2011-11-15 00:00:00 | Technology Mobile

HTTP adaptive streaming causing mobile problems

During CDN World Summit, mobile network experts shared their concerns about HTTP Adaptive Bit Rate Streaming. According to radio experts, the technology disrupts the radio signaling.

Radio bandwidth is one challenge, but another challenge in mobile networking is the signaling: signaling is basically the process of establishing, controlling and managing radio communication. Mobile networks have limitations in the number of signals they can process...

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2011-10-03 00:00:00 | Business CDN Federation Event Fiber to the Home History Mobile OTT Streamzilla

CDN projects by Jet-Stream

Projects and milestones
Jet-Stream has been involved in more CDN projects than most other vendors have deployed together. We have over 15 years of hands-on experience with CDN challenges, pitfalls and business cases. We have learned how some CDN technologies are limiting customers so we invented better technologies. We have experience with projects from a telecom operators view, but even more importantly also from a system integrator and content owners view. We have learned why some CDN business cases have failed and why others have succeeded, and therefore we can better advise our customers. As the described projects below demonstrate, Jet-Stream has unique experience with CDNs from both ends of the spectrum: from operated CDNs to licensed CDN technologies and any hybrid solution in between.

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2011-06-18 00:00:00 | Event History Mobile OTT Technology The Last Mile Three Screens Trends ISPs

A new Era | Web 3.0 | premium television | next-gen CDNs

Web 3.0: premium television

1st generation Internet

1993-1999: Web 1.0. The first decade of the Internet was all about pioneering. We had dial-up internet, with slow and unreliable connections. We pioneered live streaming in 1994. The potential audience of the web was small. There was no business in content services. Video was a challenge. The first Global CDNs emerged, focussing on web delivery, using caching and DNS technologies. Internet was a technical revolution.

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2011-05-26 00:00:00 | Mobile

EU mobile roaming rates still ridiculously high

Mobile Service Operators charge extreme rates for a flaky service. They are now under public pressure because they secretly have been sniffing and frustrating traffic using DPI. Traffic costs for roaming can be up to $3.33 per MB!

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2011-03-29 00:00:00 | Mobile

EU Mobile tidbits

Vodafone transcoding video

Last week Vodafone subscribers complained about video performance. Videos in some formats did not play or had terrible performance. According to Vodafone they were blocking specific content formats by mistake and the problems should have been solved. The company said it has nothing to do with their on-the-fly media transcoding system.

The company is deploying Bytemobile video optimization technology which degrades video quality based upon the end users device capacity. I wonder if content owners and content publishers know about this and if they let mobile operators keep touching their content.

Nine hour T-Mobile outage
Yesterday, T-Mobile NL had a nationwide outage yesterday, which lasted for nine hours. According to T-Mobile a conflicting subsystem in their main dispatch caused the outage. Over two million subscribers were not able to call or text message and mobile data was interrupted as well. After the issue was found, T-Mobile turned on subscribers in batches, many of whom were woken in the middle of the night because all their text messages came through once their connection was re-established.

Mobile Operators pushing WiFi. Or not?
An increasing number of mobile operators have started to offer paid WiFi services for hotel chains. Premium hotels used to offer free WiFi, but an increasing number of hotels are now charging extreme rates like €10 per hour for (crappy, slow) WiFi services. I heard the EU is looking into this because it looks like mobile operators are abusing this position to force end users to pay extreme amounts for data either way via the Hotel’s WiFi or via their 3G service.