Tag: ott
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…
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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…
Read More 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…
Read More 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…
Read More 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…
Read More 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…
Read More May 27th, 2014
By Mark Fisher
The Open Architecture Choice for Online Video Caching
We’re at a critical point in the development of infrastructure to support the future of online video. The choices we make today, between open and closed systems, will profoundly impact the consumer experience of tomorrow.
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April 14th, 2014
By Gleb Brichko
Security Update: The Heartbleed Bug
All released QwOS versions are using an OpenSSL version that does not include this bug. Our upcoming release includes the latest fix published by OpenSSL, which means it is also immune to this bug.
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April 7th, 2014
By Yuval Shukroon
Wrestlemania XXX Undertakes* OTT Video Charts by Storm
Yesterday (April 6th) was a milestone in the network’s brief history with the first ever Wrestlemania event live online streaming.
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