http://www.digitalmedia-world.com/Broadcast/akamai
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Now being rolled out in the WORLD with alliance parteners
This is BIGGER than You could ever imagine!!!!!
The adaptive bit rate has been reduced to as low as 4Mbps and transcoding with the 3.0 engine make for secure delivery of content.
The secret sauce everyone and their mother wants !!!
Akamai showed potential efficiency and cost savings from a scalable content workflow based on media services in the cloud. This used Akamai's Aspera Upload Acceleration for NetStorage as one example, as well as 4K on-demand adaptive bitrate streaming using H.264/AVC prepared with Akamai's cloud-based transcoding and the NanoTech Nuvola NP-1 streaming media player. They also showed integrated, cloud-based content preparation, publication and adaptive bitrate delivery in a single step for global playback.