IFC Taps Akamai To Stream SxSW

  • March 4, 2010

IFC-South by Southwest festival/Akamai

IFC.com has tapped content delivery company Akamai Technologies and its HD Network to deliver live online video direct from the South by Southwest Festival, in Austin, Texas from March 12 to March 21. IFC.com recently implemented the Akamai HD for Adobe Flash technology, which is designed to deliver a high-quality live streaming experience to online audiences using the Flash format.

In late 2008, Akamai bought ad network acerno for $95 million. Acerno CEO Tom Sperry previously served as general manager of aQuantive's Avenue A digital agency, and president of its technology and service unit, Atlas. Encoding and production services will be provided by iStreamPlanet, from their Webcast Operations Center in Las Vegas. --Gavin O'Malley

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