When an IPTV/OTT operator is thinking about using a CDN, they have to decide whether to use a public CDN (like Akamai, Amazon CloudFront, etc.) or create their own private CDN. They can also use a combination of both to deliver content to their subscribers in the most efficient way possible.
Smartlabs SmartMEDIA CDN is an advanced software product for creating a private CDN. It provides flexible management of network configurations and performance metrics.
Here are the main advantages for an operator of using the Smartlabs SmartMEDIA CDN solution to establish a private or hybrid private and public CDN to improve service quality:
To sum up, if an operator knows how traffic moves in its network and wants to improve content delivery at specific locations, using a private CDN with SmartMEDIA CDN would indeed represent the optimal solution.