Projects

Projects

This page gives an overview of some of the CDN projects where VideoExchange is used to power the CDN.

SURFnet

"SURFnet is a very satisfied user of the VDO-X technology. We now have a scalable CDN infrastructure. One of the benefits is HD live and on-demand streaming video support in multiple formats. We were able to migrate to this new infrastructure in a short time frame, thanks to the support of the Jet Stream staff and the VDO-X software". Henny Bekker, SURFnet. SURFnet is one of the fastest broadband networks in the world, pioneering new technologies.

Paratel

Paratel is the infrastructure daughter company of Persgroep, a large group of newspapers, television, radio and online media companies. Paratel licensed VideoExchange for their large streaming infrastructure.

StreamZilla CDN

Our own StreamZilla CDN is powered by our technologies. We actually started StreamZilla as a demo CDN, but it became so popular that we decided to launch it commercially. StreamZilla now covers 18 PoPs in Europe.

StreamZilla delivers billions streams per year for well-known European content owners, websites, video producers, broadcasters, enterprises, governments, educational and health institutes. With these volumes, StreamZilla delivers more streams than most 'global CDNs' do in Europe.

StreamZilla was awarded a triple A+ global availability and performance status for all streaming protocols independently. StreamZilla won the 2008 Streaming Media Magazine Readers' Choice Award for best European and UK Content Delivery Provider. StreamZilla has been profitable since the start.

Thanks to the StreamZilla operation we have daily input how to optimize a CDN: lower infrastructure costs, lower operational costs, lower support costs, better performance, more features, more self support. This knowledge is directly used to enhance and optimize the VDO-X technology.

KPN

Tier-1 operator KPN has deployed a full-featured, professional CDN based on our VideoExchange technology. KPN chose VDO-X for a number of reasons:

1) Fast time to market. The CDN deal was signed on May 1st 2009. The CDN was operational on July 1st 2009. No CDN has ever been deployed this fast. Average lead times for CDNs (whether internal developed or via bought technology is over one year. It took us and KPN 1 week for training, one day for architecture design, 1 week for hardware deployment, 1 week for software deployment, 1 week for configuration, 1 week for feature testing, 1 week for performance testing, 1 week for security testing and 1 week for acceptance. 

2) Superior technology. VDO-X is a true next generation CDN solution that independently offers advanced replication, redirection and reporting technologies.

3) Standards. All popular delivery services are integrated. Flash, Silverlight, 3GPP, H.264, RTMP, RTSP, MMS streaming. The CDN works with standards based protocols for API's and internal communication such as XML and SOAP.

4) 100% control. We trained KPN to deploy the CDN themselves. KPN owns their own network, their own hardware, their own CDN. KPN can manage the CDN internally.

5) Expertise. By using VDO-X and having us help KPN to build the CDN, the staff gained an enormous amount of knowledge about streaming media technology, CDN management, architectures and operations.

6) Low costs. The costs for VDO-X are less than half a dollar per Mbps. This saves the operator on bandwidth.

7) Flexible business enabler: optimize traffic flow. Generate new revenues from content hosting and delivery. Strategically block CDN's from the home market.

8) Independent. Jet Stream is not affiliated with any other TelCo or vendor.

9) Market leader. Jet Stream has a long and proven track record in deploying CDN's for telecom operators and ISP's. Jet Stream ignited this market in 2002 and it is just since recently that other vendors stepped in.

10) Reliable partner. Jet Stream is one of the happy few companies - if not the only one - in this industry that actually make money. Jet Stream is solid, has no debts, no investors, grows fast and has been profitable since the start.