LONDON, April 29, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- ARRIS Group, Inc.
(NASDAQ: ARRS) today announced that it will offer Akamai
Technologies' Aura Licensed Content Delivery Network (LCDN) as part
of its end-to-end IP video portfolio.
ARRIS will integrate Akamai's LCDN and Aura Object Store into
its leading IP video solutions—such as the ARRIS M3 Media Server,
Spectrum CPC, and nDVR—to give operators a variety of choices for
streamlining, managing, and scaling digital content delivery. It
will also support operators as they adopt multiscreen and mobile
delivery platforms.
The future of entertainment reflects changing consumer
behaviors, which emphasize personalized content delivered to
growing number of end devices. ARRIS's annual Consumer
Entertainment Index (CEI) captured many of those trends, including
insight that 52 percent of consumers record programs to watch only
the content they want, and that 62 percent are forced to delete
programs because they've run out of space.
These trends and more are compelling operators to meet consumer
demand through scalable, cloud-based delivery platforms—like
ARRIS's nDVR. By combining these IP solutions with Akamai's LCDN,
ARRIS is empowering operators to deliver content that's as
personalized as each end consumer and to scale that experience to
millions of households.
"As customer expectations around TV viewing and video
consumption change, Pay TV solutions must evolve as well. A key
part of that evolution for network operators is the adoption of CDN
technology as part of their overall solution. We're pleased that
ARRIS chose to partner with Akamai, recognizing the advantages of
combining our Aura CDN solutions with their TV Everywhere products.
We're confident that the partnership with ARRIS will expand
Akamai's presence with network and cable operators and also help us
scale from a support perspective," said Mick Scully, vice president and general manager,
Carrier Products, Akamai Technologies.
"Our partnership with Akamai empowers operators to capitalize on
end-to-end HTTP video delivery at scale—giving consumers the
personalized entertainment that they demand. Our combined solutions
are broadening ARRIS's capabilities in multiscreen IP video
delivery, CDN-assisted VoD, and network DVR. Together, we're
inventing the future of content delivery," said Peter Burke, Senior Vice President & General
Manager of Video Systems at ARRIS.
ARRIS and Akamai Technologies will showcase the combined
solutions with live demonstrations at TV Connect (London, U.K., 28th-30th
April) and The Internet and Television Expo (INTX, Chicago, IL, 5th-7th
May). The demonstrations will be shown in the ARRIS booth at both
events.
About Akamai Aura LCDN
Aura LCDN is a licensed content
delivery network (CDN) solution for operators—designed to optimize
IP video services, provide network offload functionality, and
enable revenue-generating retail CDN services.
About Akamai Aura Object Store
Aura Object Store is a
replicated HTTP object store that stores media content persistently
for content origination within a CDN.
About ARRIS M3
The M3 Media Server
family is a solid-state platform for media optimizing on-demand
media delivery across networks and devices.
About ARRIS Spectrum CPC
The ARRIS
Spectrum CPC (Content Publishing Controller) is an Adaptive Bit
Rate (ABR) Packager designed to deliver multiscreen services to a
variety of devices.
About ARRIS Spectrum SDC
ARRIS
Spectrum SDC is a software solution that leverages ABR repackaging
technology to streamline IP video delivery by utilizing a common
format to remove the need to encode, encrypt and store each file in
multiple formats.
About ARRIS Spectrum MDC
ARRIS
Spectrum MDC (Manifest Delivery Controller) is a flexible,
resilient and scalable solution for addressing complex ad and
alternate content insertions in the multiscreen
environment.
About ARRIS Network DVR
ARRIS nDVR
addresses service providers' need to give subscribers unfettered
time-shifting capabilities, while reducing time-to-market for DVR
services by decoupling 3rd party application dependencies and
eliminating the need for physical hard drives.
About ARRIS
ARRIS is a global innovator in
IP, video and broadband technology. We have continually worked with
our customers to transform the experience of entertainment and
communications for millions of people around the world. The people
of ARRIS are dedicated to the success of our customers, bringing a
passion for invention that has fuelled our history: We created
digital TV, delivered the first wireless broadband gateway and are
pioneering the standards and pathways for tomorrow's personalized,
Ultra HD, multiscreen, and cloud services. We are dedicated to
meeting today's challenges and preparing for the tasks the future
holds. Collaborating with our customers, ARRIS will continue to
solve the most pressing challenges of 21st century communications.
Together, we are inventing the future. For more information:
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