To win the fight against churn and build lasting engagement, media and entertainment companies are leaning heavily into content personalization. In fact, they’re committing themselves to it.

“We’ve reached this inflection point where AI hyperpersonalization is transitioning from experimental into foundational,” said Nina Walsh, global leader of business development, Media & Entertainment, Games and Sports, at Amazon Web Services (AWS). “Consumers are drowning in content and are looking at how best to find what they want when they want it. Passive discovery is dying. Channel surfing is gone.”

Personalization is also one of the most effective defenses against churn, added Mrugesh Desai, chief revenue officer at Accedo.“When viewers can’t quickly find something worth watching, they begin to question the value of their subscription,” he said. “The best streaming services know that content discovery, not content volume, is what drives engagement and retention.”

This means treating television like any other modern application. “People expect the same level of convenience from television that they get from every other digital service they use,” explained Elodie Levrel, corporate marketing and communication director for Broadpeak. “That means recommendations should reflect their interests, live and on-demand content should be easy to find and the experience should feel consistent whether they’re watching on a connected TV, tablet or smartphone.”

Breaking the Metadata Bottleneck
Today’s hyperpersonalized content delivery relies on a massive amount of high-quality data. Unfortunately, the efficiency of these systems is being hampered by legacy databases and the very nature of household viewing.

“One of the problems with personalization is the fact that a television is a shared device—one per household, rather than a truly personal device like a phone or a tablet,” said Dimitri Tarassenko, senior vice president of product management for LTN. “To make a step from addressable [i.e. targeted at a household] to personalized [targeted at a viewer] you need more data, and programming context [what the viewer has watched to date] is often a very good clue.”

Extracting that context in a useful way is the industry’s biggest hurdle. “This is the No. 1 conversation that I have with media companies all over the globe: Legacy metadata is the biggest obstacle that they encounter,” Walsh said. “The reason for that is that there are decades of inconsistently tagged, multiformat, multilanguage content libraries that weren’t designed for algorithmic consumption.”

Desai agreed. “Poor metadata is still the quiet killer of personalization projects, and it’s rarely fixed by buying a better recommendation engine,” he said. “The real work is foundational: First, an honest audit of where metadata is inconsistent, incomplete or siloed across legacy CMS systems, then establishing a single normalized schema that every content source (live, VOD, licensed and owned) maps into.”

Titan TV President Heidi Steffen stressed the importance of reliable data for feeding content personalization systems. “You need the data that is being fed into AI to be consistent,” she noted. “‘Garbage in’ results in ‘garbage out.’ If the data being used is inconsistent and confusing, AI will not be able to produce reliable, useful content recommendations.”

Curing Choice Fatigue
Conventional wisdom says churn happens because viewers are tired of paying for too many streaming services, which isn’t necessarily the case.

“Churn in streaming, much like piracy, is a convenience problem rather than price,” said Jacob Arends, senior product manager for Bitmovin. “If one of those services isn’t meeting a viewer’s needs or keeping them engaged, then it will likely be on the short list for the next service to drop.”

The same convenience problem occurs when platforms present viewers with too many recommendations. “Casual viewers do not want to be the director, so giving them too much choice and options actually creates a less rewarding experience,” Arends told TV Tech.

Instead, these viewers want to be told what to watch, and those recommendations had better be spot on—or else. “The data shows that if a viewer hasn’t had a ‘wow’ moment in 72 hours, it’s probably a 30-day churn from there,” Walsh said.

Ironically, making it hard for viewers to drop services can actually increase churn over the long term. “For the Gen Z and millennial cohorts driving the 50%-plus churn rate, the fix is rarely a smarter algorithm alone but rather to remove the friction around leaving and returning,” Desai said. “The platforms with the lowest churn make cancellation painless and reactivation a single click, because a subscriber who leaves easily is far more likely to come back than one who feels trapped.”

Ultimately, keeping those subscribers engaged requires an end-to-end approach to the user experience. “The broadcasters most likely to reduce churn are the ones that combine personalization with a simple interface, value-added features such as multiview for live sport and advertising that feels relevant without interrupting the viewing experience,” Levrel said.

Live Sports Demands Clean Data
Live sports and hyperlocal news present unique challenges for content personalization algorithms.

A case in point: Broadcasters that decide to route a live game to a secondary over-the-air channel can wreak havoc on smart-TV algorithms and viewer retention. “They can’t put it on their 9.1 due to other demands, so they put it on their 9.2, which is traditionally a pass-through,” Steffen said.

Making such switches confuses algorithms and viewers alike. This is why broadcasters and other content producers need to ensure their real-time metadata is properly synchronized so that content personalization systems can function correctly.

With the right data, delivered cleanly and consistently, these systems can work wonders. “We’re now at a point where productions can offer real-time user preference graphs, where you can build live models of each fan’s teams, leagues, favorite players and what their viewing patterns are,” Walsh said. “This enables them to personalize the ‘what’s on now’ experience for fans—but it requires ingesting real-time schedule data, rights, and metadata.”

To further optimize this experience, the delivery infrastructure must keep pace. “Technologies such as Media over QUIC (MoQ) are helping improve live streaming by reducing zapping time, lowering latency and limiting rebuffering,” Levrel explained. “During major tournaments, features such as multiview also give fans more control by letting them follow several matches or different camera angles at the same time.”

From ATSC 3.0 to Agentic AI
As content personalization expands, traditional broadcasters face technical hurdles—particularly in implementing ATSC 3.0.

“For traditional broadcasters, the biggest roadblocks are addressable advertising and interactive overlays onto ATSC 3.0 hybrid delivery orchestration,” Walsh explained. “Legacy infrastructure coexists, so broadcasters can’t abandon ATSC 1.0 overnight. This creates massive operational challenges, not to mention the cost.”

Added Tarassenko, “While the ad replacement and ad decisioning technologies are largely there, one of the biggest gaps lies in connecting the ad sales systems used for digital campaigns with the traditional infrastructure used to originate the linear channels.”

The good news: In the future, improvements in agentic AI, predictive behaviors and even physical biometrics are poised to make content curation entirely seamless.

The next real shift is agentic AI, according to Desai.

“Agentic AI closes this gap by letting specialized agents work together toward a shared outcome rather than each optimizing in isolation,” he said. “Get that right, and personalization stops being just a feature to become the core of a service’s operating model.”

Added Walsh: “Sensors in wearables can provide real-time emotional signals to enhance recommendation engines. A system that senses viewer stress, for example, could surface more calming content. Or, if your heart rate spikes during a scene, it could use that as a preference signal.

“Privacy is an important piece of all of this,” he continued. “The platforms that win long-term will be those that give users the transparent control over the personalization of their data, creating a trust-based value exchange.”

Of course, deploying such wearables will require a high level of consumer trust, because tapping into biometric and emotional signals moves content personalization from viewing behavior into sensitive personal data.

Overall, Walsh believes the M&E industry is moving towards agentic, predictive and generative personalization.

“As for how far it will go, it’s likely we will reach a point where the default entertainment experience will feel handcrafted for each viewer,” she said. “When this happens, the generic broadcast experience will feel dated, like the old-school telephone. As we move this direction, it’s vital to ensure that ethical frameworks are in place to build alongside the technology that’s evolving at a rapid rate.”

However, the ultimate goal isn’t total automation. “Personalization will continue to improve, but the goal isn’t to personalize every part of the viewing experience,” Levrel said. “The real opportunity is using personalization where it adds value, so people stay engaged and broadcasters can better understand what’s working.”

CESSON-SÉVIGNÉ, France—Broadpeak has launched Click2Cart, which it calls “the next evolution” of its Click2 interactive advertising solution. Click2Cart enables viewers to add products directly to their online shopping cart with a single click of their TV remote during a streaming advertisement.

Click2Cart builds on Broadpeak's Click2 interactive advertising solution that enables viewers to engage with ads and begin the process of purchasing while watching video streaming services. The add-to-cart feature marks a significant next phase, according to Broadpeak, moving beyond click-to-notification features by allowing viewers to add products directly to their online shopping cart, bringing consumers just one click away from completing a purchase.

As performance advertising becomes an increasingly important priority for connected TV, advertisers are demanding the same measurable commerce capabilities available through the world's largest digital platforms. Today, advanced shoppability features remain largely confined to major digital commerce ecosystems and their own advertising environments. Broadpeak Click2 helps overcome these barriers by providing a universal performance advertising framework that interoperates with existing streaming workflows while connecting seamlessly with third-party retail platforms.

“Retail media and shoppable TV are two notable sectors of rapidly-growing opportunity in today’s advertising landscape,” said Paul Erickson, Principal Analyst, Media & Entertainment at Omdia. “Interactive CTV advertising’s potential for brands and publishers has been traditionally limited by challenges such as intuitiveness of user experience and level of performance measurement. Improved integration, experience, and measurability is in the shared interest of advertisers, platforms and consumers alike.”

For publishers, broadcasters and streaming operators, the solution introduces a new category of premium performance advertising inventory, attracting new advertiser demand while creating incremental revenue opportunities that capitalize on the continued growth of ecommerce.

For brands, retailers and retail media networks, Click2Cart creates a direct path from advertisement to purchase, while providing accurate engagement and conversion metrics that bring true performance advertising measurement to connected TV. For viewers, Broadpeak says the experience is "simple and intuitive," allowing viewers to click once using their existing TV remote to add products directly to their shopping cart.

"For too long, delivering true shoppability and performance advertising has only been feasible for a handful of top digital platforms," said Jacques Le Mancq, President and CEO at Broadpeak. "We're giving streaming companies and broadcasters the tools to compete for performance advertising on a level playing field. The industry has been asking for a better way to connect advertisers, retailers and streaming platforms without compromising the viewer experience. Click2Cart makes TV shoppability practical at scale – we’re looking forward to collaborating with customers and their retail partners to push this next phase forward."

Click2Cart integrates with existing streaming advertising workflows and third-party retail ecosystems, with support across standard pre-roll and mid-roll advertising and non-linear display formats including L-Banner. It introduces new engagement and conversion beacons that provide advertisers with accurate performance KPIs and measurement capabilities throughout the purchase journey, according to Broadpeak.

Broadpeak says that when combined with the spot-level ad replacement solution Spot2Spot and nonlinear ad insertion capabilities with BannersIn2, which unlock new ad formats and higher-value inventory, Click2Cart “opens a pathway to revenue growth and true incremental inventory across the 150+ telecom operators working with Broadpeak worldwide.”

Broadpeak will demonstrate Click2Cart publicly for the first time at IBC2026, Sept. 11-14 at booth 1.F83 in the RAI Amsterdam.

CESSON-SÉVIGNÉ, France—Broadpeak is launching Multiview as a Service on broadpeak.io, the company’s SaaS platform at the 2026 IBC Show, Sept. 11-14 at the RAI Amsterdam. The fully managed self-serve SaaS offering enables broadcasters, streaming platforms and broadband providers to launch user-curated multiview experiences for live events with greater speed and simplicity.

Multiview allows audiences to choose their preferred layouts and watch multiple channels, live events or camera angles simultaneously, creating a richer viewing experience designed to increase engagement, encourage longer viewing sessions and help reduce subscriber churn, the company said.

“Multiview has quickly become one of the most requested capabilities for premium sports streaming, particularly across a huge summer of live sporting events, but the cost and complexity of deployment have prevented many providers from bringing it to market,” said Jacques Le Mancq, president and CEO of Broadpeak. “Bringing Multiview to broadpeak.io removes those barriers and makes sophisticated viewing experiences accessible to a wide range of service providers via a nimble, cost-efficient model.”

Broadpeak says its cloud-based service significantly accelerates time to market. Customers can introduce Multiview across a broad range of devices through a flexible, usage-based SaaS model, eliminating upfront CAPEX investment and aligning costs with service usage.

Broadpeak also manages the underlying infrastructure and provides continuous service supervision through its team of video streaming experts. Proactive monitoring helps ensure consistent service performance, while detailed KPIs enable customers to optimize their service settings over time.

Broadpeak will be in Booth 1.F83 at the show.

Now that consumers can stream live sports of just about every description through one OTT service or another, the question is, can service providers draw enough viewers to make money on their big sports streaming bets?

Amid much publicity about the boom in sports streaming, the general absence of sports-specific ROI data can’t hide the fact that, by all indications, providers are a long way from generating the returns they’re looking for on huge licensing and infrastructure costs. Notwithstanding a wealth of vendor-supplied, audience-building solutions aimed at achieving that goal, live sports viewing is still predominantly experienced through legacy TV outlets.

That point was driven home in April by Dan Rayburn, streaming media analyst and producer of the annual NAB Show Streaming Summit, who noted that pay TV still accounts for around 85% of total live sports viewing hours in the U.S. Citing inflated numbers widely ascribed to recently streamed marquee productions, Rayburn said the impression that streaming services are drawing “tens of millions of viewers” is wrong.

“It’s not happening,” he said, adding, “I see almost nobody reporting the numbers correctly.”

With streamers spending $12.5 billion of the $64 billion global outlay for sports distribution rights in 2025 and likely to add another $1.7 billion this year, according to Ampere Analysis, it remains to be seen if the pursuit of better UX will deliver the payback platforms are looking for. Getting there starts with eliminating the hassles confronted by consumers in searching for specific events, suggested Sandeep Tiku, chief technology officer at global sports streaming giant DAZN, which, as reported by the Financial Times, finally hopes to turn a profit by year’s end.

Battling the Fragmentation Impact on UX
Joining Rayburn for a different session at the NAB Show Streaming Summit, Tiku took streamers to task for thinking the use of recommendation engines qualifies as personalization. “Personalization totally is a joke,” he said, with Rayburn voicing concurrence. “Open your app and keep scrolling to find what game to watch? That’s not personalization. That’s marketing buzz.”

Tiku suggested the granularity of the in-the-moment, per-user personalization providers need will require streaming via the new Delta protocol, which DAZN and multiple development partners plan to demonstrate at next month’s IBC in hopes of bringing it to market over the next two years. But there’s ample evidence that sports streamers are already moving toward significant improvements in personalization and UX in general by tapping into the outpouring of new vendor solutions now at hand.

One way to get over the fragmentation hump with a more search-friendly UX can be found among the many multiview platforms that have appeared over the last year or so. While multiviewing with three or four on-screen options has gained some currency, a spurt of newly introduced next-gen systems could bring streamers much closer to mitigating the fragmentation issue.

The platform Broadpeak introduced at April’s NAB Show is a case in point. As Broadpeak sees it, the key to getting the most from multiviewing lies with lifting limitations on the number of user choices, how those options are configured and how fast they are rendered, said Damien Sterkers, the company’s vice president of products and solutions marketing. In an interview, Sterkers said the new multiview platform meets these requirements with improved cost and streaming efficiency compared to other available options.

But as with any consumer-targeted multiviewing platform, there are matters of rights, market testing and other business complexities that must be dispensed with before Broadpeak can talk about customer implementations. “There’s huge interest, but it takes a lot of time,” Sterkers said.

That appears to be the case with most of the other next-gen systems just hitting the marketplace, including the widely varying approaches taken by AWS, Eluvio, Harmonic, Imagine Communications, MediaKind, Syna­media, Tiledmedia and Red5, all of which were also on display at NAB Show. To date, very few service provider implementations of these solutions have been publicized.

One exception involves AWS, which began its foray into multiviewing late last year with the development of Formula One’s F1 TV Premium platform, enabling in-sync displays of camera feeds from every car in a race. Still in development with general availability targeted for IBC in September, Prime Video used the AWS solution in last season’s NBA telecasts to give viewers instant access to all games in action at any given time, according to Greg Truax, director of live services at AWS Elemental.

Truax said his team has put a lot of work into developing a ready-to-deploy platform that can be customized to each provider’s specific needs. Given that implementations can be resource-intensive on the server side, he said, this can only be done at reasonable cost “with on-demand scaling in the cloud.” What matters is that, by packing multiple videos into a single bitstream, “you’re not burning batteries or using other extra resources like advanced chips on the client,” he added.

Innovations in Production
There’s also a lot happening on the production side to enliven live-streamed sports, as exemplified by the support industry operators are getting from Techex, the longtime U.K.-based broadcast production system integrator and solutions provider that is expanding its U.S. customer base. At NAB Show, Techex announced a partnership with Encompass Digital Media that integrates Encompass’ cloud-production workflow platform with Techex’s content transformation, user interface and control technologies.

As described by Techex product manager David Edwards, the partnership is focused on live sports and production convergence for traditional broadcast and streaming in the cloud, including hybrid operations involving both on-prem and public commodity processing centers. “What’s unique for Techex is we can insert content seamlessly in multiple live transport streams with the ability to scale operations in the cloud compute environment,” Edwards said, adding this is done with no need to decode the streams.

A big focus for customers has been enabling on-the-fly insertions of SCTE 35 (“Scutty”) markers and then ads on a regionally targeted basis whenever game breaks occur. The benefits and scalability of the Techex functionalities were on display in DAZN’s 2026 World Cup productions, he said, noting production for the championship game in New Jersey involved dealing with feeds from 50 cameras.

A UX Game-Changer Tied to Latency Reduction
On another front widely regarded as essential to a better sports streaming UX, industry players are moving aggressively to lower end-to-end distribution latencies. These initiatives have two goals: reducing streaming latencies to broadcast equivalency in the 6-to-8-second range (and sometimes lower) over conventional HLS and MPEG DASH streaming platforms, and achieving sub-500-millisecond latencies, commonly referred to as “real time,” over new streaming infrastructures.

As previously reported, the search for real-time streaming solutions shifted into high gear at the NAB Show with surging industry participation in testing and, in a few cases, commercial operations over new CDN infrastructure supporting the new MOQ Transport standard.

But there’s something more to MOQ beyond support for real-time streaming that may account for the surging industry involvement, and this could go beyond the latency question to address the larger challenge of how to drive ROI on live sports streaming.

As Broadpeak’s Sterkers noted: “MOQ gives us one single protocol for streaming all video applications. Imagine you have a streaming service where you can mix programs on the same transport platform, adding real time for watch parties or to bring in commentary from influencers, while maintaining broadcast-level latency with the core content.”

That’s possible because MOQ users will have independently managed dashboard control over each track of a MOQ stream. They can assign latencies ranging from sub-500 milliseconds to two-second “interactive live,” for applications like sports betting and interactive shopping, to 5-second “conservative live” matched to broadcast speeds.

Broadpeak is all in at this stage of MOQ experimentation, taking a highly flexible approach to its CDN infrastructure that will be productized as soon as one of its tire-kickers is ready to go public, Sterkers said. “It really depends on how much people want to spend on latency optimization,” he added. “But with MOQ they can do a lot more natively.”

Whatever the motivations might be, demand for MOQ support is high enough to persuade AWS it is worth a lot of the Elemental team’s time, AWS Elemental’s Truax said. Given that AWS has long supported streaming with the User Datagram Protocol (UDP), a fundamental component of the QUIC protocol used with MOQ, “we’re excited about the standardization of UDP video delivery,” he said.

With several customers already in MOQ beta testing, “it’s kind of a latency thing right now,” Truax added. But now that “all the pieces of the chain” are in play, aside from control over device playback, AWS has more expansive goals in mind.

“You will see us make a fairly big splash,” Truax predicted. But with the IETF hoping to complete the MOQ Transport specifications by year-end, getting to commercial operations is “going to take a lot of work all the way into December.”

CESSON-SEVIGNE, France—Broadpeak has announced that it will showcase its latest innovations for broadcasters and streaming platforms at 2026 NAB Show April 18-22 (booth W3034), with a particular focus on premium live streaming performance, advanced advertising capabilities, and enhanced anti-piracy protection.

“Content providers need to deliver flawless live experiences especially for record-breaking live audiences, grow advertising revenues, and protect their content at massive scale,” said Jacques Le Mancq, president and CEO of Broadpeak. “At NAB Show 2026, we’re demonstrating how our customers can elevate their streaming services through premium-performance video delivery, advanced ad technologies, and real-time security.”

During the show, Broadpeak will be showing attendees a number of new technologies. Those include:

• Multiview: Broadpeak’s new approach for enabling viewers to watch multiple events simultaneously, or switch between different camera angles - all while removing client interoperability issues and reducing delivery costs.
• Dynamic ad insertion innovation: Enhanced ad insertion capabilities to expand inventory and drive ad revenues. BannersIn2 introduces new formats including pause ads, overlay ads, ad squeeze-back and content squeeze-back, increasing premium ad inventory while maintaining viewing quality. Click2Cart, enabling viewers to add products directly to a merchant’s cart via connected devices, driving measurable performance-based advertising and deeper viewer engagement.
• Media over QUIC (MoQ): The new protocol offers enhanced live streaming performance with faster zap times, lower latency, and reduced re-buffering.
• AI-powered subtitling and dubbing: Supporting global reach and accessibility through intelligent, automated language services.

Broadpeak will also demonstrate the latest enhancements to its solutions enabling content providers to stream live events while protecting revenue with anti-piracy measures:

• Stream at scale with premium QoE: Broadpeak’s purpose-built video CDN, including its HyperPoP architecture and Advanced CDN technologies, is designed to support high-audience streaming with broadcast-grade quality of experience (QoE). The solution, available for on-prem and cloud deployments or as a service, enables scalable, efficient video delivery while maintaining low latency and operational efficiency during major live events.
• Advanced real-time anti-piracy: Specifically created for streaming services and integrated directly into Broadpeak’s CDN, the solution integrates anti-token sharing, AI-based pattern recognition, quota management, and real-time content replacement to detect and mitigate piracy threats immediately – including credential abuse, scraping and unauthorized access.

Designed to scale during high-traffic live events, Broadpeak’s solutions support flexible deployment, including software-based installations, cloud-native architectures, SaaS via broadpeak.io, and managed services.

Visit Broadpeak at NAB Show 2026 in the West Hall, booth #W3034.

CESSON-SÉVIGNÉ, France—Broadpeak will launch its new Multiview solution for live sports at the 2026 NAB Show in Las Vegas, April 18-22. Multiview enables broadcasters, streaming platforms and telecom operators to more efficiently deliver multiple simultaneous feeds on the same screen. The solution offers a new alternative to traditional multiview technologies, enabling viewers to watch a number of different events simultaneously, or follow several camera angles, with improved cost and streaming efficiency compared to other options available on the market, according to Broadpeak.

Multiview enables broadcasters, operators and streaming services to offer fans more personalized and engaging viewing experiences during tournaments and gameday weekends. Parks Associates’ S.O.S State of Streaming 2026 report found that multiview is one of the most appealing interactive features for sports viewers, popular among 53% of fans alongside critical capabilities like multiple match choices, in-game analytics or recording to watch later.

“Sports audiences, particularly younger viewers, increasingly expect control, choice and interactivity – whether that’s switching between games, watching multiple events at the same time or following player performance stats for betting purposes,” said Michael Goodman, Director, Entertainment Research at Parks Associates. “As multiview becomes a standard feature that subscribers demand from premium sports services, providers need practical, cost-effective streaming architecture to deploy it at scale.”

Broadpeak enhances traditional multiview workflows through a new multi-package approach. This combines video feeds at the packager level, after encoding, meaning much less processing power is needed at the encoder level. All the processing is done in the network, and a single stream is delivered. This means end-user devices do not need to have particular player capability or extra device processing power to get the best experience. This gives content providers the freedom and flexibility they need to create and scale innovative multiview experiences to the largest possible audiences while also actively driving down costs.

“Multiview is quickly becoming table stakes for the biggest sports streaming companies – especially around major championship finals or global events like the World Cup,” said Jacques Le Mancq, President and CEO at Broadpeak. “Delivering it cost-efficiently at scale remains a persistent challenge due to heavy processing requirements and limited screen configurations. Our approach enables unlimited layout flexibility with greater efficiency and compatibility. We’re excited to bring this next evolution of multiview to the global streaming market.”

Multiview will be displayed for the first time at Broadpeak's booth #W3034 at the 2026 NAB Show.

CHESEAUX-SUR-LAUSANNE, Switzerland and PHOENIX—Nagravision announced today that it is extending its partnership with Broadpeak to deliver a next-generation streaming security solution for providers of live sports content. The joint solution “strategically detects, identifies, and disrupts pirate streams to degrade their quality and reliability, making them unwatchable, while preserving an uninterrupted service for paying customers, maximizing both revenue protection and viewer satisfaction,” according to the companies.

The collaboration combines Nagravision’s AI-powered security analytics and real-time pirate disruption technologies with Broadpeak’s Advanced CDN with real-time security control.

“Live sports content is both highly valuable and highly vulnerable,” said Stéphane Le Dreau, SVP Global Product Management & Sales Development at Nagravision. “The winning combination of our market-leading content security expertise together with Broadpeak’s own innovation in streaming security gives rights holders and broadcasters robust tools to protect their content and actively detect, identify, and disrupt the pirate viewing experience—while ensuring a seamless experience for legitimate viewers.”

The integrated solution delivers comprehensive end-to-end protection against evolving piracy threats including illegal re-streaming, credential sharing, unauthorized access, and CDN leeching. Its AI-powered analytics engine continuously monitors CDN traffic and DRM license requests to detect suspicious activity patterns, enabling immediate disruption of pirate streams without impacting legitimate viewers. Engineered for scale, the solution optimizes content delivery for high concurrency and low latency even during peak viewership periods of live events, while seamlessly integrating with OTT platforms and broadcast workflows to minimize deployment complexity, according to the companies.

“We’re excited to be partnering with Nagravision to address live sports piracy, one of the biggest threats facing our industry today,” said Damien Sterkers, VP of Products & Solutions Marketing, Broadpeak. “Our new solution approach offers a robust, scalable and secure streaming capability that ensures legitimate delivery and viewer satisfaction remain the core focus throughout the streaming workflow.”

NAGRA Streaming Security is designed to provide broadcasters and streaming providers with a 360-degree view of their streaming threat landscape. Based around core pillars of device security, platform security and anti-piracy intelligence, the solution provides insight and threat guidance thanks to comprehensive security monitoring and analytics capabilities ensuring revenues and valuable content rights are protected from piracy.

To learn more about Nagra Streaming Security and how it is used by leading streaming platforms, visit Nagravision in Stand 1.C81, and Broadpeak in Stand 1.F83 at the 2025 IBC Show, Sept. 12-15 at the RAI Amsterdam.

CESSON-SEVIGNE, France—Broadpeak has announced that it has launched EdgePeak, a video and data cache software engine. The new solution is designed to help operators and content providers build high-performance CDNs that are capable of streaming video to larger audiences while reducing costs and fighting content piracy.

The new solution will be demoed for the first time at the 2025 NAB Show between April 5-9 in Las Vegas.

EdgePeak empowers developers of CDN, caching and edge computing applications to easily harness foundational elements of Broadpeak’s streaming software through open APIs in ways that produce the highest quality and flexibility in building secure, scalable video delivery services.

“The biggest operators and streaming platforms need premium performance, specialized video delivery infrastructure solutions — live traffic is growing rapidly and forward-thinkers are making smart choices now about building their own CDN,” said Nivedita Nouvel, vice president of products and solutions marketing, Broadpeak. “EdgePeak combines our long-standing expertise and deep technology innovation to offer the best software engine on the market for scaling, securing, and monetizing evolving video services.”

In announcing the launch, Broadpeak noted that as global streaming consumption surges, major network operators and leading content providers need ways to reliably and securely manage unprecedented video traffic across owned and third-party streaming services while minimizing additional hardware investment.

In response to that demand, EdgePeak provides a high-performance video and data cache for organizations that build their own CDN. EdgePeak can deliver over 1Tbps performance, offering unmatched streaming optimization and built-in security while providing the core platform to easily build and run high-quality video applications.

In addition to providing the best cost-per-Gpbs on the market against off-the-shelf hardware, Broadpeak reported that EdgePeak delivers the maximum bitrate of throughput while reducing power consumption to save costs and lower carbon footprint. Through intelligent software design, interoperability with any existing CDN, and enhanced load balancing, EdgePeak seamlessly optimizes existing hardware to increase capacity without additional investments — enabling greater scale in delivery while driving operator profitability.

The solution also draws on Broadpeak’s expertise in video delivery and security. It offers a specialized, purpose-built solution designed to fight DDoS attacks and live streaming piracy in real-time, protecting revenues while providing the low latency experiences audiences expect. Built-in security features within the cache immediately detect, analyze and counter malicious activity or content piracy while tackling SYN flood attacks, heavy hitter identification, token sharing, content scraping, or illegal distribution of content. This enables customers to enhance security without the need for additional hardware firewalls or load balancers, driving peace of mind and cost-efficiency.

EdgePeak is now available for Broadpeak customers to deploy at edgepeak.broadpeak.tv and will be demonstrated live for the first time at NAB Show 2025 at Broadpeak’s booth in the West Hall, #W331.

CESSON-SEVIGNE, France—Chunghwa Telecom, the leading telecommunications operator in Taiwan, has selected Broadpeak to provide solutions for its streaming service Hami Video.

As part of the agreement, the telco is using Broadpeak’s server-side-ad-insertion (SSAI) solution via the broadpeak.io SaaS platform.

The two companies reported that the advanced dynamic ad insertion solution would improve viewing experiences and increase ad revenue from the live basketball matches and associated content offered by Chunghwa’s premium sports streaming channel.

Chunghwa Telecom serves over 3 million video streaming subscribers, offering a broad array of live and on-demand content, including premium international sports. With continued rights investments in premier live sports content, the operator required new and enhanced ad insertion capabilities so that it could better monetize its growing OTT service, Hami Video and boost ad revenues.

Jacques Le Mancq, president and CEO of Broadpeak, explained that “Chunghwa Telecom is innovation-led and champions exceptional subscriber experiences. Market leaders like Chunghwa set a pioneering example of how operators can elevate their monetization toolkit while bringing the best live sports and entertainment to rapidly-growing audiences. We’re proud to support Chunghwa as it embarks on new periods of growth as the ultimate streaming platform for Taiwanese viewers.”

The two companies reported that Broadpeak’s solutions are designed to be rapidly deployed and that Broadpeak enabled the service to go live within weeks with a flexible, easy-to-use SaaS solution.

Alongside fast time-to-market, the cloud-based solution provided Chungwha Telecom with effortless third-party integration via API-driven architecture, seamless interoperability within existing CDN and ad-tech environments. Broadpeak also implemented AI-driven tools to automatically detect ad breaks and insert the relevant SCTE-35 markers within video streams.

More information is available at www.broadpeak.tv.

CESSON-SEVIGNE, France—Broadpeak said Comercio TV, the Spanish-language OTT financial-news channel, has adopted its’s software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform to improve monetization and content delivery for audiences across the United States and Latin America.

“When launching our groundbreaking business channel, which can also be accessed via OTT streaming, we selected broadpeak.io because of its ease of use and quick setup process,” Freddy Arias, content director at Comercio TV, said. “Within just a few days, we were able to integrate Broadpeak's API-based SaaS platform and quickly get our workflow up and running. This seamless experience proved the reliability and efficiency of Broadpeak’s service, allowing us to focus on delivering high-quality content to our audience.”

Comercio TV, the first U.S.-based Spanish-language financial news network, uses broadpeak.io to gain comprehensive insights into ad playback and subscriber behavior. Broadpeak’s Adaptive Streaming CDN enables video delivery with optimal performance, scalability, and reduced latency—improving quality of service for Comercio TV viewers, the company said.

"Comercio TV partnered with Broadpeak to ensure efficient and profitable video streaming," Broadpeak CEO Jacques Le Mancq said. "The rapid integration and reliable technical support of broadpeak.io allowed Comercio TV to quickly deploy targeted advertising, enabling better ad playback and subscriber insights. With its flexible, pay-as-you-go pricing model and data-rich analytics, our solution has empowered Comercio TV to scale efficiently while keeping operational costs under control."

More information about Broadpeak solutions can be found at broadpeak.tv.

The video streaming industry is booming, but so are the costs associated with delivering high-quality content to millions of viewers. Cutting costs for video streaming is crucial. Sandvine's 2023 Global Internet Phenomena Report found that data usage from video sites increased by 24% in 2022, and video accounted for a staggering 65% of all internet traffic last year. With the escalating demand for video content, efficient and economical delivery solutions are imperative to cope with the surging traffic. 

The transition from broadcast to streaming has intensified the pressure on video service providers to deliver a broader range of content to an expanding audience, including live streaming, UHD, 4K, and low latency, all while maintaining exceptional quality. Equally important to delivering outstanding video quality is reducing its impact on the planet. Groups like Greening of Streaming underscore the industry’s commitment to addressing the environmental impact of video streaming.

The silver lining is that this doesn't necessarily entail hefty investments in infrastructure or extensive upgrades. Thanks to cost-effective distribution strategies driven by intelligent technologies, video service providers can minimize the need for infrastructure expansions or new deployments, thus keeping pace with the evolving video delivery landscape without straining their finances. 

Key Technology Trends for Sustainable Video Streaming
Among the foremost challenges facing video service providers is the task of meeting escalating global demands for video streaming offerings without resorting to deploying additional hardware equipment, which would contribute to the industry’s environmental footprint. 

Video delivery optimizations are key to maintaining high-performance video streaming platforms — economically and sustainably. Open CDN, high-performance streaming software, edge caching, and multicast ABR are transforming video streaming practices.

Open CDN
Within the video industry, a prominent trend for sustainable video streaming involves utilizing existing infrastructure to deliver streaming services and sharing resources from ISPs. Mutualizing existing CDN resources belonging to ISPs is an opportunity for video service providers to avoid deploying and maintaining their own streaming servers, offering a boost in cost savings. 

Beyond lowering delivery costs, this approach empowers video service providers to offer a superior quality of experience to subscribers. ISPs benefit from sharing resources too, as this approach helps to optimize their infrastructure costs, traffic control, and the ability to differentiate based on QoE.

An open CDN approach contributes to a more sustainable streaming system by utilizing common caches rather than deploying individual ones for each content provider, resulting in less infrastructure and reducing electricity consumption, especially during major live events where capacity in the core network of the ISP is often wasted by streaming one stream per program before the cache and then one stream per user after.

High-Performance Streaming Software
Another way that video service providers can achieve sustainable video streaming is by employing high-performance streaming software. This strategy targets enhancing efficiency, thereby reducing the number of servers needed, GHG emissions, and power consumption. 

Through streamlining operations and implementing cutting-edge, high-performance technologies, video service providers can achieve significant improvements in energy efficiency and cost effectiveness for their streaming services. 

Certain iterations of streaming software have demonstrated a remarkable 72% improvement in throughput performance, all while consuming notably less power compared with traditional video servers.

Edge Caching
Edge caching is a powerful tool that video service providers can utilize to further reduce the cost of video delivery. Deploying caches in a video distribution system enables one-to-many connections. With this approach, video content undergoes a single download at the cache level before being replicated for multiple users’ requests. 

This leads to notable infrastructure reductions in the network, upstream of these caches. Consequently, the further these caches are extended to the network’s edge, the more significant the savings. This inadvertently enhances quality for end users by enabling streaming from closer locations. 

However, once the network reaches a certain depth, the effectiveness of each cache entity diminishes as the number of served individuals decreases. At this juncture, it becomes necessary to tailor strategies to the unique characteristics of these smaller user groups. 

For instance, this might involve initiating instances only when a sufficient number of users are concurrently active in the region, or automatically adjusting resource sizes upon reaching specific usage thresholds. In essence, edge caching demands dynamic, context-aware approaches, an area where cloud technology, especially container orchestration, proves pivotal. 

This adaptive approach enables companies to allocate resources more effectively, reduce operational costs, and enhance the overall performance of their streaming services.

Multicast ABR
Multicast ABR (MABR) is transforming the delivery of live events to massive audiences. With MABR technology, video service providers can provide the same physical stream to all users, even amidst popular events drawing in millions of viewers. Utilizing MABR, service providers are empowered to significantly decrease network dimensioning and therefore reduce the costs associated with delivering top-tier streaming content.

A growing number of leading video service providers, including BT group, TIM, Bouygues Telecom, and Orange, have embraced MABR technology, validating it is an effective solution for saving video delivery costs. Furthermore, MABR elevates the user experience by ensuring a consistent, reliable streaming service for all viewers.

Video streaming is undergoing rapid transformation. Delivering high-quality streaming quality in this environment, and embracing cost-effective and sustainable solutions is critical. This will not only ensure excellent streaming performance and efficiency but also position companies as leaders in environmental responsibility. 

Through investment in advanced technologies and the implementation of innovative strategies, video service providers can crucially secure a competitive edge in the marketplace and consistently deliver top-notch streaming video to customers.

Broadpeak will focus on its targeted ad and end to end video streaming solutions at the NAB Show, April 14-17 in Las Vegas. Broadpeak's software can be deployed on-premises, offered as a SaaS in the cloud, or as a hybrid solution, video service and content providers, delivering “an exceptional quality of experience (QoE), boost monetization, and reduce costs,” the company said.

"As the video streaming market evolves, all eyes are focused on improving monetization and delivering an outstanding quality of experience," said Jacques Le Mancq, CEO at Broadpeak. "Broadpeak sets the standard for video delivery innovation, and we're excited to highlight what's new at the 2024 NAB Show. With our end-to-end video streaming solutions, service providers and content owners can deliver a more compelling video streaming offering and drive new revenue streams, while cutting their costs."

Broadpeak will shine the spotlight on its broadpeak.io server-side ad insertion solution that allows video service providers to tailor content to individual preferences. Two new demos will include interactive targeted ads for video streaming services that allow viewers to click on banner ads and receive a notification on their phone, guaranteeing clicks for advertisers. 

Also demo-ed will be Broadpeak's Spot2Spot addressable TV that allows content owners to replace specific spots within an ad break. Broadpeak will demo spot-level ad replacement for addressable TV and comprehensive ad tracking for both replaced and non-replaced ads.

Broadpeak will also demonstrate how its modular-based end to end video streaming solution adapts to each customer's needs, offering the best quality to viewers while reducing infrastructure and operational costs, the company said.

The demo will showcase Broadpeak's end-to-end solution including transcoding, cloud-native origin and packaging, recording, content personalization, high-performance video delivery via Advanced CDN, multicast ABR, multi-CDN, analytics, and monitoring. Broadpeak will allso showcase added-value services the company can provide, such as training, benchmarks, and managed services.

Broadpeak will be in Booth W2529 in the West Hall of the LVCC. 

Moving into 2024, streaming is verging on overtaking traditional video distribution. Internet service providers (ISPs) play a critical role in this transformation. We anticipate the collaboration between OTTs and ISPs will increase, as illustrated by DAZN’s partnerships with Telecom Italia or Orange in Spain. 

The Streaming Video Alliance (SVTA) and its Open Caching concept is another example of collaborative initiatives key to delivering high-quality streaming experiences and reducing delivery costs next year.

Greater emphasis will be placed on sustainability in 2024. The industry is working on establishing a sustainability chain to lessen environmental impact, encourage responsible resource management, and decrease carbon emissions. 

Tracking and reducing emissions during every step of the video chain, from production to consumption, will be important. We will start seeing the attribution of the environmental impacts of cloud and CDN services back to the companies using these services. 

Finally, rather than reinvent the wheel, the industry will leverage a variety of available tools to optimize video streaming. We anticipate a growing use of AI to quickly isolate operational issues, FAST channels to drive viewer engagement, and a combination of first-party data and collaboration with ISPs on server-side ad insertion to boost the CPM of targeted ads.

CESSON SEVIGNE, France—Broadpeak will show its video streaming lineup that ensures a high quality of experience (QoE) for live sports, better monetization for video services and reduced energy consumption at CES, Jan. 9-12, 2024, in Las Vegas.

"Enhancing monetization of video streaming services, elevating streaming quality and optimizing energy efficiency are of the utmost importance for video service providers," said Broadpeak CEO Jacques Le Mancq.

"At CES 2024 we'll showcase Broadpeak's pioneering video delivery innovation, with cloud-native solutions that allow streamers and pay-TV operators to seamlessly adapt to the ever-evolving landscape and maximize their revenues."

At CES, Broadpeak will feature its next-generation dynamic server-side ad insertion solution, which is available as a SaaS platform. It enables greater monetization, is easy-to-use and makes it fast to go to market with targeted ad delivery, the company said.

Broadpeak also will demonstrate FAST 2.0, highlighting solutions for accelerating the deployment and performance of FAST channels in partnership with OKAST, it said.

The company will demonstrate advanced solutions that deliver a superior video streaming experience to sports fans. Broadpeak will feature its CDN and nanoCDN multicast ABR solutions to show how video service providers can stream popular live events to millions of viewers with low-latency and without making extra infrastructure investments, it said.

Broadpeak also will highlight how its high-performance, energy-efficient video servers leverage multicast ABR to reduce the infrastructure required for streaming one-time, popular events, eliminating the need to dimension the network at peak, the company said.

Using Broadpeak's open CDN solution, direct-to-consumer (D2C) streamers can mutualize the use of networks, working directly with ISPs to improve sustainability, reduce video delivery costs and enhance QoE for end users, it said.

See Broadpeak during CES at The Venetian, Suite #29-116.

More information is available on the company’s website. 

CESSON-SEVIGNE, France—Broadpeak has announced Bouygues Telecom, a global communications operator in France, has been deploying Broadpeak's nanoCDN multicast ABR technology. 

Broadpeak’s nanoCDN solution is designed to decrease the impact of streaming on the network while guaranteeing optimal video experience. Offered on Bouygues Telecom's Bbox Smart TV1, multicast ABR will be available on more than 30 high-audience channels by early 2024.

As the consumption of streaming video content continues to grow, it results in a significant increase in the amount of data delivered via operators' networks. To address this shift in usage, Bouygues Telecom has started using Broadpeak and its nanoCDN multicast ABR technology, which reduces traffic by 90% compared to unicast content without compromising the quality of experience, the companies said. 

Broadpeak's nanoCDN multicast ABR solution includes a software in the headend, which pulls source ABR (adaptive bit rate) streams and embeds them into multicast — solving scalability and potential quality issues. The nanoCDN agent, within the home gateways, converts the received stream back to unicast, enabling video delivery to the Bbox Smart TV, Broadpeak explained. 

Since May, multicast ABR has been available to those Bouygues Telecom customers who have subscribed to a Bbox Smart TV1 and are equipped with a compatible modem. Since then, several channels have been gradually activated with multicast ABR, with results showing a 94% decrease in delivered data volume over the past three months.

Building on this success, the technology will be offered for a total of 30 high-traffic channels by early 2024, including general and news channels, as well as sports and entertainment channels, the companies said. 

"We are pleased to continue our long-standing relationship with Bouygues Telecom and offer them an innovative solution to manage video traffic peaks, especially during live events," said Jacques Le Mancq, CEO of Broadpeak. "nanoCDN allows Bouygues Telecom to guarantee an excellent experience to its subscribers, an increasingly important requirement among end users."

Already available to some Bouygues Telecom customers, Broadpeak's multicast ABR solution will be gradually deployed to the entire Bbox Smart TV user base, the telco said.

CESSON-SEVIGNE, France—Broadpeak is rolling out the next generation of its Advanced CDN solution for video streaming. The solution, which is designed to provide a flawless, low-latency, and compelling streaming experience with unparalleled performance, scalability, and sustainability, will be shown at the 2023 NAB Show. 

"As video delivery evolves, today's video service providers need solutions that reduce energy consumption, lower costs, and deliver an outstanding quality of experience," said Nivedita Nouvel, vice president of marketing at Broadpeak. "Our newest CDN solution is completely future-proof, offering the best streaming performance, an exceptional quality of experience, and a reduced carbon footprint that empowers video service providers to protect the environment."

Broadpeak's Advanced CDN delivers video streaming services at 725 Gbps from a single server, offering much better Gbps per dollar and Gbps per watt ratios than all other CDN solutions on the market, the company reported. 

The future-proof CDN also provides operators with massive energy savings, enabling them to use four-times fewer servers for video streaming compared to the previous generation. Built-in elasticity allows operators to manage horizontal and vertical scaling dynamically.

Advanced CDN can be deployed in any environment and supports on-prem, cloud, and hybrid configurations, Broadpeak said. 

The Advanced CDN also offers operators full control over what is happening inside the content delivery network through open APIs and an intuitive GUI. In addition, the Advanced CDN opens up new business models, creating a bridge between ISPs and content providers that leverages Open Caching APIs accessed through its Steering Center and broadpeak.io.

The innovative CDN solution is based on Broadpeak's latest version of the BkM100 Video Delivery Mediator and its recently launched BkS450 high-performance video streamer. The Steering Center component enables the CDN to be context-aware, allowing operators to control which CDN features are being used for each session with a very fine granularity based on the request characteristics.

Broadpeak will demonstrate its cutting-edge Advanced CDN at the 2023 NAB Show, April 16-19 in Las Vegas at booth W1913. More information about Broadpeak solutions can be found at https://broadpeak.tv. 

CESSON SEVIGNE, France—Broadpeak will showcase new features for its content-aware Advanced CDN that offers an open, dynamic and elastic architecture at the 2023 NAB Show, April 15-19, in Las Vegas.

New features support high performance and energy efficiency while delivering a compelling quality of experience (QoE), the company said.

Broadpeak also will showcase new analytics features, including trending and anomaly detection, to optimize capacity planning, troubleshooting and video consumption analysis, it said.

The company will showcase its new BkS450 video streaming software, which brings cost savings and energy efficiency to video streaming infrastructure, enabling the delivery of video services at 725 Gbps in HTTP on servers consuming 900 W of power, it said.

Other NAB highlights include:

• Broadpeak's nanoCDN multicast ABR (mABR) solution bringing scalability and low latency to the live multiscreen video delivery environment.
• The BkS350 Origin Packager that enables video delivery to any player or device for live and on-demand applications.
• broadpeak.io software-as-a-service, which makes video streaming easy for video service and content providers.
• Server-side ad insertion software and service for monetizing video services.
• peakVU.TV, a high-quality, reliable IPTV managed service that enables U.S. broadband, cable, telco, utilities and wireless operators to launch full-featured video streaming services.
• A demo of SKYflow, a native IP-over-satellite ecosystem that delivers a massive number of OTT streams anywhere.

See Broadpeak at 2023 NAB Show booth W1913.

More information is available on the company’s website.

PARIS—Viaccess-Orca (VO) and Broadpeak have announced that they are providing Israel's leading telecommunications company Cellcom with an end-to-end solution offering super-low latency for live sports streaming over OTT STBs. 

Using the solution from VO and Broadpeak, Cellcom can deliver an outstanding quality of experience to subscribers, with latency as low as 3 seconds, during major live sports events, the companies said. 

"Premium live sports events attract record audiences, and we needed a reliable solution to ensure our viewers can watch the games in as close to real time as possible," Gil Hershberg, CTO of Cellcom TV. "We chose to partner with VO and Broadpeak because of their extensive technical innovation and experience in providing cutting-edge solutions for exceptional-quality live sports streaming. We have been able to achieve unparalleled low latency during the latest World Cup, improving our subscribers' quality of experience and overall satisfaction."

The end-to-end solution used by Cellcom features VO's Secure Video Player (VO Player), a unique multiplatform secure player that supports HLS, MSS, DASH, and CMAF streaming formats to provide a best-in-class user experience across all devices, the companies said.

VO Player is integrated with Broadpeak's BkS350 Origin Packager, which combines just-in-time packaging with caching to reduce the need for encoding and storage resources. Perfect timing synchronization between the VO Player and Broadpeak's Origin Packager through unmanaged commercial networks (i.e., CDNs) ensures low-latency video streaming, the companies explained. 

"Low latency is critical during live sports events," said Philippe Léonetti, CEO at Viaccess-Orca. "Teaming up with Broadpeak, we're thrilled to provide Cellcom with a secure solution for low-latency live sports streaming. What's especially innovative about our end-to-end solution is its ability to reduce latency down to 3 seconds on 4K TVs in the living room, providing sports fans with the ultimate viewing experience."

"We are proud to support Cellcom's OTT offering providing a compelling user experience," said Jacques Le Mancq, CEO at Broadpeak. "During a live sports event, when traffic explodes, the combination of VO and Broadpeak's best-of-breed solutions ensures a flawless streaming experience for end users consuming content on OTT networks."

More information about VO's solutions is available at www.viaccess-orca.com. More information about Broadpeak solutions can be found at https://broadpeak.tv.

CESSON-SEVIGNE, France—Broadpeak this week launched its new BkS450 high-performance video streaming software, bringing cost savings and energy efficiency to video streaming infrastructures.

Running on a new high-performance Intel Xeon scalable processor, the software enables video service provides to deliver low-latency 4K and 8K video streaming services, VR content and other bandwidth-intensive offerings for a lower cost while consuming less power than traditional video servers, the company said.

"Introducing the next-gen BkS450 software to our solutions family underscores our commitment to enabling greener video streaming while ensuring a superior quality of experience for consumers at a reasonable cost," said Nivedita Nouvel, vice president of product marketing at Broadpeak.

"Working with Intel, we have achieved a giant leap forward in video streaming performance and energy efficiency, helping our customers deliver advanced video streaming services with increased agility, a smaller hardware footprint and a reduced impact on the environment."

Offering performance and sustainability improvements, the new software leverages ultra-efficient use of hardware resources. It delivers video services at 725 Gbps in HTTP on servers consuming 900 Watts—a fourfold reduction compared to previous generations of video streaming solutions, it said. (The figure comes from a sophisticated benchmarking tool Broadpeak created with Intel.)

The two companies will continue to work together on improving performance-per-Watt to address sustainability, it said.

Available as a container running on off-the-shelf hardware, the BkS450 eliminates the need for operators to use proprietary components. The BkS450 video streamer is future-proof, natively supporting all of the latest HTTP protocols — as well as DASH and HLS low-latency streaming formats — to ensure flawless video streaming, it said.

The new caching software engine built into the BkS450 also extracts maximum performance from more modest and cost-effective hardware configurations, including existing CDN deployments. This innovation unlocks CDN capacity across the board and better uses resources, it said.

More information is available on the company’s website.

CESSON-SEVIGNE, France—Several video providers are using Broadpeak’s broadpeak.io software as a service (SaaS) streaming solution to deliver the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022, Nov. 20-Dec. 3, the company said today.

The API-based platform supports automatic content replacement, which simplifies live feed management by making it possible to customize content replacement for non-licensed content during the event, it said.

Among the companies using broadpeak.io to cover the event are Iceland’s Siminn and Gtd, an information and communications technology (ICT) service provider in Latin America and Europe. 

Gtd is working with Broadpeak to manage and comply with complex content rights for the World Cup in the Chilean market.

"We were looking for a solution that allowed us to comply with all rules for this highly popular event without modifying our current system. [The] broadpeak.io [SaaS product] proved to be the best solution that would be ready on time for the tournament in Qatar," said Cristian Carcamo, a TV engineering chief at Gtd.

The broadpeak.io solution, a scalable, dynamic and agile offering, contextualizes feeds for content replacement applications, providing viewers with a better experience and content programmers with feedback. During the World Cup, it is enabling video service provides to stream live channels temporarily and replace content to comply with rights regulations, the company said.

This content replacement as a service is fast and easy to launch, simply requiring a configuration for OTT linear channels in the broadpeak.io API with no additional equipment, it said.

Siminn also is using the solution for content replacement as part of its service offerings to viewers during the World Cup.

"We have selected broadpeak.io to handle regional blocking for international events based on their extensive experience in video streaming and cloud deployments," said David Gunnarsson, director of TV services at Síminn.

"For temporary events like sports, choosing a SaaS platform for managing content rights is the most flexible option. We can easily turn on and off the video streaming service, as needed, for all our customer devices at once, without deploying a new infrastructure."

The broadpeak.io solution supports a range of use cases, including live, time-shift TV and catch-up TV. Infrastructure is set up in several regions worldwide, ensuring quality of service for video streaming, the company said.

More information is available on the company’s website. 

CESSON SEVIGNE, France—Broadpeak will highlight how it enables pay-TV operators, content providers and OTT players to deliver compelling video streaming experiences to subscribers with its software on-premise, as a service or a hybrid of both at IBC 2022, Sept. 9-12, at the RAI Amsterdam Convention Centre. 

The company’s CDN, multicast Adaptive Bit Rate (ABR) and advanced streaming solutions offer a high-quality experience (QoE) and enable collaboration between operators and content providers, Broadpeak said. 

"As video delivery evolves, energy efficiency is becoming more and more critical. We look forward to showing how Broadpeak's CDN technologies enable sustainable video streaming while improving video quality of experience and opening up new monetization opportunities," said Broadpeak CEO Jacques Le Mancq.

The company will highlight:

• Its advanced CDN that future-proofs video delivery by leveraging an open, dynamic and elastic architecture;
• It's nanoCDN multicast ABR (mABR) solution that enables scalability and low-latency for live multiscreen delivery environments. The company will demo how it improves QoE, especially at peaks, and its efficiency for targeted ad delivery;
• An active member of the SVA Open Caching Initiative, Broadpeak will feature how an in-network open caching system can solve traffic problems and enable cooperation between content owners and pay-TV operators; 
• It's broadpeak.it, the company’s software-as-a-service that streamlines video streaming. It also will introduce the Video Edge CDN, a simple way to buy CDN capacity from internet service providers.

More information is available on the company’s website.

See Broadpeak at IBC Stand 1.B79.

NEW YORK—Broadpeak, a provider of content delivery network (CDN) and video streaming solutions, has announced that BroadStar, a fiber television, internet, and VoIP phone service provider based in West Palm Beach, Florida, has launched an advanced video streaming service using Broadpeak's peakVU.TV. 

The peakVU.TV solution enables BroadStar to deliver premium features – such as live, catch-up TV, network DVR, and VOD – to boost subscriber engagement and satisfaction.

"In order to bring a modernized, multiscreen TV experience to the communities we serve, we needed to collaborate with an expert in video streaming," said Tyler Bell, CEO at BroadStar. "We chose Broadpeak as our technology partner based on a decade's worth of IP adaptive bitrate experience. Broadpeak's peakVU.TV empowers us to deliver a world-class streaming experience, including a mix of live, on-demand, and catch-up TV content, with innovative features like start-over and voice control that keep viewers captivated and engaged with our service."

Prior to launching its streaming service, BroadStar distributed video via satellite to customers in the multi-dwelling unit market, including HOA communities, apartment complexes, assisted living communities, and more. 

The companies noted that Broadpeak's peakVU.TV video streaming service is hosted in the cloud, allowing for a fast time to market for BroadStar TV, with low operating expenses. PeakVU.TV leverages advanced software solutions, including video origin, video packaging, and CDN. The video streaming service has been integrated with the NAGRA OpenTV Video Platform, offering consumers a modern navigation and discovery experience.

"Given the competitiveness of the OTT market, it is critical for service providers to deliver a high-quality video streaming experience," said Jacques Le Mancq, CEO at Broadpeak. "Our peakVU.TV offering ensures broadcast-quality streaming for BroadStar subscribers while increasing the simplicity, flexibility, and cost efficiency of BroadStar's video distribution operations via the cloud."

OTTAWA—Tech companies in the media and entertainment (M&E) industry are making their business and production practices more sustainable by reducing their impact on the environment and contributions to climate change.

“The video industry is taking the ‘green initiative’ seriously,” said Thierry Fautier, vice president of strategy for Harmonic. “It has set a target and is now working toward achieving its goals. We have seen operators targeting zero carbon emission by 2040. There is also a new industry forum called ‘Greening of Streaming’ that is addressing greener video delivery.”

This last sustainability effort is particularly important, as “video traffic represented an estimated 84% of all consumer IP traffic in 2021 (up from 79% in 2016) according to the Cisco Visual Networking Index,” said Alain Nochimowski, CTO at the OTT/TV platform solutions company Viaccess-Orca. “Fortunately, the industry is starting to understand that it will need to take proactive steps toward being greener.”

Real Companies, Tangible Actions
Across the M&E industry, specific companies and organizations are taking tangible steps to make themselves and the industry as a whole more sustainable. They include video delivery provider Ateme, live video contribution tech provider Aviwest, SDVI and IBC, among many others.

Given the billions of daily viewers of streaming services, reducing its environmental impact is a gigantic task.

“The largest source of power consumption for video services is the device, followed by the network and then the data center,” Fautier said. “Some work has already been done on the device side with smart power management schemes deployed and regulations looking at limiting the display consumption. On the network side, the move to 5G is aimed at drastically reducing the watt-per-bit cost; reports show that cloud infrastructure is more power-efficient than a classical on-premises infrastructure approach.”

Harmonic is enhancing its video compression algorithms to reduce traffic levels on IP networks, thus cutting the amount of electricity needed to deliver video content.

“We are doing this  by using AI-based encoding techniques such as content-aware encoding [CAE], dynamic frame-rate encoding [DFE] and dynamic resolution encoding [DRE] to improve legacy codecs; also AVC mostly but also HEVC,” said Fautier.

The company is also promoting new, more efficient codecs such as AV1 and VVC, plus the LCEVC (low complexity enhancement video encoding) “intermediate solution” that combines legacy equipment and new approaches “to enable a significant savings in bandwidth and processing power,” he said.

Use of the cloud is critical to meeting such goals. “Harmonic is 100% committed to cloud,” added Fautier. The company is also asking OTT content providers to consider using power-efficient multicasting in place of unicasting, bearing in mind that doing so would reduce delivery flexibility for consumers.

One Stream for a Million Requests
Content delivery solutions provider Broadpeak says its multicast adaptive bitrate (MABR) distribution product is a practical way to address unicasting’s (one-to-one) high network usage.

“Without multicast ABR, if a million people are streaming the same content at the same time, there are one million active connections requiring ad-hoc capacity throughout the network and consuming power accordingly,” said Yann Begassat, Broadpeak’s business development manager. “With multicast ABR, there is only one stream to address the million requests, dramatically reducing capacity needs and energy consumption.”

SDVI’s Rally media supply chain management platform is helping users such as A&E Networks, Comcast, Discovery, Sky, ViacomCBS, and WarnerMedia manage their end-to-end video assets in a more efficient (and thus more sustainable) manner. 

“For our part, we have committed to a new sustainability program that makes all usage of the Rally media supply chain optimization platform, going back to the beginning of 2021, completely carbon neutral,” said Chris Brahler, SDVI’s vice president of product. “The program will also ensure that all SDVI customers benefit from permanent, ongoing carbon offsets for all Rally platform usage, including all third-party media applications used as part of a Rally-managed supply chain.”

 As of Jan. 1, 2022, SDVI is now reporting and offsetting the carbon footprint associated with providing the Rally platform service to its customers, including the operation of all third-party application services under Rally management.

As an affiliate of the French telecom giant Orange, Viaccess-Orca shares that company’s sustainability commitments in terms of carbon neutrality, tooling, and methodology, including achieving a net zero carbon footprint by 2040.

“We are also actively contributing to accelerating the move toward greener streaming in our product roadmap,” Nochimowski said. “The NESTED [New vidEo STandards for Enhanced Delivery] project that we recently announced in partnership with a number of other vendors is a significant public first step in the direction of setting the standard for energy efficient streaming.”

On the vehicle side, global broadcast production company NEP Group has switched its U.K. fleet of OB trucks from diesel fuel to GD+ HVO (hydrogenated vegetable oil). Supplied by Green Biofuels, GD+ HVO is an ultra-low emission alternative fuel that can replace diesel fuel without having to modify truck engines. It’s made from 100% waste organic matter such as used cooking oils, fats and other agricultural wastes. By switching to GD+ HVO, NEP hopes to drop its fleet’s greenhouse emissions by 95%.

This move to GD+ HVO is part of NEP UK’s Project Earth Sustainability Initiatives.

“In addition to moving to HD+ HVO, NEP is eliminating single-use plastics in all of our OB productions,” said Marie Ellis, NEP Groups’ head of marketing for the U.K. and Ireland. “We’re also providing our employees with branded reusable water bottles, using rechargeable lithium batteries in our RF audio equipment, boosting corporate recycling while reducing waste, cutting back on travel, and reducing our carbon footprint.’"

A spokesman for the NEP Group in the U.S. said that while it has not updated its fleet to run on alternative fuels, the company does anticipate some changes "in the future." 

Much More to Do
Despite the many actions the above companies are taking to become more sustainable, all of them believe that there’s much more that can be done.

“One solution would be establishing a broadly accepted common standard for measuring and reporting on emissions,” Brahler said. “If every organization were to move in that direction, we could understand just how serious that situation is at the moment and what we’ll need to do collectively to move toward net zero as an industry.”

“While carbon offsets are one option for mitigating impact, reducing emissions in the first place should be our focus,” he added. “You don’t have to offset what you don’t create. If every organization along the media supply chain were to take responsibility for their part in the content life cycle, rather than push the carbon bill downstream, it might be a more equitable way to solve the problem and, at some point, maintain carbon neutrality from end to end.”

To motivate media companies to become more sustainable sooner, “regulators have to step up—similar to what’s been done before in the broadband industry—by incentivizing operators to deploy green networks,” said Fautier. “We need to look at the end-to-end power dissipation, not at local optimization. If encoding a video using two times more CPU will reduce the traffic by 20%, the overall power savings for millions of unicast sessions is no brainer.”

Two things are certain. First, the media companies are taking real action to address climate change by moving to more sustainable products and practices. Second, the clock is ticking on dealing with climate change now, to reduce its impact in years to come.

“The stakes are too high not to take action,” Brahler told TV Tech. “If we miss this opportunity, there is no real way back.” 

CESSON-SÉVIGNÉ, France—Broadpeak has announced that the Austrian operator Magenta Telekom, which is part of the Deutsche Telekom Group, is using a Cloud PVR solution from Broadpeak to deliver its streaming service, Magenta TV. 

Using Broadpeak's solution, Magenta Telekom can deliver live, VOD, Cloud PVR, catch-up TV, time-shift TV, and other advanced services to subscribers on any screen, the companies said. 

"When launching our new streaming service, we wanted to provide a state-of-the-art experience for subscribers, giving them access to all of their favorite TV shows anytime, anywhere, on any device," said Christian Jaros, vice president of entertainment at Magenta Telekom. "Broadpeak's solution is easy to deploy and scalable, enabling us to bring cloud time-shift, start-over TV, catch-up TV, and PVR services to our customers, without deploying new hardware in their homes."

Magenta Telekom is using Broadpeak's Cloud PVR solution, including the BkS350 Origin Packager, the BkM100 Recording Director and Scheduler, the BkA200 Video Delivery Monitoring, and network-attached storage to deliver 300 channels. 

The Cloud PVR solution allows Magenta Telekom subscribers to record an unlimited amount of content simultaneously on TVs, set-top boxes, smartphones, tablets, and other devices.

"Magenta Telekom is leading the way with its future-proof streaming service," said Jacques Le Mancq, CEO at Broadpeak. "We are very proud of our collaboration with Magenta Telekom and we strongly believe this deployment will serve as an excellent blueprint for how to successfully launch Cloud PVR services."

More information about Broadpeak solutions can be found at broadpeak.tv.

CESSON-SÉVIGNÉ, France—Broadpeak today announced the launch of broadpeak.io, the company’s new software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform offering content providers, pay-TV operators and OTT service providers a way to deliver advanced streaming quality to their subscribers.

"Today is a very exciting day for the whole Broadpeak team, who have worked tirelessly to create this service and bring it to market," said Broadpeak CEO Jacques Le Mancq. "We've created a truly brilliant service offering that directly addresses the needs of anyone who streams video, and we're thrilled to show our customers everything broadpeak.io has to offer."

The new broadpeak.io builds on the foundation Broadpeak has developed since 2010. By offering an alternative to bulk streaming methods, the API platform will evolve to host several applications related to advanced video streaming. The first application available on broadpeak.io will support contextualized streaming needs with a blackout service.

Broadpeak is backing broadpeak.io with 24/7 customer support, resulting in a seamless service that is approachable for companies of all sizes.

More information is available on the Broadpeak website.

CESSON-SEVIGNE, France—Broadpeak will showcase how its advanced CDN is future-proofed for video delivery and leverages an open, dynamic and elastic architecture at IBC 2021, Dec. 3-6, at IBC 2021 in Amsterdam.

Broadpeak’s CDN allows delivery of third-party content, such as HBO Max, Amazon Prime Video, Disney + and DAZN. The CDN allows service providers to optimize traffic and quality of experience (QoE) dynamically via powerful analytics and a new centralized steering center, which enables service providers to make constant adaptations to the streaming context.

The CDN’s video distribution capability is elastic. All features and components on Broadpeak's CDN are available as containers orchestrated via Kubernetes to adapt the topology to the actual consumption.

The company will conduct live demos of its CDN to show context awareness with the steering center; open caching based on SVA APIs for streaming Disney + content; and video analytics to maximize quality of service and establish better control over the video system with A/B testing.

The company will also highlight its nanoCDN solution, which brings scalability and low latency to the live multiscreen video delivery environment. Broadpeak will discuss how nanoCDN benefits video service delivery and supports the latest trends in live sports rights acquisition and streaming.

Broadpeak will feature its ad insertion solution for monetizing live, cloud DVR and VOD content on every screen. Broadpeak's BkYou ad insertion solution includes fast offline ad transcoding, robust security and anti-fraud as well as server-side ad insertion capabilities with detailed client-side reporting.

See Broadpeak at IBC 2021 Stand 1.B79.

More information is available on the company’s website.

The video streaming market continues to grow rapidly. A recent report from Allied Market Research found that the value of the global video streaming market will approach $150 billion by 2026. While the rise in video streaming represents an opportunity for revenue growth, it’s also a challenge. Today, quality of experience (QoE) is the difference between having a successful streaming business or not. Operators need more control over streaming quality and bandwidth in order to optimize network usage and deliver a fairer, more consistent QoE for all users.  

The network has a critical role to play in the stream selection process and in regulating the amount of bitrate distributed to each connection individually. Ultimately, the network can help video service providers achieve control over the quality of their services and secure rational usage of their infrastructure. Performing stream selection on the server side—as opposed to the client side—is greatly beneficial in terms of delivering low-latency streaming and enabling fair distribution of the available bitrate between the devices of a same-home network. Server-side stream selection reduces transport network expenses and significantly improves QoE,  ultimately impacting the loyalty of end-users.

IMPLEMENTING SERVER-SIDE STREAM SELECTION

There are two different processes that make up stream control: The first consists of measuring the bandwidth between the server and the clients for each and every connection. The second component involves selecting a video quality stream and often overriding the client’s decision. These two functions work together, as the server can use its bandwidth assessment as the main criteria for selecting the appropriate quality, replacing or complementing the ABR client’s selection. 

However, the components can also be used separately. It is possible to use bandwidth measurement just for analytics or apply streams selection based on other criteria, typically using preconfigured logical rules or commands sent from the service provider’s management system. Both processes have a very limited impact on the server’s hardware resources. Therefore, no redimensioning is required to activate server-side stream selection.

Once the system has a way to seamlessly impose a different quality stream than the one requested by the client, it is possible to act on these decisions from a centralized operation point. The available bandwidth on the link is no longer the only criterion for stream selection, as it is for the traditional client-side approach. Commands can drive or influence decision-making, for instance, to impose a reduction of bitrate on all the connections of a network segment getting near saturation, possibly taking into account that some users, content or devices have to be preserved as much as possible.

Server-side stream selection is simple to implement. The technology can be implemented at one particular point of the distribution chain or at all levels, depending on the targeted use case. It is fully compliant with ABR streaming standards, including Apple HLS and MPEG-DASH, and doesn’t require any adaptation to existing ecosystems. 

BENEFITS OF SERVER-SIDE STREAM SELECTION

A key advantage of using server-side stream selection for video streaming is that it enables service providers to deliver a better, more consistent QoE with fewer degradations in quality.

Server-side stream selection takes into account network conditions when determining which quality stream to deliver to each connection. This allows service providers to focus on the available resource where it matters most, leading to an improved average QoE for all viewers. 

In standard ABR distribution systems, when monitoring indicates a probable video degradation, there’s little that network operators can do since they don’t manage the different end-devices streaming from their network. Placing the network bitrate distribution on the server side is an opportunity to act on the issue and resolve it before it has any significant impact on QoE. The servers on the network can dynamically measure the available bandwidth, ensuring very accurate and valuable information on the state of the network. Through advanced analytics, service providers can determine how network investments will translate into an improvement in video QoE, prevent events that can cause QoE degradation, anticipate streaming limits and manage bandwidth intelligently.

Another advantage of server-side streaming is low latency. Typically, streaming live content without adding latency requires breaking up the several-second video segments into smaller chunks. This causes issues on the players deployed today, as they rely on the existence of these segments to choose a quality stream. Server-side bandwidth measurements rely on the use of lower-layer TCP information provided by the operating system and, consequently, remain immune to that limitation. 

When all video sessions cannot be served at the best available quality—for example during peak hours—the best way service providers can secure optimized overall quality is to maintain control over which sessions may be affected by this resource limitation. Server-side stream selection can gracefully and dynamically help by preserving the bitrate of higher value content such as live events, streams serving the main screen rather than mobile devices or of premium subscribers. 

Through home network orchestration, server-side video streaming allows service providers to dynamically distribute bandwidth resources among different devices and monitor bandwidth at the home level. For example, let’s say a household has 10 Mbps internet access and the children are consuming 8 Mbps on their smartphones. If the parents come home and want to watch an important event on the main TV screen, then the orchestration process can reserve 4 Mbps to the main screen, ensuring a minimum QoE, while seamlessly lowering the bitrate delivered to the smartphones to a level that is still very acceptable for such screens.

CONCLUSION

One of the main reasons for ABR streaming’s success has been its adaptability to any kind of device and to different types and qualities of connections. Yet, having the client choose which resolution and bitrate to use for every video streaming session leads to a certain number of limitations on how network resources are used and how the different devices share these resources. These limitations can be alleviated with a server-side approach, such as Broadpeak’s S4Streaming solution. S4Streaming gives back control to the service provider so that they can better optimize resources and ensure that they are used wisely to deliver a fair and consistent quality of experience to all users.

Damien Sterkers is product manager for Broadpeak.

CESSON-SEVIGNE, France—Broadpeak is rolling out its latest product, the S4Streaming platform that aims to give video service providers more control over streaming quality and bandwidth usage.

With a combination of server-side technologies, S4Streaming assess and selects the appropriate quality for video streaming, reducing the latency of live streams, enabling higher bit rates for on-demand content delivery and decreasing video quality changes when network conditions vary.

Broadpeak’s S4Streaming system accurately measures the bandwidth available from the server side rather than at the player level. It also provides centralized control of quality stream selections based on the above server-side assessments or via operator-defined rules for estimations of QoE and dynamic adaptions. Service providers can also change video profiles at any time through S4Streaming.

With advanced analytics, S4Streaming allows service providers to determine how network investments will translate into an improvement in video QoE, prevent events that can cause QoE degradation, anticipate streaming limits and manage bandwidth. 

It also has a home network orchestration feature for service providers to distribute bandwidth resources among different devices and monitor bandwidth at the home level. A cell congestion capability for mobile applications enables management of backhaul and radio cell congestion.

S4Streaming is compatible with the existing ABR streaming ecosystem, as well as being able to operate in both unicast and multicast ABR environments.

The S4Streaming platform will be part of Broadpeak’s 2020 NAB Show booth (SU8921). For more information, visit broadpeak.tv. 

RENNES, FRANCE—Portuguese telecommunications operator NOWO is making an OTT push with the addition of Broadpeak’s OTT multiscreen delivery technology. Using Broadpeak’s BkS350 origin packer, BkS400 video cache servers and BkM100 CDN manager, NOWO is able to deliver live, VoD and catch-up TV services for its subscribers on any screen.

With the BkS350 origin packers, NOWO can improve its multiscreen video delivery over managed or open internet networks through on-the-fly packaging, on-the-fly encryption and unique cache management capabilities. The origin packagers process and store content only once, allowing NOWO to deliver video to smartphones, tablets, set-top boxes and games consoles.

Both the BkS350 origin packer and BkS400 servers support Apple HLS, Microsoft Smooth Streaming, Adobe HDS and MPEG-DASH. The servers can also use HTTP adaptive bit rate technology to provide the best possible video quality.

The BkM100 CDN manager helps NOWO manage load balancing and failover tasks for clients. The system continuously monitors the popularity of content based on subscriber usage patterns to deliver VoD content.

Broadpeak is a provider of CDN technologies and live and VoD servers.

RENNES, FRANCE—Broadpeak is decreasing the latency for video streamed live to connected devices with its new nanoCDN technology. Leveraging multicast technology and managed network capabilities, the nanoCDN can reportedly reduce latency by 90 percent.

The nanCDN is based on Broadpeak’s multicast ABR, which transfers traffic from an unmanaged to a managed network. This guarantees bandwidth and allows buffer reduction in the player. With the nanoCDN, users can mutualize their head-end, utilize Android STBs, and extend eligibility by supporting ABR streaming for all screens.

Broadpeak is expected to demonstrate its new nanoCDN technology at the Mobile World Congress and the 2017 NAB Show.

LAS VEGAS—A combined effort by Broadpeak and Wyplay is making to look distribution of live TV Everywhere services over managed networks easier. The companies’ joint technology, which will be on display at CES 2017, integrates Broadpeak’s nanoCDN technology with Frog By Wyplay middleware on set-top boxes for multiscreen delivery.

With this new technology, telecom, cable and satellite operators are provided a migration path to a fully converged HTTP video delivery infrastructure. The combination of the technology enables operators to contain bandwidth requirements to only a few megabits per second for live multiscreen delivery. Broadpeak’s nanoCDN can also convert multicast streams into unicast via multicast ABR technology.

CES 2017 will take place from Jan. 5-8 in Las Vegas.

LAS VEGAS—At the 2016 NAB show, Broadpeak will unveil solutions that enable IPTV, cable, OTT, hybrid TV and mobile operators to optimize Content Delivery Network services, video streaming, analytics, and more to boost the live or VOD quality of experience for consumers.

At the show, Broadpeak will demonstrate its Nano CDN Multicast ABR v1.3 running on 4K STBs to deliver live 4K content. By implementing multicast support for most popular ABR formats, operators can cost-effectively manage consumption peaks in live multiscreen services for millions of simultaneous viewers using only a few megabits per second from their home networks.

Broadpeak will show v3.1 of its Umbrella CDN that lets content providers choose the most adapted CDN for delivering video content. Its advanced capabilities include CDN Diversity, a new technology that allows content providers to dynamically assess and compare the quality of several CDN services to deliver the highest quality content possible.

To optimize OTT video delivery, Broadpeak’s BKS-350 Origin Packager improves multiscreen video delivery on managed or open Internet networks through on-the-fly packaging and unique cache management capabilities. Broadpeak’s CDN in a Box, Cloud PVR, and video analytics solution will also be on display.

The 2016 NAB Show takes place in Las Vegas, April 18-21. Broadpeakwill be in booth SU10402CM. For more information, visit www.nabshow.com.

RENNES, FRANCE—Content delivery network technology and VOD server provider Broadpeak is contributing to Discover Digital’s new OTT video-on-demand and subscriber video-on-demand platform. Using a combination of Broadpeak’s CDN manager and streaming server technologies, Discover Digital, a South African-based digital entertainment company, can deliver VOD services to its subscribers.

Discover Digital is using Broadpeak’s BkS400 servers and its CDN Mediator BkM100 for the platform. The BkS400 can support a wide range of formats, including Apple HLS, Microsoft Smooth Streaming, Adobe HDS, and MPEG –DASH, allowing Discover Digital to deliver content to any screen. The BkS400 can also leverage HTTP adaptive bit-rate technology.

The CDN BkM100 is a unified content delivery network manager that manages load balancing and failover tasks. It integrates with service platforms and content management systems to allow Discover Digital to deploy its platform.

Discover Digital is currently distributing the platform across South Africa and is expected to expand it other regions of the continent.

RENNES, FRANCE—Nati Lavi has been appointed to the position of head of sales and business development in North America for Broadpeak. Lavi’s new role will be expand the presence of the content delivery network technology and live and VoD server provider in the U.S. and Canada.

Lavi joins Broadpeak from DataDirect Networks. He also previously held business development roles at Kasenna, Rayv and Bitband. He will be based out of Broadpeak’s U.S. office in New York.