Yospace To Unveil CSM Cloud Network

Yospace will be unveiling its CSM Cloud Network, the first distributed network of servers specialising in OTT simulcast delivery with dynamic content replacement capabilities at IBC2012.
The first phase of the network has been rolled out throughout North America and Europe and allows broadcasters to quickly establish simulcast streaming services with personalised content replacement without the need to move from their established content delivery network partners.
Providing the service in the cloud means that it is readily scalable to any size of operation, as well as being quick to deploy. The Yospace CSM Cloud Network is geographically diverse, which means loads are balanced while ensuring that end users are serviced from the Yospace servers closest to them, reducing response times by avoiding network congestion.
"The Yospace CSM Cloud Network adds a lightweight control layer to HTTP-based streaming, potentially for a global audience," said David Springall, CTO of Yospace. "Through its integration with ad/content decision platforms, it delivers personalised advertising or content replacement for live or linear streaming while using existing CDNs to deliver the heavyweight video data, so is complementary to existing delivery networks.
"The cloud is not always appropriate for all broadcast operations, but in the case of enhanced multi-screen distribution the benefits are clear," he added. "While we offer our technology to customers or OEM partners to implement their own networks, we believe this geographically distributed and horizontally scaled network offers real operational benefits to broadcasters who wish to rapidly roll-out reliable advanced multiscreen streaming for live event TV."
A project for real-time content replacement at ITV in the UK and using Yospace technology has been shortlisted for the prestigious IBC Innovation Award for Content Delivery.
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