Blog
June 25th, 2013
By Yuval Shukroon
Get Ready – There’s Video on Instagram
Instagram, the world’s most popular photo sharing app (and Facebook’s recent acquisition), launched a new feature that now allows users to share video clips of up to 15 seconds. While this move comes as an expected attempt to compete with the growing popularity of Vine, its impact on online video bandwidth is a testimony to the impressive edge Instagram has on all of its competitors.
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June 5th, 2013
By Dan Sahar
Online Video is Hitting its Stride
“The worst stab wound is the one to the heart. Sure, most people survive it, but the heart is never quite the same. There’s always a scar. Which is meant, I guess, to remind you that – even for a little while – someone made your heart beat faster.”
Read More January 25th, 2013
By Dan Sahar
Southpark’s Outlook on the Future of Online Video
A funny – and accurate – outlook on the future of online video from the folks at Southpark
Read More November 5th, 2012
By Dan Sahar
The Collateral Damage of Inline Caching Solutions
The overwhelming response that we received from the customers we interviewed was pretty much unanimous – operators prefer their video delivery solutions to be out-of-band and not interfere with the regular flow of the data traffic.
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October 15th, 2012
By Alon Maor
The Future of Video Delivery and Why Carriers Shouldn’t Hide
We launched the Qwilt product line earlier this year and began competing and winning in the rapidly growing video delivery market. After more than two years of the most amazing and challenging product development cycle, it is incredibly rewarding to hear from your first happy customers and sense the value creation process we are taking part in.
Read More October 10th, 2012
By Yuval Shukroon
Life as an Intern at Qwilt
s I started the 3rd and final year of a computer science program, I found myself alongside my classmates in a search for student positions in the development field – in order to gain the prized real-life work experience and learn as much as I can about the software industry.
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June 12th, 2012
By Gleb Brichko
The New Evolution of Transparent Video Caching
Alon Maor, Qwilt’s CEO, presents at the Content Delivery Summit 2012
Read More June 6th, 2012
By Dan Sahar
Netflix’ CDN announcement and the operator video delivery landscape
“There is something to be learned from a rainstorm. When meeting with a sudden shower, you try not to get wet and run quickly along the road. But doing such things as passing under the eaves of houses, you still get wet. When you are resolved from the beginning, you will not be perplexed, though you still get the same soaking. This understanding extends to everything. ”
Read More May 5th, 2012
By Dan Sahar
The Symbiotic Video Value Chain
The video delivery value chain can resemble a symbiotic system comprised of Online Video Content Providers, Content Delivery Networks, Network Operators and Consumers. Content Providers need a reliable network infrastructure to deliver content to their customers, who in turn subscribe to and consume their services. A reliable network infrastructure is provided by leveraging the combined offerings of network operators and CDNs. Thus all four parties benefit from each other’s participation, a positive sum game.
Read More March 11th, 2012
By Dan Sahar
Kony 2012 – a network side view
Just for a reference on how popular this video is (over 70 million views worldwide) we extracted data from a couple of our QB-100 devices. Both are analyzing and delivering traffic of roughly 100,000 households in Europe and the US. We can see that this video has been viewed over 130,000 times within that subscriber population over the past two weeks. That’s over 1.3 views in each and every household!
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