How the COVID OTT Surge Has Impacted Performance

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马特·铆钉: One of the things that we've been hearing a lot about is that OTT viewing in particular has been really spiking, and there's been a surge in viewing over the last three months. 我很感兴趣. Ali, if you had some thoughts on just what that has meant for performance. Have the networks that we've been using to watch OTT been able to handle it?

阿里Hodjat: 这是一个重要的问题, I'd especially like to focus on the security, how content protection is impacting the performance of OTT services. The recent numbers I've seen showed about a 9% increase in number of subscriptions and about an 8% increase in revenue. 很明显, 我们都同意, this has given a great opportunity for streaming service operators to take market share from linear TV and PayTV services. What we have seen in Intertrust specifically focused on the number of DRM licenses that we deliver. 我们看到了峰值. 例如, 在我们的一个一级客户身上, we saw a 16% increase from February to March and anotherr 5% from March to April. 所以, 这一点非常重要, because when you look at the increase in the number of subscribers, 观看人数也在增加, each piece of content is encrypted with a protected delivery of the DRM licenses.

And now we are talking about an additional 50-60 million subscribers or viewings happening every month, it's really impacting the performance of the backend system. 很明显, one factor that you mentioned is the traffic on the internet, 但是再一次, delivering the DRM licenses robustly at this kind of scale and being prepared to instantly scale it up during these events ... There's the conference news and everybody watching that live is important.

Another factor is really about the viewing experience. 所以当你看到低延迟流, as the subscribers are really used to how they watch the content, how there's not much buffering and the DRM licenses have delivered instantly and robustly to manage the low-latency streaming. This has to be maintained again during this tough time. 所以再一次, the product teams are really focusing on making sure there is a DRM license, 交付性能, 满足高峰需求, as well as managing the low-latency streaming the same way, that quality of experience for the users during this treaming surge stays the same.