Verizon Content Delivery Summit Keynote: Removing Complexity

“Business on the internet is complicated,” said Chris Carey, chief product officer for 威瑞森数字媒体服务 (vdm).

Carey delivered the first keynote address at 今天’s 2014 Content Delivery Summit, taking place at the New York Hilton Midtown.

“威瑞森, 也许就在几年前, may not have had a part in this conference,凯里说, noting that he was proud to have been part of looking at where Verizon needed to go with digital media.

To move forward, Carey said there was a fundamental question that needed to be answered.

“我们怎么拿。, 今天, what are a lot of disparate services from a variety of providers and remove complexity in the equation?”

凯里指出， it’s not just one but many competitors that 威瑞森数字媒体服务 faces, and that the challenge is an opportunity to provide customers a one-stop shop for digital content delivery.

作为一站式服务概念的一部分, which would provide global services on a single platform, 需要进行几项收购, 包括CDN EdgeCast, CyberTrust on the security front, and “虚拟头端”前端的上行链路.

“我们相信Verizon可以发挥作用, 必须发挥, a large role in simplifying the complexity of services on the Internet,凯里说.

凯里指出， OnCue, which Verizon acquired from Intel Media, is a pure-play over-the-top (OTT) platform. It has been added to the VDMS portfolio and is being integrated into the next generation of service offerings.

“How are we doing on these decisions and acquisitions we’ve made?” Carey asked, noting that VDMS has seen 100 percent executive retention at EdgeCast. “This has allowed us to accelerate a whole host of things that we may not have been able to see for a year or two if we had grown organically.”

Carey then provided an overview of how the integration of the various acquisitions allows for acceleration.

“Expansion is where we’re really focused now, we’ll double it this year,凯里说. “Consumer demand will continue to outstrip the capacity of all of us together.”

在关闭, Carey switched over to talk a bit about the wireless spectrum, 包括长期演进(LTE).

“There’s a standard being created within Long-Term Evolution called eMBMS," said Carey. "It allows the massive number of radio-access networks that we all have in our pockets to be turned it into a broadcast platform.”

移动设备, 从2015年开始, will have a tuner that allow them to connect to a multicast feed of a major event. In addition, an LTE dongle allows for on-the-spot acquisition from a camera.

“If the college AV geek has an LTE dongle, 他可以把它连在摄像机上, walk down to the field hockey game on campus, 然后把它广播出去,凯里说.

That ability to easily integrate acquisition and delivery on the radio-access network is key to growth, 据凯里说, along with the simplification of publishing video on the internet.

Carey then opened for a series of questions from the audience.

“We can support up to 10 to 12 Mbps for a single stream,凯里说, answering an audience question about single-stream eMBMS and overall local network capacity. “We can do about a dozen channels concurrently before we start running into conflicts with the LTE voice and data that also run on the LTE network.”

“威瑞森 is leading the charge for the eMBMS standard,凯里说, “but it’s a published standard that any service provider can implement.”