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.
Intercast Feedback:
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.
Showing posts with label video delivery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label video delivery. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Why Are The ISPs Siding With Hollywood Over File Sharing?
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.
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.
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Google's Vint Cerf, 'Father of the Internet': "Online Video Will Be Distributed in Download Mode"
Source: href="http://www.beet.tv/2008/06/googles-vint-ce.html
24 Jun 2008
Short Summary:
Vint Cerf, a computer scientist who is most often called the "father of the Internet," says that the popularity and demand for online video will mean that the distribution will eventually be done "in download mode," not streaming, which is pervasive today.
Intercast Feedback:
24 Jun 2008
Author: Noam Bardin, Intercast Networks CEO
Vint is basically arguing for video being pre-delivered to cheap storage with multicasting as the scalable delivery protocol - a perfect description of our Multicast-to-Storage (M2S) application.
24 Jun 2008
Short Summary:
Vint Cerf, a computer scientist who is most often called the "father of the Internet," says that the popularity and demand for online video will mean that the distribution will eventually be done "in download mode," not streaming, which is pervasive today.
Intercast Feedback:
24 Jun 2008
Author: Noam Bardin, Intercast Networks CEO
Vint is basically arguing for video being pre-delivered to cheap storage with multicasting as the scalable delivery protocol - a perfect description of our Multicast-to-Storage (M2S) application.
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.
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.
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