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BW: Web Video Poised to Go Mainstream
Sunday, March 23rd, 2008 at 4:00 PM - by John Martellaro
Web-based video has had its problems in its infancy. Now, industry partners are working on the infrastructure and technology changes that will take Web video from an experimental affair into mainstream America, according to BusinessWeek on Friday.
For example, CBS is streaming every game of the NCAA basketball tournament to 500,000 people who pre-registered. Others can still get the stream, but they may have to wait a bit. Thats going a little better than Oprah Winfreys experiment in which 700,000 viewers tried to watch her Webcasts.
Despite glitches, emerging technologies may be on the cusp of delivering Web video as easily as the dedicated cable and satellite feeds weve become accustomed to. Verizon and Cablevison are spending billions of dollars to expand bandwidth into homes and cell phones. AT&T and Verizon together just spent US$16.3B in the 700 MHz radio spectrum auction to deliver high speed wireless services.
In addition, the Content Distribution Networks (CDN) play an important role. Akamai, with 30,000 servers is the biggest and carries that March madness video in addition to Apples iTunes traffic.
The current efforts are aimed at both infrastructure improvements and technological changes, BusinessWeeks Peter Burrows pointed out. Limelight Networks which uses servers that can hold, then relay more content is one, however theyve run into a patent dispute with Akamai. "Weve spent 10 years getting ready for the broadband explosion," said Akamai CEO Paul Sagan. "Our original patents were all about video and rich media."
A new appreciation for P2P technology, suspect for the uses it has specialized in the past, has also emerged. Renaming the technology (P4P) and pressing it into commercial use has taken some of the antagonism out of the equation.
Soon, the marriage of infrastructure and new technologies will begin to make Web video routine for everyone. "Every time we reach a new frontier -- a million simultaneous users, or 5 million, or 15 million�youre going to see glitches," said Mike Gordon with Limelight. "Theyll get fixed, and well move on. Weve got to," he added.
How fast that change comes and whether it will harm the legacy DVD and emerging Blu-ray business probably isnt as important as the serendipitous effects of new products that will be enabled by all that bandwidth.
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