Qwilt looks to gain edge in future of content and application delivery
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| 07 February 2017

Edge cloud and networks look certain to play a vital role in ensuring TV and video experiences across both fixed and mobile platforms, and now Qwilt has announced a new model to address requirements for both latency and scale.

Research by the likes of Oculus, Nokia Bell Labs and Valve has found that low network latency is essential for the performance of augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR) and 360° video. These requirements, says Qwilt, are driving the need for evolution in cloud computing to deliver these applications at scale.

“The edge cloud and edge computing will play a vital role in application and content delivery across both fixed and mobile networks around the world,” said Monica Paolini, principal analyst at Senza Fili. “This distributed layer of shared compute infrastructure in last mile networks, at home and at work, is the final element in the new architecture for application delivery.”

Qwilt’s new Open Edge Cloud platform is targeted at service providers and is claimed to enable high quality streaming experiences for consumers at massive scale. Fully cloud-managed it is attributed with allowing publishers to access the distributed delivery infrastructure through a single open API, offering what the company asserts is ‘best-in-class’ performance in terms of media delivery per rack unit of rack space consumed. It can manage service provider content as well as third-party publisher and CDN over-the-top (OTT) content.

“We are in a race to enable our Open Edge Cloud to keep up with growing consumer demand for streaming media. By partnering with service providers, we can satisfy publisher requirements for edge cloud resources that deliver the requisite scale and quality,” said Alon Maor, Qwilt CEO and board member of the Streaming Video Alliance. “In our role as an edge cloud enabler, we remain focused on innovating, leading and partnering to achieve our vision of helping to create a worldwide Open Edge Cloud for content and application delivery.”