What are the key issues for video delivery over the Internet?

Whether it's the fastest breaking news from around the world, the hottest footage from Hollywood or UGC from London, video traffic has taken the lead in bandwidth usage. Contributing to this explosive growth are inexpensive video devices, broadband connectivity and the viewers' unending desire to get their user experience in a video format. As a provider of video, you know the importance of a strong user experience – there's no tolerance for stuttering or jitter. You also understand that your success is based upon providing a consistent and impressive user experience, on a network that scales to meet your growing traffic, while knowing that you will get superior customer support should you encounter any questions along the way.

Panther offers the industry's best value in video delivery, including HD

Video delivery is fraught with challenges – everything from insuring a high quality user experience, through a myriad of technical and business related issues. Site owners want to deliver their video – but not more than they can monetize, and certainly not to unauthorized users. They also must protect their unique content from being hot-linked or leached – piracy is rampant and has serious implications for legitimate content owners and providers.

Users expect videos to start instantly with absolutely no delay and to continue uninterrupted and in high quality. Ubiquitous broadband connections set expectations of instant access. They also want to “fast forward” the video to the part they want to see. Users are also notoriously impatient and demonstrate this behavior with high abandon rates for videos that don't immediately capture their interest. All these real-world expectations have solutions on Panther's CDN. Panther has solid solutions to all of these needs and at the best prices/terms in the industry.

Why use Panther?

• Faster downloads mean a stronger end user experience
• Large POPs are ideal for serving larger video files – especially HD, resulting in a better cache-hit-ratio
• Deliver the first portion of the video instantly
• Random access in the video – fast forward and re-winded – on demand
• Protection for your video from unauthorized access
• Complete control of the download rate – optimizes your bandwidth costs
• Protect your origin with the best cache hit ratio in the market
• Unlimited capacity on-demand to support sudden popularity due to recognition from sites like Digg and Slashdot
• Best value – combination of high reliability, scalability and attractive terms