Blog - Open Edge Cloud

April 9th, 2020

By Mark Fisher

Now That the Capacity Gap is Here – How Much Did Streaming Increase? A Look at the Numbers

On March 19th, we wrote about the news of an EU commissioner who asked Netflix CEO Reed Hastings to dial down streaming quality and “secure Internet access for all” in Europe. Netflix did downgrade their streams, at least for a while. It did not take long for other streaming giants – Amazon, YouTube – to…

March 19th, 2020

By Jeff Gilbert

The Capacity Gap is Here

Yesterday brought an extraordinary confirmation that the biggest challenge facing OTT content delivery is not speed, as is commonly thought, but rather capacity. As you have probably heard by now, EU Commissioner Thierry Breton directly asked Netflix CEO Reed Hastings to stop streaming video in HD in order to ‘secure internet access for all.’ As…

October 30th, 2019

By Mark Fisher

Intel® Winners’ Circle: Recognition for a Year of Edge Computing Innovation

I’ve written before about the outstanding partnership we have with Intel® as a proud member of the Intel Builders Network and a Network Edge Ecosystem Partner, and it just got better. We’ve recently been appointed to the Intel Network Builders Winners’ Circle. As an acknowledgement for the outstanding work that we’ve done together in 2019…

October 4th, 2019

By Mark Fisher

Content Delivery Sharing Garners Broad Industry Recognition

Innovating in cloud, edge computing, OTT tech – it’s been a busy and exciting year here at Qwilt as we’ve been sharing our vision of the Edge Cloud with service providers and content publishers around the world, and rolling out the latest innovation built on Qwilt’s Edge Cloud architecture – Content Delivery Sharing (CDS). This…

October 2nd, 2019

By Jeff Gilbert

The Content Flood is Coming

Cord cutting is all over the press. Disney+, AppleTV+, HBO Max, Peacock, and many other services are launching to fill the gap. There is an absolute flood of content and a bevy of service providers poised to go over the top, directly to consumers. But what about the OTT plumbing? How is this flood of…

September 11th, 2019

By Mark Fisher

Changing Content Delivery Forever

Today, we officially announced our innovative new media delivery solution, Content Delivery Sharing, which is a new architectural, business and operational model for content delivery. With Qwilt Content Delivery Sharing, the OTT content providers’ content is delivered by local ISP edge computing assets instead of a more distant CDN. Content Delivery Sharing is the solution…

May 28th, 2019

By Mark Fisher

Streaming Game of Thrones – When VoD Looks Like A Huge Live Event

The audience for Game of Thrones was enormous. It is HBO’s most watched show ever. At a time of “Peak TV” when viewing audiences have been fragmented across an impossibly broad and diverse range of networks and shows, Game of Thrones brought viewers together in numbers that are truly remarkable. Now that the final season…

February 15th, 2019

By Mark Fisher

Edge Computing Comes of Age

It’s rewarding to be part of a story whose headline reads “Verizon Gets Serious About Edge Computing.” In this Light Reading article dated January 31st, Mike Dano, Editorial Director for 5G and Mobile Strategies, provides a summary of outcomes from Verizon’s tests of edge computing functions on its 5G network in Houston. Among the findings…

February 5th, 2019

By Mark Fisher

Underwhelming NFL Championship Game – But Record Streaming Redeems Super Bowl LIII (at least for some of us)

Super Bowl LIII was underwhelming in many ways. It was the lowest scoring NFL title game in history and the least watched game in a decade. The game averaged 100.7 million viewers when streaming is factored in according to CBS Sports. The most watched Super Bowl (114 million viewers) was in 2015 when the New…