Streaming Video Technology Alliance Launches Comprehensive Set of Specifications for Configuration Interface
April 16 2024 - 12:06PM
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Board approves launch of new Streaming Video
Operations Working Group and welcomes two new members, Amagi and
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The Streaming Video Technology Alliance (SVTA), a global
technical association developing solutions to address critical
technical challenges in delivering a high-quality video experience
at scale, announces the availability of a new suite of
Configuration Interface documents. The SVTA is also excited to
launch a new working group focused on Streaming Video
Operations.
Open Caching Configuration Interface Specifications
The SVTA Open Caching Configuration Interface is a multi-part
set of documents defining the metadata model and APIs for Content
Providers, CDNs, Open Caching System providers, and ISPs to publish
and retrieve configuration metadata for content caching and
delivery. The specification facilitates interoperability across the
content delivery ecosystem by extending the IETF CDNI (Internet
Engineering Task Force Content Delivery Network Interconnect)
standard to provide configuration management capabilities required
by CDN and Open Caching vendors and their customers.
“This SVTA Open Caching Configuration Interface suite of
documents is the culmination of over three years of work, with
major contributions from 10+ member companies,” says Glenn
Goldstein, SVTA Technical Fellow and SME. “The specification, now
moving through the IETF to become a standard, will ease the burden
on content providers who use CDN and Open Caching System
proprietary data models and APIs to configure caching and
request/response transformation behaviors. Our goal was to do
better than a lowest common denominator standard; and we have
achieved that by designing several advanced capabilities.”
“This is a significant achievement for the SVTA,” says Jason
Thibeault, SVTA CEO. “While the Open Caching Working Group had
published some prior versions of this work, this complete suite
provides a comprehensive approach to a programmatic interface for
configuring delivery networks, such as an Open Caching network or a
CDN. This is truly a landmark in the march towards interoperability
within the streaming video technology stack.”
New Streaming Video Operations Working Group
The new Streaming Video Operations Working Group, co-chaired by
Mark Ison (ITV) and Nicolas Weil (AWS), and assisted by SVTA
Technical Fellow, Glenn Goldstein, will focus on discussing
operational challenges in real time. In addition, the group will
produce “operational best practice memoranda”, documents detailing
specific solutions to common real-world problems in operating a
streaming platform, such as during a live event. Finally, the group
will produce other documents and/or software code around
interoperability testing frameworks and tooling. For more
information about this group, you can visit
https://www.svta.org/working-group/streaming-operations/.
“We are very excited about this group,” says Jason Thibeault.
“With the launch of our SEGMENTS conference two years ago and its
phenomenal growth at our 2024 event, we are seeing a definite
demand for this kind of tactical, real-world work. We hope that
from the memoranda, new specifications and approaches will be
inspired throughout our other groups to build industry-wide
solutions for common operational challenges.”
New Members: Amagi and Major League Baseball
The SVTA is proud to welcome two recent new members, Amagi and
Major League Baseball.
SVTA Q2 2024 Member Meeting in Toronto, Canada Hosted by
SiriusXM
The SVTA will host its upcoming Q2 member meeting on May 15th
and 16th in Toronto, Canada. The meeting will be hosted by member
company SiriusXM at their downtown headquarters. For more
information about this meeting, you can visit
https://www.svta.org/meeting/q2-2024-toronto-canada-may-15-and-16/
The SVTA includes member companies from around the world and
throughout the streaming video ecosystem. For a current list of
member companies, visit https://www.svta.org/svta-members/. For
more information on the SVTA, the Technical Groups, or to inquire
about becoming a member, visit https://www.svta.org.
About the Streaming Video Technology Alliance
The Streaming Video Technology Alliance is a global technical
association addressing critical challenges in streaming video. By
educating the industry on the technical nature of the issues,
providing a neutral forum for collaboration across the video
ecosystem, and publishing documentation that defines technical
solutions, the Alliance is helping to improve the streaming video
experience at scale. Over 90 companies including network operators,
content rights holders, OTT platforms, service providers, and
technology vendors – representing some of the biggest names in
global streaming – participate in bi-weekly working group
activities and quarterly face-to-face meetings. For more
information, please visit www.svta.org.
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