Gonzalo de la Vega (Fastly): "Apart from being very fast, we are entirely programmable"

The Vice President of Strategic Projects at Fastly, Gonzalo de la Vega, analyzes in this video interview at IBC some of the services that the American cloud computing service provider develops specifically for broadcasters and other media companies.

Fastly describes its network as a cloud platform, designed to help developers extend their core cloud infrastructure at the edge of the network, closer to users.

Coinciding with IBC 2022, Fastly moved its Experts in security, broadcast, data… to together with its partners to publicize its portfolio of Packaged Solutions designed for broadcasters in addition to their Services at the edge of the network which are fully programmable.

One of the advantages of Fastly is that it makes its programmable network available to broadcatsers and media companies so that they can program and develop their own solutions.

Media streaming services have been designed with the performance, configurability, and real-time visibility. With a capacity of over 215+ microcopy Tbit/s and growing, it's able to adapt instantly to accommodate the needs of the industry's largest video and streaming services.

Another of Fastly's strengths is that it offers a Development-driven configurability as it puts the tools in the hands of developers, with Full API integration and a highly configurable edge computing language So you can build, build, and deploy changes quickly, without downtime or support calls.

This platform for distributing both live and on-demand (VOD) content is Supports distribution of all major streaming formats in HTTP video displays, as well as in both public and private header deployments. In addition, Fastly collaborates with numerous vendors such as wPlayer or Wowza to improve the flexibility and scalability of video streaming workflows.

When it comes to video-on-demand, Fastly's CDN is designed to cache videos on demand and distribute them quickly, whether they're popular or long-tail. Finally, it is worth noting the importance that Fastly places on Content security ensuring its distribution against fraud or geolocation or bot breaches.

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