MediaMelon Launches New Video Overlay Network (VON)
Even thought HD video is still a ways off in terms of being available to the masses online, strong progress has been made recently by some companies with a goal of efficiently delivering HD video via IP networks to millions of consumers. MediaMelon is one of these networks who's goal is to improve the ...
BitGravity Launches An API for High-Definition Web Video
BitGravity, Inc., a leading provider of next-generation Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) for interactive broadcasting, today announced the new release of its patent-pending Advanced Progressive(TM) application programming interface (API), which provides extensive control over progressive downloads within Flash. This new API enables developers to inject advertising, automatically adjust bitrates, add virtual clips and other additional advanced ...
Delve Networks Selects EdgeCast Network's CDN
Delve Networks, formerly Pluggd Inc., announced today that it has selected EdgeCast Network to provide its Content Delivery Network (CDN) services to support Delve's online video publishing platform. "We've brought the most advanced online video publishing platform to market and in order to offer the best experience along with the technology, we need the ability ...
Magnify Launches Self-Service CDN for SMBs
According to the Magnify.net blog this morning, Magnify has launched a new self-service CDN focused primarily towards small and medium sized businesses. This new offering, dubbed, Magnify Pro, provides customers with access to Magnify.net's VP6 encoding infrastructure and serves video files from their secure Amazon S3 account.
Progressive Download Vs. Streaming Video – Which Is Best?
Panther Express, a leading global provider of high-performance content delivery services, today announced their guide to efficiently delivering online video. Many companies and technical staff struggle with choosing between the advantages and features associated with the two main flavors of video delivery – progressive download and streaming. Now that many of the features first associated ...
List of Video Content Delivery Networks (CDNs)
Dan Rayburn, from Streaming Media, posted a great, comprehensive list of the CDN providers for video delivery. This list has been growing fairly quickly as new companies enter this space and Dan will be updating this list from time to time at cdnlist.com. All of the companies on this list are what Dan would describe ...
World’s First Free Content Delivery Network
New Velocix Accelerator service includes 500GB free monthly delivery allowance worth $8,000 per yearVelocix™, provider of the world's leading Digital Asset Delivery Network, today announced the availability of its revolutionary new FREE Velocix Accelerator digital delivery service. The new service is aimed at the growing and vibrant community of entrepreneurs and new start-up ventures, as ...
75% of Leading Broadcasters Plan To Go HD By 2010
Akamai Technologies, Inc., the leader in powering rich media, dynamic transactions and enterprise applications online, today announced that it is witnessing a trend toward higher definition (HD) video online. Akamai, working closely with market intelligence firm Broadband Directions, recently conducted a survey of leading broadcast and cable TV networks, online publishers, sports leagues and social ...
New Online HD Video Platform for Content Owners
Velocix, provider of the worlds leading Digital Asset Delivery Network, and MediaMelon , a leading HD Video Delivery Network, today announced a partnership to deliver HD videos on behalf of content owners.
Panther Express Gets $15.75M for Video Delivery
Panther Express is another content delivery network, or CDN, company. CDNs let a publisher deliver its online content to customers around the globe by caching content on geographically distributed servers. Akamai dominates the market, and has a nice $5 billion market value. With video streaming and sharing as hot as it is currently, there are ...
Dragonfly Gets $3Million Angel for HD Video Network
Dragonfly, an Internet video distribution provider, announced it has closed over $3 million in funding to date from a group of strategic individual investors. Dragonfly is using this investment to enhance its world-class multimedia content delivery network. In the coming months, the company will be looking to build out its partner network in an effort ...
Overview - BitGravity Streaming Online HD Video CDN
Research demonstrates that analysts are expecting nearly 200% growth of the currently $800 million content delivery network (CDN) market for 2008. The highly competitive companies trailing behind industry leader Akamai, includes Limelight, Mirror Image, Itiva, Grid Networks, Amazon Services, and more recently, Digital Fountain. Companies are looking for ways to differentiate themselves in this highly ...
Revolutionary Model for HD Video Content Delivery
Digital Fountain, a leading supplier of underlying IP video and audio delivery technology to IPTV and mobile operators, will likely challenge the economic model that CDNs currently offer with it's beta launch of its own video content delivery network (DF Splash) that specializes in instant-on high-definition (HD) video delivery. In addition, DF Splash is using ...
Detailed Overview of Content Delivery Networks (CDNs)
Today, I found a wonderful post from Royal Pingdom that covers in detail Content Delivery Networks, their services, challenges, outlook and perspective, future predictions, etc... If you have ever wanted to know more about CDNs or wondered what needs they service, this is the article for you. Clearly with online video and the file sizes ...
