Interview with Telco Transformation Magazine – Part 2

The second part of the fun interview with Aditya Kishore from Telco Transformation Magazine was published, where we continued our wide ranging discussion on high quality online video streaming, CDNs, DRM and video compression;

• What would you say are your biggest challenges?

• You talked a little about your CDN options at TV Connect. Can we revisit that. What has been your approach to caching? (See article here)

• Are there any new technologies or solutions in particular that you are looking at in the next year or so?

As mentioned in Part 1, having a Multi CDN strategy is essential when operating at scale as not all CDNs are created equal and you need to understand the client’s behaviour, making changes dynamically based on conditions.

One of my observations over the past 12 months is that the H264 video codec has effectively run out of road and we’ll need next generation video compression to keep up with demand, delivering higher quality video with less bits.