Live streaming of sporting events in the U.S. garner a lot of attention from the media for their viewership numbers, but the fact is that these events pale in comparison to what’s going on in places like China and India. On May 20th, the live stream of the League Of Legends final peaked at just […]
The technology to deliver high quality, reliable, broadcast feeds over IP has reached a point where it is a viable alternative to satellite distribution, however IP broadcast still presents some challenges. At the NAB Streaming Summit, taking place next week on April 11th in Vegas, we have a session entitled “How Broadcasters Are Migrating To IP […]
I am excited to announce that in partnership with the NAB, we are launching a new series of focused conferences at the NAB shows, dedicated to the streaming media industry. Called the “Streaming Summit by Dan Rayburn“, the event will kick off at NAB Vegas on April 11th as a one-day, three-track show, and will […]
The live stream of Super Bowl 52 is looking great so far, across all the devices and platforms I’ve tried. I’ve tested the stream on Amazon Fire TV (NBC Sports App, SlingTV), MacBook (Firefox, Chrome, Safari), iPad Mini (NBC Sports App), Xbox One (NBC Sports App, Sling TV), Apple TV 3/4, (NBC Sports App) and […]
I am currently evaluating some recent offers by companies to join their board in the New Year, so I thought it would be a good idea to let all companies know that I am currently interested in taking on a few board positions in 2018. If you think I can contribute to your company in […]
Last month I collected the latest CDN pricing information from over 150 web performance customers and 600 media delivery customers and the results show some major changes taking place in both price and competitive wins. Pricing on both services are down by a large percentage, especially on the bigger deals and many customers are now […]
Load balancing in the cloud is nothing new. Akamai, Neustar, Dyn, and AWS have been offering DNS-based cloud load balancing for a long time. This cloud based approach has many benefits over more traditional appliance-based solutions, but there are still a number of shortcomings. Fastly’s recently released load balancer product takes an interesting new approach, […]