M6 Group, a powerful French plurimedia group offering a broad range of programmes, products and services, has today announced that it has selected Quortex to stream its radio services throughout the world, using the Quortex I/O SaaS offering. Alongside its strong standing in the TV and video industry, M6 is the leader in the French private radio industry, with its three radio stations: RTL, RTL2 and Funradio.

Broadpeak®, a leading provider of content delivery network (CDN) and video streaming solutions for content providers and pay-TV operators worldwide, announced today that Megacable, one of the largest triple-play providers in Mexico, has optimized the delivery of its Xview+ streaming service with Broadpeak solutions. Using Broadpeak's CDN and nanoCDN™ multicast ABR, Megacable can deliver live, VOD, time-shift TV, catch-up TV, as well as premium TV offerings on the TV and any device, ensuring a superior quality of experience (QoE) for millions of simultaneous viewers while reducing delivery costs.

Broadpeak®, a leading provider of content delivery network (CDN) and video streaming solutions for content providers and pay-TV operators worldwide, announced today a new software-based CDN benchmarking tool in collaboration with Intel®. Using Intel Xeon Scalable processors and Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK), as well as Intel Network Builders' secure DevCloud environment, Broadpeak's CDN benchmarking tool simulates highly realistic video player behaviors and supports next-generation protocols, allowing content providers and communication service providers (CSPs) to deliver superior quality video to global audiences.

87% of global gamers say the process of downloading games is frustrating.

• Top download frustrations for gamers remain the same: the amount of time it takes (29%), when the download is interrupted and must be restarted (27%), and when it doesn’t work at all (23%) 
• It will be hard to knock consoles off the top spot: 55% of gamers are interested in buying a new console to improve their gaming experience. But in contrast, 50% said the cost of online console-less gaming services was too high. 
• Gaming gains an edge over TV and movies: Nearly half of UK gamers (44%) say they prefer to play video games versus watching a movie or TV show

2020 was a dramatic year for OTT content providers and content delivery networks (CDNs). The shift to online living and remote working resulted in a massive surge in demand for content – from streaming services, to online gaming and video conferencing solutions. Yet, despite the strain, the CDNs remained robust when it mattered most. As new content platforms go live, the priority won’t just be to deliver content – but to ensure the user experience is as innovative, low-latency and engaging as possible.

Mongolian telecommunication service provider Skytel Group is expanding its operations with additional investment in solutions from Anevia, a leading provider of OTT and IPTV software. Based in Ulaanbaatar, the group provides a wide range of capabilities including telecom service and mobile and fixed broadband data connectivity.

Anevia, a leading provider of OTT and IPTV software solutions, and Viaccess-Orca (VO), a global leader providing OTT, TV platforms and content protection, announce the start of a complete OTT TV platform for TV Red Digital in the Colombian capital, Bogota.

Anevia, a leading provider of OTT and IPTV software solutions, announces a large-scale extension of its NEA-DVR® video streaming platform at POST Luxembourg, the premier supplier of telecom services in Luxembourg. This extension builds on POST Luxembourg’s five-year success with Anevia’s NEA-DVR®.

Antenna Hungária has commenced technical trials of what is considered to be the world’s most advanced digital terrestrial television service. It is working with UK industry pioneer Dr Arjang Zadeh and Azdio’s mediaClass product division along with sister company Liberate AI to launch the service across Hungary.

Anevia, a leading provider of OTT and IPTV software solutions, announces the appointment of Paul Molinier as a member of its Advisory Board, starting from today.

In this role, Paul Molinier will help Anevia define its product and business development strategies. He joins Eric Baron as well as the five members of the Board of Directors – Alexis Delb, Laurent Grimaldi, Valéry Huot (LBO France representative), Laurent Lafarge (CEO) and Tristan Leteurtre (Anevia co-founder) – who are already members of the Advisory Board.

Pixel Power, the global leader in graphics production and playout automation, has appointed Sarah Deas to its head office team. Deas will provide internal sales support to the sales teams in the Cambridge base and regional offices in North America, South-East Asia and the Middle East.

Anevia announces the addition of multi-tiered storage to its Cloud DVR storage offering, Embedded Distributed Storage (EDS). This new feature makes EDS even more cost-efficient and scalable while also enabling storage in the cloud – meaning the solution becomes both flexible and elastic.

TV service providers are increasingly enriching their VOD content and need to expand their storage capacity without a commensurate increase in the number of users. The original hyper-convergent design of the scalable, high-performance EDS calls for more servers to be added to increase streaming and storage capacity in parallel. Multi-tiered storage means it is now possible to also increase storage capacity independently of streaming capacity.

With only a small fraction of the VOD catalogue being consumed regularly, long-tail content can be stored more efficiently and cost-effectively on general-purpose ‘cold storage’ support used by the IT departments. This eliminates the need to buy new servers and the related software licences, cutting both the complexity and the cost of scaling for a given number of users.

The newly introduced feature also enables object storage, which opens up the possibility of storing in the public or private cloud. This brings the advantages of scalability, flexibility and elasticity.

Anevia, a leading provider of OTT and IPTV software solutions, will introduce the latest version of its NEA-CDN® content delivery network solution to Middle East broadcasters and media channel managers attending the CABSAT 2020 exhibition and conference in Dubai, March 31st – April 2nd. NEA-CDN v5 makes it easy for operators to scale their OTT services for peak viewing within minutes by simply adding nodes to their CDN – and then removing them when they are no longer required.

As the first cloud-native CDN solution, NEA-CDN v5 – based on the Kubernetes infrastructure – provides operators with a centrally orchestrated, hardware-agnostic, and elastic private CDN. It makes it easy to deploy – in just one click – and comes with a centralised management and analytics platform that makes it easy to operate.

“Traffic fluctuations are huge in OTT video streaming,” comments Anevia NEA-CDN Product Manager David Tencer, “and operators will most of the time only use 6% of their available CDN capacity – meaning that 94% of the capacity is usually being wasted. With this elastic CDN solution, OTT operators can ensure a high-quality experience even during peak traffic, without having to build in over-capacity.”

OTT and IPTV software solutions provider Anevia has appointed Alexandre Nitu as Vice President Operations. In this role, he will be responsible for leading and growing Anevia’s Operations teams, guiding them with his technical vision to identify areas for improvement to maximise quality of deployments and ensure customer satisfaction. He will also be a key member of Anevia’s Executive Committee.

With over 20 years of experience in the telecommunications industry, Alexandre Nitu brings strong leadership and team management skills as well as significant experience in project management and operational support. Prior to joining Anevia he was VP Customer Operations for eServGlobal, a software company serving mobile operators, where he led teams of software and systems engineers in charge of designing, deploying, and providing operational support for the company’s electronic recharging, voucher management, and mobile money solutions.

“We are excited to welcome Alexandre to Anevia,” says Anevia CEO Laurent Lafarge. “His proven track record of leading operations teams towards continuous improvement and innovation will be a great asset to Anevia.”

“I am delighted to join Anevia, a company whose values of ambition, innovation and transparency are dear to me,” says Alexandre Nitu. “I look forward to working with the already excellent Operations teams and helping them sustain their success when facing the challenges of the future.”

Broadpeak®, a leading provider of content delivery network (CDN) and video streaming solutions for content providers and pay-TV operators worldwide, today announced S4Streaming, a revolutionary technology that gives video service providers more control over streaming quality and bandwidth usage.

Through a unique combination of server-side technologies, S4Streaming assesses and selects the appropriate quality for video streaming, ultimately reducing the latency of live streams, enabling higher bit rates for on-demand content delivery, and decreasing video quality changes when network conditions vary. Using S4Streaming, service providers can deliver a superior quality of experience (QoE) for their video streaming service on any device and increase the control over the network.