Content and Media Delivery

Media Flow can be deployed by network service providers, enterprises, CDNs, content publishers and distributors to improve the efficiency of the content delivery and to enable new services.

Network Optimization

As demand on video and other content over the internet continues to grow exponentially the resulting traffic growth is straining service provider networks at a similar rate. For example a popular video may be transported over the network thousands, millions of times.

When deployed at the network edge as a transparent cache, Media Flow platform addresses this challenge by caching and delivering popular content from a local cache device thereby reducing the bandwidth, protecting the resources, and subsequently driving down the costs.

Multiscreen Content Delivery

Shifting user habits are forcing a change in the way content is delivered. Service providers need to optimize for the video content while creating new revenue streams. Enterprises pursue an agile network infrastructure that scales efficiently and enables communication within the global ecosystem.

At a glance optimizing the cost of delivery while pursuing new services appear to be contradictions. In reality both goals can be achieved through converged content delivery architecture.

Media Flow is a Converged Content Delivery (CCD) solution that can also be used as a foundation for exciting new content-based services, such as "TV everywhere" and video delivery to multiple display formats.

CCD to multiscreen formats with Media Flow

Content Delivery Infrastructure

For content providers the cost of delivering premium content to the end users does not always bring an associated revenue stream, nor are they able to control downstream cost of delivery. For the existing CDNs caching and delivering traffic to respond to growing demand on video and content challenges the scale and performance of the infrastructure without corresponding revenue growth.

Media Flow is ideal for those who originate and publish content, as enterprises, the government and others, or operate a CDN, including dedicated CDN providers.

Media Flow as a Content Delivery Infrastructure

Origin Acceleration

Content publishers and distributors and enterprises can leverage Media Flow to improve the efficiency of their origin data centers.

Using Media Flow as a next-generation origin cache can improve efficiency and performance by as much as 10 times, enabling a significant reduction in servers and switch interfaces, and reducing related space and power costs while improving the Quality of Experience.

Origin Acceleration with Media Flow

Media Flow Software

A next generation content delivery software system that enables customers to reduce costs and improve the profitability of delivering rich media content, while also improving quality of experience for consumers.

Juniper Networks Media Flow Publisher is a Media Flow Controller application that enables the Media Flow Solution to perform adaptive stream segmentation, stream packaging, metadata publishing, and adaptive stream format translation. Media Flow Publisher enables network operators and content providers to leverage and extend their existing TV and video encoding infrastructure for adaptive stream production, eliminating the need for specialized encoders and servers.

Junos Space Media Flow Activate simplifies the configuration and deployment of Juniper Networks Media Flow products, enabling rapid service creation and provisioning by service providers. Media Flow Activate runs on the Junos Space platform, which provides scalability and high availability for uninterrupted service management. It supports APIs for building custom applications such as self-provisioning portal.

Media Flow Hardware

VXA Series Media Flow Engines

Purpose-built Juniper hardware appliances optimize the performance of the Media Flow Controller software solution and offer flexible storage options. Flexible configuration options ranging from 1-20 Gbps performance and up to 8 TB of storage.