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Gone in a Flash…Multicast in a Flash-Free World

CMMA Blog

The date is set, and Flash’s end of
life is a reality. Yet, many companies are still using outdated Windows Media
and Adobe technologies because the multicast protocol is still the most
efficient, scalable and predictable option to reach hundreds or thousands of
employees at once.

What if you could use the infrastructure you already own to deliver pristine,
HD-quality video webcasts—securely across your enterprise? Join Ramp and
MediaPlatform on March 6 at 11 a.m. PT/2 p.m. ET for a
live webinar to learn:  

  • When to make the switch from Flash—and when it will be
    too late
  • Strategies to leverage your existing investments for
    automated and fault-tolerant HTML5 video webcasting
  • How Ramp and MediaPlatform’s integrated technologies
    can work for you and your enterprise

You’ll also hear real-world success
stories about companies using MediaPlatform and Ramp to stream internal live
events using Cisco and other vendors’ infrastructures. 

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Don’t Let Your Love for Multicast End

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By: Denise Iverson, VP of Sales & Marketing

The end
is near. In about a year, Adobe, Microsoft and Cisco will retire their beloved
multicast solutions. But don’t let these changes break your heart—or your video
network.

Multicast is easy to love. The one-to-many protocol reduces network traffic by delivering a single stream of video, audio and content to hundreds or thousands of viewers. You might be flirting with a peer-to-peer option, but nothing compares to multicast. It’s the most predictable, efficient and stable way to deliver an internal webcast.

This
Valentine’s Day, Ramp can help you fall in love with multicast all over again.
Our software-based solution delivers the highest quality streaming experience
possible using your existing investments. Like a great Valentine, AltitudeCDN™
Multicast+ is:

  • Friendly: Multicast+ is
    deliberately vendor neutral, runs on any existing multicast-enabled network,
    and is designed to work with H.264, HLS, DASH and HTML5
  • Reliable: Even on wireless
    networks susceptible to heavy loads and channel interference
  • Smart: Patented forward error
    correction, bandwidth smoothing technologies, and the ability to re-route video
    traffic behind the scenes creates a seamless, high-quality viewer experience
  • Flexible: As a software-based
    solution, it’s easy to deploy and adapts over time without requiring costly and
    labor-intensive network upgrades

There’s also something to be said for a Valentine who makes you feel secure, and Multicast+ sits 100 percent inside your firewall, making it as secure as your enterprise IT.

If you’re interested in learning more, join Ramp and MediaPlatform for a webinar on March 6 at 11 a.m. PT/2 p.m. ET to hear when to make the switch and how to leverage your existing technology to deliver pristine, HD-quality webcasts in your organization.

Register for the webinar here >> 

Read more: AltitudeCDN
Multicast+: Next-Generation Multicast in the Age of HTML5 >>

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Dave Bryant Promoted to President and Appointed to Board of Directors

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Dotsub’s Dave Bryant Promoted to President and Appointed to Board of Directors

3DavePhotoNiceDotsub has promoted Dave Bryant to president and has appointed him to the Board of Directors. In his expanded role, Dave will provide leadership and guidance in corporate strategy as Dotsub continues its path of growth in the language services industry as well as continuing to run the day to day business.

Dave has been with Dotsub for six years and has served as its COO for the past three. He will retain his COO title and responsibilities.  Dave helped build the growing team at Dotsub and was responsible for the conceptualization and development of Dotsub’s next generation Video Translation Management platform. He will also directly oversee Dotsub’s finance and product management functions.

Dave earned a degree in Computer Science from the University of Easy Anglia in the UK. He later moved to Plymouth University, where he ran the University Computer Center while receiving a graduate qualification in Business Administration.

Subsequently, he moved to the USA, taking a position at a Fortune 500 computer manufacturer. After that, he worked at early stage software companies, one of which he built from zero revenue to over $40M. Along the way he had the pleasure of being involved in two IPOs and a corporate buyout.

All of these positions required spending a significant amount of time flying around the world presenting information in many different countries. Dave learned how hard it was to communicate only in English and became passionate about the role of both video and language and their ability to enable knowledge to be shared throughout the world, both for commercial and socially impactful purposes.

Dave lives in Brooklyn, NY with his wife and close to his daughter and her family, where he attends music concerts, plays golf and is an attentive member of the NYC food scene when he is not working.

Contact:
Sharon Cunningham
Dotsub
sharon.cunningham@dotsub.com
+1 (212)-991-8685 x807

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Optimizing Video Delivery from Microsoft 365

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Microsoft recently announced the addition of live events in Stream , a new capability that lets Office 365 users broadcast highly-produced, studio-quality events to viewers on Stream, Teams and Yammer.

Supported Microsoft Platforms
AltitudeCDN optimizes video from all Microsoft streaming platforms.

With the announcement, Microsoft encouraged customers to scale video delivery by exploring SDN/eCDN options to optimize video traffic on the corporate network. AltitudeCDN™ from Ramp has been recognized as the first eCDN solution certified for Stream since Microsoft Ignite 2016. The latest collaboration between Microsoft and Ramp tightly integrates AltitudeCDN with Stream , so distribution via OmniCache™ is now a simple configuration selection in the Stream interface.

OmniCache is an intelligent video caching solution for both live video and video on demand (VOD). It dynamically retrieves video and stores local copies at key locations inside the firewall to alleviate traffic on the internal network by 90% or more. With OmniCache, viewers can expect reliable, smooth video playback on the corporate network without IT investment in expensive WAN upgrades or more hardware.

AltitudeCDN™ is the only publicly referenced eCDN that does not depend on a peer-to-peer (P2P) architecture, a networking approach prohibited by the security policies and standards of many enterprises. Unlike P2P counterparts, OmniCache does not require any plugins, client software, or cloud-based controllers, further enhancing the security of the solution and simplifying the effort to deploy and maintain the eCDN.

For companies with multicast-enabled networks, legacy multicast solutions including Adobe Flash, Cisco ECDS and Windows Media Server are now officially end-of-life and end-of-support. Ramp’s AltitudeCDN Multicast+ is a direct replacement and the only next-generation multicast solution that isn’t proprietary to specific video streaming platforms.

Want to learn more? Enter your contact information on the form below and get instant access to the Microsoft Stream & AltitudeCDN OmniCache Solution Brief!

 

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Embracing HTML5 in the World of Enterprise Video

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Over the past several years, major announcements from industry giants like Microsoft and Adobe have been encouraging a shift to HTML5 as the modern video standard. The long-anticipated demise of Flash, amid a rash of security concerns, means content publishers no longer have a universal mechanism for getting video playable across the many different devices an audience might use. With all the major browsers now supporting some level of HTML5 video markup without the need for plugins, HTML5 has become the logical successor to Flash for ubiquitous video distribution.

But what does HTML5 mean for enterprise video?

Consumer adoption of new technologies outpaces the enterprise’s ability to keep up and widens the gap of unmet expectations in the workplace. But with discontinued browser support and ongoing security concerns, IT departments are forced to evaluate the alternatives. In the latest enterprise streaming survey conducted by Wainhouse Research, 74% of IT executives agreed with the statement their next streaming platform would be based on HTML5.

One of the key advantages of HTML5 is that video content is packaged in a standardized manner, so it plays the same across viewing devices—mobile, desktop, etc. It moves organizations to a model of publish once and view anywhere, on any device. This benefit alone streamlines the process of creating video for business communications.

HTML5 eases video distribution in the enterprise

Another benefit of HTML5 video is the ability to leverage existing network infrastructure for distribution. One of the key advantages of Flash was that organizations could multicast video across the corporate network. Multicasting is a highly efficient, one-to-many protocol for reducing network traffic by simultaneously delivering a single stream of video to hundreds or thousands of users. With Flash falling out of favor, the future of multicast was briefly uncertain. But the emerging standard for HTML5 video paved the way for the next generation of multicast as well.

The premier multicast solution for HTML5, AltitudeCDN™ Multicast+ supports all the classic multicast use cases, which enterprises have long used, but also enables new use cases that were previously impossible. As a next generation solution, Multicast+ is also common enterprise streaming infrastructure. So as streaming video platforms standardize on HTML5, the infrastructure to support the efficient delivery of video across the enterprise can also be standardized. No longer do organizations need to deploy a distinct delivery solution for each streaming platform.

Five Best Practices for Building Enterprise Streaming Infrastructure

Ramp Whitepapers Social VideoSprawlMore information about the state of streaming video in the enterprise is available from Wainhouse Research in the report, Video Sprawl Behind the Corporate Firewall.

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Video Delivery in Bandwidth-Constrained Locations

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Successfully getting video to remote locations is a common problem we see, especially in industries such as financial services, retail, manufacturing and healthcare. These organizations typically have a segment of the population with great connectivity at headquarters and major office locations. Then they have a number of remote locations with limited or poor connectivity. Getting required training or a live executive broadcast to these locations can be quite a challenge. Not only do they have lower bandwidth capacity than large office locations, but they also typically have business-critical applications on the network such as POS systems that cannot be negatively impacted.

Some of the great features of an eCDN solution like OmniCache™ is the ability to manage the video streaming to these locations, both in terms of time and quality, while also ensuring a great viewing experience for those audiences.

For example, with OmniCache, you can schedule videos to be pushed to the cache and stored in the remote location during a window of time when network activity is low. Then, when viewers at that location begin to watch the video, no internet network capacity is utilized, but viewers get an immediate and high quality video feed.

OmniCache can also be configured to really take advantage of adaptive bit rate streams. For example, when streaming a live executive broadcast during prime business hours, instead of sending 1080p over the internet connection, OmniCache can scale down the bit rates received to something manageable for the network at that location.

OmniCache is an intelligent caching solution for both live and on-demand video that requires no client software or plugins. You can read more about OmniCache here and learn more about video distribution behind the firewall in our white paper Five Approaches for Deploying and Enterprise Content Delivery Network (eCDN) .

From the IBM webinar Optimizing Video on Corporate Networks

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