Tech | October 13, 2009 | 2 comments

Verizon doesn't stream video on the internet, they use Akamai. Just to clarify.

source: http://forums.verizon.com/t5/Verizon-at-Home/EPIX-Update/ba-p/91467

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NicoMcLane
On the Verizon Blog Site, it says "We'll announce soon the date when the EPIX channel will officially launch on FiOS TV. It will be available with a premium subscription that includes SD & HD channels, VOD and eventually online content. "

The NewTeeVee blog sites: "Though strangely, Verizon, which is the network’s only announced carrier..."

This can be very confusing for normal people, but in all my tedious conversations with Verizon, they tell me they use Akamai (sources on the Product side, Sales Engineers from both Verizon CORE and Verizon Business) as their CDN, so any online content would not be on Verizon proper rather would be aggregated and distributed, by Akamai the CDN, perhaps “branded” Verizon… AFAIK.

Wht do you think?
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2 comments // Verizon doesn't stream video on the internet, they use Akamai. Just to clarify.

  • NicoMcLane
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      NicoMcLane  

    • Very ambiguous about how or who would actually be "streaming" said videos for EPIX... and how they would be distributed. The videos that will be watched on a Verizon FiOs set top box are not the same videos you will see when when you go to the website and log in to EpixHD.com

      I have been working with Verizon for years to get videos streaming over their service, they keep setting up conference calls with Akamai. They do have bandwidth, but true streaming media is not that simple, and they would need to outsource that to a distribution network (CDN) like Akamai.

      On a side note, just today I heard someone at Verizon Business mumble under their tongue that the whole Verizon FiOs Project was going to be "dropped"... Hmm...

    • 2 years ago
  • smurph25
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