Cloud-based video services vendor Brightcove has announced the $15 million purchase of Ooyala’s video online video platform (OVP) business.

Boston-based Brightcove said during it’s fourth-quarter earnings all Wednesday that the deal consist of $6.25 million in cash and the rest in Brightcove shares.

Brightcove said it’s acquiring Santa Clara, Calif.-based Ooyala’s OVP technology, including video content management and publishing platform Backlot, Analytics, Live, and its underlying intellectual property and associated patents. Brightcove will acquire “substantial portions’ of Ooyala’s engineering, support and sales staff, including the company’s operations in Guadalajara, Mexico.

Related: Telstra Sells Ooyala to Management after $500M Write-Off

Speaking during Wednesday’s earnings call (transcript courtesy of Seeking Alpha), Brightcove CEO Jeff Ray said the deal “makes clear who the undisputed leader is in OVP. And as you know, when you are the market leader, customers and prospects naturally include you in RFPs, they naturally come to you and that gives us we think a great advantage.

“We also have an opportunity to open up to new markets,” Ray added. “They’ve got some geographies, some great well-known customers in geographies where we aren’t very strong or not present at all and we’re excited about the ability to help that accelerate our global expansion. They do have a partner community. It’s robust and we’re very eager to engage with those partners and fold them into our partnership strategy.”

Ooyala was founded in 2007 and subsequently purchased by Australian telecom Telstra. Ooyala management bought the company out in October, following Telstra’s $500 million write-down. Although OVP generated the bulk of Ooyala’s revenue at the time, company CEO Jonathan Huberman said he saw more opportunity in the workflow tools side of the business. 

Australian telecom Telstra announced Thursday night that it has completed the sale of Ooyala to the video technology company’s upper management, thus culminating the infrastructure conglomerate’s pricey attempt to own a piece of Silicon Valley.

Telstra purchased Ooyala in two stages in 2012 and 2014 under the direction of former chief David Thodey, spending more than $500 million in the process. By 2016, Telstra conceded that the value of Ooyala had dipped to $246 million. And by last February, the telecom—which had attempted to participate in the monetization video companies like Netflix were enjoying on its network—submitted to that the value was zero.

Related: Telstra Writes Off Ooyala Investment

Terms of the transaction weren’t disclosed.

“With this transaction, we’re ushering in an exciting new chapter for our company, positioning ourselves to invest even more aggressively in our client solutions,” said Jonathan Huberman, CEO of San Jose, Calif.-based Ooyala, in a statement. “We’re now much better equipped to more nimbly drive Ooyala’s growth—innovating our own technologies as well as acquiring others that deliver the best customer satisfaction. Our flagship product, the Ooyala Flex Media Platform, is on track to solidify a position as the best-in-class video streaming and media logistics solution.”

Ooyala hired Huberman in April 2017, about five months after former CEO Ramesh Srinivasan left the company. Huberman also came on board a couple months after Ooyala had reportedly laid off 14% of its workforce amid a restructuring that, it hoped, would lead to new jobs and product areas.

Ooyala’s Flex Media Platform underpins the company’s suite of video streaming and media logistics solutions. Ooyala powers the content supply chain for media, entertainment, telecommunications, enterprise, broadcast, and sports clients including Audi, Chelsea FC, Dell, National Rugby League of Australia, PGA, Starhub, Sky Sports, Turner … and Telstra, which will remain a customer.

Consumer viewing continues to migrate to mobile devices as they slowly drift away from the TV screen.

Maintaining its double-digit growth path, mobile now makes up 60.3% of all video plays, according to Ooyala’s Global Video Index for Q4 2017, which based its findings on anonymized online video metrics of the bulk of Ooyala’s 500-plus customers around the world. That’s up from a previous high of 58.3% in the previous quarter.

Ooyala, a maker of multiscreen video software and systems, attributed the rate of growth, which ticked up 11% year-over-year, on a jump in tablet views alongside steady viewership increases on smartphones.

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As a comparative look back at the rapid, increasing power of mobile video, Ooyala points out that mobile video plays made up just 17.14% of the total in Q4 2013.

The share of video starts on smartphones rose 1.7% to 47.5% in Q4, while views on tablets reached nearly 12.8% of all views in the quarter, a record for that platform, Ooyala said, noting that views on tablets jumped by more than 24% from Q3 and 67.7% from a year ago.

Ooyala also found that medium-form (5 to 20 minutes) and long-form content (20 minutes-plus) ate up more than half of all viewing time across all screens.

On connected TVs, long-form time viewed in Q4 chimed in at 98.9%, about the same from the previous quarter, and up from 96% in the year-ago period. Long-form viewing on tablets followed, at 62%.

Ooyala’s study also took a look at the multiscreen advertising landscape, finding that broadcaster pre-roll ad impressions on smartphones topped 54% in Q4, accelerating from 39% in Q3 and 29% in Q2. 

Completion rates of pre-roll ads varied by screen type. In Q4, completion rates in this category on PCs were 87%, up slightly from Q3, versus 91% for connected TVs (a number that’s been flat for three quarters), and 86% on smartphones, up from 84% in Q3.

Telstra said it will recognize an impairment charge as it writes down its investment in Ooyala, the struggling online video firm that the Australia-based company acquired in 2014.

Telstra, in an announcement to the Australian Securities Exchange on February 2, noted that the non-cash impairment and write-down will carry the value of Ooyala, which has been serving as its U.S.-based video tech business, to “zero.” As a result Telstra said it expects to recognize an impairment charge of A$272 million (US$215 million).

Telstra acquired 9% of Ooyala in 2012, and raised it to 98% in 2014 as it tried to take advantage of the surging online video trend.

Telstra said it identified “challenges” in that business 18 months ago and impaired the Ooyala business at the time of its 2016 financial results, but continued to make efforts to turn around Ooyala’s business.

Last April, Ooyala tapped Jonathan Huberman as CEO, a move that came about five months after former CEO Ramesh Srinivasan left the company. Huberman also came on board a couple months after Ooyala had reportedly laid off 14% of its workforce amid a restructuring that, it hoped, would lead to new jobs and product areas.

Ooyala’s business has been focused on three areas: ad tech, online video players and a workflow management system.

Ad tech, “has not performed well and we will therefore seek ways to exit that part of the business,” Stephen Elop, the group executive, technology, innovation and strategy at Telstra, and the chairman of the Ooyala board, said in a statement.

RELATED: Vudu Taps Ooyala for New Ad-VOD Service 

He added that Telstra does “see a future in other core parts of the Ooyala business,” namely the video player and workflow management components, but later stressed that the company “will remain alert for broader strategic options for Ooyala in a market fragmented across multiple providers.”

That market is made up of a mix of different sized tech players that focus on different parts of the multiscreen video ecosystem, including Comcast Technology Solutions, Amazon, Brightcove, IBM, NeuLion, Disney-backed BAMTech, Zype, and Kaltura, among several others.

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Telstra, Elop noted, acquired Ooyala “when the market dynamics were very different…When we announced the initial impairment 18 months ago we indicated that we would be working closely with the team to turn around the performance. We believed Ooyala remained a young and exciting company with leading offerings in intelligent video which were continuing to evolve and scale. While some of these initiatives have been successful, the market has continued to change.”

ZoneTV, a "digital-first” video service that’s targeting integrations with MVPD set-tops, said it is working with Ooyala and Microsoft to help it automate and fine-tune the creation of a new lineup of OTT-delivered linear-style TV channels that are set to debut this fall.

ZoneTV said it will underpin that effort  with “media lifecycle tools” from Ooyala (its  Flex CMS) alongside Microsoft’s Video Indexer (part of Azure’s Cognitive Services platform), for its coming array of “Dynamic Channels.”

ZoneTV said that combo will give it the ability to curate about 6,000 hours of videos “on the fly” to create those channels. Those tools, it added, uses advanced algorithms to characterize content and auto-extract and analyst metadata into genres, and pull topics from speech and text in a way that optimizes the curation process.

RELATED: ZoneTV Goes on Content Hunt

“We’re building the next generation of pay-TV services, so we need next-generation tools. With the combination of Ooyala’s platform and Microsoft’s cognitive computing services, the ZoneTV Programming Studio delivers an unmatched capability to enhance the TV ecosystem and translate into a one-of-a-kind viewer experience,” Jeff Weber, ZoneTV’s CEO, said in a statement.

ZoneTV, formerly known as ES3, initially targeted Mediaroom, the IPTV middleware platform that Ericsson acquired from Microsoft in the fall of 2013 that powers pay TV services from companies such as AT&T, Hawaiian Telecom, Telus, Frontier Communications and CenturyLink.  DirecTV, now part of AT&T, was ZoneTV’s first launch partner outside the Mediaroom environment. Comcast also integrated ZoneTV’s “Santa Tracker” app on its X1 platform during the 2016 holidays.

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Ooyala, the Telstra-owned multiscreen OTT specialist, has filed a federal lawsuit against rival Brightcove over allegations that the company and certain employees of Brightcove “engaged in deliberate and willful misappropriation of proprietary trade secrets.”

Per the suit, Ooyala claims that those trade secrets and proprietary info spans customer contact lists, confidential sales pitches and pricing, marketing plans and corporate strategies.

Ooyala held that the alleged misappropriation was being used to undermine and exploit Ooyala’s business dealings and sales efforts for Brightcove’s benefit throughout Latin America.  

Ooyala said it is seeking a court trial and an injunction against Brightcove in federal court in Boston, and is asking the company and its employees to return all proprietary materials and to destroy all customer information stemming from the allegations.

The six-count filing also includes allegations of deceptive business practices, tortious interference and breach of contract, Ooyala said, noting that it gave Brightcove notice once it uncovered the evidence tied to those allegations and that it believes that Brightcove continued to use that information after notice was given.

Brightcove said it reviewed the assertions made by Ooyala in good faith, but that Ooyala “disengaged” from those discussion and pushed ahead with the lawsuit. Brightcove’s full statement is as follows:

"We are aware of Ooyala's assertions concerning the alleged misappropriation of trade secrets. When first alerted to these assertions by Ooyala, we reviewed them in good faith and reached out to Ooyala in an effort to address its concerns. Ooyala disengaged from that conversation and then filed this suit. Brightcove believes that this lawsuit is entirely without merit. We are working to resolve the matter, which is narrowly focused on a particular region and does not concern our products, services or technology."

Ooyala said it has made “significant investments in Latin America,” including an R&D office in Guadalajara, and sales, marketing and channel efforts in Argentina, Brazil, the Caribbean, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Panama and Peru.

Update: The complaint, filed May 22 in the U.S. District Court for the  District of Massachusetts by Ooyala, identifies Brightcove and two Brightcove employees, Darío Pérez Real and Raúl Francisco García Domínguez, who were formerly with Ooyala, as defendants.

Per the compliant, Ooyala alleges that Perez “surreptitiously sent to Brightcove a wealth of Ooyala’s confidential and trade secret information” in his final three months of employment as a senior sales exec at Ooyala and while he was being courted to join Brightcove.

Ooyala further claims that Garcia, a former vice president of Ooyala and current head of Brightcove’s Latin America division, coordinated the alleged misappropriation of trade secrets.

The complaint alleges that Perez, prior to resigning from Ooyala on Feb. 23, 2017, had already signed an employment contract with Brightcove and was working with Garcia to send confidential client data to Brightcove and to solicit Ooyala’s current and prospective customers on Brightcove’s behalf.

Ooyala also holds that it has already lost one account to Brightcove and others that were required to be renewed at a lower average contract value “to counteract Brightcove’s misappropriation of Ooyala’s confidential and trade secret information.”

Ooyala didn’t name which of its current and prospective clients were impacted by those allegations, but did point to an April 19 press release from Brightcove announcing “key customer wins,” including Grupo Televisa, Expansión, and Grupo Nación Paraguay, and plans to open an office in Mexico City. Garcia, GM, Latin America at Brightcove at the time of the announcement, is one of the execs quoted in the release.

Ooyala, the online video publisher owned by Telstra, said it has hired Jonathan Huberman as CEO, effective April 18.

Former CEO Ramesh Srinivasan left Ooyala last November, with Issac Vaughn, Ooyala’s SVP, corporate development and general counsel, stepping in as acting CEO as the company conducted its search for a successor.

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Huberman also comes aboard a couple months after Ooyala reportedly laid off 14% of its total workforce tied to a restructuring that would eventually create new job openings focused on new product areas.

Prior to Ooyala, Huberman was the CEO of Syncplicity, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company for enterprise file collaboration that was acquired in February by Axway. Before that, he was CEO of Tiburon, a public safety software provider (acquired by TriTech in 2015), and was president of EMC’s Consumer and Small Business Division.

Though some of Huberman's recent exec slots have resulted in M&A activity, Ooyala talked up his track record in driving growth. 

“Mr. Huberman has a standout record of delivering profound growth for cloud-based technologies in complex industries and is a well-suited leader for Ooyala,” Stephen Elop, said Ooyala’s chairman, said in a statement. His dedication to customer satisfaction and keen attention to matching the right solutions to the right challenges in the industry will help drive Ooyala’s next phase of growth.”

Ooyala is in a highly competitive market that is also becoming increasingly commoditized. Competitors include a mix of large media companies and startups such as Comcast Technology Solutions, Brightcove, IBM, NeuLion, BAMTech, Zype, and Kaltura, among others.

More than half of all global video-on-demand starts take place on mobile devices, according to a new report from Ooyala.

In its Q4 Global Video Index report, Ooyala said mobile viewing now makes up 54% of global video plays, up from 46% a year ago. The company expects video plays to account for 60% in the near future.

In terms of ad-supported video on demand, 56% take place on mobile devices. Mobile has its lowest share in North America, where it represents less than 50% of video starts, more than 10% lower than the Europe, Middle East and Africa region.

The largest share of global on-demand viewing, 45%, takes place on smartphones, with desktops representing 44% and tablets 11%. In North America, viewers watch more long-form video than either short-form or mid-form.

Ooyala also found that more than 47% of the time spent watching videos on smart phones was spent watching long-form content. Snackable, short-form content represented just 40% of time spent watching on mobile devices.

Read more at broadcastingcable.com.

Ooyala, the Telstra-owned online video company, has laid off about 70 people, or 14% of its total workforce, amid a restructuring that will open up jobs focused on new product areas, Dan Rayburn, EVP of StreamingMedia.com and principal analyst at Frost & Sullivan, reported Tuesday, citing a memo to employees that announced the changes.

Ooyala, acquired by Australia-based telco Telstra in 2014, did not confirm the headcount figures, but did confirm that it had “reduced part of its workforce” as it looks to create headroom, reinvest in the business, and hire in new areas of expertise tied to its media logistics and ad-tech products that are “above and beyond its continued investment in its OVP [Online Video Platform] business.”

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The restructuring of its global software and services organization also aims to place more sales and support resources in the field “to streamline customer adoption and deployments of its comprehensive suite of video software and services,” a company official told Multichannel News via email.

Ooyala issued this statement from acting CEO Issac Vaughn:

“We are fortunate in that over the last two years we've made significant headway across all of our product lines. The next phase must be about realizing the potential of our R&D investments. The restructure we announced today will put more specialized product, sales and channel resources in the field, and significantly grow our technical support staff to improve customer enablement and long-term customer success."

Rayburn reported that Ooyala plans to rehire about 7% new employees in pursuit of its plan to focus on areas outside of its OVP product line. A major focus, he said, be on selling a suite that includes the Ooyala Flex (workforce automation) and Ooyala Pulse (advanced/programmatic advertising) products.

Citing the memo, Rayburn said Ooyala’s decision comes as the online video market is “becoming more commoditized by the number of competitors and large enterprises entering the business.”  

Ooyala’s online video competition includes companies such as Comcast Technology Solutions, Brightcove, IBM (which recently acquired Clearleap and Ustream), BAMTech, and Kaltura, among others.  Notably, Telstra’s BigPondTV service tapped thePlatform (now part of Comcast Technology Solutions) a few years ago to serve as its central video management system.

Update: Ooyala said BigPond has since migrated back to Ooyala's technology platform.  

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Ooyala, the Telstra-owned online video publishing and analytics specialist, said its technology is helping to underpin Vudu’s new free, ad-supported video service.

Complemetngn its transactional VOD service, Vudu last week launched Vudu Movies on Us, a service that will pair off in the market with AVOD services such as Tubi TV and Crackle, as well as linear-style, free, ad-based OTT offerings such as Pluto TV.

Vudu Intros Free, Ad-Based OTT Option

Ooyala said it’s the “exclusive technology provider” for Vudu’s new multi-platform offering, which is using Ooyala Pulse, an advertising platform that manages real-time campaigns. With that system, Vudu can monitor if campaigns are on track to reach their goals and impression commitments, Ooyala said.

“Ooyala has quickly become an extension of our day-to-day team and ad operations; helping us connect with the right buyers, ensuring value is added on both sides of the equation, and that the process is seamless as we enter a brand new market,” Scott Blanksteen, Vudu’s VP of product, said in a statement.

“As new ad-supported offerings emerge in streaming TV, publishers are immediately faced with the challenge of building their audiences in an app-based environment that lacks unified search capabilities and a user-friendly means for content discovery,” added Seth Walters, senior partner of connected television at Modi Media, the advanced-TV arm of GroupM.  “Advertisers are faced with significant fragmentation when trying to reach audiences at scale.  Vudu Movies on Us presents an opportunity to place our clients’ messaging within an app that already has an established audience.”

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Ooyala’s customers include NBCUniversal, Star India, Sky Sports (U.K.), ITV Studios (U.K.), RTL Group (Germany), M6 (France), TV4 (Sweden), Mediaset (Spain), America Television (Peru), and Media Prima (Malaysia), am among others. 

Driven by adoption among younger consumers, half of all online video starts will come via mobile devices by the end of 2015, online video publisher Ooyala predicts in a new report that tracks global video usage trends.

Nearly half of all video plays came on mobile in the second  quarter of 2015, with nearly eight times as many plays on smartphones as on tablets, Ooyala found in the  Global Video Index Q2 2015, a report based on anonymized online video metrics from the company’s Ooyala’s base of more than 500 customers, which include Telstra (Ooyala’s owner), ESPN, Univision, Sky Sports, Foxtel, NBCUniversal, and RTL of  Germany.

With respect to longer-form video (10 minutes or more), viewing by device was a bit more even – tablets (57%), connected TVs (53%), desktop (40%), and mobile phones (33%). For content running more than 30 minutes, connected TVs (52%) was tops, followed by tablets (36%), mobile phones (23%) and PCs (22%).

On the ad front, Ooyala found that 49% of all ad impressions for publishers were on mobile devices, up 11% from the previous quarter.

Broadcasters that streamed long-form premium content realized ad completion rates at or above 90%, Ooyala said.

Telstra, Australia’s largest telecom company, is preparing to take Ooyala, its Silicon Valley-based online video publishing and advanced advertising arm, public on the NYSE or NASDAQ exchange, The Australianreported.

“Our intent is to take the company public,” Ooyala CEO Jay Fulcher told The Australian, noting that the company beat its $65 million revenue forecast last year, but has yet to turn a profit. “Over time this will become a multi-billion market-cap business.”

Telstra, which recently partnered up with Roku on an upcoming streaming TV service, hasn’t announced when it might take Ooyala public (sometime next year is a possibility), but word of its plans come about a year after Telstra announced an additional $270 million investment that expanded its ownership stake in Ooyala to 98%. 

Ooyala’s been running as an independent business under Fulcher. Its customers include Vice Media, ESPN, Telefonica, Univision, Pandora, NBCUniversal, LG Electronics, Fox Sports, Tennis Channel, BYU TV, Newsy, and Park City Television, among others.

One analyst questions whether Ooyala is positioned to hit lofty growth targets that would exceed $1 billion in annual revenues.

“Be excited, but be realistic,” Dan Rayburn, EVP of StreamingMedia.com and principal analyst at Frost & Sullivan, surmised in this blog post about the plan. Citing a source at Telstra, he said Ooyala believes that it will drive $100 million in revenues for 2015.

“At the same time, Ooyala keeps talking about how they think their business can grow to do $1B in revenue in a few years, which isn’t realistic,” he said, pointing out that Brigthcove made the mistake of predicting growth targets it couldn’t match when it went public in 2012.

And while Ooyala sells into operators, which is not a key focus for Brightcove, “that alone is not enough to justify their market or revenue projections. Even if Ooyala grew revenue 50% each year, it would take them six years to get to $1B,” Rayburn said.

At the same time, he noted that he’s not “knocking Ooyala, Brightcove or any other video platform provider…I’m just as excited about the market opportunity as they are. But setting false expectations simply sets companies up for failure and is bad for the entire industry.” 

Ooyala, the online video publishing and analytics firm acquired by Telstra earlier this year, is carving out an M&A path of its own after striking a deal to snap up Videoplaza, a company that specializes in video ad serving and programmatic advertising systems.

Ooyala’s acquisition follows other M&A action in the hot online video ad sector, such as Comcast’s recent purchase of Freewheel and Facebook’s of LiveRail.

Ooyala said the purchase of Videoplaza, a company that works with a range of broadcasters and media companies in Europe and the Asia Pacific region, will help it accelerate its entry into the video ad market as more viewing shifts from traditional TV to the Web and on mobile devices.

With Videoplaza, Ooyala said it will offer an expanded product portfolio that includes that will span content acquisition and workflow, playback, ad serving, programmatic trading, personalized content recommendation, and real-time analytics.

Videoplaza’s ad serving platform,  Karbon, and its programmatic trading platform, Konnect, will be sold both in conjunction with, and separately from, Ooyala's video platform, the companies said.

Videoplaza’s customers include M6 (France) and IP Deutschland (Germany), TV4 (Sweden), Mediaset (Spain), STV (U.K.), MediaCorp (Asia), Sony Entertainment India and Singapore's Mediacorp. Ooyala clients include Telstra, Univision, Foxtel, Comedy Central, NBC Universal, Telstra, and Telegraph Media Group, among others.

"Our combined platforms will offer a more holistic view of content and ad performance across a broadcaster's entire business, including granular data on not only what, how and where people are watching, but also where and how they can make the most money," said Ooyala CEO Jay Fulcher, in a statement. “"Videoplaza's team has clearly demonstrated strong leadership in the fast-growing video advertising market, and are closely aligned with our vision for growth and innovation in this new line of business.”

"We are excited to join forces with Ooyala and Telstra. We share their vision and believe their strong appetite to invest for the long term in building a global market leader will set us apart. This acquisition will allow us to expand our mission in helping broadcasters and premium publishers build highly profitable and sustainable businesses,” added Videoplaza founder and CEO Sorosh Tavakoli, who has been tapped to head Ooyala’s video ad business line.

The announcements are arriving at a fast and furious rate as the IBC show (September 11-16) gets underway in Amsterdam. Here’s a roundup of news snippets from the video and tech confab:

-You.i and Pace will show a new user interface that’s running on 4K-capable Media Servers and “IP Pucks” that are pre-integrated with Pace Elements middleware for both Reference Design Kit (RDK) and non-RDK deployments. You.i, by the way, is underpinning the interface for “shomi,” the new OTT subscription video offering from Canadian operators Rogers Communications and Shaw Communications.

-Off the floor, RDK LLC, the joint venture of Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Liberty Global, plans to host a private, closed door meeting with suppliers and operators on Sept. 16, according to people familiar with it. For an expanded look at the RDK’s global ambitions and a sampling of RDK demos that will be shown at IBC, please see this story (subscription required) from the Sept. 8 issue of Multichannel News.

-IBM’s Aspera division -- in tandem with broadcast production systems vendor EVS and multiscreen video specialist Elemental Technologies – has introduced a large-scale system for the delivery of live high-res video streaming from the proverbial cloud. The system is particularly tailored for the delivery of live sporting events, they said.

-Arris has introduced a suite of advanced compression products, including the HEVC-capable DSR-7400 Transcoder Integrated Receiver/Decoder; the SE-7400 HEVC UHD/4K Encoder (a single-channel HEVC/UHD encoder for live linear encoding up to 4Kp60; and the ME-7000 Converged Compression Platform (for multiscreen delivery of IPTV, cable and satellite applications).  

-Alcatel-Lucent has introduced virtualization features to its Velocix Content Delivery Network (CDN) platform that decouples the software that controls and routes traffic on a network from the physical infrastructure that provides compute and storage resources. That combo reduces the time required to install or expand the CDN, the company said, noting that the product set joins the company’s network functions virtualization (NFV) portfolio announced earlier this year.

-Ooyala, the online video publisher being acquired by Australian telco Telstra, said it has won a deal to support Sky Sports’ free VOD content slate offered on its website, including analytics that tell Sky now users are engaging with that content and discovery features that help visitors find content. Ooyala also announced that it is powering premium content for Presto on Google Chromecast  devices. Presto is a premium movie streaming service based in Australia.

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