Question 4 In section 92 the author discussed the architectu

Question 4: In section 9.2, the author discussed the architecture of three well known streaming stored video services: Netflix, Youtube, and KanKan. Reasearch and information regarding the architecture of one of the following services: Hulu, Vudu, or Amazon instant video. Pick one service and briefly discuss the service provided and the architecture behind it. Your need to provide references to support your answer for this question.

Solution

Amazon instant video

amazon first introduced streaming video in 2006 as unbox in 2008 it is renamed

amazon video on demand and again renamed amazon instant video in 2011.

amazon has continually added a content to better compete in the market. and offer this service either as pay per

view or as part of amazon prime service .

support for amazon instant video is either built in or downloadable number of televisions,game console , set top boxes ,blue ray players, and others.

support\'s for PC,macintosh is through silverlight or flash. tablets and smartphones are supoorted with

dedicated applications.

amazon uses only Akamai to provide CDN service.

Hulu

Hulu is a company provideing streaming video that was found in 2007 .

it provides service only in united states and terrtories.its content concentratate on TV shows and movies.

Hulu streams its content in flash format.

Hulu has announced that all new deployments will use MPEG -DASH[524]. it is supported on most computing and mobile devices as well as gaming consoles ,set top boxes and directly in many new smart TV\'s

Hulu uses same 3 CDN providers as netflix to deliver the content: Akamai,Limelight, and Level 3