News Recap From The Streaming Media East Show and Content Delivery Summit

A lot of news came out at or during the Content Delivery Summit and Streaming Media East shows last week, here’s a rundown of all the news I got sent or saw on the wire.

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Multiple Enterprise Webcasting Pros Looking For New Jobs, Here Are Their Resumes

There's a lot of webcasting deployments taking place inside the firewall of enterprise corporations and for anyone who may be looking to build out their internal webcasting team, three experienced professionals from Lockheed Martin (Richard Banse, John Hohenstein and Brian Rooney) are looking for new gigs. Over the last few weeks, Lockheed Martin has been doing layoffs and some members from their core enterprise video team are now looking for new opportunities.

Some of them have presented at our StreamingMedia.com shows in the past and these guys have helped build the internal multicast streaming capability at Lockheed Martin, handled a lot of the audio visual hardware, transcoding, media management and a host of AV related tasks. I have included all three of their resumes below, so that anyone who may be looking for this kind of skill set can reach out to them directly.

Richard Banse
Manager of Creative Services
Lockheed Martin IS&GS
View Richard Banse's Resume

John Hohenstein
Multimedia Production Analyst
Sr. – IS&GS Media Services
Lockheed Martin IS&GS
View John Hohenstein's Resume

Brian Rooney
Multimedia Design Engr Sr
Lockheed Martin IS&GS
View Brian Rooney's Resume

Hopefully someone out there is hiring for these kinds of positions and can put them back to work.

CDN Pricing Stable, Survey Data and Traffic Growth Analysis Coming This Week

At last week’s Content Delivery Summit, I presented my findings from a recently completed CDN pricing survey, with data collected from over 800 customers that use content delivery networks for the delivery of video. Later this week, I will post all of my slides from the event along with details on how pricing has changed as well as expected growth forecasts for traffic volumes.

I’ll be breaking down the pricing based on small customers who spend under $100K-$250K per year, medium sized customers spending $250-500K per year, and large customers who spend more than $1M per year. I also have data from those who spend less than $100K per year and use resellers and regional service providers. Here’s a video interview I did with Andy Plesser from Beet.tv talking about what the pricing data showed.


Lots Of Great Info Shared at The Content Delivery Summit, Re-Cap Posts To Come

IMG_3554Thanks to everyone who helped make last week's Content Delivery Summit such a success. The rooms were packed, the presentations and discussions on-point and I heard a lot of very positive feedback from the attendees. Lots of great information was shared and various CDN technologies showcased. The summit will be back for it's 5th year in 2013, with the event scheduled to take place on May 20th – so mark your calendar now.

We had attendees from all over the world, carriers and telcos from many different countries and presenters gave out a lot of really detailed info on current video traffic trends, federated CDN models, transit and CDN pricing, DSA and transparent caching technologies and we had a lot of great customer presentations from those deploying these web acceleration technologies. Companies also announced some new services at the event and I'll have a list of all the news from the Content Delivery Summit and the Streaming Media East show in another post.

All of the presentations from the summit can be downloaded from the CDN Summit website and we're working on getting all of the sessions up for video on demand viewing. I'll have a bunch of posts over the next two weeks about things I saw and heard at the CDN Summit that I found interesting including Amazon's new DSA service and details on my CDN pricing data. If there is any kind of post-show help you need or something you'd like me to follow up on with you, please don't hesitate to call or email me at anytime.

Reminder: NY Video Meetup Tonight at Hilton Hotel, Drinks Start at 5pm

6a00d834518e1c69e201348050e0cd970c-800wiIt’s that time of year again when we partner up with the NY Video Meetup group to co-host a special mega-session in conjunction with our Streaming Media East show at the Hilton hotel in New York City.

The Meetup will start at 5 PM with complimentary beer, wine, and hors d'oeuvres in the Streaming Media East Expo Hall and will then move to the presentation room for the Meetup demos. We're expecting hundreds of online video enthusiasts and attendees and you can visit the Meetup page for more details or contact the Meetup chairman, Steve Rosenbaum.

Attendees to the meetup will have also the chance to win some nice prizes from companies like Apple, Roku, Google, Samsung and others. #nyvideo – #smeast

Compare The Latest Streaming Devices and Content Platforms, All In One Chart

UPDATE: A new chart has been released May 2013. Please visit www.StreamingMediaDevices.com for the latest copy.

[Note Jan 2013: I am working to update the chart to add the Boxee TV, Wii U, ASUS Qube, Hisense Pulse and Netgear NeoTV PRIME. If you have any questions on devices, you can email me at anytime] And check out my post here from Feb. 2013 with a list of all the latest devices in the market, with dates they get released.

At the broadband device pavilion on the exhibit floor of the Streaming Media East show, we released our latest chart that compares all of the dedicated streaming media boxes in the market and lists which content platforms are available for each box. You can download the full PDF by clicking on the image below and you can always find the latest version of the chart at www.StreamingMediaDevices.com

CLICK ON THE CHART BELOW TO DOWNLOAD A HIGH-RES COPY.


I’ll be updating this chart a few times throughout the year and you can send any additions or errors you spot to me directly. A big thank you to the following companies who helped me with the chart: Boxee, Roku, D-Link, TiVo, Dolby, Microsoft, Sony, Vizio and Western Digital.

Updated 6/3: Added Amazon support to Xbox 360. Removed .MOV support on the Roku.

Updated 6/10: Added the Netgear NeoTV Pro streaming box to the list.

Updated 6/15: Updated the D-Link MovieNite to the D-Link MovieNite Plus.

Updated 8/5: Added Hulu Plus support to the Apple TV.

Updated 9/4: Removed the reference to the Vizio Co-Star “shipping soon” since the product is now available.

Updated 9/21: Added Vudu support to the Roku. Upgraded Netgear’s NeoTV Pro to the Netgear NeoTV MAX. Added the date the Wii U will go on sale.

Win One Of Six WD TV Live Streaming Boxes at the Streaming Media East Show

IMG_0312If you're looking for a $99 streaming box that can handle the playback of your local media, and supports a ton of formats, the Western Digital WD TV Live box is the best on the market. And at the Streaming Media East show next week, we'll be giving away six of these devices to some lucky attendees. Simply register online for a free exhibits pass and stop by the broadband device pavilion where we will be raffling off these and other devices during the two days of the show. Thanks to Western Digital for the gear!

And if you want to attend all of the how-to sessions, it's not too late to get a pass for those and you can use the special registration code of DRF01 and get access to everything at the show for only $455. Register here and put the code DRF01 in the box at the bottom. Twitter hash tag #smeast