Ateme joins Akamai Media Technology Partner programme

Ateme has announced it is joining the Media Technology Partner (MTP) programme of Akamai, the intelligent edge platform for securing and delivering digital experiences.

As a MTP, Ateme’s video delivery solutions, including encoding/transcoding and packaging, will demonstrate technical integration, interoperability, and alignment with Akamai’s media products. Ateme will prepare content with different bitrates and formats to make them available for Akamai media delivery.

Jon Alexander, senior director of media product management at Akamai, commented: “Akamai’s technology is designed to help companies to more easily stream video at the highest possible quality across varying network conditions and device capabilities, reliably and on a global scale.

“Thanks to Akamai’s media technology partner program working with Ateme, we can help simplify media processing from a cloud infrastructure, and our joint customers can deploy industry-leading low latency live video solutions.”

Remi Beaudouin, chief strategy officer at Ateme, added: “We are delighted to partner with Akamai, a world leader in content delivery, and enable industry-leading low latency live video delivery. The combination of Ateme’s live encoding and compression and Akamai’s content delivery at the edge provides production ready sub five second OTT video streaming.”