New-Tech Europe Magazine | Feb 2017

LatestNews Nokia and Sky enhance on-demand video services in the UK

Nokia announced that its Velocix Content Delivery Network (CDN) has been deployed by Sky, Europe’s leading entertainment company. The alliance enhances Sky’s high-speed video and data services for the company’s millions of UK customers Sky’s expansion of on-demand premium video content is creating unprecedented growth in

satisfies the content demands of millions of customers subscribing to both broadband and satellite services. Traffic has been live in the network since the end of 2015.

Sky can modify how a request for content from subscribers is treated depending on a user’s location or device. This opens up a wealth of personalization opportunities to improve the customer experience, or traffic management on the network. Nokia solution currently serves the Sky On Demand service content. Sky and Nokia are jointly working to expand the Velocix solution to also support Sky Go and Now TV services for live TV and video on demand. The Velocix solution gives Sky greater deployment efficiencies in terms of data center density and footprint, as well as power and connectivity options. Mohamed Hammady, UK Chief Technology Officer, Sky said: “Nokia is a trusted partner of Sky. Using Nokia’s Velocix CDN, we have greater traffic visibility in the network, allowing us to regain control of managing the network capacity. Deploying the solution deep in the network also ensures we can manage delivery more effectively to improve performance and the customer experience. The introduction of Velocix CDN to support growth of our video on demand services was seamless.”

customer traffic. This increasingly challenges delivery resources and operational costs across the company’s entertainment and communications service networks. Deployment of the Nokia Velocix CDN allows Sky to temporarily cache content closer to customers in localized cloud data centers to reduce transportation costs and improve the customer experience. Nokia is providing its Velocix Managed Service expertise – via its CDN Network Operations Center – to assure faster time- to-market for Sky, which will gain fuller control of design, implementation, and operations. In particular, the new solution provides better visibility for traffic demands and flows, ensuring greater predictability of performance and network usage compared to its current CDN service. The migration of existing Sky services to the Velocix CDN was seamless. Using the advanced features of the Velocix Proxy Language, call flows were easily customized without requiring product development. Deployment of Nokia’s Velocix CDN across the Sky UK network

Demanding production program and focus on future technologies: Mercedes-Benz plant Bremen creates 150 new jobs

production program and to integrate our future technologies in series production, we need to produce highly flexibly and make full use of our capacities. Therefore, we are again creating new jobs.” The new positions will be filled with employees previously employed as temporary workers at the Bremen plant. “We are very happy to have 150 temporary workers,

Bremen – The Mercedes-Benz Bremen plant operates at full capacity and currently prepares for the series production of electric vehicles of the new product brand EQ. 150 new permanent jobs are therefore being created at the site. "Our vehicles ‘Made in Bremen’ have never been more diverse and globally demanded,” states Peter Theurer, Site Manager of the Mercedes-Benz Bremen Plant. "To manage the demanding

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