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mhhf1ve
4/4/2017 2:19:47 PM
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Re: Build CDN
> "It's always a balance between cost, management complexity, and end-user QoE."
As is almost everything.... Usually there's a "two out of three" restraint, too. eg. You want it done "fast, cheap, well" -- pick two.
mhhf1ve
4/4/2017 2:22:18 PM
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The rise of OTT video services..
The decreasing costs of building/buying a CDN is also leading to the growth of video streaming services everywhere -- because they can be more reliable and offer decent video service to end users in a cost effective way. So now these video services just have to try to keep content licensing fees manageable.. :P
Ariella
4/4/2017 2:26:50 PM
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Re: Build CDN
@mhhf1ve I suppose each company has its own calculus for the risk/benefit ratio and so can come to different conclusions about these things.
mhhf1ve
4/4/2017 2:46:49 PM
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Re: Build CDN
> "each company has its own calculus for the risk/benefit ratio..."
Yup. Full redundancy for backing up a service is a luxury for a lot of companies. As long as the service has greater than 99% or 99.9% uptime... usually customers will understand a few brief outages? Maybe instead of actually running a full backup, it's a better strategy to have backup *plans* that minimize downtime -- and if the downtime is less than 24hrs or so, then it's okay to operate without having an instantaneous fall back already running.
Adi
4/4/2017 3:04:43 PM
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Re: The rise of OTT video services..
very true...though it seems like there are plateaus to this, ie, stages where stream counts rise so fast and so high, that delivery costs again become an issue, and streaming providers again start pushing for lower costs from their CDN.
Re: content costs - that'll be interesting to see. Not so much in the streaming space necessarily, but linear channels could see a major cull in coming years. That might bring down prices...or just thin the herd, and only the expensive survive.
mhhf1ve
4/4/2017 3:25:41 PM
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Re: The rise of OTT video services..
The fate of linear video is going to be really interesting to see. Broadcasters seem to be holding onto their spectrum rights even though they could potentially make a lot of $$$ in an auction that gives up their last remaining licenses to OTA frequencies.... I wonder when the price will be high enough (and the OTT services cheap enough) for broadcasters to give up OTA spectrum rights and go completely virtual over IP...?
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