"By 2021, 80% of all internet traffic will be video, up from 67% in 2016." — Cisco
Delivering live video at scale brings with it unique challenges. Do you have a sound strategy in place to handle the coming video boom?
In this white paper, Arpad Kun, who manages Content Delivery Strategy and Edge Computing at IBM Watson and Cloud Platform, examines the current state of content delivery networks (CDNs) and the issues facing vendors, content producers, and customers, such as:
The limitations of single-source solutions
What you must consider in applying an effective multi-CDN strategy
Consistent standards to address pervasive problems affecting video delivery
Arpad Kun manages Content Delivery Strategy and Edge Computing at IBM Watson and Cloud Platform. He is responsible for IBM Watson Media Content Delivery, Network and Infrastructure strategy. Arpad is the inventor of SD-CDN at IBM Cloud Video, the Software Defined Content Delivery Network. SD-CDN takes legacy CDNs and creates an abstraction layer spanning across multiple providers providing increased performance, redundancy and unparalleled cost optimization. Arpad has extensive experience in leadership, HA systems, IP connectivity, disaster recovery, security audits, risk assessment, cost modeling and contract negotiation.
