Akamai Brings On-Demand Video To iOS Devices

Akamai Technologies has announced new capabilities for its HD for iPhone solution designed to simplify delivery of standards-based, on-demand video to iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.

Known as 'in the network' packaging, this capability will let content providers leverage their existing H.264 and MPEG4 video workflows and automatically package their content to the format required for playback on iOSTM devices.

These new capabilities provide a solution that is designed to help customers deliver more content, more effectively, to the growing number of iOS devices.

“Reaching growing audiences on iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch is now business-critical for our customers,” said Rich Kennelly, Vice President Media at Akamai.

According to Akamai customers, offering portable video on iPhone and iPad is an extremely important part of their distribution strategy.

Akamai's HD Network was developed with the goal of delivering the highest quality experience at broadcast audience scale¹ across the industry's most popular devices, platforms and runtimes. Akamai’s “in the network” packaging capabilities will represent the continued evolution of the Akamai HD Network, making it easier to get more content to more iOS devices.

In addition, Akamai expects to offer capabilities to encrypt content “in the network,” providing customers with an easy-to-use solution for encrypting video content delivered to iOS devices. Akamai is actively engaging with select customers and plans to make the service more broadly available later in the year.