Arqiva and MainStreaming join forces to deliver nextgen streaming solutions

Arqiva and MainStreaming have forged a technology and services partnership, to jointly offer distribution services for the media streaming market. The partners will explore how the combination of MainStreaming’s cutting-edge CDN technology and broadcast-grade streaming experience with Arqiva’s global media infrastructure and managed services capability can offer “more scalable, flexible, and programming-centric content distribution services for the media streaming market”.

Clive White

According to the partners, the streaming needs of the biggest broadcasters and service providers are greater than ever. The combination of a large audience served, consistently high video quality, and low latency is the tough combination to get right hour after hour. As such, secure, scalable and cost-effective content distribution networks are vital. The growing carbon footprint of streaming services is also a concern for both providers and audiences. Arqiva and MainStreaming say they will address this issues and challenge conventional approaches to content distribution.

“The streaming world is changing fast and navigating the commercial and technical issues has never been harder,” said Clive White, CTO, Arqiva “We will be collaborating on a range of new capabilities and service offerings with a view to optimising the customer experience and adding value to the biggest broadcasters.”

Antonio G. Corrado, CEO, MainStreaming added: “Mainstreaming’s technology makes true edge computing for the media industry a reality, and already delivers important benefits for our industry-leading customers.  We are excited to work together with Arqiva and the media industry to take advantage of our real-time, ultra-low latency, highly scalable streaming capabilities to deliver broadcast-grade streaming and also create new and exciting edge applications for video delivery.”

Arqiva customers include the likes of the BBC, ITV, Sky, Viacom CBS, Al Jazeera, Global Radio and Bauer. MainStreaming says it was “born to solve the problem of live streaming distribution to millions of users, avoiding congestion and guaranteeing the best Quality of Experience to the audience over the internet.”