Stream Video to Your Global Users Securely and Confidently
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Cloudflare provides a robust solution for secure and efficient video delivery, leveraging its global anycast network to reduce buffering and latency. The company offers lower bandwidth costs through pre-negotiated pricing and strategic partnerships, along with integrated technology services for content security and performance. Additionally, Cloudflare supports adaptive streaming and customizable workflows, empowering video providers to enhance audience engagement and reduce operational complexity.
Stream Video to Your Global Users Securely and Confidently
- 1. Stream video to your global users securely, and with confidence December 2018
- 2. Speakers Derek Yee Product Marketing Lead, Performance Solutions @ Cloudflare Jon Levine Product Manager, Stream Delivery @ Cloudflare
- 4. We are helping build a better Internet Cloudflare provides performance and security services to anything connected to the Internet.
- 5. 155Data centers globally 2.8BMonthly active visitors generating 1.3 trillion page view 10% Internet requests everyday 8MRequests/second websites, apps & APIs in 150+ countries 10M+ 2x Speed up each request by Cloudflare’s Global Anycast Network
- 6. PERFORMANCE PLATFORM SECURITY RELIABILITY & INDEPENDENCE A fast, secure, and reliable Internet experience
- 7. The Challenges of Video Delivery 651,990 views Poor Video Performance Slow video start times and buffering produce high abandonment rates, resulting in reduced engagement and revenues. Increasing Bandwidth Costs As video consumption increases, margins are getting smaller. Video providers are seeking out the most competitive providers for specific regions. Content Security and Availability Providers want to control access to their content, and ensure content is always available in the event of malicious attacks.
- 8. Delivering Video with Cloudflare Fast, Global HQ Video Delivery Cloudflare’s global Anycast network ensures fast video delivery, with shorter video startup times and reduced buffering, no matter where your visitors are located. Lower and Predictable Bandwidth Pricing Cloudflare can pre-negotiate lower bandwidth spends for video. Strategic partnerships and alliances can reduce or eliminate data transit costs. Integrated technology stack Cloudflare offers a rich ecosystem of performance and security services, tuned specifically for video to provide optimal uptime and delivery.
- 9. How Cloudflare supports video 9
- 10. Solving the video performance challenge ● Support for HTTP adaptive bitrate streaming (HLS, MPEG-DASH) ● TCP BBR congestion control ● Tiered caching architecture
- 11. Lower and Predictable Bandwidth Costs Some of our Partners: Cloudflare can lower your video delivery costs. ● Pre-negotiated monthly bandwidth spend ● No surge pricing due to illegitimate attacks ● Strategic partnerships to reduce or eliminate data egress costs from your origin
- 12. Cloudflare offers a rich ecosystem of performance and security services tuned specifically for video to provide the best uptime and delivery. 12 Integrated Tech Stack to Make Video Robust & Secure Cloudflare Argo Cloudflare Security Cloudflare Workers
- 13. Cloudflare supports 10% of all DNS traffic on the Internet. Using this real-time intelligence on the true speed of network paths, our smart routing algorithm routes video traffic across the fastest paths available, and maintains open, secure connections to eliminate latency. Cloudflare’s Smart Routing with Argo reduces internet latency by 35% and connection errors by 27% 13 Integrated Tech Stack: Smart Routing Workers
- 14. Cloudflare provides an inherently secure delivery infrastructure for video Integrated Tech Stack: Security Our security services are specifically tuned for video to provide the best uptime and delivery without sacrificing performance. ● Traffic is encrypted by default with SSL/TLS 1.3 ● Web Application Firewall (WAF) protects your internet properties ● Unmetered mitigation of DDoS attacks to support continuous availability of video content ● Fast and secure accelerated video content with Argo Tunnel Workers
- 15. 15 Integrated Tech Stack: Workers Cloudflare Workers provides advanced custom controls for video caching and tagging on the network, allowing you to increase cache hit ratios. Through Workers, we share with you the power of building new tools and customizing your video infrastructure. Some of the features you can build/customize using Workers: ● Token Authentication ● Expiring URLs ● Unique fingerprinted streams Workers brings javascript to the network edge, offering business logic and customizations as part of video delivery
- 16. Challenges ● High, unpredictable bandwidth and egress costs ● Increased instances of buffering/latency in US cities having high # of customers ● Complicated workflow from encoding to distribution BENEFITS OF CLOUDFLARE ● Reduction in buffering or latency issues with our strong PoP presence ● Lower and predictable bandwidth costs ● Bundled features such as Adaptive bitrate streaming and DDoS mitigation at no extra cost ● Improved workflow and reduced effort for VoD content through our storage integration with GCP Company Info ● Over-The-Top (OTT) platform offering Thai and other south-east asian regional content on their website and devices such as Roku, Fire TV ● Offers live streaming as well as a library of Video on Demand (VoD) content ○ 4PB/monthly of live content ○ 120TB for over 100,000 videos on demand ● Paid subscriber base of over 10,000 subscribers across North America (90%) and worldwide (10%) 16 Southeast Asian OTT Provider
- 17. Move content closer to the viewers 17 Cloudflare for Video Delivery Deliver high quality live and on-demand videos on any device, anywhere in the world Dynamic adaptive streaming of live and on-demand content Secure your content through Cloudflare’s suite of security offerings Lower and predictable bandwidth costs Build custom controls and workflows using Cloudflare Workers
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