Entries Tagged as 'QOS'

Bambuser is teaming up with Polopoly

The mobile streaming market is definitely hot these days. One day Flixwagon announces that they are selling in-house solutions for media companies, the next day Bambuser is answering. Bambuser have made a deal with another Swedish company, Poloply, to include live mobile streaming in their CMS. Poloply has nearly $1 billion USD worth of software installed worldwide and supports in excess of 800 customers in more than 40 countries, according to a press release.

Bambuser has one advantage over Flixwagon. Their streaming system can produce multiple mobile phone streams in one channel. Pretty much the same way you can use Qik and Mogulus. My biggest problem with Bambuser lately have been that their servers seems overloaded, producing streams with bad quality. My own company is already using Polopoly. It will be exciting to see how much the streaming addendum will cost and how an in-house solution will effect the quality. My guess is that the swedes are back in the race again, competing with Qik and Flixwagon.

Read the press release

Flixwagon launches in-house solutions for mobile carriers and media companies


A short time after the success with the Jonas Brothers for MTV, Flixwagon is now announcing that they are offering mobile carriers and media companies in-house solutions for streaming from mobile phones to web or television. For media companies it is important so secure the quality of service (QOS). Usually this means getting the stream servers on the inside of their own network. I know that Bambuser already are in a lot of discussion with media companies about this and I guess the same goes for competitors like Qik and Kyte.

Moving the servers in-house also means that it will be easier to brand your product. It will also increase the possibility to harness the power of the social web. I guess that this announcement will speed up and increase the competition for professional in-house solution for media companies.

The interesting part is that Flixwagon also offers a solution for integration against TV. Making them a competitor for SonyEricsson’s “Me on TV”. What Flixwagon is missing is a way to produce multiple mobile phones in one stream. Today we find these solution from Mogulus/Qik and Bambuser.

Read more about it at Flixwagons blog.