According to StreamingMedia, HEVC Advance, a new group that formed a patent pool for licensing HEVC technology, plans on charging something to the effect of 0.5% of gross revenue for HEVC usage, that is retroactive “to the date of first
Although Apple’s market cap dropped $37B from late April to late July, the GAFAN (Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Netflix) Mafia continues to grow like gangbusters, adding a cool ~$150B in valuation in the past three months. Their total combined market
Some people see Netflix as an HBO, Comcast or Lions Gate; in other words traditional entertainment. Others view Netflix as an Uber, WhatsApp, Airbnb or Facebook; an extremely disruptive business that has surpassed all imagination. Categorizing Netflix in the proper
Let’s ask the crazy question – Can Netflix surpass Comcast in market valuation in the next five years? First, let’s dive into a recent study by MTM, a London based consultancy catering to the who’s who in media. The study
Netflix has not only built its own powerful, highly scalable global Content Delivery Network, but they’ve also built an incredibly powerful political machine that is able to influence public opinion, the FCC, and the competition. Comcast, the $160B+ cable company
Netflix and Amazon have a very complicated relationship. It’s a marriage of economic convenience, with lots of love and hate thrown in there. Jeff Bezos and Reed Hasting are the stuff of legends, but how long will this friendship last?
The Internet has been torn asunder at the news of Verizon buying AOL. The PR machines are on overdrive trying to figure out the reason “why Verizon acquired AOL”. There are dozens of theories on “why the acquisition” and most
Denis O’Brien, the billionaire owner of Digicel, a Caribbean Mobile Operator with 13M customers, recently stated that “Mark Zuckerberg is like the guy who comes to your party and drinks your champagne, and kisses your girls, and doesn’t bring anything”. We disagree
GPON Wireline Innovation Challenge: Last mile bandwidth limitations have been a constant bottleneck limiting end user content consumption Solution: GPON (Gigabit Passive Optical Network) provides multi-gigabit wireline connectivity to homes and businesses, efficiently, inexpensively and cost-effectively over the last mile
Network Operators of the world, here comes Netflix and Amazon, to a city near you. For the Network Operator delivering video content in their respective geographies, things just took a turn for the dramatic. Let’s assess the challenges awaiting the
There’s lot of things happening in LLNW’s world. Netflix left, their network recently experienced an outage, and leadership is struggling to stay ahead of the competition. The recent outage while unfortunate, is not really an anomaly, since many other cloud
Netflix has invested tens of millions of dollars in building out its CDN infrastructure, if not hundreds of millions of dollars. According to StreamingMedia.com, prior to their CDN build-out, Netflix customers never had any streaming issues. Once Netflix built their
In the next few posts, I’ll be analyzing the Apple CDN build-out, discussing the challenges they face, the cost for POP build-outs, strategy, talent gap, and so on. According to Rayburn, Apple has been busy building out its CDN infrastructure
I usually don’t comment on a CDN news article unless it’s way out of bounds from reality. I just found one from Mukesh Baghel, who published an article on The Motley Fool titled “Will Apple and Netflix’s New Moves Destroy
In one corner you got Netflix, Level 3 and Cogent. In the other corner you have AT&T, Verizon and Comcast. The fight is getting nastier, and also more entertaining. Reed Hastings is the man. He speaks his mind, and goes
