Digital TV News: Akamai

Cable & Wireless to launch Bluu streaming service with 24i
Sep 10, 2024 – 24i has announced that Cable & Wireless Communications (CWC) has launched Bluu, its new streaming service, with the full suite of 24i Video Cloud modules.
News categories: 24i, Cable & Wireless, David Brown, Sam Naoshy, Caribbean, Content Distribution, Digital TV, IBCShow, Streaming

DASH Industry Forum (DASH-IF) becomes part of the SVTA
Jul 23, 2024 – The DASH Industry Forum (DASH-IF) is now part of the Streaming Video Technology Alliance (SVTA). A DASH-IF Working Group will continue the work that was carried out by the DASH-IF association.
News categories: SVTA, DASH-IF, Jason Thibeault, Thomas Stockhammer, Alex Giladi, Iraj Sodagar, Elad Nafshi, Digital TV, Streaming, Worldwide

Livepeer Studio cuts the cost of live streaming & transcoding
May 8, 2024 – Livepeer Studio enables providers to step away from using traditional cloud giants and tap into a decentralized network architecture, driving down video transcoding and delivery fees by up to 80%.
News categories: Livepeer Studio, Eric Tang, Bill Ottman, Rudy J. Ellis, Content Distribution, Digital TV, NABShow, Streaming, Worldwide

Akamai rolls out NVIDIA-powered Cloud services optimized for video processing
Apr 15, 2024 – Akamai (NASDAQ: AKAM) has added a media-optimized offering based on NVIDIA GPUs to its cloud portfolio, aimed at companies that need to process video content faster and more efficiently.
News categories: Akamai, NVIDIA, Content Distribution, Digital TV, NABShow, Semiconductor, Software, Worldwide

Bitmovin and Akamai team up to optimize live streaming
Mar 27, 2024 – Bitmovin has announced availability of its Live Encoder running on Akamai Cloud Computing. The combination can help lower operation costs by as much as 90%.
News categories: Bitmovin, Akamai, Stefan Lederer, Dan Lawrence, Content Distribution, Digital TV, NABShow, Streaming, Worldwide

Telefónica and Síminn demonstrate 'TV roaming' using SVTA open caching
Apr 18, 2023 – Telefónica and Síminn have demonstrated the feasibility of applying the concept of 'TV Roaming' to the distribution of video services by interconnecting their CDNs using SVTA Open Caching.
News categories: Telefónica, Síminn, Broadpeak, Content Distribution, Digital TV, Iceland, QoE, Spain, Streaming

Bitmovin and Akamai to debut CMCD solution at NAB Show 2023
Apr 5, 2023 – Bitmovin has partnered with Akamai on a solution using Common Media Client Data (CMCD) to help minimize the cost of errors that occur due to the siloes between video players and CDNs.
News categories: Bitmovin, Akamai, Stefan Lederer, Will Law, Big Data, Content Distribution, Digital TV, Media Player, NABShow, Streaming, Worldwide

CDN market expected to more than double to $23.9 billion by 2030
Mar 22, 2022 – ABI Research expects the global CDN market to more than double by 2030, reaching $23.9 billion. The growth is driven in part by services beyond core content delivery and caching. The buildup to the metaverse will create additional growth opportunities.
News categories: ABI Research, Michael Inouye, Content Distribution, Digital TV, Market Research, Worldwide

Synamedia acquires ContentArmor
Aug 9, 2021 – Synamedia has acquired ContentArmor, a developer of forensic watermarking solutions. Synamedia is now uniquely placed to meet video service providers' edge and 5G security demands.
News categories: Synamedia, ContentArmor, Paul Segre, Alain Durand, 5G, Digital TV, MandA, Watermarking, Worldwide