fast.com Netflix Speedtester using CDN caches. Interesting...

Netflix's first original movie will be a sequel to 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon'

Not content with Original TV shows. Netflix is moving into the movie space.

Clue:

http://www.theverge.com/2014/9/29/6870271/netflix-first-original-movie-will-be-a-sequel-to-crouching-tiger-hidden-dragon#

ISP PlusNet Highlights Rising UK Demand for Netflix Video Streams

I think for the major ISP's willing to host Netflix's Open Connect platform this is simply an issue of staying on to of capacity. For smaller ISP's without this hardware it must become tricky managing the  evening congestion on their peering / transit and making sure there is enough capacity at all times.  Especially with events such as the iOS release coming up in September where ISP's usually have a bit of a meltdown in terms of consumer traffic.

http://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2014/08/uk-isp-plusnet-highlights-rising-demand-netflix-video-streams.html

AMD’s Big Bet on ARM Powered Servers: Opteron A1100 Revealed

Looks like CDN farms might find a new processor king in the near future.... AMD  are really doing some innovative stuff with Mantle and now this. Good to see them keeping Intel humble.  

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8362/amds-big-bet-on-arm-powered-servers-a1100-revealed

Two Days in the life of Football - Plusnet

Check out the link below on Plusnets analysis of the football, streamed on their network.




http://community.plus.net/blog/2014/06/23/two-days-in-the-life-of-football/

Apple Building Out Their Own CDN To Deliver Content To Consumers

Looks like it's bad news for Akamai's (and Level 3 to a lesser extent) business if Apple make a major shift away from them. It'll be interesting to see if Apple only go into the IPX's or if they take a Open Connect approach like Netflix have and deal with ISP's as well.

http://blog.streamingmedia.com/2014/02/apple-building-cdn-software-video-delivery.html

Solving the Friday night deluge (Content pushing network limits)

http://www.cedmagazine.com/articles/2013/12/solving-the-friday-night-deluge

Netflix: Enabling Support for IPv6

http://techblog.netflix.com/2012/07/enabling-support-for-ipv6.h

and here's a Open Connect video:

CDN / security reading list.

CDN URLs:

http://www.level3.com/en/products-and-services/data-and-internet/cdn-content-delivery-network/

http://www.akamai.com/html/solutions/aura_multiscreen_del.html

http://www.akamai.com/html/solutions/aura-solutions.html

http://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/

https://www.cloudflare.com/features-cdn

http://www.highwinds.com/ Also talks about GDN's Game delivery networks: http://www.highwinds.com/gdn/

http://www.skytide.com/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/projects/adaptive-bitrate-technology


Related / content:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Live_Streaming

http://www.cisco.com/web/about/ac49/ac0/ac1/ac259/nds.html

http://www.f5.com/products/big-ip/


Security based:

https://www.cloudflare.com/

http://www.level3.com/en/products-and-services/cyber-security/ddos-attack-protection-mitigation/

http://googleblog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/new-free-expression-tools-from-google.html

http://www.arbornetworks.com/solutions/service-providers

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/vpndevc/ps5879/ps6264/ps5888/prod_white_paper0900aecd8011e927.html

Got your own CDN's to host Netflix's content. The you could have SuperHD streams.

See link: http://www.engadget.com/2013/08/07/netflix-superhd-3d-comcast/

Orange boasts: We made Google PAY US for traffic

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/01/17/google_orange/