Thursday 2nd September
Jet
Stream leads charge for deployment of the “three screens CDN”
Consumer demand for service providers to deliver content to any device,
at any time and in any location is growing more prevalent each year. Consumers
are gaining additional control over how they access content, whether it’s
through personal computers, mobile devices or set-top boxes, challenging
service providers’ traditional walled garden offerings and threatening
their position in the content delivery value chain.
Jet Stream BV, provider of content delivery network (CDN) solutions, has
outlined key strategies for service providers to launch their own three
screens CDNs to support this rapidly-growing need. By deploying their own
CDNs, service providers have a platform to upsell premium services to subscribers,
helping them differentiate their offerings from competitors, as well as
monetize the distribution of online media and over-the-top content. On-net
CDNs also permit service providers to offload traffic, allowing them to
manage large amounts of content, and supply advanced wholesale hosting and
delivery services to content owners.
“All service providers need to do is follow the eyeballs,” said
Stef van der Ziel, Jet Stream CEO. “Thanks to the Internet, consumers
are revolutionizing the way they access content, and content owners and
advertisers are following their lead. Service providers don’t want
to be left behind; they want a portion of the content distribution opportunity.
To do this, service providers must evolve from triple play services to 'open
play' platforms that deliver content to all three screens."
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Sigma
Designs adds affordable RVU thin client solution to chips
Sigma Designs, a provider of system-on-chip (SoC) solutions used to deliver
entertainment and control throughout the home, hasannounced the immediate
availability of RVU-compatible client software for its high-performance,
low-cost media processing chipsets and reference designs. With Sigma's
RVU solution, telco, cable, and satellite customers have a low-cost, high-performance
way to distribute premium AV content, from the home gateway to thin client
set-top boxes and consumer products, throughout the home. Sigma will exhibit
its RVU solutions for the first time at IBC 2010 in the Balcony Suite
BM24, on the Mezzanine Level, Hall 1.
Sigma RVU solutions enable multi-channel service providers to deliver
their high-quality content to RVU thin client devices throughout the connected
home -- with a consistent user interface. OEMs can now rapidly develop
and deploy networked consumer products using Sigma's feature-rich reference
designs.
"Our deep expertise in IPTV and connected media players has given
us the edge in developing a low-cost, comprehensive connectivity solution
using RVU for our cable, satellite, and telco customer base," said
David Lynch, vice president and general manager, media processor business
unit at Sigma Designs. "Sigma's solution accelerates the growth of
IP-based audio-video distribution in the home by giving service providers
and OEMs the ability to rapidly deploy interoperable consumer products."
The RVU Remote User Interface provides for the pixel accurate rendering
of the service provider's graphic user interface on a large variety of
thin-client displays. The RVU protocol, standardized by the RVU Alliance,
is based on existing industry standards (UPnP, DLNA, DTCP-IP).
Sigma's RVU client software port, which was developed jointly with JetHead
Development, augments Sigma's Adobe Flash, Google Android, Yahoo Widgets,
Netflix and OpenGL ES 2.0 software modules.
"By combining our RVU software with Sigma's great media processors,
we help service providers to generate higher revenues, at lower cost,"
said Brian Bender, president of JetHead Development.
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