AT&T Adds New CDN, Exec to Manage

Doug Mohney — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:22:52 -0400

AT&T has announced a suite of content delivery and digital media solutions to help deliver and distribute video and rich media to the trinity of screens: PC, TV, and mobile device. IDC says the CDN market totaled nearly $900 million in 2007 and expected to grow "significantly" in the future.

To head up AT&T's newly created content business unit, Cathy Martine has been appointed executive vice president--Content Distribution. Martine is a long-term AT&T employee who previously headed up its Internet Telephony division.

The new Digital Media Solutions portfolio includes content distribution and management, broadcast video and even digital signage solutions. To facilitate this move, AT&T has cut strategic relationships with ExendMedia, Qumu and Stratacache; ExtendMedia provides digital content services software, Qumu is a software company that enables organizations to easily capture, manage, publish and distribute live and on-demand video content while leveraging existing IT infrastructure, while Stratacache is a software and services company that provides both multi-platform software and appliance based technology for the delivery of rich media applications on a distributed WAN or Internet/intranet powered enterprise.

AT&T is bragging of nearly $70 million in network infrastructure and development by year end to support its digital media capabilities across the U.S., Europe, and Asia. Once the software expertise of ExtendMedia, Qumu, and Stratacache are integrated with its own capabilities, AT&T expects to offer companies one-stop shopping and simplified network-based solutions to encode, deliver, manage and support video and multimedia files.

For more
- AT&T announces new CDN Services, EVP Martine

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Level 3 Adds Adobe Flash Streaming Server Support

Doug Mohney — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:36:27 -0400

Level 3 is in the process of deploying Adobe Flash Media Server 3 across its content deliver infrastructure. The value-add allows customers to deliver true HD streams and makes Level 3's content delivery network (CDN) one of the first to be fully enabled with Adobe's Flash Media Server.

Flash Media Server 3 helps deliver an improved experience with HD streaming capabilities, as well as improved functionality for encoding, protecting and monetizing content. It also enables more concurrent streams to be delivered by the same server. HD streaming integrated with Flash Media Server 3 will be available at the end of April.

For Level 3, this is the latest in a history of announcements documenting the company's HD and streaming transport capabilities. Last week the company announced a tiered distribution service, CDXL, to more efficiently distribute content between the core of its network and the edges. In February, CEO James Crowe said video now accounts for 60 to 70 percent of all the company's IP network traffic.

For more:
- Level 3's Adobe Flash Media Server release.

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