Fastly Enhances Live Streaming and Video-On-Demand Portfolio As Organizations Power Remote Digital Experiences
October 22 2020 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
New features will enable technologists to
accommodate accelerated innovation for immediate and long-term
video streaming demands
Fastly, Inc. (NYSE: FSLY), provider of a global edge cloud
platform, today announced advancements to its comprehensive
portfolio of live event and video-on-demand services. As
organizations continue to experience a shift from in-person to
online, the need to deliver high-quality, low-latency content in a
secure and scalable way has become more crucial than ever before.
Fastly’s enhanced Live Event Services and video-on-demand features
will enable developers to respond to a recent rise in live
streaming events influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic, in addition
to preparing for long-term video streaming trends.
“COVID has drastically accelerated the quantity and frequency of
live streaming viewership that we were already seeing
pre-pandemic,” said Lee Chen, vice president of corporate
development and strategic partnerships at Fastly. “The gap between
those investing in streaming technologies and those who are not, is
widening and becoming more prominent than ever before. Having the
correct set of tools and technologies is essential for businesses
to accelerate their digital transformation and stay ahead of their
competitors.”
Fastly’s new engineering innovations further strengthen its
existing portfolio of live-streaming solutions and services. In
addition to helping organizations deliver large-scale, low-latency
streams, customers are able to make the most of real-time
monitoring, capacity planning, and flexible deployment options.
Fastly’s Live Events offering now includes:
- Media Shield with Origin Insights: Technologists can
optimize multi-CDN deployments and reduce streaming costs, while
gaining real-time analytics and visibility into the egress data
collected from the origin infrastructure to Fastly’s Edge
Cloud.
- Live Event Monitoring: Organizations can rely on a team
of Fastly experts to monitor, alert, and troubleshoot complex
issues throughout high-profile, mission-critical events, enabling a
faster, more consistent viewer experience.
- Capacity Reservations: Organizations can easily reserve
additional bandwidth to prepare for high-traffic events.
- Real-time Observability: Technologists can gain
real-time insights into how their users are consuming streaming
content, empowering them to proactively identify and fix potential
issues.
“Fastly has been vital in providing us with the tools we need to
efficiently run a multi-CDN environment. More specifically, Media
Shield helps us unify our workflows and create more reliable
experiences, happier customers, and higher levels of engagement,”
said Vice President of Digital Media Technology at A+E Networks
John Cool. “Fastly also does a great job caching our content,
helping us achieve the scale we need to meet our peak demands while
making sure our streaming costs are manageable as traffic
increases.”
Accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of
video-on-demand users is projected to be up by nearly 50 million at
the end of this year. Fastly’s video-on-demand services now
include:
- Device Detection: Video engineers can write logic to
tailor content for a variety of device types, improving delivery
quality and user experience.
- Enhanced On-the-fly Packager (OTFP): Organizations can
cut costs associated with duplicating content for different
packaging HTTP streaming protocols. Enhancements include
multi-language audio and additional DRM partner integrations.
- VPN/Proxy Detection: Enhanced programmability at the
edge enables organizations to detect when VPNs and proxies are
being used to bypass content protection.
“Fastly makes it easier for us to manage large numbers of
concurrent users in a predictive way, lowering costs and better
preparing us for crucial moments such as the La Voz program
premier, the Veneno premier on Atresmedia Premium, and for national
election debates,” said Head of Digital Media Solutions at
Atresmedia Raquel Fernández. “Additionally, with Media Shield,
we’ve been able to predict bandwidth needs more accurately and
reduce the cost of access to origin by 60%.”
For more information about Fastly’s Live Events and
video-on-demand solutions, visit:
https://www.fastly.com/solutions/live-event-services and
https://www.fastly.com/products/media-and-streaming/video-on-demand.
About Fastly
Fastly helps people stay better connected with the things they
love. Fastly’s edge cloud platform enables customers to create
great digital experiences quickly, securely, and reliably by
processing, serving, and securing our customers’ applications as
close to their end-users as possible — at the edge of the internet.
Fastly’s platform is designed to take advantage of the modern
internet, to be programmable, and to support agile software
development with unmatched visibility and minimal latency,
empowering developers to innovate with both performance and
security. Fastly’s customers include many of the world’s most
prominent companies, including Vimeo, Pinterest, The New York
Times, and GitHub.
Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains “forward-looking” statements that
are based on Fastly’s beliefs and assumptions and on information
currently available to Fastly on the date of this press release.
Forward-looking statements may involve known and unknown risks,
uncertainties, and other factors that may cause its actual results,
performance, or achievements to be materially different from those
expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. These
statements include, but are not limited to, those regarding the
ability of Fastly’s Live Event Services and video on-demand
features to enable developers to respond to a rise in live
streaming events and to prepare for long-term video streaming
trends, enable delivery of large-scale, low-latency streams, and
enable customers to make the most of real-time monitoring, capacity
planning, and flexible deployment options. Except as required by
law, Fastly assumes no obligation to update these forward-looking
statements publicly, or to update the reasons actual results could
differ materially from those anticipated in the forward-looking
statements, even if new information becomes available in the
future. Important factors that could cause Fastly’s actual results
to differ materially are detailed from time to time in the reports
Fastly files with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC),
including in its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended
December 31, 2019. Copies of reports filed with the SEC are posted
on Fastly’s website and are available from Fastly without
charge.
Source: Fastly, Inc.
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