Tag: CDNs

Apple’s Bring-Your-Own-Streams OTT Hedge

Posted onAuthorPaul Sweeting

According to a report by Recode’s Peter Kafka, which apparently is not a joke despite its April 1 dateline, Apple is asking the TV networks to provide their own streaming infrastructure and handle their own video delivery as part of Apple’s planned subscription OTT service. The two leading theories for why Apple is looking to Read More …

Finger-pointing over interconnection

Posted onAuthorPaul Sweeting

When a consumer’s OTT video stream starts rebuffering, or suffers packet losses resulting in degraded quality, it’s often hard to know where to direct blame. The problem is typically caused by congestion somewhere between the content’s originating server and the consumer’s receiving device. But exactly where in the chain of transit that congestion is occurring, Read More …