United States: Akamai Targets TV Everywere In HD.Akamai Technologies Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM) is a company that provides a distributed computing platform for global Internet content and application delivery, headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. is marketing a service for distributing high-definition online video to large Internet audiences, claiming it can scale up to reach millions of users. The Akamai HD Network uses multiple playback formats, including Adobe Systems' Flash technology and Microsoft Silverlight Microsoft Silverlight (code-named Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere or WPF/E) is a proprietary runtime for browser-based Rich Internet Applications, providing a subset of the animation, vector graphics, and video playback capabilities of Windows Presentation media-delivery platforms, both of which provide adaptive-rate streaming , as well as Apple's iPhone. The service uses the content delivery network provider's network of more than 50,000 servers in 70 countries. Akamai's stepped-up push into HD online video comes as operators, including Comcast and Time Warner Cable This article or section needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. , are testing out "TV Everywhere" services that allow cable subscribers to access extra content for no additional charge. The HD-video service uses adaptive bit-rate streaming to adjust to fluctuations in available bandwidth, in order to provide the highest-quality video to each user. Akamai also touts the ability of its HD video player to authenticate in Flash, Silverlight and iPhone environments to ensure only authorized users are able to access content. "Delivering Web-quality' content to Web-sized' audiences is one thing, but delivering HD-quality content to broadcast-scale audiences is another," Akamai president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Paul Sagan said in announcing the strategy. Akamai's media-industry customers include Epix , the joint venture of Paramount, MGM MGM in full Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. U.S. corporation and film studio. It was formed when the film distributor Marcus Loew, who bought Metro Pictures in 1920, merged it with the Goldwyn production company in 1924 and with Louis B. Mayer Pictures in 1925. and Lionsgate, to deliver full-length HD movies over the Internet over the Akamai CDN (Content Delivery Network) A system of distributed content on a large intranet or the public Internet in which copies of content are replicated and cached throughout the network. Copyright : Euclid Infotech Pvt. Ltd. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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