Overview
Epic Labs will assess your current or prospective Content Delivery Network (CDN) strategy, architecture and integration. As experts in the Internet content delivery space, we will provide recommendations on how to better integrate with your CDN, fine tune configurations to enhance your users/customers’ media experience while improving the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) associated to this service.
What is the challenge and how can Epic Labs help
Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) are critical to the success of digital media broadcasting over the Internet. User and consumer experience greatly rely on how the content is delivered. Additionally, CDN services represent a significant cost of online media businesses that needs to keep improving to make the bottom line more competitive.
Quality video streaming delivery entails a considerable effort and expertise.
The large segmentation in transport protocols, video encoding, CDN service providers, geographical reach and scalability, security, DRM, players, etc. require a thoughtful CDN strategy, architecture and integration.
Some of the technologies we leverage as part of this service:
Video/audio protocols, DRM, token auth, bitrate optimization, analytics, playout devices, SDKs
Epic Labs Media Engineering Team has profound knowledge and extensive experiencearchitecting these solutions for small to large broadcasters, online businesses and corporate organizations.
As part of this service, Epic Labs Media Engineering team will engage your video distribution architects to work together at assessing the current architecture providing recommendations on how to best consume a CDN in terms of configurations and fine tuning around video protocols, video/audio codecs, DRM integration, optimal bitrates, devices playout and analytics.
What is included
A designated Media Engineer will:
• Assess your current CDN architecture and integration
• Provide optimization recommendations and fine-tune video/audio encoding parameters, bitrates and streaming protocol implementation to ensure high performance, compliance with industry standards and compatibility with your CDN
• Analyze security of your video streaming integration: UltraViolet, DRM setup, token authentication and stream encryption
• Configure streaming metrics acquisition: metrics definition, probe implementation, data gathering, integration with 3rd parties (e.g. Akamai Media Analytics, Google Analytics, Conviva, ComScore, Nielsen, etc) and your CDN
• Playout and devices strategy definition and implementation (players & devices SDKs)
Our Media Engineering Team
Epic Labs is a Software Innovation Center with a passion, vocation and great expertise in media, video and streaming.We pride ourselves of our talented Media Engineer Team with an extensive background in companies such as Akamai, NEC, Nokia,EMC or Pivotal that, combined with continued self-development and research, allows us to provide our customers with innovative and differentiated high-quality Media Engineering services.
Some of the expertise leveraged on this service are:
Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), Quality video streaming, geographical reach and scalability, security, DRM, players, thoughtful CDN strategy, architecture and integration.
