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