As the growth of online video continues to accelerate, Comcast has scaled it’s CDN offering to meet the demands of the new TV ecosystem. Comcast believes that a multi-CDN strategy, built on open-source technology will empower the video industry to grow as a whole, and meet viewer demands as they experience television across multiple screens, and consume more IP content than ever before. Comcast Vice President, Barry Tishgart will walk us through the methodology behind these new developments, and how the Comcast CDN is an integral part of Comcast Wholesale’s newly launched solution, theVideoPlatform.

Some analysts predict that CDN networks will carry up to two-thirds of Internet traffic by 2020. What lies ahead for this important technology and how will it continue to enable both media and enterprises in the future? In this presentation, Level 3's CTO will discuss the important role CDNs will play in meeting the need of growing demand for over-the-top video delivery, IoT, website acceleration, and managing bandwidth demands globally as they inevitably escalate. Attendees will also hear about the importance of security, and the convergence of CDN and security strategies as a holistic solution mix.

By 2020, Frost & Sullivan forecasts the VR market to generate up to $40 billion from real-time communication, pay-per-view broadcasts, gaming, education and training, interactive advertising and more. Video processing and software will enable the industry to blossom toward its full potential. Hear how VR enables content owners and service providers to reinvent their offerings, and how Live VR transmission of sports, music and gaming events is now possible with just-in-time-transcoding (JITT) incorporated in end-to-end content delivery networks for capture, cloud processing and delivery.

Using operational streaming analytics to monitor and support streaming media deployments is as important and in many cases more mission critical than just deploying an in-player streaming analytics solution. In-player and last mile solutions focus on issues as they affect the customers, which is often too late and does little to improve customer retention and minimize churn. This presentation will showcase how you can use operational streaming analytics to alert content distributors to delivery problems, as they happen and provide immediate solution responses, before they become end user issues.

The growth of live and on-demand streaming video is accelerating around the world. This growth is part of a broader and unstoppable transformation from broadcast television to Internet TV. The streaming ecosystem is responding with an evolving Internet architecture that includes an open cache layer, deep in ISP networks, which performs an essential streaming optimization function with benefits for the entire streaming ecosystem. Content Providers benefit from improved Quality of Experience (QoE). CDNs benefit by leveraging Open Cache systems as a CDN extension deep in the ISP network. Finally, ISPs benefit as the open cache creates lower cost capacity and higher quality stream delivery in a shared and virtualized layer at the network edge. This presentation will provide data from real world open cache deployments which show the performance of open caching in ISP networks, including the impact on network economics and the improvement in consumer Quality of Experience.

In too many cases, we see bandwidth wasted in an effort to achieve high quality. There are more efficient and effective ways to achieve the highest video quality while optimizing bandwidth allocation. One size fits all VOD encoding can be easily adapted to become quality assured. Real-time/live streaming can easily be pruned to provide consistent quality that only uses the bandwidth needed, and devices can even sue quality to optimize their bandwidth choices. This presentation will provide real insight and examples of the gaps and inconsistencies in achieving consistent high video quality and bandwidth reduction.

This presentation will address the challenging aspect of obtaining broadcast quality live streaming over best effort IP networks while still achieving both low latency and high reliability. In this session, there will be an examination of the impact of network design, storage solutions and edge services on latency and bandwidth requirements for video. There will also be an in-depth analysis of how redundancy and network intelligence can provide higher reliability in cases of component failures or transit issues. Attend to also hear experiences in testing and monitoring such a global scale platform, in partnership with several encoding vendors and content publishers.

The demand for ever increasing amounts of delivery capacity is insatiable, with no single CDN able to provide all of the capacity, features, geographic coverage and uptime that broadcasters need. Hence, the growing momentum behind a multi-CDN architecture and the load-balancing, redundancy and feature completeness advantages that this approach affords. This presentation will showcase how peer-assisted delivery can take the multi-CDN approach to the next level. Learn how a hybrid p2p+http delivery approach can improve scalability by an order of magnitude while dramatically improving QoS and geographic coverage at the same time.

The business of TV is continuously moving toward the internet, and viewers are demanding OTT content at their fingertips, willingly migrating to the open and unpredictable internet medium to fulfill their TV viewing needs. The difficulty for media companies and content providers, however, is measuring, analyzing and truly understanding their audience DNA to know who their audience really is and how they’re really watching. The future of OTT will be won by publishers and advertisers that are able to monetize customer engagement by measuring, optimizing and prioritizing their viewers’ quality of experience. This presentation will discuss the key components of experience, how it impacts engagement, and how that impacts your OTT/TV business.

Virtual reality is quickly becoming mainstream. Thanks to the recent emergence of innovative VR platforms, devices and mobile solutions, consumers and industry are both getting excited about the VR potential. Entertainment, gaming and even end users are just starting to experiment with content to consume on their VR devices. Much like in years past where CDNs helped propel the video streaming market, CDNs are once again in a position to drive market adoption of VR technology to create a truly immersive virtual reality experience for the end user. Are you ready to meet all the delivery challenges? This presentation will highlight the problems with delivering VR over the Internet in today’s climate and how Ericsson is looking to solve the technical divide to deliver a high quality of experience to the marketplace.

Delivering seamless content experiences to consumers is no easy task, particularly if you're attempting to stream content live. While CDN is a key part of the solution, it's not the only piece of the puzzle that you to consider when building a robust, highly agile and high performing streaming platform. In this presentation, you will learn the secrets to building and delivering a high quality content experience to end users in multiple regions, at scale.

Content delivery has evolved as development practices and users’ need for real-time results have changed. Smart caching and effective acceleration of your entire application stack while increasing the speed of development have become critical for modern media platforms. Learn how Fastly is helping some of the leading media properties address modern media challenges.

In this moderated conversation, speakers will discuss the business drivers and the technical challenges involved in deploying and managing a multi-CDN implementation. Hear the pro’s and con’s and get insights directly from companies that have deployed these architectures for OTT and gaming. Learn how they measure success and how they select where to focus their development and delivery budgets for the best return on their dollars. The take away will be a deep understanding of the best practices of a multi-CDN deployment from people that have actually done it, and how they measured that success.

To meet the robust requirements for high performance origin storage platforms, content delivery and live streaming, it requires an end-to-end architecture for content delivery with seamlessly integrated file and object storage platforms. CDN service providers need high throughput, low latency and a globally distributed latency aware environment. By combining a high performance parallel file system coupled with object storage you can create a fast, global CDN to ensure your applications perform as advertised, no matter where your audiences are. Learn how you can deploy a faster, more reliable, cost-effective and scalable CDN infrastructure.

There are many backbone and transit providers to choose from in a highly competitive market, which all CDNs and some larger content owners work with to gain price reductions every year. Transit pricing has and continues to get cheaper every quarter, and it is expected it will decline in price once again this year. This presentation will highlight some of the latest transit pricing data collected from customers and discuss the competitive landscape for transit pricing in the U.S. market.

In this presentation, you'll learn what drives Millennial viewing habits for online video. Featuring consumer research from Limelight Networks, discover what makes this generation "tick," how you can tailor your videos to appeal to their finicky behaviors, and the three things you must do to keep them coming back again and again.

This presentation will detail the competitive landscape for video and non-video CDN services and highlight some of the new vendors and solutions in the market. Attendees will also get the latest data on the size of the content delivery industry as well as expected growth forecasts for both revenue and traffic volumes. Learn the current pricing points for video delivery services and hear about the market drivers, trends that will determine what customers pay in the future and get an update on do-it-yourself CDN deployments.