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Technology Access Program
SEE WHAT'S ON TAP AT HIGHWINDS

Welcome to the Highwinds TAP (Technology Access Program), which allows forward-thinking companies to enjoy the latest innovations from Highwinds R&D first. As a member of TAP you will help shape product development, get the first look at new products and features, and gain access to Beta versions before they are in full production.

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StrikeTracker 2.0 Beta »

Highwinds is currently evaluating customers interested in using StrikeTracker 2.0 Beta. Since its launch in 2008, StrikeTracker has been recognized as the leading CDN management console. It was recognized as a Streaming Media Top Ten Innovation from 2009 and won the European Readers' Choice Award for Best Reporting and Analytics in 2010. StrikeTracker 2.0 Beta will change the game once again.

New in StrikeTracker 2.0 Beta:

  • Fresh prosumer design
  • Enhanced analytics and data visualization with real-time intelligence
  • Self-service, instant adaptive bitrate streaming configuration
  • Improved set-up and management tools
  • Self-service, instant origin-pull and v-host provisioning

Adaptive Bitrate (ABR) Streaming »

Highwinds is currently allowing a select number of customers to use an early release of Highwinds Adaptive Bitrate (ABR) Streaming. ABR Streaming allows you to better serve your content to the growing number of mobile phones, tablets, and other devices. If you'd like to join the Highwinds TAP and gain access to ABR Streaming, please fill out the form below.

About Highwinds Adaptive Bitrate Streaming:

  • Full support for On-Demand ABR Streaming via:
    • Apple iPhone/iPad Streaming
    • Adobe HTTP Dynamic Streaming
    • Microsoft IIS Smooth Streaming
  • Native analytics support to ensure accurate reporting on individual streams, not stream chunks
  • Fully integrated provisioning and reporting in StrikeTracker 2.0 Beta

HTTP Live Streaming Beta »

Highwinds is now supporting testing of HTTP-chunked live video for select customers on a limited trial basis.

Benefits of HTTP Live Streaming:

  • True HTTP Streaming
    This is not HTTP "Progressive Download" or "Pseudostreaming" -- these new protocols are sophisticated, streaming-focused delivery mechanisms that simply use HTTP as their foundation
  • Scalability
    Allows Highwinds (and any CDN) to more effectively support live streaming via standard HTTP caches. Virtually all CDNs have more HTTP capacity available than RTMP capacity, which means that traffic can be distributed across a larger pool of servers. More servers means an increased ability to effectively absorb spikes in streaming traffic while maintaining a highly responsive and performant delivery service.
  • Performance
    HTTP-chunked streaming benefits from the greatest amount of system tuning possible, based upon the relatively lower degree of complexity in the HTTP protocol vs. the RTMP protocol. The new HTTP-chunked protocols ride on top of standard HTTP, and inherit 100% of these benefits.
  • Stability
    As a stateless delivery method, individual chunks within a single stream can be served off of multiple servers across the entire CDN, rather than each stream being tightly bound to a single server. This means that long-running streams can continue to be served successfully as the status of network routes and infrastructure servers changes over time.

Supported protocols:

  • Adobe HTTP Dynamic Streaming
  • Apple iPhone / iPad (HLS) Streaming
  • Microsoft IIS Smooth Streaming

Attributes of the solution:

  • Chunking must be performed on the customer's own origin or encoder
  • Initially, setup must be performed by Highwinds support team engineers to ensure that caching policies are correctly tuned for live video
  • The origin must generate "clean" manifests that do not interfere with the CDN's ability to cache objects for standard HTTP delivery. Some origins (such as the Wowza Media Server) are known to inject data into the manifest that disrupts effective caching.

A limited number of spaces are available to new and current customers to join the Highwinds TAP. If you'd like more information or would like to see if you qualify, please fill out the form below:

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Your participation and acceptance into the TAP program is contingent on your agreement to the Terms of Use Agreement for the Evaluation of Highwinds Technology Access Program. Once accepted into the program, the Terms of Use Agreement for the Evaluation of Highwinds Technology Access Program will govern your use of the TAP Services.

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