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Do Disney plus and HBO Max also have storage embedded with local ISPs or is this an advantage unique to Netflix?

by drited 4y ago

nosequel 4y ago
Disney+, HBO, most streaming services not called Netflix use CDN services. Disney+ is heavily multi-CDN, at least they were at launch: https://www.csimagazine.com/csi/Disney-eating-up-Euro-peering-traffic-with-multi-CDN-approach.php https://www.csimagazine.com/csi/Disney-eating-up-Euro-peerin.... HBO also uses multiple CDNs, here is a reference from 2020 about GoT: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/hbo-streams-game-of-thrones-season-7-using-level-3s-cdn-300488213.html https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/hbo-streams-game-of.... They were also mad that one of their distribution partners last week leaked the finale of House of the Dragon early: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/oct/21/house-of-the-dragon-hbo-season-finale-leak https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/oct/21/house-o.... I don't have a link handy, but even Amazon has been known to use CDNs outside of CloudFront for their live events.
- dylan604 4y ago
  >They were also mad that one of their distribution partners last week leaked the finale of House of the Dragon early I used to work for one of the companies supporting studios getting their content to streamers. This specific story is related to iTunes, but it's easy to do for any of them. The early days of "ramping up" meant putting butts in seats to do the work before automation was in place. The push to automate shot to highest priority when on of the butts in seats incorrectly copy/paste from one spreadsheet to the next which allowed an episode to be downloaded before it aired to anyone that subscribed to that season on iTunes. The fallout from that was incredible, but credit to the company they did not fire the employee for making a human mistake.
- drited 4y ago
  I see, thank you!

Do Disney plus and HBO Max also have storage embedded with local ISPs or is this an advantage unique to Netflix?

by drited 4y ago

Do Disney plus and HBO Max also have storage embedded with local ISPs or is this an advantage unique to Netflix?

Disney+, HBO, most streaming services not called Netflix use CDN services. Disney+ is heavily multi-CDN, at least they were at launch: https://www.csimagazine.com/csi/Disney-eating-up-Euro-peering-traffic-with-multi-CDN-approach.php https://www.csimagazine.com/csi/Disney-eating-up-Euro-peerin.... HBO also uses multiple CDNs, here is a reference from 2020 about GoT: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/hbo-streams-game-of-thrones-season-7-using-level-3s-cdn-300488213.html https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/hbo-streams-game-of.... They were also mad that one of their distribution partners last week leaked the finale of House of the Dragon early: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/oct/21/house-of-the-dragon-hbo-season-finale-leak https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/oct/21/house-o.... I don't have a link handy, but even Amazon has been known to use CDNs outside of CloudFront for their live events.

dylan604 4y ago
>They were also mad that one of their distribution partners last week leaked the finale of House of the Dragon early I used to work for one of the companies supporting studios getting their content to streamers. This specific story is related to iTunes, but it's easy to do for any of them. The early days of "ramping up" meant putting butts in seats to do the work before automation was in place. The push to automate shot to highest priority when on of the butts in seats incorrectly copy/paste from one spreadsheet to the next which allowed an episode to be downloaded before it aired to anyone that subscribed to that season on iTunes. The fallout from that was incredible, but credit to the company they did not fire the employee for making a human mistake.
drited 4y ago
I see, thank you!