Media Delivery and Quality Today
The experience of streaming media over the Internet today is prone to numerous unsatisfying side effects like delays, poor quality, and frequent interruptions for rebuffering. In addition, delivering video over the Internet to large audiences has historically been extremely expensive. As a result, no one has been able to make a solid business case for mass Video on Demand/Streaming over the public Internet.
Over the years, a number of companies have attempted to address these challenges through compression algorithms, edge networks, caching servers, network monitoring software, download and play services, peer-to-peer networks, bursting technologies, IP protocols, and other approaches. Nevertheless, cost effective, consistently reliable broadcast quality video delivery remained unachievable.
Until now. MoveMedia has architected a solution born of seasoned experience in network optimization. This simple yet sophisticated approach is based on successfully harnessing the non-deterministic nature of the Internet. Instead of circumventing latency by pushing content to the edges, or attempting to create a dedicated synchronous Internet connection, MoveMedia has developed QuantumMedia, an innovative, patent pending, standards-based software solution. With this new technology, QuantumMedia delivers the fastest, most reliable, highest quality video on the Internet.
QuantumMedia Internet Video Distribution Platform
QuantumMedia® supplies a high availability distribution of media in an extremely adaptive format, which is readily managed across standards based web servers, caches, and proxies, without heavy reliance on traditional specialized media delivery servers. QuantumMedia also supplies client software components in a small footprint to effectively transport high quality, continuously adaptive video over the public Internet. QuantumMedia uses standard preferred media codecs, compression formats and network protocols to provide uninterrupted broadcast quality, true Video on Demand to a PC or to a TV through an IP set top box, or to an IP/Web enabled “3G” cell phone or mobile device. The intelligent client software platform uses a robust proprietary system of “viewing session” and IP address based “learning” algorithms to continually optimize both the linear and the interactive dimensions of high quality satisfying video experiences .
QuantumMedia is based on four cohesive components that work cohesively as a managed system to provide a seamless, interruption–free, premium video experience, every time:
- Quantum Converter, simply coverts all major media codecs from high quality source into the readily adaptive units inherent with the full array of quality characteristics necessary to dynamically deliver all target networks, devices, and users, the highest quality experience.
- Quantum Player a lightweight software component (less than 250KB) which provide three essential functions:
- Continuous network performance and connection optimization,
- QuantumMedia selection and management for predictive measurable publisher and user demanded quality,
- Media rendering, presentation, navigation, and experience quality measurement.
- Quantum Administrator, a separate web environment for end to end management of QuantumMedia enabled publishing from ingestion to viewing with detailed reporting. The QA is architected for ready integration and interoperability with content and context level media publishing systems, such as “The Platform.”®
- QuantumMedia, audio and video content converted into Quantum Format for secure, reliable, measureable, and quality manageable distribution across standard internet web servers and delivery networks. QuantumMedia orchestrates the entire internet infrastructure for delivery, there are NO specialized media servers with corresponding hardware and software requirements and costs.
QuantumMedia Solution Value Propositions
- Highest Quality, smooth immersive high clarity visual fidelity video presentation, with equally satisfying audio richness
- Responsiveness, “TV Remote Control” navigation, enabling true video browsing as well as the user control.and interactivity intrenet users demand from world class web experiences.
- Content Security, inherent in the QuantumMedia Conversion, Platform, Format, and Player is a complete new level of content, asset, and rights, protection.
- Scalability, embracing standards web servers, proxies, and caches, publishers can readily scale for large concurrent audiences of the same or different elements of content libraries.
- Cost, as QuantumMedia-enabled audiences scale, the actual transport and bandwidth costs become inversely related to the audience size.
- Reliability occurs at the individual viewer level of experience -- consistency and reliability as well as the publisher level of scaling audiences without service level or quality management compromises.
- Live Broadcasting, highly time sensitive such as breaking news and sporting events are readily delivered through QuantumMedia with absolute minimal latency.
These operating strengths are all native to the underlying QuantumMedia architecture and platform. They collectively enable consumers, producers, and distributors of digital media to enjoy greatly expanded viewing and monetization. The QuantumMedia system ensures close to broadcast quality video over consumer cable or DSL broadband connections from entry level modest speeds to the rapidly emerging 5 to 10 mbps service.
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