Cache Deployments [330]: CallPlus Brands [New Zealand] Uses Qwilt

Qwilt, announced it will ".. power the online video traffic delivered by leading New Zealand telcos Slingshot and Orcon. Qwilt’s Video Fabric Controller will be used by Slingshot and Orcon, both owned by New Zealand fixed line, voice, mobile and internet company, CallPlus, to cache and deliver online video traffic from a growing number of content providers, including Amazon, Apple, Hulu, Netflix and Twitch".

Back in July 2011, Bluecoat announced "CallPlus has selected Blue Coat®CacheFlow® 5000 appliances to help manage the large and growing demand of its customers for Internet content from outside New Zealand" (here) and in September 2010 Alcatel-Lucent announced that "it has been chosen by Orcon, the fastest growing service provider in New Zealand, to improve the delivery and experience of Internet-based video to its customers" (here).

"CallPlus selected Qwilt for the job because other vendors were unable to meet Slingshot and Orcon’s requirements for universal caching. Upon deploying Qwilt’s open caching technology, Slingshot and Orcon saw immediate savings in international transit costs and improved quality of experience (QoE) for its subscribers, when compared to competitive caching products".

See "Qwilt Selected by Slingshot, Orcon to Cache Increasingly Popular OTT Video Content" - here.

Cache Deployments (83): CallPlus[New Zealand] Selected Bluecoat for International Bandwidth Optimization

   

Bluecoat announced that ".. CallPlus has selected Blue Coat^®CacheFlow^® 5000 appliances to help manage the large and growing demand of its customers for Internet content from outside New Zealand .. CallPlus estimates that 90-95% of its traffic is for international content, and the demand is growing at a rate of about 50% per year, by volume .. Initial trials of the Blue Coat Web caching appliances conducted by CallPlus showed a reduction in its bandwidth consumption by over 40%. At the same time, the speed of content delivery and quality of video experience increased dramatically due to the use of caching". 

See "Blue Coat announced that CallPlus has selected Blue Coat CacheFlow 5000 appliances to help manage the growing demand for Internet content from outside New Zealand" - here.

Adrian Dick, CTO, CallPlus said: “Once we deployed the caching technology, we were serving Web traffic considerably faster than our main competitors”. Note that Telecom New Zealand is also using the same Blue Coat solution - here.