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News Since its launch, iPlayer has also been rolled out to the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch as well as the Nintendo Wii computer console.iPlayer has gone from strength to strength with both download and streaming versions proving massively popular since...
[30 Apr 2008]
whitepaper The need to enable key services, such as faster information processing, streaming media, Web serving, and online transactions, is fueling the demand for server power and speed. Enterprises worldwide are embracing a digital work style to stay...
[25 Apr 2008]
whitepaper Now, with Polycom iPower People+Content Streaming, existing group videoconferencing systems can be leveraged, extending the investment by making the same technology the origination point for complete rich media events or archives, or simple video...
[10 Apr 2008]
whitepaper It describes the processes that Cisco has in place to effectively use its internal Cisco Media Network architecture to create live and on-demand video content, publish and manage media assets, and globally deliver video-based content for multiple...
[10 Apr 2008]
whitepaper HiNet provides media services through an advanced IT environment called the HiNet Media Platform (HMP) and delivers streaming media services for the hinet.net and hichannel.hinet.net Web sites. HiNet began testing Windows Server 2008, focusing on...
[02 Apr 2008]
whitepaper IP multicast services are commonly used to deliver streaming media applications, such as those carrying voice and/or video traffic. This Application Note explains how to use Dell PowerConnect switches in networks running IP multicast services.
[28 Mar 2008]
whitepaper Topics discussed are OSS/BSS systems, Sun Broadband Business Group's charter, streaming media services and applications, multicast technology, convergence of voice, video, data and Sun's support of secure content delivery.
[12 Mar 2008]
News The iPhone's Edge technology is too slow for streaming videos. Writing on the BBC blog this morning the BBC's head of digital media technologies, Anthony Rose, said today was a big day for iPlayer as it's the first time the service has been made...
[07 Mar 2008]
Cheat Sheet During the latter half of the year, more people started using the service and it received a full marketing launch on Christmas Day - which was also when the streaming version of the service went live.
[05 Mar 2008]
whitepaper Many of the applications are complex (e.g.reconstruct TCP/IP sessions), query layer-7 data (find streaming media connections), operate over huge volumes of data (Gigabit and higher speed links), and have real-time reporting requirements (e.g.to...
[04 Mar 2008]
whitepaper Content includes streaming audio, streaming video, presentations, live Q&A sessions, and polling questions. Many companies use their own Cisco WAN and the Cisco Application Content Networking System (ACNS), as the Cisco Media Network group does for...
[04 Mar 2008]
whitepaper One of its four main functions is to support distribution of video content in various formats: live streaming video (like television), on-demand streaming video, and video files pushed to the desktop.
[04 Mar 2008]
News Microsoft has been signing on content partners to use Silverlight for media streaming, including MLB.com and online Olympic games broadcasting with NBC. Microsoft's Silverlight browser plug-in will be bringing videos and other rich media to Nokia...
[04 Mar 2008]
whitepaper Measuring real-time end-to-end network path performance metrics is important for several distributed applications such as media streaming systems (e.g.for switching to paths with higher bandwidth and lower jitter) and content distribution systems...
[03 Mar 2008]
whitepaper For the popular Windows Media streaming format, it presents techniques to estimate video quality degradations based on examining information at the IP, TCP and application-layers. This paper considers the problem of predicting application-level...
[03 Mar 2008]
whitepaper In the paper one examines usage patterns, file properties, popularity and referencing characteristics, and transfer behaviors, and compares them to traditional Web and media streaming workload characteristics.
[14 Feb 2008]
News Tiscali claims that both the streaming and download versions of the BBC's iPlayer can create problems on its network. And as more of these bandwidth-heavy content services - such as the multi-broadcaster Kangaroo media player - are launched and...
[28 Jan 2008]
News The proportion of users streaming content compared to those using the download service was eight to one. The streaming version of iPlayer was launched for Windows, Macs and Linux in December. Ashley Highfield, director of Future Media and...
[15 Jan 2008]
whitepaper One challenge multimedia application developers face is that streaming audio and video places multiple competing requirements on the underlying transport mechanism. For example, sharing network resources with data applications encourages media...
[14 Jan 2008]
whitepaper Mobile media streaming is envisioned to become an important service over packet-switched 2.5G and 3G wireless networks. At the same time, TCP-friendly rate-adaptation behavior for streaming will become an important IETF requirement.
[14 Jan 2008]
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