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For those who use an eCDN vendor, you’ve likely heard of ‘silent testing’ – which allows webcasting teams to populate their networks with a script that shares video traffic across client workstations to simulate how the load will impact the network prior to the live event. While it’s a great...

By Nicole Olsen and the Peer5 Team In this guest blog, MediaPlatform partner Peer5 offers tips for configuring your VPN to efficiently deliver video to your remote workforce. VPNs are nothing new, but they’re making a huge comeback in these wacky days of COVID-19. This gives us an opportunity to...

By Nicole Olsen In this guest blog, George Richards from MediaPlatform partner Hive Streaming helps you gauge whether your network will be ready when video-savvy employees return to the office. Can your network handle the increase in video usage when your employees start to come back to the office? As...

By Darian Germain Even if only half of employees return to the office, they will bring with them video habits acquired during work-from-home that will dramatically impact corporate networks, according to traffic analysis by WebRTC peering company Peer5. Peer 5 CEO and co-founder Hadar Weiss explains the above diagram. “This...

By Darian Germain At MediaPlatform when we meet prospective customers, we evaluate their network, network segments, locations, and any potential unique requirements. We also engage in an extensive evaluation of their client base so we understand their operating systems and browser types. But most importantly, we leverage our Video Business...

By Nicole Olsen Most of us use video all the time outside of work. There – online, using the internet – bandwidth usually isn’t a problem (unless your home connection needs an upgrade). At work, though, it’s a different story. Unless you’re in IT or Network Ops, or are technical,...

It’s estimated that this summer’s World Cup Final between France and Croatia was watched globally by around 900 million people. That’s not too shabby a number is it? What’s perhaps the most interesting part for the readership of this article is that 26% of the viewing audience streamed the final instead of...

As Flash falls out of fashion and viewers are demanding better video viewing experiences than ever before, content delivery networks (CDNs) have to stay one step ahead. That means a move to HTML5 delivery, and emphasis on live video, and a commitment to lower latency than ever before on any device—to...