Ensure your customers receive a consistently high-quality rich media experience with Level 3's Media Streaming Delivery services.
"Streaming video is a sequence of moving images that are sent in compressed form over the Internet and displayed by the viewer as they arrive. Streaming media is streaming video with sound. With streaming video or streaming media, a Web user does not have to wait to download a large file before seeing the video or hearing the sound. Instead, the media is sent in a continuous stream and is played as it arrives."
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Whereas some competitive offerings mimic streaming with a download solution, Level 3's CDN supports true streaming. The caching and download service is already more than capable of enabling high quality download and progressive download of large media files. Streaming , however, enables users to click and start watching immediately live and pre-recorded media - without the delay associated with a download.
Media Streaming allows you to stream your web content from Level 3's global network of streaming servers, and capitalise on all the benefits of the Level 3 network and proven CDN technology.
"The Level 3 network was conceived and built for the inflection point we're seeing in the market today – the definitive move toward delivery of high-definition, high-quality video via the Internet.”
Brady Rafuse, President, Level 3 Content Markets Group
Online media distribution is booming. Sports broadcasters, Streaming Music services, movie studios, television networks, user-generated content sites and others are delivering more video over the Internet. Users have access to higher broadband connections and demand online video delivered smoothly and quickly. The key is to ensure that a high-quality connection exists between content sources and the consumer.
Level 3's CDN Streaming nodes are connected by owned private fibre optic network which allows streamed content to be distributed across the CDN both quickly and reliably. When this is combined with direct peering arrangements with a majority of major ISPs, streamed content can pass to end-users avoiding the Public Internet completely.
Level 3's Media Streaming services you can leverage an advanced architecture that:
- Operates on the Level 3 Internet backbone, one of the world’s largest IP networks
- Strategically placed CDN nodes to help ensure the fewest average hops to any IP address in the world
- Connects directly to 75 percent of U.S. broadband users
- Runs on the foundational technology patented by Level 3 to provide the shortest, best route to content requestors
- Allows for scalable capacity across the entire portfolio of Level 3 CDN services, which are optimized for delivery of large video files.
Whether you are broadcasting an event in High Definition (HD) for millions, or managing explosive growth in user-generated video, the Level 3 network can handle it.
Level 3 offers both Storage and Video Streaming services for a comprehensive global content delivery network. By combining industry-leading connectivity, increased deployed capacity, and technological capability, Level 3 enables content owners to stream rich media to millions of users worldwide in multiple formats, utilising varied streaming rates. This service also reduces the need for the content owner to build their own infrastructure. For the full list of Level 3 CDN advantages click here
- Handle HD content, flash crowds and peak loads effortlessly
- Increase download speeds and quality as your content is instantly available at the edge of the Internet, optimally cached at the "doorstep" of your customers' ISP networks
Contact us today to find out what our Media Streaming services can do for your business.
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