Akamai

Webinar: The Future of Live Streaming

Posted on by Russell Trafford-Jones

Date: January 17th 2019
Time: 10am PT / 1 PM ET / 18:00 GMT

For many content providers and rights-holders, live streaming represents an exciting opportunity to connect directly with their target audiences plus drive new revenue streams.

This webinar discusses topics including the pros and cons of live streaming as compared with broadcasting, how to measure quality of experience and reliability, which business models are being used, current best practices, ongoing challenges, critical initiatives, and much more.

Join Alec Hendry, Senior Director of Technology Convergence for Viacom, Will Richmond, Editor and Publisher at VideoNuze, and Henrik Eriksson, Service Line Manager at Akamai, for a roundtable discussion covering:

  • The state of live streaming today
  • How to measure quality in live streaming and ensure a positive user experience
  • Successful business models for live streaming
  • Best practices associated with live streaming

 

Speakers

Alec Hendry Alec Hendry
Senior Director of Technology Convergence,
Viacom
Will Richmond Will Richmond
Editor and Publisher,
VideoNuze
Henrik Eriksson

Henrik Eriksson
Service Line Manager,
Akamai

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Webinar: 2018 State of the Internet / Security: A Year in Review

Posted on by Russell Trafford-Jones


Date: 12th December 2018, 11:00 CET / 10:00 GMT

As security continues to be forefront in broadcasters’ minds, Akamai continues to monitor internet security threats. Herem they tell you what to expect in the year to come as they review the biggest events and best research from Akamai’s 2018 State of the Internet / Security: A Year in Review report.

You’ll hear:

  • Why low-and-slow, high-leverage application-level attacks can be just as damaging as high-bandwidth attacks
  • How specialisation among adversaries is driving marketisation and economies of scale in the hostile ecosystem of malicious actors
  • What the biggest attacks of the previous year, like memcached and the Mirai botnet, indicate about the evolution of reflection and
  • botnet attack vectors
  • What our researchers have uncovered over the past year about the dark side of APIs, emerging and popular adversarial tools, new vulnerabilities, and more
  • What security trends we can expect in 2019 and how attacks and threats will evolve in the year ahead

Register now!

Speakers

Elmar Witte Elmar Witte
Product Marketing Manager Security EMEA,
Akamai
Gerhard Giese Gerhard Giese
Manager Enterprise,
Security Architects EMEA,
Akamai

Webinar: Latency Still Sucks – So What Can You Do About It Today?

Posted on by Russell Trafford-Jones

[Update]
An more recent panel event on this topic from Streaming Media is available on-demand

Date: Thursday 6th December, 2018. 11AM PT / 2PM ET / 19:00 GMT

Nobody wants to find out about a big play or major news event on Twitter before they see it in their video stream, so reducing latency is crucial for OTT services’ success. Likewise, ultra-low latency is crucial for interactive streaming applications. Depending on your use case, a few seconds of latency might be fine, or you might need to try to hit that sub-second target.

Learn which technologies and solutions are best for your business, and make sure your viewers get their video on time, every time. In this webinar, you’ll learn the following:

  • Why it’s important to evaluate and improve latency end-to-end, including software and services, encoder, platform, and player
  • How to decide which technology and solution is best for your use case (e.g. CMAF, HLS/DASH, WebRTC, Websocket)
  • How chunked CMAF offers a standards-based approach that allows latency to be decoupled from segment duration
  • How chunked CMAF leverages existing CDN HTTP capacity to provide low-latency solutions at high scale
  • How WebRTC can be used to deliver live video sub-second latency at scale, and provide rich, interactive experiences for live streaming applications
  • How a single misconfigured component can undo any other effort to achieve low latency
  • How integrated solutions create new business opportunities for low latency interactive use cases
  • How to achieve low latency across all platforms and devices

Register now!

Speakers

Will Law Will Law
Chief Architect,
Akamai Technologies
Oliver Lietz Oliver Lietz
CEO,
nanocosmos GMBH
Pieter-Jan Speelmans Pieter-Jan Speelmans
CTO,
THEOplayer
Steve Miller-Jones Steve Miller-Jones
VP of Product Strategy,
Limelight
Eric Schumacher-Rasmussen Moderator: Eric Schumacher-Rasmussen
Editor-in-Chief,
Streaming Media

Webinar: Next Generation TV

Posted on by Russell Trafford-Jones

Date: Thursday 15th November 2018, 11am PT, 2pm ET, 18:00 GMT

OTT is just TV—or at least it should be. Viewers are looking to OTT services not simply as an add-on to broadcast or cable, but as a replacement. Akamai, Bitmovin and EZDRM join forces in this Streaming Media webinar to shed light on how to make your OTT service as reliable, robust, and feature-rich as broadcast or cable, as well as how to add features and functionality that the previous generation of TV simply can’t match.