CDN – IRT Lab

Streaming on Rails — Episode 01: Improving VoD for Train Passengers

Christoph Ziegler — Tue, 26 May 2020 14:14:01 +0000

In the EU-funded R&D project 5G-VICTORI we aim to improve the availability and quality of video-on-demand (VoD) streaming services (such as “Mediathek”) for train passengers. In a series of articles we want to keep you informed about our activities in this area. In this article we explain the technical approaches we are investigating. How can ...

OpenCDN – Player-based IP distribution from alternative servers

Martin Schmalohr — Wed, 11 Sep 2019 07:56:26 +0000

For the growing popularity of video streaming in OTT services, multi-sourced caching solutions can reduce costs, improve performance and avoid vendor lock-in. Data traffic of ARD and ZDF for streaming audio and video content has grown rapidly during the last years. This trend will enforce with the shift from classic linear TV to VoD streaming ...

5G-MEDIA – 5G Service Platform Architecture for the Media Industry

Madeleine Keltsch — Fri, 18 Jan 2019 13:08:46 +0000

Media applications are amongst the most demanding services in terms of resources, requiring huge network capacity for high bandwidth low latency streaming of audio-visual content. Recent technological advances in the 5G domain hold the promise to unlock the potential of the media industry by offering high quality media services through dynamic efficient resource allocation. Actual ...