Life at the Cutting Edge of IP Video: Software-defined Storage and The HTTP 2.0 PUSH to a Superlative Viewing Experience
(Room 208-209)
01 Oct 19
1:00 PM
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2:00 PM
Television audiences expect the best video quality their devices can render, and to have it available for viewing in seconds – whether it’s coming in live, or from cloud-based storage. This session, which includes video experts from Comcast and Concurrent, examines two key developments in IP video. One is HTTP 2.0 PUSH, to immediately distribute IP content through a CDN in a way that reduces round-trip-time and optimizes time to first frame (TTFF). The other is software-designed storage, designed to help cloud-delivered DVR streams to scale in performance and capacity. The discussion will include results of a Comcast proof of concept to independently measure the quality of a single video source, relative to the synchronized transcoding and packaging of two geographically-dispersed sites.