SVTA Projects Dashboard

This document outlines the motivation, key use cases, and architecture for a cache management interface to facilitate integration between content providers and content delivery networks (CDNs) on one hand and open caching providers on the other.

Multi-CDN delivery has become commonplace in scalable streaming video architectures but switching to a different CDN in real time to improve QoE is not easy. There are many server-side and client-side solutions available to streaming operators but is little consensus on the best way to accomplish it. This project proposes a client-side solution to this problem.

The project has focused on gathering and analyzing use cases and requirements from each of the types of participants in CDN and Open Caching Configuration Management. The effort has focused on extending the IETF CDNi metadata model to cover real-world use cases in the CDN and Open Caching ecosystem, as well as defining a simple API for basic configuration publishing and an advanced API that addresses the full life cycle of CDN configuration management (versioning, promotion across environments, configuration sharing, etc.).

This project focuses on the integration of distributed request tracing into the streaming video workflow, from player to CDN edge to CDN middle tier to origin.

The pace of XR innovation is relentless and CSP’s and Content Owners are feeling overwhelmed. They know that they must to something, but what. This document will attempt to clear up some of the confusion around XR technology and the “overloaded” terms that are gathered under the XR umbrella.

This project will test the recommendations made in the document, Best Practices for Reducing Live Streaming Latency, and publish the measurements, offering improved recommendations to reduce live streaming latency based on analysis of the test data.

This is a multifaceted project that explores the state of contextual targeting data in the industry today, identifies gaps in technology and standards that is needed to improve metadata for better ad decisioning, and creates specifications and/or POC for solutions to fill those gaps.

This document describes an interface called the Capacity Insights Interface which is meant to allow Content Providers, Service Providers, and CDNs to exchange information to facilitate an integrated and informed end-to-end traffic steering workflow with the goal of keeping performance KPIs at acceptable levels.

This specification provides a framework for communication of CDN transactional logs between Open Caching participants to satisfy billing and operational requirements.

This is an implementation of the Open Caching specifications in a test-bed for member companies to test and ensure their API request/response are compliant and operational with a compliant Open Caching implementation. New APIs are added as their specifications are ratified.

This will be an end-to-end security checklist that an OTT provider, vendor and programmer can reference as they seek to improve content protection.

This PoC will evaluate the testing approach best suited for evaluating QUIC as a streaming video delivery pipeline and will document the how, what, and why, of creating a reproducible evaluation framework for QUIC against current HTTP/2 TCP delivery pipelines.

The main goal of this PoC is to resolve user-experience issues for VR/XR content by customizing congestion control logic to the VR/XR service and to the network.

This project investigates various solutions to scaling live streaming events and considers their effectiveness.