Streaming Media - October/November 2007 - (Page 38) the 2007 streaming media readers’ choice awards P2P Delivery Network ■ BITTORRENT First runner-up: VeriSign Kontiki Delivery Management System Second runner-up: Itiva QStream 2007 will go down in streaming media history as the year that peer-to-peer came into its own, and in a big way. While BitTorrent has been a familiar name for years because of the technology’s prominence in the world of illicit file-sharing, this year it went legit as a content partner with Warner Bros., Viacom, and 20th Century Fox. As such, BitTorrent’s new role as a leading content portal surely had something to do with its strong showing in the P2P Delivery Network category (as did the fact that it’s still the technology of choice for online piracy), and it’s no real surprise that it came in first in our readers’ poll. No offense to BitTorrent (whose president and co-founder Ashwin Navin will be a keynote speaker at Streaming Media West), but their victory isn’t the real story here. In addition to first runner-up VeriSign’s Kontiki Delivery Management System and second runner-up Itiva’s QStream, the nine other nominees made it the most populous READERS’ CHOICE AWARDS category, and each of those nominees—from veterans like Abacast (who’ve been at the forefront of P2P delivery for years) to popular upstarts like Pando and Ignite Technologies—made a strong showing, proving that even if it still has its doubters (see Ron Miller’s “Cookin’ With P2P June/July 2007, pp. 32–38), P2P is here to stay. ,” P2P Delivery Network - BITTORRENT Regional CDN - REAL BROADCAST NETWORK Regional CDN ■ REAL BROADCAST NETWORK Even though RealPlayer was one of the first media players to rise to prominence, it’s fallen out of fashion as a way to watch media and entertainment content. So it’s easy to forget that, behind the scenes, RealNetworks is still a major player in the realm of content delivery, whether it’s consumer-facing media for the Associated Press and C-SPAN or on college campuses like the University of Las Vegas or Grand Valley State University. Likewise, runners-up Streaming Media Hosting and PowerStream might not get the name recognition afforded to international providers like Akamai or Limelight, but they’ve both established themselves as go-to services for content delivery needs that don’t span the globe. First runner-up: Streaming Media Hosting Second runner-up: PowerStream 38 STREAMING MEDIA October/November 2007 http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/streamingmedia/0607/index.php?startpage=34
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