NAB 2009, Deepzoompix.com

Yesterday @ NAB here in Las Vegas we announced release of our Smooth Streaming technology. Smooth Streaming is a feature of our Internet Information Services (IIS) Media Services and we announced several key customers that are currently implementing it. Customers like NBC Sports for the Olympics in 2010, HSN, RIA, TV2, and CTV. Smooth Streaming is key to video delivery and provides minimal buffering and fast start up time, and allows the Silverlight player to work efficiently over HTTP to adapt the quality of the video stream in real time, based upon the consumer’s changing bandwidth, CPU utilization and frame rates.

Media companies can take advantage of Smooth Streaming features to boost advertising and subscription revenues by using true high-definition (HD) video (1080p) with uninterrupted delivery to extend viewing times. Smooth Streaming takes advantage of existing HTTP infrastructure and brings scale to media experiences delivered using HTTP.

We also showcased Akamai's Adaptive Edge, which is thier implementation of Smooth Streaming offered in a complete managed service for thier customers.

Several other CDN's announced support for Smooth Streaming: AT&T, Internap Network Services Corp., Level 3 Communications LLC and Limelight Networks Inc., as well as encoding product vendors including Digital Rapids, Envivio Inc., Grab Networks Inc. (Anystream), Inlet Technologies, Rhozet, Telestream Inc., VBrick Systems Inc., ViewCast Corp. and Winnov Inc., have all announced products and services supporting Smooth Streaming

We are also showcasing all of this in our booth (if you are here check it out in the South Hall, L720).

We also announced a new photo sharing service built in Silverlight and taking heavy advantage of Deepzoom. It's called Deepzoompix.com, and allows you to easily upload, or import photos from popular sharing services like Flickr and then display them quickly as a deepzoom collection.