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D. Foley actually has been very busy, he teaches classes on Wednesdays is performing clerical duties Mondays through Saturdays. The man is tirelessly working for his return, he has no access to the internet or computer access but receives Google printouts of news alerts from My Google watch list so he pretty much staying up on whatever is reported on with news, as well as two dozen magazines and newsletters he has subscribed too. One benefit of of his clerk duties is that he can to listen to CNBC all day long while working so he is keeping up on finance news really well.
I also congratulate him on what he also is doing during his time, he in addition joined the Toastmasters Club so on Tuesdays and Thursdays he is giving speeches and honing his speaking and presentation skills. That in itself is huge in my book that D. Foley plans on speaking for NTEK in a lot more ways then just technical jargon.
I have been fascinated with NTEK's amazing content delivery speed over such small streaming rates. D. Foley has explained it well and I have better understood what sets us apart. We (NTEK) use elastic cloud like services for scalable server infrastructure, and have for the past 2 years to grow and shrink the resources on demand throughout the day. Nobody eliminates cdn/edge servers, including Netflix and Amazon. They actually put their own hardware in the ISP locations. Every major ISP in the world has an Amazon Prime and Netflix video server with a local copy of all of their popular on demand content. We just happen to use Verizon to do the same thing which I think is setting us apart! Edge servers and on demand servers are very different in their use and purpose. The elastic cloud just refers to having servers on demand. Those servers are used for database type work, user registrations, searches, etc etc, all of the non-real time work that is done behind the scenes. Cdn/edge servers are used to optimize the loading time and reduce the stutter in a network stream by locating the source material as close to the user as possible, eliminating the distance traveled and therefore the number of hops in between. Cloud servers are located in only a few locations around the world. for instance, Amazon AWS cloud servers are located in only 5 places in the US, so using them for media delivery is a bad idea. NTEK's (UltraFlix) code is agnostic when it comes to cloud, and we currently use Google Cloud instead of AWS because it is cheaper at the moment.
Sorry I get long winded and excited where our technology is heading and leading industry standards for delivery.
19 weeks to go! Lots will be announced before then but much will come together after Dec. 16th.
How can we not be excited for the future of NTEK I ask !?!?
B/Rgds,
Fuja