Federated Content Delivery Network Brings Next Gen Video Streaming to Global Markets

London, UK – July 16, 2013 – CDN.net today announced it has launched a new live video streaming service, with mobile device and tablet support, across its global content delivery network (CDN). The new service delivers rich live-streamed video closer to audiences around the world, eliminating long load times and quality issues with a flexible CDN, priced to location and usage.

CDN.net’s live video streaming service ensures a consistent viewing experience across any device or platform, and supports Adobe®, Android, Flash®, Microsoft® Silverlight™ and Apple® protocols, including iPhone® and iPad® capability. Enabled by Wowza Media Server 3®, the leading high-performance media server, CDN.net’s global live streaming service is launching from premium, affordable locations in North America and Europe, with Asia Pacific Points-of-Presence (PoPs) to be added soon. CDN.net’s global CDN is powered by more than 2,000 OnApp clouds in 70 countries.

In addition to standard video streaming, CDN.net has added pseudo-streaming for MP4 and Flash Video (FLV) videos. This feature allows viewers to seek around a video file even if it has not finished downloading, utilizing Flash and pseudo streaming-ready video. CDN.net is also bolstering its HTTP pull content caching, with content security features including country access restrictions, plus hot-linking and cache expiry settings. The result is highly secure content delivery with guaranteed SLAs.

“The future of content consumption relies on live video and other rich streaming media, much of it viewed on smartphones and tablets,” commented James Fletcher, Commercial Director for CDN.net. “The last thing content developers and publishers want to worry about is the technical headache of keeping video performance high on every device used to access it, and in every country. A global, federated CDN eliminates the legwork in live streaming, so that content creators can focus on meeting user expectations with engaging, high quality video.”

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