Source: http://www.btplc.com/news/articles/showarticle.cfm?articleid=%7Bd2589309-e005-4f3c-b357-7b591245a74e%7D
17 Sept 2008
Short Summary: BT Vision has entered an agreement with NBC Universal International Television Distribution for a broad selection of feature films to appear on BT Vision’s new Hi-Def on demand movie service in the UK.
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22 Oct 2008
Author: Adam Ehrlich, Intercast Networks Marcom
This agreement provides an excellent example of increasing market trends for high-quality (Hi-Def) on demand video content. As market demand for this type of service continues to rise, the internet broadband networks via which the videos are delivered, will become even more congested than they already are - as the internet was not built to handle the large scale distribution of bandwidth heavy files.
Intercast Networks' M2S solution is capable of the scalable delivery of high-quality (Hi-Def) video files directly to users' STBs. As the video content is intelligently distributed via Multicast delivery technology, network congestion issues are efficiently solved. Moreover, as videos are consumed from users' storage, there are no download time issues and quality of experience is guaranteed.
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Showing posts with label video. Show all posts
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Cisco Visual Networking Index Projects Global IP Traffic to Reach Over Half a Zettabyte(1) in Next Four Years
Source: href="http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/2008/prod_061608b.html
16 Jun 2008
Short Summary:
Cisco Systems Inc. is projecting a sixfold jump in Internet traffic between 2007 and 2012, as online video becomes the biggest driver of global data communications. The networking-equipment maker, as part of a study called the Cisco Visual Networking Index, predicts that Internet video - which accounted for 5% of data traffic in 2005 - will represent 30% of total data transfers by the end of this year. That will swell to 50% by 2012, Cisco estimates.
Intercast Feedback:
16 Jun 2008
Author:
Exellent Whitepaper providing in depth details on the growth and usage of IP networking worldwide. Findings show that bandwidth usage will most likely double every two years mostly as a result of video sharing.
16 Jun 2008
Short Summary:
Cisco Systems Inc. is projecting a sixfold jump in Internet traffic between 2007 and 2012, as online video becomes the biggest driver of global data communications. The networking-equipment maker, as part of a study called the Cisco Visual Networking Index, predicts that Internet video - which accounted for 5% of data traffic in 2005 - will represent 30% of total data transfers by the end of this year. That will swell to 50% by 2012, Cisco estimates.
Intercast Feedback:
16 Jun 2008
Author:
Exellent Whitepaper providing in depth details on the growth and usage of IP networking worldwide. Findings show that bandwidth usage will most likely double every two years mostly as a result of video sharing.
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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