Koovik promises to reduce CDN traffic and costs by more than 60% in video streaming with Virtual Simulcast

Koovik, a company based in the Tecnocampus of Mataró, has presented the Virtual Multicast solution defined by software on the client side.

The unstoppable increase in Internet video consumption suggests that live video traffic will multiply by 15 between 2016 and 2021, and video traffic will be 82% of all Internet traffic.

Operators face a situation of increased operating costs associated with traffic in the CDN.

Given this situation, Koovik, a company based in the Tecnocampus of Mataró, has developed the solution Virtual Simulcast. Use WebRTC y HLS o MPEG-DASH along with a cloud management engine to replicate stream-chunks between user machines configuring a mesh network equivalent to a multicas situationt.

In this way, traffic savings in the CDN, and its associated cost, are achieved in a 24/7 production situation. Simultaneously, a improvement in quality percibida por el usuario con una reducción de situaciones de “re-buffering” y carga de vídeos más rápida.

Koovik promete reducir el tráfico y costes del CDN en más de un 60% en streaming de vídeo.

Virtual Multicast no requiere que el usuario instale nada en su dispositivo. Está disponible para entorno web y para aplicaciones en dispositivos móviles o Smart TV. La comunicación entre dispositivos esta encriptada de manera nativa usando WebRTC.

Además, mantiene todas las configuraciones establecidas por el broadcaster, permisos de usuario, geoblocking, publicidad pre-roll… porque el proceso se inicia siempre con una conexión al servidor.

Esta solución es compatible con SSAI (Server Side Ad Insertion) y does not interfere with DRM nor with the eventual encryption of the stream, since the “chunks” that are replicated between users are the same segments that would be downloaded from the CDN.

In the case of encrypted channels, the decryption key is transferred -only- directly from the CDN to the authorized user.

The Virtual Multicast control panel allows you to view the CDN download and offload in real time, and allows configurations for the use of Virtual Multicast. For example: disable uploading on clients connected to mobile networks, enable or disable it based on geolocation or other criteria.