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Damien Lucas a partagé ceciEurope cannot afford to repeat its cloud dependency in Data & AI. 👇 For years, Europe’s dependence on non-European cloud and software providers was treated as a technical or procurement issue. It was always a strategic one. The result: today, 80% of Europe's cloud and software spending — that’s €265 billion a year — still flows to non-European providers. But the ground is shifting: in just a few months, Europe’s technological sovereignty has moved from principle to policy to procurement. The European Commission’s recent sovereign cloud tender and the Cloud and AI Development Act moving to the proposal phase are proof that we are on the right track. AI is accelerating that shift. After Anthropic and OpenAI restricted access to advanced models following the US government’s intervention, European organizations have seen how quickly critical capabilities can become subject to decisions taken outside Europe. This is why we are publishing the Scaleway Manifesto for Data & AI Sovereignty in Europe. It brings together principles that have guided Scaleway for years, and that apply well beyond this specific platform: European jurisdiction (not just location); interoperability through open standards that keep your workflows portable; and transparent pricing as a condition for trust. 👉 Read the manifesto here: https://lnkd.in/emG-MnG5 We believe this is the standard European organizations should now expect.
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Damien Lucas a partagé ceciScaleway secures European “Trusted Cloud” services contract with Airbus! ✈️ It’s official: Airbus has selected Scaleway as its sovereign cloud provider to support its cloud capabilities and complement its current cloud portfolio. Powered by European infrastructure, open technologies, and seamless interoperability, this platform will support business-critical applications across aircraft design, engineering, manufacturing, and enterprise operations — workflows that demand the highest levels of governance, resilience, and legal protection. Built to evolve alongside Airbus’s engineering and enterprise environments, it will notably provide the AI-ready capabilities needed to enable future innovation. This recognition follows a thorough evaluation process: 50 vendors were consulted, 10 invited to submit proposals, and 4 finalists shortlisted before Scaleway was ultimately selected as Airbus’s sole cloud partner. Beyond how the selection was made, I am especially proud of why we were chosen. During the press conference, Airbus CIO Catherine Jestin praised our ability to deliver on the roadmap we presented at the very start of the tender process. This new milestone further validates our vision. We continue to empower European leaders with long-term strategic autonomy for their most sensitive applications and data. Read the full announcement: https://lnkd.in/eSMAEVqF Albane Bruyas Doreen Pernel Alexia Boulot Jean-Baptiste Kempf Béatrice Harrois Stéphane G.is Stéphane G. Luis ALVES Alix Guitard Gilles Noël Erwan Soudée
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Damien Lucas a partagé ceciDamien Lucas a partagé ceci🇪🇺 Trust is becoming one of the defining criteria for cloud infrastructure. As organizations accelerate AI adoption and modernize critical systems, they're looking for platforms that combine performance, openness and operational excellence with strong governance and long-term control. ✈️ Scaleway has been selected by Airbus as its sovereign cloud provider to support its cloud strategy. Built on European infrastructure and open technologies, our platform will support the modernization of critical enterprise workloads within a trusted cloud environment that integrates seamlessly with Airbus' existing multi-cloud ecosystem. This demonstrates that European cloud can deliver the performance, resilience and governance required by some of the world's most demanding organizations. 📖 Read the full press release below https://lnkd.in/eQBBTqEw #european #open #pragmatic #builtforwhatsnext #sovereignty #cloud #ai #quantum Damien Lucas Albane Bruyas Doreen Pernel Alix Guitard Luis ALVES Gilles Noël Béatrice Harrois Alexia Boulot Jean-Baptiste Kempf Sebastien Dupas Groupe iliad
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Damien Lucas a partagé ceciCloud, AI and High-Performance Computing are converging. At the same time, Europe faces another challenge: how do we continue scaling compute while using energy more intelligently? This is why I'm particularly excited that Scaleway and Qarnot are joining forces. Beyond strengthening our HPC capabilities, what convinced me most is how closely our visions align. We share the same belief in European technology, open ecosystems, technological independence and more responsible infrastructure. Together, we'll continue building a sovereign European platform where Cloud, AI and HPC come together to support the next generation of industrial and AI innovation. A special thanks to Clément Pellegrini, Paul Benoit and the entire Qarnot team. I'm excited to start this new chapter together. If you'd like to learn more about why this is such an important step for Scaleway and for Europe's Cloud & AI ecosystem, I invite you to read the press release below. https://lnkd.in/e4Vucxm5 Albane Bruyas Doreen Pernel Luis ALVES Alexia Boulot Béatrice Harrois Stéphane G.is Stéphane G. Gilles Noël Alix Guitard
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Damien Lucas a partagé ceciRunning Mistral on Scaleway cloud, this is a perfect match to ensure a trusted AI deployment. Happy to see this happening more and more frequently ! Congrats to the Conseil supérieur du notariat - Notaires de France ! And looking forward to help you deploy your AI efficiently and securely !Conseil supérieur du notariat - Notaires de France
Conseil supérieur du notariat - Notaires de France
Damien Lucas a partagé ceci📢 [Communiqué] Intelligence Artificielle : le Conseil supérieur du notariat - Notaires de France choisit Mistral AI et Scaleway pour permettre aux offices notariaux d’accéder à des solutions d’intelligence artificielle dans un environnement cloud européen sécurisé, maîtrisé et garantissant le respect du secret professionnel du notaire. Dans un secteur en pleine évolution, la profession notariale doit conserver son avance technologique, en préservant sa #SouverainetéNumérique. La solution déployée par le CSN permettra aux #NotairesdeFrance et à leurs collaborateurs de s'acculturer et d'expérimenter l'IA dans leur quotidien. La maitrise de leur transformation passe par cet apprentissage. 🤝 Ce partenariat d'une durée de 18 mois entre le #CSN et Mistral a été imaginé pour permettre cet apprentissage et pour garantir un usage de l’IA conforme aux exigences déontologiques du #notariat, et à sa mission de conseil et de #SécuritéJuridique. Il s’appuie sur une infrastructure souveraine, fournie par l’hébergeur français Scaleway. Les notaires resteront naturellement libres de recourir ou non à ces outils. Ils pourront retenir d’autres solutions respectant la charte IA diffusée par la profession. 🎯 Ce partenariat est une étape majeure dans la mise en œuvre de la #StratégieNumérique du notariat adoptée en 2024 : rester une profession innovante, sans faire aucune concession sur la sécurisation des données de leurs clients. 🖇️ Lire l'intégralité du communiqué sur https://lnkd.in/e54RngD7 Bertrand Savouré Audrey Herblin-Stoop Damien Lucas -
Damien Lucas a partagé ceciReflection from VivaTech #2: Announcements are only the beginning. Last week, I wrote about the partnerships we unveiled at VivaTech, and what they say about Scaleway’s maturity and ambition. But announcements are only the beginning. What matters is execution: moving from a shared vision to a working deployment, from a press release to production, from trust in principle to trust in practice. I’m happy to say we have delivered on this front. One year on, the partnership we announced with France Télévisions at VivaTech last year has now turned into concrete progress, enabling the continued improvement of Alix, France TV’s integrated cloud platform. Meanwhile, ten projects have already benefitted from the public-private continuum we developed with GENCI and CNRS to power the best of European research. Among them is Sillon, RATPgroup’s first open source AI model, developed with pleias. After being trained entirely on GENCI’s public computing resources, Sillon was deployed for large-scale inference on Scaleway’s platform. It now supports the work of thousands of RATP agents. And with the French Health Data Hub (Plateforme des données de santé), the promise is just as clear — one year from announcement, we aim to be in production too. This is what successful migration looks like: a structured path toward practical, usable innovation. Albane Bruyas Doreen Pernel Alexia Boulot Jean-Baptiste Kempf Béatrice Harrois Stéphane G. Luis ALVES Alix Guitard Gilles Noël
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Damien Lucas a partagé ceciProud to see GLM-5.2 so quickly available on Scaleway ! Our mission: offer the best models, within a trusted environment GLM-5.2 is said to be very efficient - let's see our customers' feedbackDamien Lucas a partagé ceciGLM-5.2 Now Available on Scaleway's Generative APIs When a frontier-level open-weight model drops, we move fast. Following Z.ai’s announcement on June 16th, GLM-5.2 is already live on our platform. This rapid deployment reflects the Scaleway promise: bringing you sovereign choice while staying flexible and fast. As the premier open-weight model built for the agentic era and long-context coding, GLM-5.2 is 100% hosted on Scaleway’s secure infrastructure and available under an MIT license with no regional restrictions. We believe robust infrastructure should always provide immediate access to the industry's best models. 📎 Read the news: https://lnkd.in/drHyeiFp (Link in the comments to test now 👇 ) #open #pragmatic #european #builtforwhatsnext #sovereignity #cloud #ai #quantum
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Damien Lucas a partagé ceciReflection from VivaTech #1: Scaleway is playing in the big leagues. For Scaleway, this year’s edition of VivaTech marked a step change in ambition and scale. Over four packed days, we unveiled new partners including: 🔷 LVMH, the world’s leading luxury group; 🔷 MAIF, one of France’s major insurance players managing €23 billion in assets; 🔷 Ouest-France, the media group behind France’s most widely read daily newspaper; and 🔷 ChapsVision, the AI and data intelligence champion serving some of the most sensitive sectors. The industries may differ, but the underlying need is the same: trusted European technology that helps organizations regain control over their data, costs, and dependencies. For us, this isn’t an overnight success story. We have been building toward this moment for years: continuously expanding our product portfolio, strengthening compliance through both generic and industry-specific certifications and qualifications, and putting in place the structure and processes that make for successful collaboration. I want to commend every Scaler whose work made this achievement possible. I know I speak for all of them when I say that we’re proud to be partnering with organizations of this caliber. Albane Bruyas Doreen Pernel Alexia Boulot Jean-Baptiste Fourmont Béatrice Harrois Stéphane G. Luis ALVES Alix Guitard Gilles Noël
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Damien Lucas a partagé ceciThe “kill switch” was never hypothetical. You’ve already seen the news by now. In fact, your business operations may have been impacted by it. On Saturday, Anthropic announced that it was suspending access to both Fable 5 and Mythos 5 after receiving a US export-control directive restricting access by foreign nationals. It would be painfully easy to say “I told you so,” but there is nothing to celebrate here. This is the last occurrence in a concerning pattern. Just remember: In 2022, Elon Musk reportedly ordered the shutdown of Starlink service in parts of Ukraine during military operations. In May 2025, an International Criminal Court prosecutor in The Hague abruptly lost access to his Microsoft email account after the ICC got in the US government’s crosshairs. After connectivity, after software, an AI model is the latest critical capability to be interrupted or restricted by decisions taken outside Europe. The infamous “kill switch” was never hypothetical. At Scaleway, we’ve been building for that reality for years. As a 100% European company, we keep our customers’ data safe from extraterritorial law — meaning, foreign interference. We also pursue technology independence across the stack, from software (by developing our stack in-house) to hardware (through active vendor diversification), to minimize the risk of disruption. These principles have never mattered more. If you’re at VivaTech this week, and want to see how they can serve your goals in cloud and AI, be sure to stop by our booth. We're looking forward to seeing you there. Albane Bruyas Doreen Pernel Alexia Boulot Jean-Baptiste Kempf Béatrice Harrois Stéphane G. Luis ALVES Alix Guitard Gilles Noël
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Jean JANIN - C'est promis, on ne va pas traîner, ni pour SecNumCloud ni pour étoffer notre offre de service. Et pour le chantier de la souveraineté, nous y travaillons... Spoiler: bientôt des GPUs de VSORA dans nos AZ !
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Damien Lucas a aimé ceciDamien Lucas a aimé ceciBarcelona, Paris, Lisbon, Nantes, San Francisco... we've been everywhere this month. And yes, we wore ski goggles every single time. Not only do we look fabulous, but everyone at Shoptalk Europe, Phocuswright, and VivaTech now knows: if you want to build quality AI infrastructure, you need to be in pink ski apparel. It's just science. We have more events coming up. Look for the ski goggle people!
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Damien Lucas a aimé ceciDamien Lucas a aimé ceci🔎 Airbus a identifié sa "minimum viable company", elle repose sur 900 applications dont 70 vont bouger sur un cloud européen 👇 Après une phase d’analyse poussée, le groupe vient de signer avec Scaleway (derrière c’est Iliad) pour migrer 70 applications critiques d’AWS : ERP, CRM, outils de conception et de fabrication… le cœur du réacteur (si je puis dire chez Airbus 😅). L’initiative vise à protéger ces données des lois extraterritoriales étrangères, CLOUD Act en tête voir évidemment du #KillSwitch qui inquiète beaucoup ! ⚖️ Mais Airbus ne quitte pas le cloud US pour autant. Skywise qui délivre des services aux compagnies dans le monde entier reste sur AWS, les suites bureautiques restent chez Microsoft et Google, Salesforce est toujours la aussi. 🔎 Les choix se font en fonction de la criticité des données et des applications pour identifier la "Minimum Viable Company" ces process et les applications cœur. Et la réflexion derrière amène à une approche équilibrée. Ce n’est pas du “tout souverain” ni du “tout US”, c’est du risque arbitré ! ➡️ De mon point de vue, c’est exactement la bonne approche et c’est ce que nous déployons chez nos clients. Il faut analyser sa dépendance numérique, puis décider sur chaque chaine métier sur trois niveaux : 1/ J’accepte la dépendance et je me prépare en cas de problème (playbooks, exercices de crise) 2/ Je de-risque (modification de contrats, relocalisation de données, système alternatif) 3/ Je découple certaines chaînes et je crée une infrastructure spécifique, géographiquement et juridiquement indépendante 🧭 Et la question n’est plus théorique : les exemples s’empilent avec en particulier la coupure récente imposée par le gouvernement US à Anthropic. Pour structurer cette réflexion, la méthode #IRN (Indice de Résilience Numérique) de aDRI / IRN – A Digital Resilience Initiative permet d’objectiver sa dépendance couche par couche. C’est une méthode que nous aidons à développer et qui permet d’objectiver sa réflexion et son plan d’action, n’hésitez pas à regarder ! En tous cas Airbus fait un premier mouvement massif qui en appelle d’autres, je l’espère ! Et vous, à quel niveau en êtes-vous ? L’article : https://lnkd.in/eRD8FMdX #Cloud Imene KABOUYA Benoît Darde Karsten Höppner Alexandre Bianchi Arno Pons // Édition pour enlever des données erronées sur le contrat (montant/durée).
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Damien Lucas a aimé ceciDamien Lucas a aimé ceciWere you there? Last year, ai-PULSE was pure energy: conferences, workshops and the very best of the AI ecosystem brought together by Scaleway. (👇Check out the video). 🎤 In this last edition, we welcomed, among others, renowned industry leaders such as Yann LeCun (Amilabs), Pim de Witte (General Intuition), Remi Cadene (UMA), Jérôme Monceaux (Enchanted Tools) and Neil Zeghidour (Gradium) 🚀 This October 13th, we’re doing it again at STATION F… only bigger and better! 👉 Join us at Europe’s premier AI conference: https://lnkd.in/eh74BR5B #aiPULSE #open #Cloud #european #pragmatic #AI #buildforwhatsnext
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Damien Lucas a aimé ceciDamien Lucas a aimé ceciAirbus is moving its most critical apps off Amazon Web Services (AWS) to a French cloud Airbus will move 70 of its most critical applications covering aircraft design, manufacturing, ERP and custome data from AWS to French provider Scaleway, a €50MM contract for 10 years. This is part of a push for digital sovereignty that keeps sensitive data beyond the reach of US Cloud Act, which can reach data held by American firms abroad. Read more: https://lnkd.in/eQkbpTMd
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Damien Lucas a aimé ceciDamien Lucas a aimé ceciAirbus is moving 70 of its most critical applications from AWS to French cloud provider Scaleway, the first phase of a broader plan covering around 900 systems needed to keep the company operational. The full article plus background stories on Scaleway, and subject expert comments is on Vesta’s Mighty Networks space; https://lnkd.in/emGRx65B Summary: The applications include ERP, manufacturing, CRM, engineering and product-lifecycle software. Scaleway reportedly won a contract worth more than €50 million over up to ten years, based on technical performance, resilience, competitive pricing and protection from non-European laws. The main driver is digital sovereignty, particularly concern that the US CLOUD Act could allow American authorities to access data held by US technology companies abroad. Airbus is not abandoning US providers entirely: AWS will continue supporting its Skywise platform and other tools, while Microsoft, Google, Salesforce and others remain in use. Instead, Airbus is applying a risk-based approach, placing its most sensitive data with European providers while retaining non-European services where the data is less critical. #VESTA #EUROPE #TRUSTED #INDUSTRY
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Damien Lucas a aimé ceciDamien Lucas a aimé ceci🇪🇺🇫🇷 Airbus is moving 70 of its most critical applications from AWS to Scaleway, including the software that holds much of the intellectual property behind an aeroplane, with up to 900 to follow. Somewhere in the tender sits a peculiar line item: proof that a legal order served on the vendor, not on Airbus, could not still switch the service off. Airbus put it plainly: protect the data that matters most from laws that reach across borders, and keep control of the business. Airbus still buys from Microsoft, Google, Salesforce and Workday. It just no longer hands them everything. Europe spent years building its capability: certification regimes, evaluation frameworks, evidence hard to dismiss as a compliance department's bedtime story. What it rarely had, until Airbus, was a company willing to spend real money proving it works. Europe lacked commercial conviction. The public sector supplied the proof of concept, in ascending order of discomfort. Schleswig-Holstein proves it scales: Microsoft gone from 80 per cent of workstations, 40,000 mailboxes, 100 million emails. France's Health Data Hub proves it survives contact with material that matters: health records for tens of millions, after regulators refused Microsoft a permanent transfer. Austria's armed forces and, this month, the Swiss Army's Cyber Command prove it survives contact with people paid to be paranoid for a living. The International Criminal Court proves the switch gets thrown on people too: its chief prosecutor lost Microsoft access weeks after being sanctioned. Then, three days after launch, Anthropic's own Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 went dark worldwide on a Commerce Department order aimed at foreign nationals, Anthropic's own non-US staff included. Unable to verify nationality fast enough, it switched everyone off rather than risk it. I've made this argument for years and watched it dismissed as panic. Nobody needs it explained after Fable 5: a company with every reason not to alienate European customers had no say in the matter. That also answers the objection before it's raised: a hyperscaler would never do this, never cut off paying customers, never shoot itself in the foot. Well, of course they would if they must. Brussels's own procurement criteria, the eight sovereignty objectives and SEAL scale behind its €180 million cloud contracts this spring, look less like bureaucratic theatre and more like a rehearsal for the exam Airbus has now sat for itself. The criteria aren't identical but the direction is. Bosch Mobility actually surfaced first, signing a memorandum with Schwarz Digits weeks before Airbus, for STACKIT's cloud, not a hyperscaler workaround with a European sticker. Still only a memorandum, not a migration. Airbus brought the harder evidence: an awarded contract, workloads leaving AWS, a deadline. One announcement is caution. Two, weeks apart, look like a market finally moving.
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Damien Lucas a aimé ceciDamien Lucas a aimé ceciUne étape majeure pour le cloud européen. 🚀 Airbus a choisi Scaleway comme partenaire cloud unique pour héberger certaines de ses applications les plus critiques, notamment dans les domaines de l'industrie, de la défense et de l'IA. Cette décision est l'aboutissement d'un processus de sélection particulièrement exigeant : 🔍 50 fournisseurs consultés 📩 10 invités à répondre à l'appel d'offres 🎯 4 finalistes 🏆 1 partenaire retenu : Scaleway. Au-delà de cette réussite, ce partenariat envoie un message fort : un cloud européen peut répondre aux plus hauts standards de sécurité, de performance, de transparence et de souveraineté, sans compromis sur l'innovation ni sur la compétitivité économique. Après la confiance accordée par des acteurs majeurs comme la Commission européenne, le Health Data Hub ou LVMH, cette nouvelle étape confirme que les infrastructures cloud européennes sont désormais prêtes à accompagner les charges de travail les plus stratégiques. Félicitations à toutes les équipes Scaleway qui ont contribué à cette réussite. C'est une victoire collective qui renforce la place de l'Europe dans le cloud et l'IA. 👏 #Cloud #CloudSouverain #SovereignCloud #AI #Europe #Scaleway #Airbus #DigitalSovereignty
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Damien Lucas a aimé ceciDamien Lucas a aimé ceciAirbus is moving critical apps off Amazon Web Services (AWS) to French cloud provider Scaleway — part of a broader digital sovereignty push. Scope: 70 apps now, with a plan to eventually cover ~900 "minimum viable company" applications — including ERP, manufacturing, CRM, and product-lifecycle systems tied to aircraft design and engineering. Why: 1. To shield sensitive data from the US CLOUD Act, which lets US authorities request data held by American firms even in overseas data centers. 2. Airbus's digital chief, Catherine Jestin, said the move keeps critical data "shielded from foreign extraterritorial laws." 3. Deal size: Scaleway (owned by France's iliad Group) won the tender, worth more than €50 million over up to 10 years. Not a full break with Amazon Web Services (AWS): Airbus is keeping AWS for its Skywise aviation-data platform and a customer-support tool, and still uses Microsoft, Google, Salesforce, Coupa, and Workday elsewhere. Context: This lands amid rising US-EU friction and a wider European push toward sovereign cloud — AWS, Microsoft, and Google have all rolled out "sovereign" cloud offerings to try to reassure European customers, and a Microsoft exec reportedly told a French court under oath last year that the company couldn't guarantee data sovereignty. Nord-IQ Research POV: Ties directly into the IT-spending conversation above — this is a live example of enterprise "services" dollars shifting away from US hyperscalers toward European sovereign alternatives, which is becoming a bigger theme in the ~$1.87T global IT services market. #Airbus #Scaleway #AWS #DigitalSovereignty #CloudComputing #EuropeTech #CLOUDAct #SovereignCloud #TechPolicy #FranceTech
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How to Face Traffic & Other Challenges Posed by Live Video Streaming Services
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DAI made simple
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INs & OUTs of CloudDVR
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Voir la publicationA look at the latest developments in cloud-based digital video recording, successor to home VCRs and set-top-box DVRs, as well as the storage and network optimisation challenges that Cloud DVR presents.
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EDGE-PACKAGING will be key for guaranteed live OTT distribution with CDNs
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Voir la publicationThe industry has been stumbling in the dark trying to enable high quality OTT delivery, especially for live streams. This paper will show that there is light at the end of the tunnel and provide a blueprint for how OTT distribution will eventually extend the supremacy of broadcasting for live content. We will explore the history of OTT content distribution and then, after looking at the big picture, will drill down into the critical video content packaging function – including its risks. Then…
The industry has been stumbling in the dark trying to enable high quality OTT delivery, especially for live streams. This paper will show that there is light at the end of the tunnel and provide a blueprint for how OTT distribution will eventually extend the supremacy of broadcasting for live content. We will explore the history of OTT content distribution and then, after looking at the big picture, will drill down into the critical video content packaging function – including its risks. Then we will demonstrate how positioning this function correctly within the CDN will prove the most cost-effective way of getting to that light by 2015. While new technologies may appear to undermine existing broadcasting incumbents, by embracing emerging CDN and delivery technologies wholeheartedly, they can convert these threats into opportunities. Many hybrid broadcast solutions have already shown this.
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