PDX VIDEO TECH 2023 #2

PDX Video Tech Members!
Our first time on the east side! We have a great line-up of video tech talks. If you can make it in-person, reward yourself with pizza and a beverage. This event is both in-person and will be streaming live (we hope). Doors open at 6 PM

Thanks a lot to our sponsor AWS Elemental for supporting this event!

Talk #1 – 6:35pm
CloudSwXtch: Enabling and Optimizing Media Workflows in the Cloud

Speakers: Al Fayez, Director of Engineering @ [swXtch.io](https://www.swxtch.io/) and Cassidy Philips, Lead Solutions Architect @ [swXtch.io](https://www.swxtch.io/)

swXtch.io launched in 1/2021 to address the need for high performance networking products in the cloud. The CloudSwXtch product addresses the media, financial, and IoT space needs for multicast support on any given cloud. By deploying agent services on customer VMs and Container images, we can build an overlay network which tunnels traffic and facilitates expansion of on-prem networking workflows into virtualized environments. In our journey, we have encountered customers migrating to the cloud in a variety of ways: some have a hybrid on-prem / cloud combination of environments (Ground-to-Cloud and Cloud-to-Ground), some workflows span across different clouds and hybrid environments, others require conversion of IP traffic between unicast, multicast, and SRT. In our efforts to provide a consistent network experience across the entire customer environment, CloudSwXtch has been designed to support the above workflows with solutions like Unicast/Multicast/SRT Protocol Fanout, High Availability, ST 2022-7 stream redundancy at the NIC level with the in-cloud ability to dedupe streams, and a growing list of others. We will share how the cloud can support legacy workflows, and some examples of modern innovation.

Talk #2 – 7:20pm
What's in your data? How to identify OTT delivery issues

Speaker: Brenton Ough, CEO & co-founder @ Touchstream

The ISP domain has always been a blind-spot between CDNs and player analytics where the majority of critical streaming issues occur, leaving both OTT operators and viewers frustrated. On one side, operators are unable to identify the location of a streaming issue’s root cause, hence bad Quality of Experience (QoE), and on the other, viewers expect premium QoE when paying for a premium service. Until very recently collecting real-time CDN logs has not been possible, but even now that it is, the bigger problem is what to do with this vast amount of data. In this talk we take a look at how to enrich CDN log data, summarize and extract nuggets of valuable information to pinpoint issues between CDN edge nodes and ASNs, and facilitate the identification of issues like high cache miss ratio and low throughput indicating video buffering.