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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Goodput -- 3.3 Cloud Saas -- 3.3.1 In Workflow "Treatment" (Transcode/Transmux, etc.) -- 3.3.2 DVR Workflows -- 3.3.3 Catch-up Workflows -- 3.3.4 VOD Workflows -- Chapter 4 Publishing -- 4.1 Publishers, OVPs, CDNs, and MCNs -- 4.2 Small Objects, Large Objects, or Continuous Streams -- 4.2.1 Compression -- 4.2.2 The "Quality Question" ... -- 4.2.3 Latency -- 4.2.4 Application, Site, Web, and Games Acceleration -- 4.3 Desktop and Device Delivery Applications -- 4.3.1 Standalone Media Players and Applications -- 4.3.2 Video Tags in HTML5 -- 4.3.3 WebRTC -- Beyond HTML5 -- 4.4 Request Routing (The Dark Art of the CDN) -- 4.5 Logging Analytics and the Devil in the Detail -- Chapter 5 Service Velocity -- Chapter 6 Charging for IP-Delivered Content -- 6.1 Lessons from the Music Industry -- 6.2 Success Cases -- 6.2.1 YouTube -- 6.2.2 Netflix -- 6.2.3 On the Horizon -- 6.3 Failure Cases -- 6.3.1 Scour.net -- 6.3.2 mp3.com -- 6.3.3 Napster -- 6.3.4 Broadcast.com -- 6.3.5 The "Yacht Projects" -- 6.4 General Commentary on Commercial Models -- 6.4.1 Cable TV -- 6.4.2 IPTV -- 6.4.3 OTT Pureplay + Operator CDN -- 6.4.4 Fog Distribution -- 6.4.5 Variation from Live Linear to VOD, and Everything in Between -- 6.4.6 DRM -- 6.4.7 Watermarking -- Chapter 7 Competition and the Regulatory Environment -- 7.1 ISOC, ITU, and WSIS -- 7.2 Policy -- Net Neutrality -- 7.3 Value Chain Alignment with QoS and SLA Propositions -- 7.4 Layer-2 Workaround? …”

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