Response from Jeremy Hartigan on Princeton broadcast issue

[Al DeFlorio]

[quote BCrespi]

"Launching a project of this complexity in four months was nothing short of miraculous. Akamai Professional Services was instrumental in helping us pull this off."
—Ed Talvy, VP of Client Services, CSTV

...or not.[/quote]
Is that Kyle's company?::uhoh::

[DeltaOne81]

[quote nr53]While procrastinating this afternoon, the following page was brought to my attention by my housemate: CSTV Case Study

So maybe CSTV was just a bit too ambitious with their idea (they gave the company 4 months to design everything), but in any case it is interesting to see that they are outsourcing All-Access to another company.[/quote]

I wouldn't say they're outsourcing, if you're talking about Akamai. Akamai typically provides the bandwidth abilities and scale, but the content and concept would still belong to CSTV.

To use an old-tech analogy, Akamai would be the phone company that provides the ability to make all those calls, but CSTV would still own the phones, employ the callers, and be responsible for the content of the call.

And yes, that's Kyle's company. They do a lot.

[Jim Hyla]

The company delivers comprehensive coverage


 The company's innovative All-Access broadband channels—first launched in 200—have long set the standard for streamed sporting events.

Some might disagree.::cry::

[Al DeFlorio]

[quote Jim Hyla]

The company delivers comprehensive coverage


 The company's innovative All-Access broadband channels—first launched in 200—have long set the standard for streamed sporting events.

Some might disagree.::cry::[/quote]
The author of that bullshit should become a Bush-Cheney speechwriter.

[Jordan 04]

[quote Jim Hyla]

The company delivers comprehensive coverage


 The company's innovative All-Access broadband channels—first launched in 200—have long set the standard for streamed sporting events.

Some might disagree.::cry::[/quote]

Perhaps the problem is that they are using the same computers from when they launched the service in 200.

[billhoward]

[quote Jim Hyla]

The company delivers comprehensive coverage


 The company's innovative All-Access broadband channels—first launched in 200—have long set the standard for streamed sporting events.

Some might disagree.::cry::[/quote]

Didn't Dean Wormer say Delta House set standards for grade-point average, sobriety ... ?

Along these lines, one could say CSTV sets standards that would be difficult to go beyond.

[Rosey]

[quote Al DeFlorio]Is that Kyle's company?::uhoh::[/quote]
I will not speak for my company in any official capacity.

Akamai distributes the bits from one or two well-connected servers, through our network, to media servers distributed around the globe.  All of that infrastructure is used by hundreds of companies every day, and is *rock-solid*: it is public information that all of MLB.tv, for instance, is served by us.

Now, if there is a problem with the bitstream coming into our one or two well-connected servers (hypothetically speaking, of course), there's not a whole lot we can do about it.

Kyle

[nr53]

[quote krose][quote Al DeFlorio]Is that Kyle's company?::uhoh::[/quote]
I will not speak for my company in any official capacity.

Akamai distributes the bits from one or two well-connected servers, through our network, to media servers distributed around the globe.  All of that infrastructure is used by hundreds of companies every day, and is *rock-solid*: it is public information that all of MLB.tv, for instance, is served by us.

Now, if there is a problem with the bitstream coming into our one or two well-connected servers (hypothetically speaking, of course), there's not a whole lot we can do about it.

Kyle[/quote]

I didn't mean to say that Akamai is at fault for any All-Access problems. I should have mentioned that they also provided infrastructure for NCAAsports.com and delivered free streaming coverage for March Madness which must have a ton more demand than Cornell vs. Harvard no matter what our own personal views are. I was just surprised to see a company associated with that sort of success also being related to something as glitchy as AA