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“Not a lot of people know that,” as Michael Caine might say. Not a lot of people know how the television channels they tune in to are put together or how the content gets to their house. A channel is created in a broadcast facility run and operated by a broadcaster (Fox, NBC, BBC, etc.). [...]
According to The Diffusion Group (TDG) 13% of U.S. broadband households, or 10 million viewers, are considered Pay-TV Refugees. Far less serious than refugees of war, Pay-TV Refugees have left cable or direct-to-home satellite providers to watch video content streamed on the Internet. Nearly 3 million of these Pay-TV Refugees are “Cord Nevers,” viewers who have [...]
If you are reading this, you are one of the nearly 2 billion people actively using social media. Social media has quickly become the de facto information and sharing source for people around the world – and like so many other large enterprises, Level 3 has taken an active role in the ongoing social conversation, [...]
Technology. Education. Design. From the first day that I was introduced to TEDTalks, I’ve been a fan. In case you don’t know, TED is a global nonprofit devoted to “ideas worth spreading”, using video to reach a global audience. It’s that opening TED chime that gets me every time and, like Pavlov’s dogs, I know I’m in [...]
Back in 2008, millions of people watched then candidate Barack Obama accept the Democratic Presidential Nomination live from Invesco Field at Mile High Stadium in Denver… on television and potentially more importantly, on their computer. Level 3 was proudly involved as the official streaming partner for the Democratic National Convention, which was streamed for the [...]
If the latest numbers from The NPD Group are to be believed, the Gaming industry may just be clinging to its last “life”. According to NPD, year over year retail revenue dropped 34% to $750.6 M. This represents the worst performance in the industry since 2004. The lone bright spot, NPD predicts that digital and other revenue [...]
A CDN (Content Delivery network) means different things to different people. The word is used in many different contexts in a way that can confuse. That confusion is partly understandable because most CDNs utilise many different types of technology. So I thought I’d try and explain what a comprehensive CDN, like ours, does. What follows [...]
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 [...]
I recently came across this article from GigaOm about CDN architecture and its “scary future”, revealing insights from a paper published in 2010. The whole thing made me feel like I’d been transported back to the mid 1990s. A world where according to Wikipedia we were wearing “hippie-style floral dresses, turtleneck shirts, lace blouses, conch [...]
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. [...]
