Posted by Derrick on May 6, 2010 under Video Streaming and Compression | 
Sorenson Media announced that the company will collaborate with Adobe and Amazon Web Services to present an informational online video workshop for participants at the 2010 Streaming Media East conference in New York City.
The two-hour workshop, entitled “The Business and Technology of Online Video,” will be held Tuesday, May 11 at the Hilton New York. Free to conference attendees, it will focus on simplifying the often difficult and unwieldy processes of encoding, managing, publishing and delivering video content over the Internet. Guided by step-by-step demonstrations, participants will learn how to capture, encode, store, publish, transcode and deliver their videos “in the cloud,” utilizing powerful features from the award-winning Sorenson Squeeze encoding solution, Sorenson 360 online video platform (OVP), and Amazon Web Services CloudFront and other streaming web services. The workshop will also cover integration capabilities of Sorenson Media’s total video solutions and Amazon Web Services with Adobe’s Open Source Media Framework. All attendees will receive a $50 Sorenson 360 usage voucher and $25 in Amazon Web Services usage credit.
“We are delighted to partner with two fellow industry leaders, Adobe and Amazon Web Services, to demonstrate innovative and intuitive approaches for online video production and deployment at the 2010 Streaming Media East conference,” said Eric Quanstrom, VP of marketing & strategy of Sorenson Media. “This is a tremendous opportunity to present the market’s highest-quality online video solutions to world-class individuals and organizations in a position to make optimal use of them.”
In addition to its involvement in the 2010 Streaming Media East workshop, Sorenson Media will serve as the official All-Star Sponsor for the 2010 Streaming Media All-Stars program. This sponsorship includes publication of the Streaming Media All-Stars feature in the April/May issue of Streaming Media, which goes out to approximately 20,000 readers, as well as a private event at a Mets baseball game on May 11 for select industry luminaries participating at Streaming Media East.
“It is fitting that Sorenson Media, whose technology has ‘sponsored’ so many transformative developments in the online video movement, is now sponsoring the celebration of key people helping to propel the industry forward,” said Quanstrom. “We also plan to make other significant announcements in conjunction with the event, so stay tuned.”
Tags: capture, East, encoding, online, publish, solutions, streaming, streaming media, transcode, Video, workshop
Posted by Derrick on April 27, 2010 under Video Streaming and Compression |
Datasat Technologies, Inc. is pleased to announce their strategic alliance with Network Foundation Technologies (NiFTy).Working together, the companies plan to further develop high-speed broadband technologies and the delivery of video content.
“High-speed broadband is the future and we are in the right place at the right time,” stated Chris Thomas, President and CEO of Datasat Technologies. Utilizing wireless 802.11n technology, Datasat Technologies’ suite of products allows for high definition video content delivery, providing new solutions for interactive media and live streaming events.
“Through our shared commitment to technology we embark on this collaborative venture and anticipate many successes in the years to come,” said Marcus Morton, NiFTy’s President and co-founder. NiFTy provides complete end-to-end online broadcasting services with a patented technology that is optimized for live and long-play content.
Datasat Technologies and NiFTy both currently offer technology systems that are scalable and cost effective.
NiFTy was the first and only broadcaster to offer live broadcasting for professional sports leagues, that included all games, all teams, for entire seasons, completely Free-For-View to the viewer. Earlier this month, NiFTy announced their renewed partnership with the Arena Football League to air the 2010 season on the AFL Live online broadcast network, beginning April 2nd. And most recently, NiFTy received the Governor’s Award for Technology Company of the Year by the Louisiana Technology Council in recognition of the company’s advanced technology applications.
The Datasat Technologies’ solution allows for the reliable, high-speed delivery of digital communications using 802.11n wifi technology to deliver – broadband internet, cellular telephony and interactive media. The entrepreneur behind Datasat Technologies, Phil Emmel, also established Datasat Communications, a global leader in satellite network solutions. Datasat Technologies recently participated in the FCC’s panel on Address Challenges to Broadband Deployment Financing.
Through their strategic alliance, Datasat Technologies and NiFTy look to provide new solutions for video broadcasting and web content delivery.
Tags: content, definition, delivery, events, Foundation, high, live, media, network, NiFTy, online, streaming, technologies, Video, web
Posted by Derrick on April 24, 2010 under Video Streaming and Compression |
Highwinds, a content, network and hosted IP services business, announced that the National Association of Broadcasters selected its content delivery network (CDN) for the second consecutive year to deliver video from the annual NAB Show. Video highlights from the 2010 NAB Show, that took place from April 10-15 in Las Vegas, were delivered to online audiences over Highwinds’ CDN during and after the event through the NAB Show web site at www.nabshow.com.
Highwinds worked closely with the National Association of Broadcasters and Digital Rapids, who provided onsite transcoding technology again this year. Video of the event, including daily highlights, studio segments, and attendee and exhibitor interviews, were made available for on-demand distribution to worldwide audiences over Highwinds’ CDN. NAB offered more online video coverage than it had in previous years, with new event footage and segments.
Highwinds owns and operates the fastest growing CDN on the planet, delivering live and on-demand video from some of the world’s largest broadcasters to global audiences over its high-performance RollingThunder network. Customers gain intuitive self-provisioning features and superior content command and control with Highwinds’ StrikeTracker console and open APIs, enabling the immediate propagation and streaming of all video uploaded to Highwinds’ network.
Posted by Derrick on April 15, 2010 under Video Streaming and Compression |
Kaltura, Inc., developer of the first open source online video platform announced it will provide full support for Microsoft Silverlight to its existing customers and future prospects. The Silverlight-based player and Internet Information Services Smooth Streaming will be available with Kaltura’s hosted and self-hosted editions.
“Kaltura’s video platform will offer all major video technologies, including Silverlight, Adobe Flash, and HTML5. The addition of Silverlight enables rich new functionalities and provides greater flexibility to our users,” said Ron Yekutiel, Kaltura Chairman and CEO. “Silverlight is a great enhancement to our developer community as it enables developers who are fluent in the Microsoft developer platform to participate and build new applications that provide unique value to Silverlight publishers.”
“Microsoft is excited to see Kaltura invest support for Silverlight and Microsoft developer platform on its open source online video platform,” said Brian Goldfarb, director of the developer platform group at Microsoft Corp. “As online video development continues to grow, Web developers will be truly benefit from the tools offered by Kaltura.”
Posted by Derrick on March 14, 2010 under Video Streaming and Compression |
Network Foundation Technologies (NiFTy) has received an Issue of Notification from the U.S. Patent Office for its latest patent (#7,664,840, ‘Systems for Distributing Data Over a Computer Network and Methods for Arranging Nodes for Distribution of Data Over a Computer Network (Vtree)’). This represents the fifth and latest in a series of patents issued to date, with eight additional patents pending, related to NiFTy’s innovative online distributed broadcasting technology. The technology utilizes the shared bandwidth of all viewers to redistribute the broadcast content, dramatically reducing the broadcaster’s bandwidth and server costs (50% reduction and higher) of reaching large online audiences, while still ensuring excellent broadcast and picture quality.
“The receipt of this new patent further validates NiFTy’s vision for streaming live video,” said Dr. Mike O’Neal, NiFTy’s founder, Chief Scientist and named inventor on the patent. “The cost of traditional CDN (Content Delivery Network) technology, used by virtually all other online broadcasters today, is prohibitively expensive for both small and very large broadcasters, resulting in either small customers not to broadcasting at all, or large customers limiting their viewing audience to reduce cost. NiFTy’s technology, coupled with its range of broadcasting services, provides an affordable platform, making possible for the first time a viable Free-For-View, ad supported broadcasting model.”
NiFTy provides complete end-to-end online broadcasting services, specializing in LIVE long-play sports content, beginning with the patented distributed broadcasting technology at the core, customer branded media players, hosting and distribution, ad insertion, advertising marketing and sales services, On Demand viewing and end-user customer support. NiFTy was the first broadcasting company to provide a complete Free-For-View (no cost to the viewer) model for a professional sports league, with LIVE broadcasting of all games, for all teams, for the entire season. NiFTy continues this model for the third consecutive year of providing broadcasts of the sport of arena football, with the new season starting in April 2010.
Tags: CDN, content, delivery, Foundation, live, network, on-demand, online, streaming, technologies, Video
