A new white paper guides you through the technology behind OTT systems.
Understanding OTT: The Basics, from TAG Video Systems, is available on the Broadband TV News website.
It guides the reader through the OTT transport system and onto the OTT consumption model in terms that can be understood from the casual observer through to the CTO.
Individual concepts, such as Netflix’s per-title encoding as opposed to The ABR Ladder. Along the way there are explanations of Mannifest files, streams, chunks, the role of CDNs, and the critical importance of monitoring OTT.
The white paper completes with a useful two-page glossary.
Download the report here.
