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Juniper Networks has been selected to support the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK)’s digital transformation with a move to an IP-based network infrastructure. -
Indian operator Bharti Airtel is upgrading its live streaming, video-on-demand (VoD) and all other media delivery to its 400 million customers across the country in readiness for its 5G services.
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Disney and Lumen have partnered to produce standardised content distribution and management (CDN) metadata in an effort to improve streaming quality.
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The global pandemic has accelerated the already massive demand for bandwidth as consumers intensified their use of streaming services and enterprises migrated to cloud collaboration platforms. This whitepaper outlines what strategies and technologies MNOs and telcos should consider to drive success in view of these latest capacity trends.
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The Walt Disney Company has selected Amazon Web Services (AWS) for the global rollout of its online streaming video service, Disney+.
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AT&T will have lost more than US$35 billion on its 2015 acquisition of DirecTV, according to reports that it is planning to sell a stake in its video business.
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AT&T has received bids for more than US$15 billion for its satellite TV operation, DirecTV, according to reports.
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South African operator Telkom has signed up with a last-mile fibre operator that is competing with its own subsidiary, Openserve.
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Comcast has reported the “best broadband results in [the] company’s history” during Q3, however the firm saw a decline across most revenues.
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Etisalat, the Emirati telco with operations across the MEA region, has launched a new direct-to-consumer (D2C) streaming service following a partnership with Synamedia.
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US cable co Charter Communications is petitioning the FCC to introduce charges for video streaming firms, “for the efficient carriage of their internet traffic”.
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Disney +, Disney’s much anticipated streaming service, launches today in Europe at a lower bandwidth consumption to help lower congestion on networks.
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Netflix and YouTube have agreed to downgrade their video streaming quality in order to ease pressures on European network capacity.
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As 5G is set to advance the digital service landscape, Openet has today teamed up with Evergent to monetise and transform next-generational digital services.
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VEON has today announced that its joint venture company in Kazakhstan, KaR-Tel LLC, operating under the Beeline brand, has launched a large-scale 5G network trial in Shymkent, Kazakhstan.
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The race for 5G is heating up with communications service providers (CSPs) bringing 5G services online in different countries seemingly every week.
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Nvidia has created a computing platform, NVIDIA EGX, that can perform low-latency AI at the edge and act in real time on continuous streaming data.
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Microsoft and Sony have announced that they will jointly develop future cloud solutions in Microsoft Azure to support their respective game and content-streaming services.
