We are thrilled to announce the beta launch of our latest innovation: ASCDN (Adaptive Streaming CDN).
As part of Broadpeak‘s commitment to pushing the boundaries of content delivery, ASCDN represents a new approach to streaming media. It offers more scalable, wiser, and greener content delivery, fitting the exact needs of today’s broadcasters, OTT platforms, and media companies.
This beta phase is an exciting opportunity for industry leaders to experience the power of localized, high-performance streaming content delivery.
Why ASCDN? The Need for Adaptive Streaming Solutions
It is already not easy today; tomorrow, delivering high-quality content consistently and reliably will be more challenging than ever. As video traffic continues to grow, expected to triple from 6,000 EB in 2024 to 18,000 EB by 2029, traditional CDNs struggle to keep up with the demand, particularly in regions experiencing massive growth, such as APAC and LATAM. This surge, driven by improved connectivity, better quality, and shifts from traditional broadcast to digital streaming, necessitates a more agile and efficient content delivery approach.
ASCDN is not just another CDN; it is a comprehensive solution that addresses a wide range of use cases across the media and entertainment industries. It is designed to meet these challenges head-on. By leveraging the best video cache in the market and Broadpeak’s partnerships with local ISPs for local caching and multicast ABR, ASCDN delivers content closer to the viewer, reducing latency and enhancing the quality of service at scale. On top of that, combined with the successful existing applications of broadpeak.io, it can also provide a more personalized streaming experience.
This unique approach not only addresses the limitations of traditional global CDNs but also offers a sustainable solution that reduces carbon footprint by optimizing delivery paths and minimizing unnecessary data movement.
What Sets ASCDN Apart? Discover the Unique Features that Redefine Content Delivery
1. Localized Content Delivery with Global Reach
ASCDN is a CDN Service built on a mesh of different infrastructures. We start with 11 POPs worldwide to provide a global approach. This will be completed by utilizing a network of Points of Presence (POPs) within our local ISPs to deliver content directly from the network closest to the viewer. This localized approach ensures that content is delivered with minimal delay, significantly reducing latency and enhancing the overall quality of experience. Whether your audience is tuning in from North and South America, Europe, Africa, or APAC, ASCDN ensures they receive content quickly, reliably, and with the highest quality.
2. Dynamic Scalability for Any Demand
One of the standout features of ASCDN is its ability to scale to meet the demands of any audience size dynamically. Whether you’re broadcasting a live sports event with millions of concurrent viewers or launching a new series on your OTT platform, ASCDN scales effortlessly, ensuring that performance remains consistent even under the most demanding conditions. This scalability is achieved through intelligent caching, advanced technology like multicast ABR or Open Caching, and routing algorithms that dynamically choose the best delivery paths based on real-time network conditions and user location.
3. Guaranteed Quality of Service for Live Streaming
Live streaming presents unique challenges that require a specialized approach to content delivery. ASCDN guarantees quality of service for live events, providing a seamless, buffer-free experience that keeps viewers engaged. By delivering content directly from local networks, ASCDN ensures that live streams are delivered with the lowest possible latency, making it the ideal solution for broadcasters and platforms prioritizing live content.
In addition, it leverages multicast ABR technology to boost and guarantee the quality at scale for live events gathering millions of viewers while keeping only one stream in the network.
4. Advanced Caching and Routing Optimization
ASCDN’s advanced caching and routing technologies are designed to optimize every aspect of content delivery. By intelligently routing media segments and manifests based on real-time analysis of network conditions, ASCDN minimizes congestion and ensures that content is delivered via the most efficient path. This improves performance and reduces the overall load on network resources, contributing to a more sustainable and efficient delivery ecosystem.
5. Real-Time Analytics and Observability
Understanding how your content is delivered is crucial to optimizing viewer experience and ensuring the success of your streaming strategy. ASCDN provides comprehensive real-time analytics and observability tools that offer deep insights into CDN performance, including cache hit rates, latency, throughput, and error rates. This transparency allows content providers to make data-driven decisions and quickly address any performance issues that may arise.
6. Seamless Integration and simplicity with Existing Workflows
We know that integrating new technologies can be challenging, so ASCDN is designed to work seamlessly with your existing content management and delivery workflows. You can configure ASCDN with no more than four clicks or two API calls. Whether using broadpeak.io or other video data plane, ASCDN can be configured to operate as a primary or fallback CDN (that you can enable easily with our Content Steering application, also in beta), providing a flexible solution that adapts to your specific needs.
7. Strong security toolset and service to secure content delivery
While content streaming is exposed to an increasing number of attacks, security is a fundamental component of ASCDN. The adaptive streaming delivery application relies on a combination of powerful security features (such as HTTPS, token-based filtering, geo-blocking, DDOS) and an optional security service complementing the capabilities toolset. The add on service is providing additional information focused on anti-piracy, anomaly and suspicious activity detection as well as IP intelligent blacklisting.
Use Cases: How ASCDN Transforms Content Delivery
ASCDN is not just another CDN; it’s a comprehensive solution that addresses a wide range of use cases across the media and entertainment industries:
- Live Streaming: ASCDN is ideal for live sports, concerts, and other real-time events that require low latency, scalability, and high reliability. Its localized delivery approach ensures that live content reaches viewers with minimal delay, providing a superior live viewing experience.
- VOD and Series Launches: With ASCDN’s dynamic scalability, handle high demand during new releases and peak viewing times. Ensure that your viewers receive content without interruption, regardless of audience size.
- Dynamic Ad Insertion and Personalization: Monetize your content more effectively with broadpeak.io’s ASCDN and ad insertion capabilities (by using our Dynamic Ad Insertion service). Deliver personalized ads that resonate with viewers, enhancing engagement and boosting revenue potential. We will not only reduce your costs, but we will also increase your revenue.
- Insurance: You can use ASCDN as a reliable backup or failover option by configuring it with our Content Steering Server beta. It ensures that your content remains available even in the face of unexpected network disruptions. With ASCDN, you can confidently deliver content without worrying about downtime or performance issues.
Join the ASCDN Beta Today!
The beta phase of ASCDN is now open, and we invite you to participate. Please tell us how to evolve! Our CDN can do a lot of things behind the curtains—we need to know what is worth exposing to you for configuration.
By participating in the beta, you will have the opportunity to experience ASCDN’s full capabilities, provide valuable feedback, and help shape the application’s future.
Whether you are a broadcaster looking to enhance your live streaming capabilities or an OTT platform aiming to improve viewer satisfaction, ASCDN offers a robust, scalable, and sustainable solution tailored to your needs.
Ready to revolutionize your content delivery?
Contact us today to learn more about ASCDN and request access to the beta. Let’s redefine the future of streaming together with Broadpeak’s ASCDN.
