The largest mobile operator in the US, Verizon together with leading technology companies such as Limelight Networks, Qwilt and Yahoo will be undertaking an Open Caching trials. The trials will be based on recently approved Open Caching Request Routing and HTTPS Delegation Technical Specification.
The trials are the first implementation by Streaming Video Alliance member companies of open caching systems that incorporate the specification for request routing in ISP networks to optimize delivery and ensure superior Quality of Experience for live and on-demand video streaming.
The companies, mostly members of the Alliance's Open Caching Working Group, will conduct a range of use cases during the trials, including live and on-demand streaming video traffic over HTTP and HTTPS.
The request routing specification for open caching provides the entire ecosystem with an architecture that optimizes video delivery from source to end-user device. This open architecture offers in-network compute and storage resources that move popular content to distributed open cache servers deployed deep in ISP networks and, therefore, as close to the end-user as possible.
Since its inception in late 2014, the Streaming Video Alliance has grown to 45 member companies, which also includes Ericsson, Intel, Level 3 Communications, Liberty Global, Nokia, Sky, Telecom Italia and Telstra.
Jason Thibeault, Executive Director of Streaming Video Alliance
In addition to demonstrating our ability to create, endorse and publish the technical specification that will improve streaming experiences across the value chain, we are now bringing our work to market through proof-of-concept trials. This is the strongest possible signal to the industry that our members are determined to put the Alliance's work into practice and improve the future of streaming profoundly.
Mike Altland, Director of Network Planning at Verizon
The Streaming Video Alliance serves a critically important role towards aligning the entire ecosystem around Open Caching. The trials announced today will allow ISPs to move forward confidently to test and implement this new architecture to support improved content delivery.
