LG to Integrate Giraffic Video Optimization to Smart TV

Meir Orbach reported to Calcalist (here, Hebrew) that "LG will integrates Giraffic video optimization technology in its smart TV product line to enable 4K streaming". 

Giraffic’s multi-patented client-side AVA™ technology overcomes Internet bottlenecks from source to glass, enabling devices to actively control Internet streaming quality.Smart TVs, IP STBs, Tablets and smartphones with Giraffic AVA™ software provide a faster and smoother streaming experience from any internet content source on the end-user’s existing internet connection. Giraffic’s patents on multi-source streaming, congestion control, dynamic maximization of HTTP communication throughout, predictive buffering and network shaping overcomes internet bandwidth limits

Yoel Zanger [pictured], Giraffic CEO told Calcalist: "We understood that great technology (see "New Start-up Promises X2 Faster Video Streaming with 'Crowd CDN'", here) does not always trun into a revenue generating business model. We need to go after those who can and willing to pay. Therefore, 3 years ago, we made a change in our direction. The content and smart devices domain goes to 4K resolution, but the internet infrastructure cant provide the required quality to the home user".

 

A real network monitor view of a typical Giraffic accelerated stream: averaging 3X higher throughput, and smoother QoS

New Start-up Promises X2 Faster Video Streaming with "Crowd CDN"

A new Israeli start-up promises to reduce 98% of Re-Buffering pauses and accelerates videos streaming by 2X by using "crowd CDN", report Avi Weiss to TheNewCom (here, Hebrew).

Yoel Zanger (pictured), CEO of the company, Giraffic ("combination of a Giraffe and Traffic - Paraphrasing on the concept of turning the long tail of content– similar to video consumption traffic, to the "long-neck" or "high-head" – symbolizes reversing of current new media age content consumption patterns") explains:

"We are the Crowd Sourcing of the video world. We give all the power to the content providers and the spectators. The content reaches to the viewer from other viewers, holding small pieces of the video clip he wishes to watch - with no central server or CDN".

"Our technology is distributed storage - we take the content from the provider, code it, and distribute over the network in small pieces, which are collected by viewers and assembled back. We can do the same to other HTTP content types, and we have a client for the end-devices, including mobile phones and Smart TVs".

"We have now 5 employees, over 5M users and we have raised so far $2M from private investors. Veoh and Mako are paying customers. We compete with CDNs"