Founded in 2004, Edgeware from the outset sought to implement an innovative approach to the distribution of video and TV across the internet to any device, anywhere, at any time. The opportunity that the Edgeware team identified was that, with the explosion of video being streamed across the operator network, there is a huge opportunity to reduce cost while introducing new video based retail and wholesale services.
However to achieve this required a change to the conventional thinking. Instead of video streams being transmitted from huge data centers in the cloud, being propagated by CDNs and then send blindly across the operator networks, the operator should be able to offer premium video and on-demand TV services based on a higher Quality of Experience. They should then be able to provide wholesale services to content providers who wish to access that subscriber base thus ensuring a high quality experience.
To achieve this, and to limit the impact of so much traffic growth on the operator infrastructure, Edgeware developed a range of technology that can be deployed deep into the operator infrastructure, effectively cache the video and TV traffic and dramatically accelerate the ROI (return on investment) to the operator.
In short, this gives the operator additional revenue opportunities: providing retail video services to subscribers and providing wholesale video delivery services to content providers. So… in summary, Edgeware has become the leader in providing technology, products and solutions that allow operators to monetize video... and this has lead to successful deployments in every main geography allowing operators to realize the true value and opportunity of video and on-demand TV, whether it is their own IPTV or Cable infrastructure or offering advanced multiscreen services to mobile, tablet, game console or connected TV based subscribers.
Edgeware is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, with a U.S.-based office in Boxborough, Massachusetts.
