SwiftServe, the content delivery specialist, announced today that Singapore-headquartered PurpleStream is partnering with SwiftServe to deliver high-definition and high-quality video content in real time to any internet-enabled device in any territory on low bandwidth, and in a cost-effective way.
PurpleStream is a rapidly growing multinational provider of complete services packages for streaming live-TV, live-events and on-demand videos. The company’s customers include TV broadcasters, channel content aggregators and OTT (over-the-top) providers. PurpleStream will offer SwiftServe CDN as a service to their customers, to deliver the best possible viewing experience for consumers of the video streams.
Viewlocity, as we call it, is all about providing video content fast to end-users”, explains Mr Karthik Subramanian, Founder and CEO of PurpleStream. “We have the technology to process videos extremely quickly, we needed the means to deliver them fast to end-user devices, particularly in Asia where the network conditions are very variable. That’s why we chose to work with SwiftServe and its CDN federation telco partners.
Video content is experiencing an explosive growth in Asia”, says CEO Cheong Kong Wai, SwiftServe’s CEO. “PurpleStream and SwiftServe and its partners have very complementary offerings, so working together to deliver a better video experience makes eminent sense.
