Broadpeak Collaborates With Intel To Develop CDN Benchmarking Tool
Broadpeak, a French provider of content delivery network (CDN) and video streaming technology for content providers and pay TV operators, has released a software based CDN benchmarking tool, developed in collaboration with Intel.
Using Intel Xeon Scalable Processors and DPDK (Data Plane Development Kit), as well as Intel Network Builders’ Secure DevCloud environment, Broadpeak’s CDN benchmarking tool simulates realistic video player behaviors. It supports the latest streaming protocols, allowing content providers and Communication Service Providers (CSPs) to improve video quality.
The tool provides users with information about performance of their CDN in realistic conditions, enabling them to make adjustments as needed to optimize performance. Broadpeak claims this to be one of the first such tools to support low-latency video streaming protocols, including Low Latency HLS and Low Latency DASH. Running on Intel-based servers that can temporarily be turned into test platforms to run the CDN benchmarking software, the tool is portable, and designed for easy installation on-premises, as well as straightforward updating, according to the company.
Being software-based, the tool can run on many available servers, avoiding need to invest in dedicated hardware. “CDN is a fast-changing technology with rapidly evolving streaming protocols. To keep pace, content providers and ISPs need an efficient benchmarking tool that can emulate a real-life video delivery workload,” said Lynn Comp, Vice President, Data Platforms Group, General Manager, Visual Infrastructure Division & NPG Strategy at Intel.
You might also like...
System Showcase: Gravity Media Opens New Production Centre In London For Remote And On-Prem Projects
Production and media services company Gravity Media has just completed the first phase of technology integration at its new London Production Centre White City, located on the fifth floor of The Westworks building in London. The state-of-the-art facility, officially opened…
Interlace: Part 3 - Deinterlacing
Now that interlace is obsolete, we are left only with the problem of dealing with archive material that exists in the interlaced format. The overwhelming majority of video tapes, whether component or composite, analog or digital, would be interlaced.
Scalable Dynamic Software For Broadcasters: Part 5 - Operating Systems And Containers
Modern software development is highly reliant on cross functional software teams. Maintaining a common operating system with dependencies that meet the needs of every developer is almost impossible, but containers go a great way to solve these challenges.
Celebrating BEITC At NAB Show
As we approach the 2023 NAB Show in the NAB centenary year, we celebrate the unique insight and influence of the Broadcast Engineering & IT Conference that happens alongside the show each year.
Interlace: Part 2 - Vertical Resolution
The human eye is not fixed and so it can track moving objects in real life and on screens. The tracking action changes everything. Without an understanding of tracking everything seems peculiar. With an understanding it seems obvious why certain…