Akamai's Adaptive Media Player Advances for NAB 2019, Adding Header Bidding and Ultra Low Latency

Introduction Akamai Adaptive Media Player AMP helps publishers insert quality media playback experiences into web, mobile, and connected-TV applications. Publishers can leverage Akamai AMP for a single, modular SDK that pre-integrates playback, delivery, monetization, and measurement to ensure a...

Powering Low Latency Live Streaming

Live streaming has grown immensely over the years. Today, we can watch live events from all around the world via our laptops, mobile phones, set-top-boxes, Smart TVs, and other connected devices. A big challenge with live streaming is achieving the same level of availability as over-the-air...

The Promise and Peril of 5G

The next generation of mobile cellular technology known as fifth-generation wireless 5G is hitting a peak in the hype cycle, emerging as a major theme/5G.aspx at the Consumer Electronics Show CES this week. Wireless carriers are investing billions of dollars into the technology, which requires a...

#OTTuesday: Five Technologies Shaping the Future of OTT

The world of OTT is changing radically with new innovations, from player technologies to standards convergence, propelling the industry forward. As 2018 comes to a close, AkamaiTV sat down with DASH legend and Akamai's very own Will Law to get his pulse on the major trends and technologies that a...

openSUSE: Security Advisory for dpdk (openSUSE-SU-2018:4003-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2018 Greenbone Networks GmbH Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later This program is free software; you can...

Security update for dpdk (moderate)

This update for dpdk to version 16.11.8 provides the following security fix: - CVE-2018-1059: restrict untrusted guest to misuse virtio to corrupt host application ovs-dpdk memory which could have lead all VM to lose connectivity bsc1089638 and following non-security fixes: - Enable the broadcom...

openSUSE Security Update : dpdk (openSUSE-2018-1484)

This update for dpdk to version 16.11.8 provides the following security fix : - CVE-2018-1059: restrict untrusted guest to misuse virtio to corrupt host application ovs-dpdk memory which could have lead all VM to lose connectivity bsc1089638 and following non-security fixes : - Enable the broadco...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : dpdk (SUSE-SU-2018:3923-1)

This update for dpdk to version 16.11.8 provides the following security fix : CVE-2018-1059: restrict untrusted guest to misuse virtio to corrupt host application ovs-dpdk memory which could have lead all VM to lose connectivity bsc1089638 and following non-security fixes: Enable the broadcom...

Prolexic Platform Enhancements - New APJ Scrubbing Centers and More

by Don Ng and Greg Burns This October, Akamai is announcing the turn-up of two additional Prolexic DDoS mitigation scrubbing centers in Singapore and Osaka, building on the nine previous scrubbing centers turned up this year and adding to our existing APJ footprint in Sydney, Tokyo, and Hong Kong...

Best Practices for Ultra-Low Latency Streaming Using Chunked-Encoded and Chunk-Transferred CMAF

Over the last 15 years, live streaming services have grown from novelties & experiments in to profitable businesses serving an ever-growing cohort of cord-cutters and cord-nevers. Initial streaming implementations mimicked the workflows of the broadcast world, using custom servers to deliver...

Wallarm NG-WAF is Now a Part of Kong Hub to Provide Better Protection for Microservices, APIs and…

Wallarm NG-WAF is Now a Part of Kong Hub to Provide Better Protection for Microservices, APIs and Serverless Thousands of companies from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises use Kong as their API gateway. With a blazingly fast performance, it comes with a perfect feature set for everyone who manag...

Building the security operations center of tomorrow—harnessing the law of data gravity

This post was coauthored by Diana Kelley, Cybersecurity Field CTO, and Sin John, EMEA Chief Security Advisor, Cybersecurity Solutions Group. Youve got a big dinner planned and your dishwasher goes on the fritz. You call the repair company and are lucky enough to get an appointment for that...

Understanding NetScaler SD-WAN Best Path Determination

The following points helps you in understanding NetScaler SD-WAN best path determination: Per-packet determination Variety of factors in determining packets assigned path Received packet from any WAN path calculates: One-way trip latency One-way loss One-way bandwidth One-way jitter Sent packet...

How You Get There Matters: "Middle-Mile" RUM to Drive CDN Strategy

Traditional RUM products make use of APIs Navigation-Timing, Resource-Timing, etc. built into browsers to help measure the performance characteristics of the loading of a web page. That is, they do their best to quantify the work required by the browser when rendering a web page. APM products use...

TLS 1.3 support is coming this spring

While March brings NCAA Madness, this year it also brought TLS 1.3, which will be coming to all Akamai customers soon! Let's give some background. TLS 1.3 is latest revision of the TLS protocol. It is also known by its older name, SSL. It is the protocol used for all secure HTTP connections on th...

February 22, 2018—KB4077528 (OS Build 15063.936)

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Troubleshooting ICA_RTT Issues on NetScaler MAS

Troubleshooting ICARTT issues on NetScaler MAS. Background ICA RTT can be thought of as a measurement of the screen lag that a user experiences while interacting with an application hosted in a session on a XenApp or XenDesktop server. ICA RTT is different from Network RTT, which is the detected...

Denial of Service Vulnerability in Multiple Linux Products

Linux kernel is the kernel used by the operating system Linux, released by the Linux Foundation in the U.S. The Linux kernel ixgbe driver and i40e/i40evf driver are among the network card drivers; DPDK is one of the data plane development kits. A denial of service vulnerability exists in several...

Citrix SD-WAN Path State Sensitivity Control Overview

Bad Loss Sensitive – Select a setting from the drop-down menu. The options are: Enable– Default If enabled, paths will be marked BAD due to loss, and will incur a path scoring penalty. Disable – Disabling Bad Loss Sensitive can be useful when the loss of bandwidth is intolerable. Custom – Select...

IPv6, it’s waiting for you

IPv6 is an expression IT professionals are likely to have seen or heard at one time, but what exactly is it? Let us give you a quick introduction, and then try to explain what it does differently by comparing it to its predecessor, IPv4. IPv4 and IPv6 are both Internet communications protocols...