[CAnet - news] Grids and P2P to deliver video over Internet

Thu Nov 2 08:40:06 PST 2006

Cities and other regulators should require that internet connections
having both endpoints in their jurisdiction be routed physically
within their jurisdiction.  This should include interconnecting the
cable company and telephone company networks, at the neighborhood
level.   The converse, sending huge bandwidth up to the regional
interconnection point imposes needless costs on subscribers and
is the principle obstacle to the performance required for local online
gaming, broadband video such as school sports, music jams,
free local phone exchanges, videoconferencing.  Hijacking our data
to regional POPs imposes additional risks of snooping and hacking
by forces having no right to snoop or interfere with our local content.

Todd

At 07:46 AM 11/2/2006, Bill St.Arnaud wrote:
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>[Two interesting articles from ConvergeDigest and MIT technology on the
>future of video over the Internet.  There are several other companies like
>Inuk that are developing innovative business solution in this marketplace --
>BSA]
>
>
>www.convergedigest.com
>
>GridNetworks Unveils P2P "GridCast" Digital Content Delivery
>GridNetworks, a start-up based in Seattle, unveiled its "GridCast" Platform
>for instant-on, full-screen, DVD-quality video to broadband-connected
>viewers.
>
>  GridNetworks said its solution overcomes the challenges faced by both
>content delivery networks (CDNs) and Peer-to-Peer (P2P) software solutions.
>While CDNs can provide secure distribution of content, their hardware-based
>delivery systems are expensive and fail to offer the delivery speed or
>scalability required to provide a reasonable alternative to conventional
>broadcast distribution. P2P solutions offer an inexpensive way to move
>complete video files, but fail to provide on-demand streaming, speedy file
>delivery, or a content security model video asset owners desire.
>
>GridCasting is hybrid solution that combines CDN technologies with GridCast
>software. The approach is a new video delivery paradigm in which each
>participating computer becomes part of a vast, managed content distribution
>grid, optimized to deliver segmented, encrypted video data directly to the
>viewer's screen. This "Software CDN" approach effectively creates a vast,
>global network of mini-servers to redistribute encrypted video segments,
>providing overall network capacity and capabilities far greater than
>traditional CDNs. In addition to dramatically increasing the effective
>distribution network size, the GridCast Platform maintains centralized
>command-and-control of valuable video assets and has the industry's toughest
>content security proposition.
>http://www.gridnetworks.com
>01-Nov-06
>
>
>http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?id=17675&ch=infotech
>
>YouTube garners big bucks, but other ventures have broader aims for TV on
>the Web
>
>CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) -- Eyebrows went up when Google Inc. recently agreed
>to spend $1.65 billion for YouTube, the most popular Web site for free video
>clips. But that figure could be blown away one day if some emerging
>companies achieve their much broader visions for the future of online TV.
>
>These companies are building flexible online networks that can host content,
>serve up ads and dish out interactive features.
>
>One of the best positioned is Brightcove Inc., which on Monday is taking the
>wraps off an Internet video network that handles virtually everything for
>content creators.
>
>Aiming to serve everyone from garage auteurs to major media companies,
>Brightcove offers free publishing tools and runs video wherever publishers
>want it.
>
>That could be on the central Brightcove site, which is accessible through
>the video search functions at Google, Yahoo and AOL. Or content publishers
>can use Brightcove to run video on their own separate, branded sites. Or
>they can syndicate it to third-party Web sites, such as blogs or MySpace
>pages, where the content might run alongside user-generated material.
>
>All those videos can be sold as paid downloads or streamed for free, with
>ads. Brightcove will sell ads and pool them among its customers, or it will
>plug in commercials that content creators sell themselves.
>
>
>National Geographic, the Travel Channel, Warner Music, The New York Times
>and The Washington Post are all Brightcove customers.
>
>So is Barrio 305, a Miami-based Internet-only channel devoted to the
>tropical hip-hop music flavor known as reggaeton. Brightcove pumps Barrio
>305's videos to free sites in addition to Barrio 305's own pages. That gives
>the upstart network such wide dispersal that it hasn't mattered that Barrio
>305 has yet to persuade any cable TV programming buyers to offer its
>package.
>
>''We can bypass these traditional media agencies, and we can get out
>directly to our audience,'' said Antonio Otalvaro, one of the three brothers
>who founded Barrio 305. ''Our primary audience is online. They're not
>watching TV.''
>
>NBC Universal recently launched an Internet video distribution system called
>NBBC (short for National Broadband Co.) that is working with NBC affiliates
>and even traditional NBC rivals such as CBS Corp. and News Corp. NBBC is a
>marketplace where content owners and third-party sites can agree to share
>content and ad revenue.
>
>Like Brightcove, Maven is hosting video for customers and giving them quick,
>mouse-click methods of positioning content and setting up ad campaigns.
>Unlike Brightcove, Maven doesn't want to double as a video portal or dip
>into the ad business. Maven gets paid when viewers check out one of its
>customers' videos.
>
>Maven's customers include CBS-owned College Sports Television and The
>Weather Channel. Maven also powers aspects of NBBC's system, while 20th
>Century Fox uses Maven to show movie trailers.
>
>So deeply is it being changed, in fact, that Web video companies will have
>to smartly evolve as content coming over the Internet is routinely funneled
>not only to computers but directly to living room TVs. This will require
>navigating around or working with cable companies, for example, that make a
>good deal of their money controlling what you see on TV.
>
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>On the Net:
>
>Brightcove: http://www.brightcove.com
>
>NBBC: http://www.nbbc.com
>
>Maven Networks: http://www.maven.net
>
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