Ramp was the first eCDN provider to receive Microsoft Stream Certification from Microsoft® during an event at Microsoft Ignite in Atlanta GA. Microsoft Stream is a new business video service that democratizes video at work. Ramp eCDN received Microsoft Stream Certification of its integration which enables network distribution management and ensures seamless delivery of video […]
Thoughts on Video Caching Solutions to improve Network Utilization
Storing video is a problem that seems to be top of mind for everyone, but delivering video over a network is a different beast entirely. Video files are large, and are only getting larger as resolution and quality improve, resulting in a drastic increase in the amount of traffic that’s going over your network. Because […]
The Future of Multicast is Here
Enterprises have relied on the stability and scalability of the multicast protocol for decades. Recently, however, legacy multicast-enabling software from Microsoft and Adobe has reached a plateau. Microsoft’s Silverlight and Windows Media Server have officially reach end-of-life status, while Adobe’s Flash Player is clearly moving in that direction. These developments are causing corporate IT departments to […]
Modern Multicast vs. P2P for Enterprise Video Delivery
Now that Microsoft has discontinued support for Windows Media Server and Microsoft Silverlight, and with Adobe Flash Player seemingly on its last leg, we’re hearing questions about the viability of P2P vs. multicast as an alternative for enterprise video delivery. For decades, Microsoft and Adobe have developed proprietary software that enabled multicasting, but with the […]
HTML5 Video Solutions Get Serious Consideration as a Continued Security Risks in Legacy Video Tech Highlights Need for Immediate Replacement
As HTML5 video solutions gain momentum and cement themselves as the industry standard, the proprietary technologies the replace continues to be a security risk. And none of these legacy technologies had an impressive Spring. In early April, Adobe issued an emergency update to Flash Player after mass ransomware attacks. Adobe published a security bulletin on […]
HTML5 Video now the Enterprise Standard
Microsoft’s discontinued support for IE 8, 9 and 10 accelerates enterprise adoption of new browsers and subsequently ushers in the dawn of HTML5 video as the dominant standard for enterprise content. Microsoft recently announced discontinued support for Internet Explorer 8, 9 and 10. While the Redmond, Washington-based software giant has positioned this as a security […]
Unreliable Webcasting turning up the heat?
The point of a live webcast is to create a virtual shared experience, to deliver a seamless message to a unified audience, and to articulate important messages in a way that engages viewers and brings ideas to life. A live webcast is a more dynamic and impactful version of an email memo, or even a video […]
Video Delivery the New Enterprise Challenge
A recent survey by Onstream Media and Unisphere Research reveals the major areas of interest for vendors buying large-scale webcasting services. The results identify multi-device video delivery and player load time (i.e., a quality user experience) as the top requirements. Multicast video delivery remains the most efficient way to transfer live video data within the enterprise […]
Is It Time to Retire Your Webcasting Platform?
If you’re a marketer like me, delivering webcasts is nothing new. Web conferencing and webcasting platforms like WebEx have been around for decades. Yet despite the maturity of the webcasting platform market, webcasts have the same glitches today that they had 15 years ago, when RuPaul was the WebEx ‘spokesmodel.’ Could it be time to […]
