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Engineering perspectives, market analysis, and product thinking on the future of video delivery.

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Abdellatif Khindouf, TITAN Product Owner, and Tony Crespin, NEA Product Owner
Ahmed Swidan, Director of Personalized TV — Over the past 15 years, Ahmed has been involved in various roles around the IPTV and OTT industry. He has held roles such as solutions architect, product manager and technical account manager as well as roles in project and program management. He has been helping TV operators and TV channels around the world to build, upgrade and efficiently operate their TV platforms while working for Ericsson, Verimatrix, Imagine Communications, and currently as Director of Personalized TV at Ateme. His expertise covers compression, packaging, ad insertion, middleware, monitoring and client’s technologies. He completed a master’s degree in video compression algorithms from the University of Bath, UK in 2006, as well as an MBA from The European School for Science and Technology in Berlin in 2015.

Dan Patton, VP - Product, Origination & Delivery — Dan Patton is VP - Product, Origination & Delivery at Ateme, where he defines and oversees implementation of the OTT product vision, bringing over two decades of experience in the realm of IP video. Prior to joining Ateme, Dan was responsible for product management of the streaming product portfolio of Vecima. Before that, he held a variety of sales, business development, and solution architecture roles at Velocix, Nokia, and Alcatel-Lucent. Dan was also an early employee of a 360-degree video Silicon Valley startup and previously worked at Sun Microsystems and Xerox. Dan’s unique blend of technical and business skills enables him to help telcos, broadcasters, and OTT providers as they transition their video services to an OTT approach. He also guides them in leveraging their content-delivery investments for new revenue-generating opportunities.

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Better Multiview Starts at the Encoder

Every viewer understands multiview within a few seconds of seeing it: four matches on one screen, or a race with every camera angle around the main feed. The harder part is getting it onto the televisions people already own, at a picture quality worth watching, and that is where the way a service is built...

Published on Sep 30, 2026
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Multi-View Streaming: A New Way to Experience Live Sports and Events

What if viewers could watch multiple live events, matches, or camera angles simultaneously, all from a single stream? At IBC 2026, I demonstrated our new multi-view streaming capability, enabling interactive quad and mosaic layouts for OTT and set-top box audiences...

Published on Sep 21, 2026
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Your Next Codec Should Cost One Ladder

In March, a major streaming media survey of industry professionals was carried out on their codec plans for the year. 40% said they intend to deploy AV1 in 2026. In the same survey, H.264, a codec standardised in 2003, was still in use at 84% of respondents. Both numbers are telling the truth, and together...

Published on Jul 30, 2026
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Six Observations from the World’s Biggest Live Media Event

Every World Cup tests the media industry in ways no laboratory or benchmark ever can. For a few weeks, infrastructure designed months in advance operates at extraordinary scale, exposing both the strengths and weaknesses of modern media workflows...

Published on Jul 21, 2026
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Media over QUIC:  What if quality, latency and scale were never actually in conflict?

Live streaming has long presented a structural tradeoff. Protocols optimized for low latency, such as WebRTC, do not scale efficiently to large audiences, while protocols built for CDN-scale reach, such as HLS and DASH, impose a latency floor that makes them unsuitable for time-sensitive use cases...

Published on Jul 15, 2026
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The Best OTT Analytics SDK Is No SDK at All

Every OTT viewer-analytics program starts the same way: put an SDK in every app. One for iOS, one for Android, half a dozen smart TV families, and two generations of set-top box. Each integration costs engineering weeks. Each one slows an app release. For operators running their own CDN, there is a simpler answer...

Published on Jul 6, 2026
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What Broadcasters are Teaching us About Sovereign Cloud

At Ateme, we have been building cloud-native video technology for several years. Our platform runs on AWS, Google Cloud, and any Kubernetes environment by design...

Published on Jul 2, 2026
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Five Things that Break OTT Services at Peak Load, and What to Test Before Kickoff

The failures that take down a live stream at peak concurrency are not the ones you see in normal operation. They are the ones that only appear when a few million viewers arrive in the same ninety seconds...

Published on Jun 19, 2026
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Half the Storage, Twice the Flexibility: Why a Tier-1 Operator Replaced Its Legacy Cloud DVR Platform with NEA Genesis

The video infrastructure market is in flux. Recent high-profile acquisitions and vendor consolidation have left many operators reassessing the platforms they depend on for cloud DVR...

Published on May 26, 2026
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