In February, Boston based Yottaa (pronounced "Yo-ta") announced a new dynamic site acceleration service aimed at the small and medium sized business (SMB) markets with the goal of trying to fill the void left in the market for DSA services, due to Akamai's recent purchase of Cotendo. This week, the company raised $9M in a Series B round and has now raised $13M to date.

For those not familiar with dynamic site acceleration, it is a suite of technologies and products that deals with optimizing dynamically served content across the network. Traditional DSA services often include TCP optimization, route optimization, connection management, on-the-fly compression, SSL offload and pre-fetching technologies.

In addition to offering DSA services, Yottaa also offers mobile content acceleration and content delivery for small objects, not video. The company also announced that they have been granted two patents in the areas of web performance optimization (WPO), Front-end Optimization (FEO), web security and cloud routing. While Yottaa has a long way to go to become the next Cotendo, the company in on track to do under $10M this year, (Cotendo did $24M in 2011) Yottaa did say that in the last month, 5% of the Internet population has visited sites accelerated by the their network.

Yottaa was one of the presenters at last week's Content Delivery Summit and you can see their presentation here that they did with Mocospace, which is one of the largest entertainment destinations on the mobile web with 25 million registered users, spending over 1 million hours per day playing games and making friends.

The company now employees 40 people and current investors General Catalyst Partners, Stata Venture Partners and Cambridge West Ventures combined for the second round of funding, along with additional undisclosed investors.

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.

• Amazon CloudFront Adds Dynamic Site Acceleration Capabilities
• Yottaa Launches Solution for Mobile Acceleration
• Harmonic Sets the Bar for High-Volume Multiscreen VOD Transcoding With New ProMedia Xpress
• Jet-Stream Collaborates with Oversi for a Converged CDN Solution
• Imgur Sees Over Two Billion Page Views a Month on the EdgeCast Network
• Sorenson Releases Squeeze 8.5 at Streaming Media East
• Limelight Video Platform Announces New Features and Capabilities for Online Video Publishers in Summer 2012 Release
• Revision3 Replaces In-House Encoding — Moves to Encoding.com’s Cloud-Based Turbo Encoding
• Globecomm Chooses RealNetworks Helix Universal Media Server to Power
• Limelight Networks Introduces Orchestrate – Industry-Focused Solution Framework to Streamline and Simplify Digital Media Publishing
• Polycom RealPresence Video Content Management Solutions Deliver Live Video Streaming and Video Recordings to Android and Apple Devices
• Skytide Announces Insight for Content Delivery Networks Version 3.0
• WeVideo to Expand Online Video Ecosystem With Third Party Solutions
• Mixmoov Announces Full HD Support and thePlatform Partnership at Streaming Media East
• Scala Integrates Scala Content Manager with Polycom RealPresence Media Manager
• KnowledgeVision 2.0 Raises the Online Presentation Analytics Bar
• Discover Video Announces NIMBUS Live Transcoding and Streaming Service
• Telestream Extends Live Video Production Capabilities for Partners
• TalkPoint Announces Convey, the First SaaS-based, Self-service Webcasting Tool
• EZWebPlayer Announces White Label Service at Streaming Media East
• Streambox Releases Automated Hybrid HD/SD Software Encoder with Low Delay Multi-Path Protocol and Apple Thunderbolt Support
• Brightcove Transforms Web Experience Management with Video Cloud CMS Integrations

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.

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.

Thanks 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.

It’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

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.