Broadpeak Announces StarHub Collaboration

Broadpeak has announced that Singapore-based communications provider StarHub has deployed its BkM100 Mediator CDN manager and BkS300 multiformat video streaming servers to power its live video services. Utilising Broadpeak's CDN and video server solutions, StarHub can deliver live television content in a variety of adaptive streaming formats, including Apple® HTTP Live Streaming (HLS).
"Broadpeak solutions now enable us to support HLS adaptive bitrate streaming, ensuring for the first time that we can deliver high-quality video in this popular format to our customers," said Lin Shu Fen, head of home solutions, StarHub.
"Broadpeak CDN management and streaming server solutions dramatically improve the quality of our live television services in addition to providing us with the flexibility to support additional applications like VOD without having to make costly changes to our global architecture."
Designed to handle the growing demand for multiplatform content delivery, Broadpeak's BkS300 servers streamline the delivery of video over managed or open Internet networks to a wide range of devices.
The platform provides StarHub with a unified solution for video streaming in popular formats such as Microsoft® Silverlight® Smooth Streaming and Apple HLS for both live and on-demand applications.
Broadpeak's BkM100 CDN Manager streamlines content delivery based on the type of service and customer location. By continuously monitoring the popularity of content based on usage patterns, it automatically pushes popular content to the edge of the servers, while long-tail content remains on the larger central library.
"Content providers around the world are struggling to cost-effectively deliver a high-quality television experience on numerous devices," said Jacques Le Mancq, CEO, Broadpeak.
"Leveraging adaptive bitrate technologies, Broadpeak's content delivery network solutions and video streaming servers ensure optimal viewing quality for end users while minimising CAPEX and OPEX for content providers. As StarHub expands its video service offering to include on-demand, Broadpeak solutions will easily scale without sacrificing video quality."
Broadpeak will demonstrate a variety of CDN solutions, including the BkM100 Mediator and BkS300, at CommunicAsia2013, stand BK3-01.
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