Content Delivery Networks (eBook)

Dom Robinson is Co-Founder and Director of Innovations at id3as, London, UK. With more than two decades in the field, Robinson is one of the pioneers in online video, streaming media, and content delivery networks. His company, id3as, has been at the forefront of cloud delivery of live video at-scale, and is responsible for the software that powers a wide range of high profile online publishers, including NASDAQ, Perform, Intelsat, Arqiva and numerous others. He writes for StreamingMedia.com, is a Visiting Lecturer at Sussex University, Chairs a number of CDN and related Conferences, and frequently is quoted by industry magazines as a CDN and technical networks expert.

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About The Book

Synopsis

Unique Perspective

Market Need

Audience

Chapter 1: Welcome

1.1 A Few Words of Introduction

1.2 The 'Why' Of This Book

1.3 Relevant Milestones of the Personal Voyage

Chapter 2: Context and Orientation

2.1 History of Streaming

2.2 Industry Evolution

2.3 Consumer Adoption

2.4 Encode>Serve>Play

2.5 What Is a CDN: A Simple Model

2.6 Cloud Inside - New Generation

2.7 The Three Generations of CDN

2.8 Software Definition

2.9 'Service Velocity' And the Operator

Chapter 3: Workflows

3.1 Live Event Focus

3.2 Backhaul / Contribution and Acquisition

3.3 Cloud SAAS

Chapter 4: Publishing

4.1 Publishers, OVPs, CDNs, And MCNs

4.2 Desktop and Device Delivery Applications

4.3 Request Routing (The Dark Art of the CDN)

4.4 Logging Analytics and The Devil in The Detail

Chapter 5: Service Velocity

Chapter 6: Charging for IP Delivered Content

6.1 Lessons from The Music Industry

6.2 Success Cases

6.3 Failure Cases

6.4 General Commentary On Commercial Models

Chapter 7: Competition, And Regulatory Environment

7.1 ISOC, ITU and WSIS

7.2 Policy: Net Neutrality

7.3 Value Chain Alignment with QOS and SLA Propositions

7.4 Layer 2 Workaround?

Chapter 8: Cultural Change

8.1 Traditional Broadcasters

8.2 The Millennial Subscriber

8.3 ISP and Content Providers

8.4 Telco and Telecoms

8.5 Content Providers

Chapter 9: Preparing for Change in Your Design

9.1 Preface and Philosophy

9.2 Models, Diagrams and Schematics

9.3 How to Do a Good Diagram?

9.4 Scenario Planning

9.5 Risk, Responsibility and Reassurance

9.6 Optimisation & Upsell

9.7 Value Creation / Agility

9.8 Expectation Management

Chapter 10: Multicast - The Sleeping Giant

10.1 Multicast Recap

10.2 What Happens Now?

10.3 To Singularity and Beyond

Chapter 11: Deep-Dives (Case Studies)

11.1 Hitting The TV Screen - IPTV / Hybrid TV and OTT

11.2 Creating Nasdaq's Cloud-Based Virtual Workflow

Chapter 12: Wrap Up

Index