About

the site

This site describes a means to reduce the wasteful bandwidth and infrastructure costs of Video on Demand, while improving the operational immediacy that customers require.

A multiple thousand-fold improvement in bandwidth utilization and server efficiency can be achieved with the methods described here.  Technical drivers including the relevance of IPv6, 5G and ATSC 3.0 are discussed. Economic benefits and barriers are examined.  Strawman embodiments are provided.

Significant capital and operational cost savings can be achieved for Network Operators & Content Service Providers.  Every party within the VoD ecosystem gains advantage or opportunity.

The author submits this site as an inspirational starting point for a standardization effort to be undertaken by an accredited standards body.

the author

Ted Staros

Ted holds a degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Clarkson University.  Through the entirety of his career, he’s been dedicated to media creation and its deployment. 

The author has held leadership roles in Engineering and Product Development with Sony Corporation, Pacific Research & Engineering, Harris Broadcast, and GatesAir.  Ted has a history of direct contribution to AES and SMPTE standards.

Ted’s experience has spanned a wide variety of disciplines, providing leadership over networked equipment architectures, human factors, digital modulations, hardware, firmware, software, mechanical and industrial design. 

The author believes that bringing products to market requires technological depth and diversity, yet the engagement of the individual contributors always matters more.

Ted’s personal heroes are Claude Shannon, Marshall McLuhan and Dilbert.

You can reach Ted at tstaros@imediat.org.
He is available for consulting on contract.

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Why is Ted working on this? A few reasons…

  • The inefficiencies of VoD are so great that change is necessary.

  • The potential cost saving are so great that change is inevitable.

  • The technology to substantially improve VoD is available today. The financial opportunities are substantial, and have yet to be fully explored.

  • The Content Service Providers, ISPs, and play-out device vendors will not individually start this kind of initiative. Multiple proprietary solutions would incite self-defeating chaos. This would serve no firm’s self interest.

  • Collectively these stake holders cannot work together without a legally sheltered collaboration. This is a Call for Action to make such a collaboration to happen.

  • The only way to predict the future is to influence it.

Acknowledgments

My heartfelt thanks to my friends and colleagues for their assistance in the preparation of this material.

Sid Price
Sid Price Software Design

Jack William
Founder/CEO Pacific Research & Engineering

Alan Flum
Proprietor Stone Creek Services LLC

Stan Moote
CTO International Trade Association for the Broadcast & Media Industry, a.k.a. IABM

Ted Korte
COO Qligent Inc.

Dennis Bush
Author UDP-based File Transfer Protocol, a.k.a. UFTP

Jake Holland
Principal Systems Software Engineer at Akamai Technologies

Leonard Giuliano
Distinguished Engineer at Juniper Networks