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For those of you who are suffering from a post-Olympics event hang-over, I have the perfect cure…how about a seven-stage bike race with 135 of the world’s best riders through some of the toughest terrain in the country – the Colorado Rocky Mountains? Yes, it’s here, the USA Pro Cycling Challenge, which begins today – [...]
When Xfinity announced their Xbox 360 application and said that the data usage would not be counted against our bandwidth caps, we became curious. We wanted to understand more about how the traffic entered our homes and how it might be treated in comparison to the rest of the traffic coming through the same plug [...]
Over the last two years we have received a huge number of requests from rights holders for help getting their content on to the Internet in the form of Internet Television. So I thought I’d dedicate a blog post to explain some of the technologies that need to be considered in order to make that [...]
For anyone who works in the world of broadcast, the annual NAB Show that kicks off today in Las Vegas is definitely something of a tradition. Ask someone who’s been a few times and you’ll get stories of stressful booth set-ups, memories of sore feet from walking the endless miles around one of the world’s [...]
In a previous post I talked about Level 3’s new Vyvx Solutions business. Ben also gave a little insight into a large event we were involved with. But I thought it would be interesting to show some photographs of elements of the video service. Above is the loading bay of a major sports stadium in [...]
Bigger, faster, stronger…if there’s one constant in sports it’s that with each year, the production and business of sports gets more lucrative, more intense, more exciting, more more more! As Director of our Sports segment here at Level 3, I’ve outlined five things I think we’ll see more of across sports in 2012. 1) More high [...]
It seems like we’ve all (well those in the industry!) become obsessed with the term “cord cutter”. It’s written about as if we are teetering on the edge of a cliff where the pay TV companies are suddenly going to cease to exist. Everyone is looking for the quarterly result that shows an inflection point [...]
The story surrounding the creation of the Vyvx name has become an urban legend inside our company. Actually several urban legends – you might get a different story depending on whom you talk to. Here’s the one I like best. When the service was being created twenty or so years ago the marketing team was [...]
Rights management has always been a semi-confusing topic that even those of us in the content delivery and distribution space can find slightly intimidating. But it’s an important issue these days, and whether you are a team, a league, an owner or a provider, sooner or later, it is going to be something you have [...]
If that caught the eye of our competitors then I’m sorry to disappoint but I’m not going to talk about our future plans. I get asked by analysts, journalists and customers, all the time, why we entered this space and what our plan was when we did. So I thought I’d share that more broadly. [...]
