Video Caching Announcements: BTI Systems WideCast™

   

Another vendor had joined recently the video caching market, enabling operators to save and monetize OTT video traffic. 

"BTI Systems .. introduced WideCast, a new portfolio of applications and networking solutions that enables a phenomenal change in how bandwidth hungry video content is delivered to the subscriber .. Designed to provide an open application delivery platform, WideCast permits BTI Systems partner and customer applications to be deployed efficiently and closer to the subs"

See the press release - "BTI Systems Unlocks Video at the Edge with WideCast™ Content-Aware Networking" - here, product page - here and datasheet here.

"The WideCast portfolio [see chart below] contains the following key components:

• WideCast Transparent Cache—Release 1.0, A Self Learning Cache with full P2P, HTTP, Flash support for bandwidth hungry downloads that transparently deliver traffic at the edge without operators having to manage content;
   
• WideCast 200 and 300 server modules to support applications at the edge of the network that includes a performance optimized—lights out—Linux OS that is integrated with the BTI 7000 series products; and
   
• WideCast Application Routing Software upgrades to BTI 7000 packet optical networking solutions to maximize video caching benefits without impacting throughput for non-cacheable traffic."

The video caching market becomes crowded - with offering from Bluecoat (here), Huawei (here), PeerApp (here), Juniper (here), Alcatel-Lucent (here), Acision (here), Allot and Oversi. 

Related post: Yankee Group report "CDNs Expand to Mobile Broadband" - here.