Posted in Business on August 01, 2011 by George Antoniou
Bandwidth capacity management and traffic forecast for a video streaming or object delivery event on the Internet is critical to the success of the event. It's vital to understand your audience forecast along with the supply/capacity capabilities of your server farm and/or third party ISP, CDN (content delivery networks) or cloud service providers.
I've sectioned off bandwidth traffic capacity calculators into different sections for different needs. These calculators will help you plan for the necessary capacity to ensure your event is successful.
Tags: capacity management, capacity calculator, bandwidth calculator, streaming, octoshape, internet traffic trend, traffic forecast, CDN, statistics, reporting, cdn, content delivery networks, networks
Posted in Business on February 08, 2011 by George Antoniou
Many people in the industry have been clamoring for the presentation that Dan Rayburn posted in his blog and then removed regarding Google's Global Cache and their view on the challenges of scaling a CDN.
Posted in Business on December 01, 2010 by George Antoniou
An interesting event happened, just recently in November: Major League Gaming's National Championship. Although MLG has been around for years for players of Starcraft 2, Halo 3, Modern Warfare 2, etc. this year's
Posted in Business on August 30, 2010 by George Antoniou
On August 26, 2010 Cisco announced its intent to purchase ExtendMedia, a company providing content management software. Financing terms were not disclosed. ExtendMedia provides a solution termed, OpenCASE, which according to its web site is a carrier-grade platform for managing, publishing and monetizing video across PCs, televisions and mobile devices. This is obviously a play by Cisco to engage its customer further up on the CDN value chain. Similar to OVPs, online video platforms ExtendMedia has solutions, claimed on it's website, to provide most of the value-added services in the CDN value chain.
