Akamai presents its innovations for distribution of spots and multimedia content

Starting from the slogan 'Audience of You', Akamai attends this IBC 2017 with the purpose of demonstrating an optimal experience to all OTT video users.

And su stand and IBC (5.B52), Akamai showcases its live and on-demand distribution solutions, custom designed from the start to adapt to the demands of linear/live streaming in uninterrupted mode. LiveOrigin includes four components: broadcast-quality ingestion, low latency, monitoring reporting, and self-healing network. The combination of these components allows us to offer the same level of linear video streaming quality as traditional television broadcasting.

Those who visit its space at the RAI Center will also be able to check out the new “efficiency” capabilities of multimedia content acceleration technology. Applications can access content from different paths and sources. When these capabilities are enabled, they ensure that users receive secure content through the most trusted source available, directly from the Akamai Intelligent Platform or by streaming the content to a nearby device.

Akamai's media acceleration, introduced earlier this year, improves media performance delivered over the Internet to create more engaging experiences for online audiences. It acts as an extension of Akamai's content delivery capabilities, and can be enabled by integrating technology directly into a video application to deliver a reliable and robust delivery experience to every end user, regardless of their circumstances or local network conditions.

In collaboration with ad technology expert Yospace, Akamai will offer cluster and server demos that can be delivered via live and on-demand video streaming at the user level. Akamai Dynamic Ad Insertion is designed to help content providers deliver better monetization opportunities through online advertising and maintain a TV-like experience for users at scale.

Additionally, through Akamai's Broadcast Operations Control Center (BOCC) and Broadcast Operations Support System (BOSS), multimedia analytics tools can provide operational data and telemetry from source to content arrival to the user for unprecedented visibility and control of video performance and operations.

Also on display are next-generation entertainment experiences with technological innovations that help deliver enhanced online experiences, including live and on-demand augmented and virtual reality, sub-second latency, 3D audio and High Dynamic Range (HDR) video.

Based on its experience managing more than 9 million daily attacks and the trust that leading media companies have placed in Akamai, the company offers a wide variety of solutions to identify web threats facing the media industry today.

Cybersecurity

This year, Akamai is a presenting sponsor of C-Tech Forum: Cybersecurity at IBC 2017. The one-day event where IBC brings together CTOs, IT, information security, and digital departments within the communications and broadcast industries to promote a discussion about how they think about cyber warfare, anticipating upcoming cyber threats, and breach management. For the first time in the event's history, IBC includes a specific forum focused on cybersecurity and its impact on broadcasters, where Akamai experts will share their knowledge with attendees.

Jay Coley, Senior Director of Security Strategy and Planning at Akamai, will share his expertise during breakout sessions at the IBC Education Conference, which will include Security in numbers: Collaboration to confront cyberattacks (Friday, September 15 from 11:50 a.m. to 1 p.m. CEST in Forum) and Tactics for creating a cloud security strategy in the new world of communications (Friday, September 15. Time: 3:25 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. CEST at C-Tech Cyber Security, G102-3).