Blog - Corporate Updates
Alan Ramaley named Seattle Business Magazine’s Geek of the Year
Posted By: Ericka Wood | Posted: 11.1.2011
In their first annual IT Awards, Seattle Business Magazine, thePlatform CTO, Alan Ramaley has been named Geek of the Year.
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mpx Expands to Linear Television delivery – In the Cloud
Posted By: Ian Blaine | Posted: 8.18.2011
A lot’s going on here at thePlatform. In just the past few months alone, Comcast announced that mpx will serve as the central video management hub for their next-generation Xfinity TV Service. We announced that, together with Alcatel Lucent, we’re helping cable and IPTV providers deliver a whole new generation of video services to their subscriber’s TVs, PCs, tablets, and mobile phones. And on the IPTV front, we recently announced our role in powering Telstra’s Big Pond TV Initiative.
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Our TV Everywhere Solution at Work
Posted By: Marty Roberts | Posted: 11.11.2010
Over the past year, thePlatform has worked directly with many multi-video programming distributors, or MVPDs, to develop a simple and clear TV Everywhere solution. Various methodologies have popped up throughout the industry, but we’ve focused on building and refining a solution that actually works. The outcome is a set of adapters that enable programmer sites to authenticate subscribing customers of Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Cox, and Bright House Networks, and give those customers online access to the content to which they’re entitled.
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mpx – Successfully Changing the Engines on a Flying Plane
Posted By: Ian Blaine | Posted: 10.11.2010
Today, we are pleased to announce the gold release of mpx.
This project actually started three years ago. We were on pace to manage one billion video views that year and our original system, mps, was starting to show its age. The technology and development methodology we started with in 2000 had served us well over the years but we realized that we had to make changes if we wanted to maintain velocity in a rapidly evolving market.
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thePlatform at Streaming Media Europe
Posted By: Ericka Wood | Posted: 10.7.2010
Here at thePlatform, we’re broadening our operations in Europe in order to meet the growing demands from customers—and potential customers—to help support their next-generation video publishing efforts. As such, we look forward to our appearances and sponsorship at the upcoming Streaming Media Europe event in London the second week of October.
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