The Impact of Adaptive Rate Streaming:
A Primer for Digital TV Executives

Adaptive rate streaming is a breakthrough approach that enables a video's bitrate to adapt dynamically to resources available in the network and on playback devices. This is a key enabling technology for over-the-top (OTT) video that will profoundly impact content distribution even in walled garden environments.

This primer provides the latest information on the leading adaptive rate streaming solutions and provides a guide as digital TV operators evaluate their OTT strategy. In this paper you will benefit from:

• High-level and more in-depth technology descriptions of adaptive rate streaming technologies
• Technical trade-offs and main parameters for selecting a solution
• Game-changing business issues from the operator's perspective
• Unresolved issues that remain with adaptive rate streaming
• Future of adaptive rate streaming

Written by Benjamin Schwarz, founder of CTO innovation Consulting, this paper is sponsored by Verimatrix and Harmonic. The companies have developed an integrated solution that that leverages the HTTP Live Streaming adaptive bitrate standard to securely deliver video services to multiple devices. To learn more, please register to download the primer below.

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