History
Jet Stream BV, the developers of VDO-X started webcasting in 1994 and developed redirection, monitoring and log processing tools for their increasing number of large webcast projects. These tools were further developed into separate commercial products, alongside an integrated media delivery framework server with support for all major streaming protocols.
In 2002 Jet Stream launched a project called VDO-X to start an open CDN in the Netherlands. This project is adopted by all the ISPs and broadcasters in the Netherlands. Jet Stream has handed over the project to the Amsterdam Internet Exchange, the worlds largest internet hub. The AMS-IX Video Working Group is working towards an open CDN protocol. ISPs are implementing the protocol to offload streaming capacity to their own networks. In summer 2008 the European Champions League, the Tour de France and the Olympics were broadcast using the Open CDN approach.
In 2002 Jet Stream also launched the StreamZilla media delivery service, which is a popular CDN in Europe, with over 1 billion delivered views in six months and fast growing. This CDN with A+ status for global performance uses a European-wide network to distribute the content globally and is setting up edge servers to increase the performance and capacity in remote regions. StreamZilla is powered by XL Media Server and VDO-X.
In 2008 Jet Stream has integrated its content delivery management tools into an integrated web-based management environment, called VDO-X CDN 2008 Suite and is making the software available to the market. A preview of this release is available at the company website.
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