casDN Product Information

With the release of the iPhone 3.0 OS, simulcast of live sports, news and events to mobile handsets is now open and standards based rather than requiring a proprietary solution. The new iPhone OS now has built in support for adaptive bitrate streaming for live video. Adaptive bitrate streaming produces the best end user viewing experience by delivering faster video start up times and reducing video buffering. Using StreamCAS to enable variable bitrate streaming of live and on-demand content the iPhone gives content producers access to a standards based way to stream to the iPhone and take advantage of a growing consumer market of over 40 million devices delivered globally over the casDN and casWS content delivery and storage platforms.

• Stream from an ordinary web server to smartphones, or wired and wireless computers
• Automatically switch to the optimal bitrate for a best playback experience for both live and on-demand content.

Without StreamCAS, you are stuck managing the playlists and the thousands of media segments per broadcast. While manageable for a single 2-hour broadcast feed, this scheme would get out of hand for multi-day, multi-camera events.

StreamCAS customers’ only worry is managing their presentations (a single file object), and not the various the data segments. Each bit rate stream is made up of an object that translates to the “HTTP Live Streaming” protocol playlist, which contains locations of the media segment payload. For the user, this translates into ease of use by having only to manage the presentation by determining the number of bit rate streams they would like to offer their customers. StreamCAS custoemrs do not have to manage playlists, variant streams or media segments. And all of this is delivered via casDN.

To learn more about StreamCAS and casDN, please download our brochure here.