Viacom and the Songwriters Guild of America -- but it’s also backed by AT&T, Cisco Systems, and Microsoft.
Intercast Feedback:
19 Oct 2008
Author: Adam Ehrlich, Intercast Networks Marcom
Partnerships between ISPs and Hollywood companies will be ever more commonplace as consumption of video via the internet increases and both parties realize the huge potential for big-time profits. However, profits from Internet TV must not be taken for granted as a variety of scaling and monetization challenges must be first surmounted.
Intercast's solution enables both ISPs and big name content providers to realize profits as it intelligently uses its Multicast-to-Storage technology to deliver scalable amounts of video titles - at a lower delivery cost point.
Showing posts with label ISPs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ISPs. Show all posts
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Pando CEO: The 'CDN of the Future' Will Include P2P
Source: http://www.contentinople.com/author.asp?section_id=450&doc_id=160788
4 Aug, 2008
Short Summary: Pando Networks Inc. CEO Robert Levitan says the dirty little secret about online video is that "the business model is really bad." He attributes this to today's current delivery model where, he says, "the more video you deliver, the more money you lose."
Intercast Feedback:
6 Aug, 2008
Author: Alon Levitan, Intercast Networks AVP Marketing
We all know why the rise of P2P technologies is stalling. Many of the leading service providers (BBC is a good example) understand that P2P cannot deliver the quality of service levels to provide a continuously good user experience. No larger brand is going to jeopardize its brand equity to be associated with a quality prone product or service.
Being dependant on the amount of users that are concurrently online, that have opted in to seed a specific title (video) and that are not using their already narrow upstream bandwidth for other purposes is simply too much to ask for.
Therefore, and not surprisingly, most of the P2P network providers must revert back to streaming technologies to make up for the lack in P2P delivery efficiency.
Is P2P going to be used in the future to replace a portion of the CDNs delivery over internet? I suppose it depends mainly on the ISPs to embrace this idea. With oversubscription as their main business model and frightening and fast increase in bandwidth consumption P2P only adds to the over-the-top traffic problem that ISPs are trying to cope with.
Network providers and ISPs have other delivery technologies they can choose from. Why not utilize the entire bandwidth spectrum at hand. Off-peak time bandwidth is available in abundance and is just waiting to be tapped into. What if there was a way to shift the majority of bandwidth intense traffic - yes, we are referring to video - to the most economical time window/s on the network. All this underutilized bandwidth would suddenly come in very handy and improve each network's/ISP's overall delivery efficiency and of course bottom line results.
What will it take for the network players to understand that the solution to their problem lies in the activation of IP multicast on their networks? If we then add a personalization component to the equation, which enables to determine each user’s personal preference and then push the content directly to each user’s personal storage via a scheduled delivery process, we suddenly get a very smart, efficient and scalable network that can handle the onslaught of video traffic. Multicast-to-Storage technology delivers on this promise and therefore needs to be considered when looking at the future of content delivery networks.
In the end the future of content delivery will be a mesh up of different technologies each providing a crucial component in the delivery process. The user will not care how he receives his personalized content; he just wants to get it in the best possible quality.
4 Aug, 2008
Short Summary: Pando Networks Inc. CEO Robert Levitan says the dirty little secret about online video is that "the business model is really bad." He attributes this to today's current delivery model where, he says, "the more video you deliver, the more money you lose."
Intercast Feedback:
6 Aug, 2008
Author: Alon Levitan, Intercast Networks AVP Marketing
We all know why the rise of P2P technologies is stalling. Many of the leading service providers (BBC is a good example) understand that P2P cannot deliver the quality of service levels to provide a continuously good user experience. No larger brand is going to jeopardize its brand equity to be associated with a quality prone product or service.
Being dependant on the amount of users that are concurrently online, that have opted in to seed a specific title (video) and that are not using their already narrow upstream bandwidth for other purposes is simply too much to ask for.
Therefore, and not surprisingly, most of the P2P network providers must revert back to streaming technologies to make up for the lack in P2P delivery efficiency.
Is P2P going to be used in the future to replace a portion of the CDNs delivery over internet? I suppose it depends mainly on the ISPs to embrace this idea. With oversubscription as their main business model and frightening and fast increase in bandwidth consumption P2P only adds to the over-the-top traffic problem that ISPs are trying to cope with.
Network providers and ISPs have other delivery technologies they can choose from. Why not utilize the entire bandwidth spectrum at hand. Off-peak time bandwidth is available in abundance and is just waiting to be tapped into. What if there was a way to shift the majority of bandwidth intense traffic - yes, we are referring to video - to the most economical time window/s on the network. All this underutilized bandwidth would suddenly come in very handy and improve each network's/ISP's overall delivery efficiency and of course bottom line results.
What will it take for the network players to understand that the solution to their problem lies in the activation of IP multicast on their networks? If we then add a personalization component to the equation, which enables to determine each user’s personal preference and then push the content directly to each user’s personal storage via a scheduled delivery process, we suddenly get a very smart, efficient and scalable network that can handle the onslaught of video traffic. Multicast-to-Storage technology delivers on this promise and therefore needs to be considered when looking at the future of content delivery networks.
In the end the future of content delivery will be a mesh up of different technologies each providing a crucial component in the delivery process. The user will not care how he receives his personalized content; he just wants to get it in the best possible quality.
Monday, July 7, 2008
File-sharers want to have your cake and eat it too
Source: href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jun/19/digitalvideo.internet
19 Jun 2008
Short Summary:
Peer-to-peer file sharers think it's perfectly OK to grab three quarters of the communal internet bandwidth. Indeed, some are defiant about it. Their internet service provider has foolishly sold them an "unlimited" connection so they are entitled to download 5GB a day, or more, at any time. The fact that today's internet is incapable of coping with their demands is beside the point: ISPs should simply provide more bandwidth.
Intercast Feedback:
19 Jun 2008
Author: Noam Bardin, Intercast Networks CEO
The need to migrate from the unicast internet to the multicast internet to support the evolution of the web from a communication network to an entertainment network. Another excellent article on the limitations of the unicast internet and a proposal to limit demand for online video delivery technologically (i.e. since it is expensive to deliver what people want, lets limit what they get...). At Intercast Networks, we believe that the source of the problem is the unicast basis of the internet (point-to-point delivery) which is great for communication and lightweight content but not optimal for video and heavy lifting of large files delivered to many users. The next evolution of the internet will have to be the migration from the unicast Internet to a multicast Internet (point-to-multipoint) which can replicate the economic structure of the broadcast world and is the underlying infrastructure of IPTV deployments while still supporting the innovation of the world wide web.
19 Jun 2008
Short Summary:
Peer-to-peer file sharers think it's perfectly OK to grab three quarters of the communal internet bandwidth. Indeed, some are defiant about it. Their internet service provider has foolishly sold them an "unlimited" connection so they are entitled to download 5GB a day, or more, at any time. The fact that today's internet is incapable of coping with their demands is beside the point: ISPs should simply provide more bandwidth.
Intercast Feedback:
19 Jun 2008
Author: Noam Bardin, Intercast Networks CEO
The need to migrate from the unicast internet to the multicast internet to support the evolution of the web from a communication network to an entertainment network. Another excellent article on the limitations of the unicast internet and a proposal to limit demand for online video delivery technologically (i.e. since it is expensive to deliver what people want, lets limit what they get...). At Intercast Networks, we believe that the source of the problem is the unicast basis of the internet (point-to-point delivery) which is great for communication and lightweight content but not optimal for video and heavy lifting of large files delivered to many users. The next evolution of the internet will have to be the migration from the unicast Internet to a multicast Internet (point-to-multipoint) which can replicate the economic structure of the broadcast world and is the underlying infrastructure of IPTV deployments while still supporting the innovation of the world wide web.
Charging by the Byte to Curb Internet Traffic
Source: href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/15/technology/15cable.html?_r=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin
15 June 2008
Short Summary:
For years, both kinds of Web surfers have paid the same price for access. But now three of the country's largest Internet service providers are threatening to clamp down on their most active subscribers by placing monthly limits on their online activity.
Intercast Feedback:
15 June 2008
Author: Noam Bardin, Intercast Networks CEO
A good summary of the plans of America's top 3 ISP's (AT&T, Time Warner Cable, Comcast) to limit internet usage in an attempt to curb usage of the heaviest users, but (as Cisco put it): "today's 'bandwidth hog' is tomorrow's average user." What do you do when your average user wants to consume so much bandwidth? Instead of limiting demand, new technology needs to be adopted to enable the throughput of content (primarily video) that consumers want. Multicast-to-Storage can meet this demand without breaking the ISP's bottom line.
15 June 2008
Short Summary:
For years, both kinds of Web surfers have paid the same price for access. But now three of the country's largest Internet service providers are threatening to clamp down on their most active subscribers by placing monthly limits on their online activity.
Intercast Feedback:
15 June 2008
Author: Noam Bardin, Intercast Networks CEO
A good summary of the plans of America's top 3 ISP's (AT&T, Time Warner Cable, Comcast) to limit internet usage in an attempt to curb usage of the heaviest users, but (as Cisco put it): "today's 'bandwidth hog' is tomorrow's average user." What do you do when your average user wants to consume so much bandwidth? Instead of limiting demand, new technology needs to be adopted to enable the throughput of content (primarily video) that consumers want. Multicast-to-Storage can meet this demand without breaking the ISP's bottom line.
AT&T looking at charging heavy Internet users extra
Source: href="http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080612/tec_at_t_internet.html
12 Jun 2008
Short Summary:
AT&T Inc., the country's largest Internet provider, is considering charging extra for customers who download large amounts of data. "A form of usage-based pricing for those customers who have abnormally high usage patterns is inevitable," spokesman Michael Coe said this week. The top 5 percent of AT&T's DSL customers use 46 percent of the total bandwidth, Coe said.
Intercast Feedback:
15 Jun 2008
Author: Noam Bardin, Intercast Networks CEO
The current unicast technology paradigm creates a strange business situation - consumers want more video content from the internet, content owners are embracing legal delivery to satisfy this demand but ISPs are attempting to throttle, traffic shape, rate limit, meter or "optimize" this usage - basically not providing what consumers want to receive. Multicast-to-Storage (M2S) can lower the delivery cost to the point where all players can enjoy on-line video delivery - consumers, content owners and ISPs.
12 Jun 2008
Short Summary:
AT&T Inc., the country's largest Internet provider, is considering charging extra for customers who download large amounts of data. "A form of usage-based pricing for those customers who have abnormally high usage patterns is inevitable," spokesman Michael Coe said this week. The top 5 percent of AT&T's DSL customers use 46 percent of the total bandwidth, Coe said.
Intercast Feedback:
15 Jun 2008
Author: Noam Bardin, Intercast Networks CEO
The current unicast technology paradigm creates a strange business situation - consumers want more video content from the internet, content owners are embracing legal delivery to satisfy this demand but ISPs are attempting to throttle, traffic shape, rate limit, meter or "optimize" this usage - basically not providing what consumers want to receive. Multicast-to-Storage (M2S) can lower the delivery cost to the point where all players can enjoy on-line video delivery - consumers, content owners and ISPs.
Could BBC1 streaming kill the Internet in the UK?
Source: href="http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/3582-could-bbc1-streaming-kill-the-internet-in-the-uk.html
5 Jun 2008
Short Summary:
The rows over how broadband providers will cope with the increasing amount of video traffic we are all consuming continues today with the news that the BBC is to make BBC1 available as a live stream at some point in the next few months. Can multicast be the remedy to cope with the spiraling bandwidth requirements?
Intercast Feedback:
5 Jun 2008
Author: Noam Bardin, Intercast Networks CEO
What is clear from this article is that Multicast needs to be rolled out to the edge for video to scale on the internet. The adoption of multicast on the one hand, and the use of Multicast-to-Storage on the other, will enable the delivery of video without breaking the ISPs business model. The streaming of live TV seems like solving the problem of the past - the early adopters who use their PC for video are part of the digital generation for whom appointment TV and linear TV are irrelevant, just as a young consumer with a cell phone has no need for a land line at home, so does the new TV consumer have no need for linear TV (Sports and news excluded).
5 Jun 2008
Short Summary:
The rows over how broadband providers will cope with the increasing amount of video traffic we are all consuming continues today with the news that the BBC is to make BBC1 available as a live stream at some point in the next few months. Can multicast be the remedy to cope with the spiraling bandwidth requirements?
Intercast Feedback:
5 Jun 2008
Author: Noam Bardin, Intercast Networks CEO
What is clear from this article is that Multicast needs to be rolled out to the edge for video to scale on the internet. The adoption of multicast on the one hand, and the use of Multicast-to-Storage on the other, will enable the delivery of video without breaking the ISPs business model. The streaming of live TV seems like solving the problem of the past - the early adopters who use their PC for video are part of the digital generation for whom appointment TV and linear TV are irrelevant, just as a young consumer with a cell phone has no need for a land line at home, so does the new TV consumer have no need for linear TV (Sports and news excluded).
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