From Possession to Access: New ways of Internet Use

In this season Marko and Albert talks about Streaming Technologies, his network architecture and different applications like Video or Music Streaming.

Streaming is the major trend today and that’s because it has no delays and you can access to the content almost instantly. It also provides the possibility of viewing in real-time. The bandwidth is a critical factor.

About the network architecture and protocols, it is necessary that data arrives quickly and ordered. That the reason why streaming video and audio use protocols that allow the transfer of data in real time like RTSP, MMS, RTMP…

They explain that now, we are in the process of a paradigm shift because of the market dependency (more available services) but not all can use them because of slow connections in some countries.

Nowadays, streaming is accessible from a wide variety of platforms and there are a lot of different business models with different streaming services (like youtube or Netflix for video streaming and Spotify or LastFM for music).