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Expansion of our AWS partnership: Certification as Authorized Public Sector Partner
by Jochen Herkenrath, March 20, 2019
After several years of experience as a technology partner in the AWS partner network, we have now successfully added certification in the Public Sector Partner Programme to our range of ...
Per-Title Encoding: Encoding optimised for specific video content
by Jochen Herkenrath, March 8, 2019
The initial concepts for Per-Title Encoding were developed previously around 2012, and the technology was then used productively from 2015, driven forward significantly by Netflix. At that ...
Fast and secure deployment of enterprise applications
by Jochen Herkenrath, January 7, 2019
Companies need to provide their employees with secure access to corporate applications deployed behind the firewall. In parallel, access is often provided to contractors, suppliers, ...
Web performance, user experience and RUM
by Jochen Herkenrath, December 13, 2018
RUM stands for “Real User Monitoring” – a service that passively collects data directly from the website visitor’s browser session and generates comprehensive user experience reports from ...
"Challenges of public service broadcasting in distribution via the internet" – an interview
by Alexander Leschinsky, December 5, 2018
At IBC 2018, the company Akamai asked me to discuss the particular challenges faced by ARD, ZDF and Deutsche Welle in distributing their radio and television channels over the internet as ...
OTT: Over-the-Top Streaming as the Standard of Television Broadcasting
by Jochen Herkenrath, September 18, 2018
Evolution and Future of Over-the-Top TV: 4-part e-book "Broadcast Over the Internet" available for free download, provided in cooperation with Akamai. Time-shifted TV, video-on-demand and ...
Dynamic image optimisation – a must for the perfect web experience.
by Jochen Herkenrath, September 6, 2018
Below are some excerpts from an interview with Melissa Webster, IDC Analyst. She leads IDC’s research in digital experience management software and cloud services. This includes content ...
Subtitling video content for broadcast and online: an overview
by Martin Grohme, August 9, 2018
An overview of the currently used subtitle formats. The subtitling of video content in broadcast is partly mandatory for public broadcasters in Europe – in the USA, it is basically ...
Who cheers first? On latency in live sports streaming
by Jochen Herkenrath, June 29, 2018
How the ball gets to the viewer faster – sports livestreaming (almost) without delay. Every year, a very technical term crops up in the coverage of major sporting events that has few ...
Zero Trust and digital transformation
by Manfred Romans-Petit, April 24, 2018
Zero trust as a new security concept?. Everyone is talking about digitalisation, the digital transformation, a change in working environments and working methods, working from home, "Work ...
The GDPR from the point of view of software developers
by Christian Schneider, March 1, 2018
Personal Data, Social Media and Privacy by Design Some time ago, we published a detailed article on the significance of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in our blog. In this ...
The GDPR and web application protection – minimising risk for your data protection requirements
by Jochen Herkenrath, January 30, 2018
"The GDPR revolutionises the requirements for the protection of personal data. It requires the use of state-of-the-art solutions. Minimise the risks of processing personal data in web ...