PeerApp In The News


November 18, 2011

PeerApp Video Interview at Abranet 2011

PeerApp's director for Brazil Americo Fabian is interviewed on the exhibit floor at Abranet 2011 in Sao Paulo, Brazil (Portuguese). Abranet is the Brazilian Association of Internet Service Providers.

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September 29, 2011

Three Companies to Watch: BetterLesson, Wikets, and PeerApp Raise Funds

PeerApp, a Newton, MA-based online video delivery firm, raised $8 million in growth financing led by Summit Partners. PeerApp started in 2004 and is led by CEO Robert Mayer, a former EMC exec.

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September 21, 2011

EdgeCast and PeerApp Team Up To Combine CDN With Transparent Caching

"The combined product offering will allow customers to cache up to 70% of the all traffic on their network resulting in huge cost savings and putting carriers back in control of the bits going over their network."

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September 21, 2011

Summit Partners leads a round of growth equity in PeerApp

Summit Partners leads a round of growth equity in PeerApp Ltd., a developer of software that caches and delivers video files.

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August 10, 2011

UK Carriers Get Creative With Network Traffic

BT is embracing soaring data throughput by creating services to monetize the carriage cost, and making bold decisions about how to manage internal network infrastructure

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August 09, 2011

Carriers Search for New Revenue as Bandwidth Use Soars

Data use on both fixed and mobile networks is skyrocketing, with no end in sight. Carriers must find new ways to build revenue in line with bandwidth usage.

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August 02, 2011

Residential Networks: Squeezing Cats Through the Pipe

Rather than put students in campus housing on a digital diet, network administrators at UCSB shifted a third of repetitive and high-bandwidth traffic to PeerApp's local cache in May 2009. The move boosted network speeds and saved money by slowing the expansion of the pipe.

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June 15, 2011

Statistical Caching for TV can Reduce Transmission Bandwidth by 30% to 40%

Charlie Baker from PeerApp explained that TV broadcasters need more efficient ways to use their network bandwidth as media consumption shifts from linear to on-demand. A key way to get significant network bandwidth savings is to use statistical caching.

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May 01, 2011

Win the OTT Challenge, Say Goodbye to the Pinwheel

Writing in CED Magazine, BTI, Inc. Chief Technology Officer Gary Southwell describes the challenge being posed to network operators by the explosion in over-the-top (OTT) video traffic. He goes on to explain the benefits of transparent caching as part of an overall content-aware delivery strategy. BTI and PeerApp have a partnership in which PeerApp's UltraBand transparent caching capability is embedded in BTI's WideCast content-aware networking platform.

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March 02, 2011

Live From NCTC WEC 2011: Bandwidth Soothes The Savage (Customer) Beast

Debra Baker from Communications Technology covers the NCTC WEC 2011 event in Clearwater Beach, Florida – The August/September 2010 time period signaled the beginning of the bandwidth-consumption tsunami (fueled mostly by Netflix) that now has broadband providers seeking ways of serving their customers without going broke buying new spectrum. “Netflix is 30 percent to 40 percent of peak traffic,” said Charlie Baker, director/Product Management at PeerApp, speaking on a panel yesterday addressing bandwidth

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August 17, 2010

PeerApp Featured on Inside Business Review

"Inside Business Review" with Fred Thompson features the PeerApp UltraBand solution and its benefits to Operators around the world. Qualitynet, and ISP in Kuwait explains the benefits to user quality of experience, network optimization, and bandwidth savings.

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March 11, 2010

Sandvine and PeerApp Deploy in Five Networks

Sandvine, a leading provider of intelligent broadband network solutions for cable, DSL, FTTx, fixed wireless and mobile operators, today announced the successful deployment of content caching solutions in five service provider networks across the globe. The customers were won in previous quarters together with PeerApp as part of a technology partnership that began in 2008.

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May 19, 2009

Cable Technology - Cable Onda Deploys PeerApp for Video Caching Services

Panama’s Cable TV operator and Triple play provider, Cable Onda has deployed PeerApp’s solutions to provide its customers with video caching services. Cable Onda claims that by making use of PeerApp solutions it was able to increase its streaming video delivery and file downloads up to four folds and ...

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December 11, 2008

$4.1 Billion of US Broadband Operator CAPEX in 2007 "Attributed" to P2P

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., December 10, 2008— US$4.1 Billion of US Broadband Operator CAPEX in 2007 was driven by consumers’ use of peer-to-peer (P2P) networking, according to recent research by MultiMedia...

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November 18, 2008

Investment in PeerApp reflects ISPs' growing interest in media caching

Screen Digest Author James Garlich provides an independent assessment as to current worldwide trends in the Video Internet marketplace and offers his assessment as to how caching addresses the...

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September 10, 2008

PeerApp Stretches Out

PeerApp Ltd announced the addition of six new Internet Service Provider (ISP) customers in China, Brazil, Central America and the Middle East.

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  By 2013 85% to 90% of all consumer bandwidth will be consumed by video: HTTP video streams, HTTP and P2P file downloads.