Latin America. Kaltura and Akamai Technologies announced the signing of an agreement to extend their NetAlliance partnership by combining Akamai's content delivery power with the Kaltura TV platform.
The partnership will leverage the Akamai Predictive Content Delivery platform and its CDNs, along with the market intelligence expertise and deep consumer knowledge of the Kaltura TV platform, making it easy to cache devices that receive content using intelligent resource management by downloading content in the background when the user is connected to a high-quality WI-FI transfer network.
The content will be downloaded based on the profile and history of each of the users, and will be offered to the client so that he can view the contents being off-line, at any time and device, regardless of the type of connection and bandwidth to which the user is connected. The solution was designed to allow content providers to offer each user their preferred content allowing them an excellent viewing experience.
The expectation of the two companies is that in the coming times, the resources will continue to be developed through the use of new analytics and intelligence models that will be introduced into the ecosystem by both Kaltura and Akamai.
"We are excited to expand our long-standing partnership with Kaltura, and with it to give them this exciting news," said John Sconyers, general manager, Service Partnerships, Akamai. "With content previously downloaded on the device, Predictive Content Delivery removes the barriers that sometimes discourage users when they want to watch content in motion on their devices, motivated by poor network conditions, or because the videos are too heavy for downloading in mobile applications and later can be viewed offline."
Ron Yekutiel, co-founder, president and CEO of Kaltura, said: "The rapid pace of video being consumed on mobile devices is incentivising service providers to find quick and creative solutions that address new industry challenges, such as network constraints and user expectations." For Yekutiel, the partnership will allow "together with Akamai, we can offer an incredibly attractive solution for our customers to position themselves in front, both in terms of experiences offered to the user, and the dramatic reduction of costs."
Edmar Moraes, Director of Media Sales and Entertainment for Latin America at Kaltura states that this partnership "will be very important for local suppliers because one of the biggest problems in the region is the lack of internet networks and their stability of signal flows."
