Alcatel-Lucent has established a strategic alliance program for its Velocix Digital Media Delivery Platform, which is a content delivery network (CDN) solution for service providers. Building an ecosystem helps ensure that service providers can benefit from a range of pre-integrated technology components to accelerate the deployment of multiscreen consumer solutions.
The program seeks to foster collaboration in four main focus areas:
- Manage — For Content Management, Ingestion and Encoding
- Publish — Players, EPG/UI and Feed Aggregation
- Monetize — Ad management, Revenue enablers, Transaction processing
- Deliver — Velocix Digital Media Delivery Platform provides the delivery capabilities.
Initial members of this alliance program include: 3Crowd, Adobe, Aspera, Blue Coat Systems, Clearleap, Elemental Technologies, Inlet Technologies, Microsoft, RGB Networks, Rights Tracker, thePlatform, and VidZapper.
Alcatel-Lucent noted that this program builds on its multi-industry ng Connect Program, which focuses on the development and rapid deployment of next generation broadband services over LTE.
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