VBrick snags $10.4 for streaming video
Vbrick Systems is a relatively old member of the online video scene. For a decade it’s provided technology to websites for video hosting. As the field has evolved, so has the company, which just raised $10.4 million and plans to launch new hardware and software for streaming and pay-per-view video. The contribution went toward a $15.7 million sixth round of funding that remains open.
The Wallingford, Conn.-based company also hopes to bring in money by embedding… Continue Reading
Amazon barges into the content delivery network business
When you’ve got computing infrastructure like Amazon does, it’s a competitive weapon. Amazon is proving that today by using its infrastructure to launch a new business in content delivery. In doing so, it is aiming squarely at rivals such as Akamai Technologies and Limelight Networks.
Content delivery networks set up servers across geographies that can deliver network-clogging data such as videos. They prevent Internet traffic jams by positioning the video servers closer to consumers who are… Continue Reading
DaCast offers peer-to-peer video streaming broadcasts
We can all watch live video broadcasts on the internet thanks to content delivery networks (CDNs), which set up strategic points online where they can send streams of videos to internet users as efficiently as possible without clogging up the entire web.
But Andolis, a San Francisco startup with French roots, hopes to disrupt that business with a product called DaCast. It uses technology that can do the same thing as CDNs much more efficiently and… Continue Reading