Adaptive Media Delivery
Adaptive Media Delivery
Optimised for Adaptive Bitrate (ABR) streaming, Akamai’s flagship product provides a high-quality viewing experience across a broad variety of network types — fixed or mobile — at varying connection speeds. Adaptive Media Delivery provides superior quality, scale and reach. The service securely delivers prepared, pre-segmented HTTP-based Live and On-Demand streaming media, including support for the following video and music formats:
• HTTP Live Streaming (HLS)
• HTTP Dynamic Streaming (HDS)
• Microsoft Smooth Streaming (MSS)
• Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (MPEG-DASH)
While Adaptive Media Delivery is both workflow and origin storage agnostic, Akamai’s complementary Media Services Live and NetStorage can be combined with Adaptive Media Delivery for an efficient, high-quality streaming media solution.
Key benefits include –
1. Superior video quality and reliability via Akamai’s unique, globally distributed network architecture, which is backed by a 100% Uptime SLA
2. The ability to scale rapidly for large audiences planned or unexpected — by using Akamai’s ability to dynamically and intelligently distribute load.
3. Optimise online video playback quality and performance through Akamai’s application-aware optimisation for Adaptive Bitrate streaming.
4. Reach audiences on any device with support for a wide range of standard video streaming protocols
5. Get actionable insights into streaming performance and quality of experience
Reliability, Capacity, and Scale:
Service highlights –
1. Deliver high-quality streams globally with a trusted partner that has set benchmarks for performance and reliability at scale. When a streaming event or Over-the-Top (OTT) service must succeed, the world’s most successful brands turn to Akamai’s Adaptive Media Delivery.
2. Quality Through Technology, Innovation, and Experience: Since 1998, Akamai’s CDN market success has supported continuous investment in network capacity and technology innovations, to stay ahead of online audience demand.
3. Proximity — Closeness Counts: Even the highest-quality networks are subject to the Internet’s realities of latency, congestion, and packet loss, which can significantly limit online video quality. Akamai has the most pervasive content delivery network (CDN), which minimises the impact of network congestion for consistent viewing experiences. With more than 240,000 servers in more than 130 countries and within more than 1,700 networks around the world, Akamai remains closer to the audience, for the lowest latency and highest quality.
Additional information
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Streampool CDN
Streampool is your go-to solution for addressing cost reduction and network optimization, empowering you to monitor the performance of your service and swiftly troubleshoot issues as they arise.
- Load Balancing
Leveraging user location and service performance metrics, Streampool ensures optimal delivery of HLS, DASH, and CMAF streams, guaranteeing a smooth viewing experience for every user, regardless of location.
- Caching
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- Scalability
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- Security
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- Catch-Ups and Timeshifts
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- Ingest Mode
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- Statistics
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Advanced Replay
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EDIT LIVE VIDEO CLIPS IN THE CLOUD
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BE THE FIRST ONE TO BREAK THE NEWS
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Anti-Piracy Solution
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With real-time updates, dynamic detection of piracy threats, and advanced actions like blocking and throttling, our system creates pirates face constant roadblocks. Sophisticated algorithms monitor abnormal consumption patterns, while customizable management tools offer enhanced control over network policies.
This solution allows broadcaster, OTT platforms and rights owners to stay ahead of evolving piracy tactics to not only block access but also frustrate pirates, securing premium content. MainStreaming Anti-Piracy tool comes with a full set of Analytics and can be instructed to either provide a report of ongoing threats without taking action, or to both report and respond. Reactions can be fully customized and tailored based on the origin of the threat and specific threat categories.
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- Global Reach - scalability with an integrated powerful Content Delivery Network (CDN)
- Fully compatible for any mobile or desktop device, directly via browser
- Enhanced security & advanced Analytics & white label
- 24/7 operations
nanoStream Cloud Release 2022 is presented with improved usability, reliability, security, additional data-insight and the integration of additional streaming protocols like SRT (Secure Reliable Transport) and WHIP (WebRTC-HTTP ingestion protocol). Furthermore, Live Transcoding and Adaptive Bitrate Playback (ABR) are accessible as a standard to enable smooth streaming for all clients and free trial accounts. The added features continue to highlight the focus on optimized Quality of Service and Quality of Experience for a 100% stable and reliable system, which is based on a unique combination of an ultra low-latency live streaming CDN, browser-based player and advanced analytics.
intelligent Media Delivery Platform
MainStreaming’s intelligent Media Delivery Platform (iMDP) provides the step-change in video quality and efficiency, making real-time decisions based on a continuous flow of metrics about the Quality of Experience of each viewer.
The iMDP is the perfect solution for live and on demand video streaming as it provides real-time options and gives content owners full transparency and control over the streaming process. It also manages the entire streaming workflow of the videos, from the point of ingestion to the delivery to viewers. Moreover, it takes advantage of a network backbone of over 4300+ interconnections with ISPs worldwide, enhancing its streaming capabilities and directly lowering latency.
Eluvio Content Fabric
Neither cloud nor CDN, the Eluvio Content Fabric allows content publishers to distribute premium video globally including live, video on demand, and linear channels, direct to consumers and to business partners without CDNs, cloud stacks, transcoding services or databases.
The Content Fabric is a single backend source for master asset servicing including media, metadata and code, with inherent linking of components, re-use, rights, and versioning. Streaming and file based video presentation are delivered just in time, globally, from the source objects to consumer with ultra-low latency. There are no file copies and the content security does not trust the infrastructure (trust less).
An embedded blockchain ledger, contract-backed content, and dynamic composition enable personalization, rights control, monetization, and re-use of media and metadata across properties.
Tier 1 Hollywood Studios, Broadcasters and new mobile streaming platforms use the Fabric for radically simple, fast, and inexpensive supply chains.
Cloud PVR
Broadpeak’s Cloud PVR brings Cloud Time-shifting, Start Over, Catch-up TV and Cloud PVR services to subscribers, for all their devices without deploying new hardware in the households. Subscribers can record an unlimited number of content at the same time, switch from one screen to another whenever they want.
And you ease your maintenance and support costs while increasing the engagement of your subscribers with your company.
nanoCDN multicast ABR
nanoCDN has been specifically designed to avoid any kind of regression compared to traditional Broadcast. In particular, it implements optimizations for ultra-low latency such as HTTP chunked transfer encoding and CMAF chunking, bringing down the latency after encoding to a negligible amount.
In summary, nanoCDN is the opportunity for TV operators to finally unify delivery to the main screen and to all other screens into one single full-ABR IPTV system.
Broadpeak CDN – TV everywhere
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Add HDS, HLS, Smooth Streaming and mpeg-DASH delivery to your existing offer
Add more screens to better serve your customers
Avoid siloed approaches and simplify your architecture
Manage all your services as a whole through a single system.
S4Streaming
S4Streaming, a revolutionary technology that gives video service providers more control over streaming quality and bandwidth usage.
Through a unique combination of server-side technologies, S4Streaming assesses and selects the appropriate quality for video streaming, ultimately reducing the latency of live streams, enabling higher bitrates for on-demand content delivery and decreasing video quality changes when network conditions vary. Using S4Streaming, service providers can deliver a superior quality of experience (QoE) for their video streaming service on any device and increase the control over the network.
Network 1
Network 1 is a reliable and cost-effective internet-based platform, for the primary distribution of linear content. It offers content owners 24/7/365, point to multi-point channel distribution to global audiences. Network 1 empowers customers to focus on the content, not the distribution.
From public service broadcasters, to global media giants, the UK's oldest commercial network and premier league football teams, Network 1 customers are increasingly utilising global connectivity to transport linear video content.
Network 1 offers significantly quicker implementation than traditional fibre and satellite distribution methods, with set-up normally measured in hours rather than months. Network 1 is multi-cloud compatible, protocol agnostic and delivers over managed or unmanaged networks. Infinite scalability ensures on-boarding new channels is easy and if no hardware is required, customers can deliver to new affiliates or broadcast platform operators straight away.
Network 1 is a fully managed service, with network management and monitoring capabilities, offering complete reliability.
Agile Delivery
Agile CDN, by Edgeware, is the next-generation CDN that uses the Agile CDN Director & Management functionalities for orchestrating and managing caches.
Agile CDN Director
At the center of a CDN sits the logic that manages session setup and load balances traffic across the CDN, optimizing network utilization and user experience.
The Agile Directorauthorizes sessionsto prevent unauthorized access and assigns the session to the optimal cache based on network topology, content popularity, user location, and current load and capacity in the CDN.
This ensures thatonly authorized users receive the best possible experiencewhile network utilization is optimized.
Agile Cache
Agile Cache is a cache software that can be deployed on any COTS platform or as a docker in a virtualized deployment. It implements the basic caching functionality and interfaces required for management and configuration, including clustering of servers, and back-end load balancing for cache-fill.
Agile Cache is designed to provide the best possible performance out of the platform deployed on, rather than having strict requirements of specification to guarantee a certain performance.
Agile Appliance
The Agile Appliances are using the proven Edgeware server hardware purpose-built for TV delivery. They are designed to efficiently combine different TV services and protocols on a single appliance.
How we can help you
01 | Optimal infrastructure utilization of permanent caches and virtualized resources.
02 | Combine Private and Public CDN in one management solution.
03 | One control layer for managing distribution rights and policies when using multiple CDNs.
04 | Evolve your TV proposition and increase customer value without having to change set-top boxes.
05 | Plug-and-play, no need for time-consuming installations and upgrades.
NEA CDN
NEA CDN optimizes network bandwidth requirements by efficiently routing and caching user requests for content thanks to advanced algorithms; for example with content awareness. NEA CDN caches can be distributed geographically to cover multiple territories and positioned close to end users at the edge of the network, in a data center or peering location, improving customer quality of experience.
When coupled with chunk-sharing technology between live and cloud DVR services, NEA CDN enhances content delivery performance and optimizes network usage by up to 30%, cutting costs.
As a cloud-native application, NEA CDN can be deployed on any infrastructure, whether on-prem or in the cloud. It leverages container orchestration to offer true scalability. This means you can adapt CDN capacity to real traffic variations, so you save money by avoiding permanent over-provisioning to accommodate irregular traffic peaks.
NEA CDN uses PILOT Manager, Ateme’s centralized orchestration and management application, to provide a global CDN-aware topology. You can then define a CDN-wide delivery strategy from a single point and tailor your content delivery to your business rules.
Applications
- Video-focused content delivery
- Real-time request routing
- Multi-tier content caching
Features and Benefits
- Low-latency live OTT delivery
- Cloud-native, elastic CDN architecture
- Highly scalable, carrier-grade CDN
- Centralized orchestration and management
- Highly customizable business rules directly within the UI
- HTTP adaptive streaming protocols: MPEGDASH, HLS, Smooth Streaming
- High-performance content-aware routing and caching
- Device-aware routing and caching
- Granular user geo-location
- Content popularity-based caching
- Flexible offloading to third-party CDN
- Multiple CDN selection engine
Download the datasheet: https://www.ateme.com/product-video-content-delivery/#resources
Synamedia Fluid EdgeCDN
redGalaxy
CDN SERVICES
Our Content Delivery Network is designed to improve user viewing and loading experience and ensures viewer connectivity to nearest PoP’s for buffer free viewing experience. Our CDN is specially designed for video publishers and video content owners to deliver an amazing viewing experience, without huge cost. With our scalable and reliable HLS and MPEG-Dash VOD and Live media delivery services allow you to ingest and deliver content with ease.
· Enhanced performance
Increase the performance of your streaming content and give viewers a smoother experience. Via our CDN network we deliver crisp, unpixellated, high-quality videos, with low latency.
· Reduce costs
Optimize the cost of your data transfer and let us handle the potential peaks, including the entire broadcasting process.
· Scalability & reliability
We offer you the fastest, most reliable way to get your content in front of numerous viewers anywhere in the world. Our CDNs can accommodate viral viewership spikes and larger-than-expected live audiences.
Clipper
With Mobile Viewpoint's webbased live TV clipping application, Clipper, content teams can now use this powerful tool to select key moments as they occur from a live stream, edit and post them within 30 seconds on Social Media platforms or a private CDN.
With Clipper there no need any more complicated editing systems. Just access the Clipper application through the LinkMatrix portal, select your live stream, select highlights, edit them frame accurately and post them instantly.
Real-time, fast and in the highest quality. And no extra hardware needed!
Advantages
- Real-time
- Web-based
- Integrated part of the Mobile Viewpoint LinkMatrix portal
- Easy to use user interface based on scene recognition and frame accurately editing
Benefits
- Be the first to share content on social media channels
- Engage bigger and new audiences with your short format content
- Re-use key moments after the actual event
Livery
Video features:
- CMAF Ultra Low Latency (<3 seconds)
- End-to-end: cloud & on-prem encoder, CDN & player
- Optimal quality and scalability, powered by the world’s biggest CDN
- Sync that works end-to-end across all devices or connections (3G-5G, Wifi, …)
- Data efficient, ABR, high quality
- Players and SDKs for iOS, Android & Web with integrated interactive layer
- Integrates in any RTMP or SRT workflow
Interactive features:
- Create your a custom interactive layer or use Livery’s standard features at any time:
- Core: Countdown, announcement, rating, vote/poll, trivia, sentiment
- Communication: Chat, Q&A
- E-commerce / shoppable video: Discover, configure, purchase, product rating
- Gamification: Prediction, estimation, quiz game, leaderboard
Integration & operations features:
- Cloud based, turn-key solution
- SDK for iOS, Android & Web
- User authentication
- Powerful analytics
- Presenter view with data visualization and live feedback
- Configurable templates, texts and localization options
- Easy to use, web-based management system (CMS)
- Transparent, usage-based pricing, no upfront costs, cancel any time
Voices
Voice overs for dubbing videos.Multimedia localization, such as international voice-over dubbing studio, video dubbing, voice over recordings for business. Dubbing samples in English, dubbing samples in French, dubbing studio in Italian and Portuguese, dubbing samples in Spanish.
Content Delivery Network (CDN)
- Connectivity
- <10 ms latency in major cities
- <30 ms latency around the world
- Intelligent routing with high network redundancy
- Rich API support
- Security
- HTTPS secure cloud acceleration
- Back-to-source verification
- Referrer anti-theft chain
- Support for TLS 1.3, certificates, black and white lists
- Reliability
- Zero packet loss between nodes
- Multi-server and route redundancy for load optimization
- Real-time monitoring and analytics
Global Intelligent Accelerator (GIA)
- Security
- Edge computing capability with Lua for customizable security logic
- Supports latest security protocols
- Performance
- <10 ms latency in major cities
- <30 ms latency around the world
- Private links between major PoPs guarantees 0% packet loss for cross-border traffic
- NVMe servers for extreme I/O throughput
- Insights
- Real-time metrics to inform decision making
- APIs to access advanced analytics on your own platform
IP Transit (IPT)
Limelight EdgeFunctions
EdgeFunctions simplifies development and reduces time to production for streaming video and content delivery use cases.
Limelight EdgeFunctions is a serverless compute platform that automatically makes your code available to many edge locations around the world, executes at the network edge close to your users to ensure the lowest latency, and scales to meet demand. EdgeFunctions is ideal for customers needing to implement streaming video and content delivery use cases such as personalized streaming, access control, dynamic ad insertion, A/B testing, image manipulation, and more. It is tightly integrated with one of the world’s highest-performing video and Content Delivery Networks (CDNs). EdgeFunctions gives developers tools to boost performance, customize workflows, and scale rapidly while only paying for resources used.
With EdgeFunctions, developers are able to run their code without having to worry about the underlying infrastructure, simplifying development, and reducing time to production. It enables developers to concentrate on what they are good at: coding!
KUNO Multi-CDN
BitSave v.2
BitSave v.2 is the next generation AI technology offered by iSIZE Technologies for fast and low complexity precoding with significant bitrate savings. Available both as a SaaS platform at bitsave.tech and for on- premise use as a “bolt-on” solution on top of any standard or proprietary video codec.
LIGHTNING FAST
Precode and Encode videos up to 500% faster than other encoding services. Save time and reduce your cloud energy footprint
CODEC INDEPENDENT
BitSave technology is compatible with any codec, including AVC, HEVC, VP9, AV1, and even the upcoming AV2 and VVC, with increased gains in bitrate and quality offered for newer standards
SUPERIOR QUALITY
Reach ultimate video quality for resolutions up to 8K. Reduce streaming bandwidth by as much as 40%
SUBSTANTIALLY CHEAPER
Less than $5 per hour of content for all resolutions up to 4K – up to 50% cheaper than the most competitive solutions
SUSTAINABLE
BitSave enables sustainability with significant computational and energy efficiency, datacenter cost reduction, prolonging battery life for resource-constrained devices (drones, action-cams, smartphones).
Signal Transport
The Nextologies fibre network connecting Canada, USA, Eastern Europe and Asia, combined with our fixed satellite network, is the best in our region giving instant access to over 55,000 channels. The Nextologies fibre network is fully protected, geographically diverse and self-healing. Nextologies offers full-time redundant gigabit fibre connectivity to all of the major BDUs in Canada and MSOs in the USA.
Nextologies uses state-of-the-art technology enabling the utmost quality and reliability in broadcast video transmissions. Our network's fibre optic digital circuits are built with redundancy and diverse systems, which minimize latency and jitter characteristics.
Master Control & Playout Services
Nextologies master control and playout operators have the ability to insert commercial spots and programming into any of our content partners live channels ensuring your schedule stays accurate and profitable.
Using our custom designed time shifting module, we can time shift your signal 24+ hours and into multiple time zones.
Vecima
OTT Infrastructure
PHASE - Serving the Brazilian Television Market Successfully since 1980
BaishanCloud Dynamic Acceleration
How people interact with online content has changed drastically over the last decades. From social media to online shopping, users expect a fast, interactive, and personalized experience everywhere they go and on any device they are using. However, the transformation that makes the content interactive and instant often make the application slower. Industry surveys show that if a page takes more than 3 seconds to load, over 50% of users will terminate the visit. Accelerating dynamically generated content requires an end-to-end solution that overcomes the network congestion delay, cross-country bottlenecks, and packet loss along the way in order to deliver the content to the end-users. BaishanCloud’s Dynamic Acceleration platform is designed to solve this issue by deploying edge servers globally close to the end-users with the advanced TCP optimizations and network optimization allows content owners to focus on creating content for their users and rely on BaishanCloud to guarantee the performance.
Features
Intelligent Route Optimization
BaishanCloud’s intelligent network route optimization technology is based on Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) routing protocol, through multi-tiered delivery architecture, to send the request from end-users to customer’s origin. It detects the health status of routes in real-time to achieve zero delays failover and high availability. It establishes a connection on Layer 2 (Data Link Layer) for better efficiency and utilizes IPSec to authenticate and secure the data in transit.
Intelligent Network Monitoring
BaishanCloud employs comprehensive monitoring on its delivery platform including performance metrics of single-machine bandwidth, data center bandwidth, machine loading, CPU, and I/O. A monitoring agent is deployed on each PoP to route requests between servers based on real-time metrics to achieve high service availability.
Advanced TCP Optimizations
BaishanCloud’s advanced TCP optimization technology helps avoid Internet congestion, timely and accurately recovers packet loss, and selects optimized paths to deliver dynamic content to users. Its congestion control algorithm adapts to each user to improve download speed and stability. The self-adaptive window adjustment mechanism accurately determines network congestion and packet loss to avoid sharp drops in transmission rate. It is tested to be 10 to 100 times faster than the standard TCP protocol. The technology can be applied to all transport layers that use the TCP protocol including software, kernel, and hardware server.
HTTP/2 and IPv6
BaishanCloud’s dynamic acceleration platform is tailored to serve modern Internet content and devices (such as IoT) and mobile phones. It supports HTTP/1.0, HTTP/1.1, and HTTP/2 with both IPv4 and IPv6 enabled. The platform will serve the compatible protocol and version based on the devices or clients end users are using without the need for customer to modify the origin.
Security
BaishanCloud’s dynamic acceleration platform is built with security in mind. Transport Layer Security (TLS) is 100% enabled and supported with options for customer to either use BaishanCloud’s TLS certificate or bring their own certificates. Customer also has the option to enable BaishanCloud’s Advanced Threat Detection (ATD) with dynamic acceleration. ATD is a highly advanced AI-based cloud security product that utilizes machine learning algorithms to learn behavioral patterns of legitimate users to recognize abnormalities and react in real time.
BaishanCloud Streaming Delivery
Video streaming has been around for a long time, but it has recently gained popularity attributed to the improvement in technology and proliferation of smartphones around the world. The trifecta of technological advancement, improved connectivity, and video maturity makes streaming more accessible than ever. Studies show streaming content was accounted for 75% of all Internet traffic in 2017 and is expected to jump to 82% by 2020. More and more industries are and will be incorporating video content in their services to secure user engagement and brand awareness, which makes superior streaming experience a must-have for any organizations. Baishan’s globally distributed streaming platform is designed to ingest and accelerate both live streaming and video-on-demand content over common streaming formats (including HLS, HDS, MPEG-DASH, RTMP, and more) in any setting securely and reliably. With advanced streaming engine for transcoding, packaging, and optimizing streams, Baishan enables customers to focus on creating the content and relies on Baishan to deliver the best streaming experience to end-users anywhere and on any device. BaishanCloud specializes in Mainland China and Southeast Asia delivery with ingest points and edge nodes deployed in all major continents.
Live Stream Acceleration
Baishan’s streaming platform supports all common streaming formats including HLS, HDS, MPEG-DASH, and live streaming specific formats such as RTMP, HTTP-FLV, and HTTP-TS. Baishan manages ingest points and edge delivery nodes globally with a tiered architecture to ingest and deliver live streams dynamically depending on the locations of the stream source and end-users with failover capability to guarantee smooth streaming. Baishan’s streaming engine enables real-time transcoding and packaging to multiple codecs and formats to serve end-users on any end device.
Video On Demand Streaming
Baishan’s streaming platform is designed to cache video on demand content closer to the users to facilitate immediate playback while significantly reducing the origin load. Additionally, customers leverage Baishan’s real-time packaging solution to package on-demand content from any supported format to the other while only storing one format on the origin to reduce the origin storage.
Global Scalability
Extensive network coverage always ensures better streaming experience. As a global cloud delivery service provider with extensive network coverage, Baishan has deployed over 450 service PoPs globally, covering China, the Asia-Pacific region, Europe, North America, and South America. The scalability of Baishan's delivery network continues to grow with the increasing streaming demands of our customers.
Mobile Streaming
People are watching an ever-increasing amount of content on mobile devices. In 2018, mobile devices were used for 49 percent of all plays, Internet TVs for 27 percent, and PCs for 24 percent. It is forecasted the trend will continue to grow in this direction. Baishan built our network with mobile-first mindset. We are connected to all major mobile ISPs in Mainland China and everywhere else around the world. Additionally, we supports mobile-specific optimizations including format transformation and adaptive bitrate.
Real-Time Log Analytics
Baishan’s streaming platform provides real-time statistics on the console or via API, allowing customers to visualize user experience and to troubleshoot any issues when it happens. Baishan also provides access logs to customers on customizable frequency for advance analysis.
Closer and Faster
Baishan’s enterprise solutions on web & mobile acceleration, media streaming, and cloud security help enterprises bring their content closer and faster to the end user. For more information, please contact info@us.baishancloud.com.
Limelight Content Delivery Network (CDN)
Our content delivery network features one of the highest cache hit ratios in the industry, solid-state drive (SSD) storage, hundreds of Points of Presence strategically enabled around the world. We provide 80+ Tbps capacity and a 100GbE private fiber backbone that is connected to more than 1,000 ISP and last-mile networks, ensuring a better experience for your customers.
BaishanCloud Cloud Delivery
Just in the past decade, the median web page size went from less than 0.5 MB to nearly 2 MB - that's a quadruple jump! Modern websites boast rich media content and meticulous designs accomplished with JavaScript and CSS. With this improvement comes headaches like slow page load and network congestion.
BaishanCloud's content acceleration solution helps solve these problems by intelligently routing web traffic to bypass network slowness and by caching digital content like images and scripts on hundreds of server PoPs. Our global delivery network connects content to millions of end-users worldwide with speed and high availability.
Product Highlights
Web Caching and Instant Page Loads
Intelligent Routing and DNS Load Balancing
Scalability and Flexibility for Easy Customization
Fast Whole-Network Content Purge
Better Performance and Lower Latency
Studies show that faster page loads improve user stickiness. Sluggish page loads can cause users to abandon a page, impact search engine optimization (SEO) ranking, and decrease advertising revenue.
A few factors affecting performance include the distance between the content and end-users and network conditions. BaishanCloud’s content delivery solutions improve a website’s performance by pushing and caching its content to the edge of the Internet so that it’s closer to users worldwide, resulting in significant performance improvements for static content, social-media-integrated sites, and media-heavy web pages.
Intelligent Routing and DNS Load Balancing
Baishan monitors global network conditions to detect and automatically adjust request routing to avoid unfavorable paths. We use a dynamic IP database to balance traffic accurately based on IP addresses. When there’s a server or network issue, the platform will make adjustments within seconds to ensure a high level of performance.
Fast Purge
The freshness and accuracy of a website’s content are crucial to online businesses, which is why Baishan prioritizes our customers’ ability to control and manage cached content quickly. Information such as news headlines, weather forecasts, and airline promotion pricing changes all the time and has to be up-to-date. Baishan’s intelligent purging removes obsolete content across our global network within seconds. Efficiency and flexibility are critical to meeting the demands of enterprise customers, so we make sure our customers’ websites are always current and ready-to-go!
Security
Baishan protects websites and applications with TLS encryption to ensure the privacy and data integrity of our customers and their end-users. We also provide other value-added security products such as Web Application Firewall (WAF) and artificial-intelligence-based Advanced Threat Detection (ATD) to defend our customers from malicious bots and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks.
Connectivity in China, Asia, and Beyond
BaishanCloud has an extensive network in China, with over 600 PoPs located in first, second, and third-tier cities. Directly peering with multiple national ISPs, Baishan keeps a pulse on network status changes to ensure top-notch performance at all times. Our expertise in China's internet ecosystem helps our customers expand their businesses and navigate the market with ease. BaishanCloud also operates numerous PoPs in key countries and cities across Asia and the rest of the world, ensuring superior coverage of each region.
HTTP/2 and IPv6
BaishanCloud’s dynamic acceleration platform is tailored to serve modern Internet content and devices (such as IoT) and mobile phones. It supports HTTP/1.0, HTTP/1.1, and HTTP/2 with both IPv4 and IPv6 enabled. The platform will serve the compatible protocol and version based on the devices or clients end users are using without the need for customers to modify the origin.
API and Automation
Baishan’s API-friendly platform allows our customers to manage their domain settings and automate deployments via APIs around the globe. One can easily create new delivery configurations, purge cache, or upload TLS certificates with pre-programmed API calls. We continue to expand our API library to include new functions or customizations.
Dedication to Innovation
BaishanCloud leads the pack with real-world customer performance data measured by third-party analytic companies. With comprehensive delivery solutions and a robust global platform reaching the corners of the globe, BaishanCloud prides itself on technological innovation and creation of new and customized solutions. We continuously optimize our network and performance to serve our customers and their end-users wherever they may be.
Hive OTT
Setting up a custom video platform is hard
It’s a huge technical headache. Custom builds can take far too long and revenue sharing can devour your profits.
Hive is an affordable white-label video platform that gets you up and running fast
It’s everything you need to launch your own service. It’s highly customisable, but fast to build. Predictable pricing, with no revenue sharing.
Hive can help you take back control of your video content quickly and affordably
Centralise your video content on a custom channel. Maximise your monetisation strategy. Reach new customers fast. Get future-ready with a customisable platform. Find your audience, wherever they are.
Adaptive Media Delivery
• HTTP Live Streaming (HLS)
• HTTP Dynamic Streaming (HDS)
• Microsoft Smooth Streaming (MSS)
• Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (MPEG-DASH)
While Adaptive Media Delivery is both workflow and origin storage agnostic, Akamai’s complementary Media Services Live and NetStorage can be combined with Adaptive Media Delivery for an efficient, high-quality streaming media solution.
Key benefits include -
1. Superior video quality and reliability via Akamai’s unique, globally distributed network architecture, which is backed by a 100% Uptime SLA
2. The ability to scale rapidly for large audiences planned or unexpected — by using Akamai's ability to dynamically and intelligently distribute load.
3. Optimise online video playback quality and performance through Akamai's application-aware optimisation for Adaptive Bitrate streaming.
4. Reach audiences on any device with support for a wide range of standard video streaming protocols
5. Get actionable insights into streaming performance and quality of experience
Reliability, Capacity, and Scale:
Service highlights -
1. Deliver high-quality streams globally with a trusted partner that has set benchmarks for performance and reliability at scale. When a streaming event or Over-the-Top (OTT) service must succeed, the world’s most successful brands turn to Akamai’s Adaptive Media Delivery.
2. Quality Through Technology, Innovation, and Experience: Since 1998, Akamai’s CDN market success has supported continuous investment in network capacity and technology innovations, to stay ahead of online audience demand.
3. Proximity — Closeness Counts: Even the highest-quality networks are subject to the Internet’s realities of latency, congestion, and packet loss, which can significantly limit online video quality. Akamai has the most pervasive content delivery network (CDN), which minimises the impact of network congestion for consistent viewing experiences. With more than 240,000 servers in more than 130 countries and within more than 1,700 networks around the world, Akamai remains closer to the audience, for the lowest latency and highest quality.
MediaScaleX // Cache
The MediaScaleX // Cache platform provides caching and streaming functions for VOD, Live and Linear streaming services, with support for HLS, DASH and HSS packages. It can be deployed as an Origin Shield Cache, an Intermediate Cache or an Edge Cache to scale streaming video services.
Using carefully qualified COTS hardware platforms, MediaScaleX // Cache leads the market in streaming density from a single server. The software-defined solution also supports media businesses looking to deploy in virtualized or containerized environments.
MediaScaleX // Cache enables Content Service Providers to proliferate unicast streams, offloading traffic from backbone networks and reducing network contention. Caching, not multi-casting, is required in cloud DVR and Time-Shifted TV use cases so it is an essential component of a fully-featured OTT service.
MediaScaleX // Cache enables large-scale Providers to transition from public CDN services to private CDN platforms, either as an owned & operated platform or as a private managed service. This reduces costs, increases traffic visibility, and creates an opportunity for Content Providers and Internet Service Providers to partner on delivering high value video services to consumer customers.
For Direct to Consumer streaming businesses, MediaScaleX // Cache enables the OTT service to scale cost-effectively while improving content delivery quality and latency.