Juniper Networks Buys IPTV Storage, Delivery Firm Blackwave

By Paula Bernier, Executive Editor, IP Communications Magazines

Juniper Networks today revealed it has acquired the intellectual property assets of Internet video storage and delivery infrastructure outfit Blackwave (News - Alert). The terms of the deal was not disclosed.

The router company plans to integrate Blackwave’s technology with Juniper Networks Media Flow Controller. Media Flow is a content delivery and caching solution that improves the performance of rich media delivery by leveraging hierarchical caching, media-aware intelligence and scalability.

Of course, helping telcos and cable TV companies and other service providers, as well as content companies, more efficiently deliver rich media – and do so to a growing variety of endpoints – is a significant challenge that many infrastructure suppliers are moving to meet.

“The acquisition of Blackwave technology continues Juniper’s commitment to the new network by serving the rapidly escalating appetite for high-quality video from anywhere to any device,” said Rajan Raghavan (News - Alert), vice president and general manager of the content and media business unit at Juniper Networks. “The Blackwave technology brings storage performance and scaling capabilities that, combined with the Media Flow platform and Juniper’s high-performance networking systems, will provide a compelling solution for our customers who require scalable and efficient distribution of content and high-quality video over the Internet.”

The Media Flow Engines were announced earlier this year. And, as discussed in an October article on TMCnet, the ability to deliver content to multiple screens is rapidly becoming a requirement for broadband and television service providers as well as content companies. But delivering content to multiple devices over the Internet creates new challenges. Variables in device capabilities and connection quality mean that multi-screen content delivery requires adaptive bit-rate streaming, which has typically required investment in costly, specialized encoders, and additional servers that provide the adaptive stream packaging and metadata publishing. Media Flow Publisher is a new Media Flow application announced last month that enables network operators and content providers to leverage their existing TV and video encoding infrastructure for adaptive stream production, eliminating the need for specialized encoders and servers.

Edited by Tammy Wolf

(source: http://iptv.tmcnet.com/topics/iptv/articles/118583-juniper-networks-buys-iptv-storage-delivery-firm-blackwave.htm)

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