By: Qualcomm’s Paul Jacobs On MediaFLO’s Value

Qualcomm’s Paul Jacobs On MediaFLO’s Value — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:15:23 +0000

[...] the network to handle more live sporting and television events. He also believes there’s a market for data casting, or moving content such as movies, magazines or even apps down to users that someone would pay for [...]

By: Carl Ser

Carl Ser — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 22:34:52 +0000

I am sure FLO will not become a CDN.

First, it is a domestic network in USA only which limits its benefit for delivering content. Second, FLO has a very poor relationship with GSM based operators, vendors and handset manufacturers.

Mobile CDN is becoming more popular and there is company called MobileCDN, http://www.mobilecdn.com who seem to be growing rapidly. I heard the Mobile CDN has technology that helps MNOs offload video content and improve efficiencies on the RAN. It mentions nothing about this on their website but I kow they are testing with at least one MNO is Europe. I think a intergrated video delivery system like MobileCDNs will play a huge role in the future of mobile delivery.

ATT are already seeing the impact of higher media consumption thanks to media capable devices like the iPhone. The higher latency and packet loss on mobile networks will be improved with 3GPP LTE but connecting directly to the high use base stations seems like a obvious step to improve video and rich media delivery on mobile.

It will be interesting to see what succcess MobileCDN shall have with MNOs and the whole mobile ecosystem walled garden deal.

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By: Qualcomm’s Paul Jacobs On MediaFLO’s Value

By: Carl Ser