Swedish video streaming innovator Voddler, today announced a new release of its proven next-generation streaming solution, Vnet.
Vnet™,
from Stockholm-based streaming innovator Voddler, is today being made
immediately available worldwide. Vnet is Voddler’s proven and patented
new standalone software solution, which previously powered Voddler’s and
its partners’ Video-on-Demand (VOD) platforms streaming thousands of
titles to millions of viewers. Vnet is the world’s first managed
peering network, which uses our hybrid distribution system of
decentralized resources with centralized control to create a global and
massively scalable community of video delivery edge servers. Through
this “Vnet Cloud”, we consistently deliver exceptional quality of
service and playback performance, with offloading rates in excess of 95%
to a virtually limitless scale. Vnet has received the endorsement of
the five top Hollywood studios, because of Vnet’s proven ability to
protect their content through our support of industry-standard digital
rights management (DRM) technologies, centrally control content
distribution, and ability to ensure an incredible viewing experience for
all of their consumers. Vnet is an easily-integrated overlay to
existing or new online video platforms (OVPs) as well as any
over-the-top (OTT) video content providers. The future of streaming
video has now arrived! [J1]
Vnet extends our OVP
and OTT clients’ ability to reach and service their users in areas and
moments of congested internet traffic and poor transfer rates, by
passing their traditional Content Delivery Network’s (CDN) streaming to
Vnet’s peering service, expanding greatly our customer’s ability to
consistently grow their presence and market share. Vnet’s peering
method requires [J2] a
very low threshold of peering activity before it hits near-100% peering
grades, providing an exceptional and consistent Quality of Service
(QoS) and Quality of Experience (QoE) for our customer’s users. This
means that Vnet can very rapidly deliver an optimal user experience
independently across our network, without depending on our customer’s
existing infrastructure. We ensure that our customers’ Customer
Acquisition Costs generate a higher ROI, by reducing their viewer churn
rates through our playback experience. Finally, through an inherently
scalable system, Voddler helps its customers reduce their operating
costs by offloading traffic from their CDN infrastructure to Vnet, while
significantly improving performance as the service grows. [J3]
By adding peering capabilities to existing rigid server-based
solutions, Vnet can massively extend our customer’s market reach and
viewing experience.
“You need a fantastic infrastructure to deliver OTT” - Amrish Kacker, Analysys Mason APAC
Vnet is that infrastructure.
Vnet’s release will also include SDK [J4] support
for Android integration, enabling our customers to immediately extend
their mobile user content engagement. APIs for integration of Vnet
performance and statistics into third party billing and analytics
engines are also included, ensuring a holistic and seamless combined
offering. Vnet’s core includes support for Adaptive Bit Rate (ABR),
MPEG-DASH, and Apple’s HTTP Live Streaming technology (HLS), providing a
comprehensive toolset for capturing and captivating viewers across the
globe.
- “In
many countries video streaming is still a frustrating experience, when
it is available at all. Video content consumers around the world are
demanding regular access to premium and original content, with a
consistently excellent playback experience. Vnet gives people exactly
what they want: great content truly anywhere and anytime, on a global
scale!” says Adam Lewis, Voddler’s CEO
Voddler’s Vnet cloud
stores and streams larger video volumes at a superior quality than
today’s normal streaming solutions. It also saves on average 95% of
normal streaming costs, as demonstrated by Voddler’s own
proof-of-concept service voddler.com, which since 2010 has served millions of video streams to over 1 million registered users. [J5] Vnet
works out of the box with existing DRM encryption schemes and rights
management as Vnet acts as an unobtrusive transport layer, allowing the
content owners full security and control.[J6] [AL7]
