Abstract:
A system for lossless switching of traffic in a network device may be implemented when a network switch is integrated into a gateway device, or with any other data source. A processor of the gateway device may receive queue depth information for queues of the network switch. The processor may prevent data from being transmitted to congested queues of the network switch, while allowing data to be transmitted to uncongested queues. In this manner, data loss can be avoided through the network switch for data sourced from the gateway device, such as audio-video data retrieved from a hard drive, audio-video data received from a tuner, etc. Furthermore, re-transmission at higher layers can be reduced. Since the subject system observes congestion for each individual queue, only traffic destined to that particular, congested, queue is affected, e.g. paused. Traffic to non-congested queues is not affected, regardless of traffic class or egress port.
Abstract:
A distributed adaptive bit rate (ABR) proxy system may include a gateway device that includes a first transcoder and is configured to receive segments of a content item from an ABR server, and a secondary device that includes a second transcoder and is configured to receive the segments of the content item from the gateway device. The first transcoder may transcode the segments based at least in part on a first ABR profile to generate first transcoded segments, and the second transcoder may transcode the segments based at least in part on a second ABR profile to generate second transcoded segments. The gateway device may advertise the first and second ABR profiles to user devices and may transmit the first transcoded segments to the user devices in response to requests therefor. The secondary device may transmit the second transcoded segments to the user devices in response to requests therefor.
Abstract:
A device for providing adaptive bit rate streaming that includes a first transcoder configured to transcode a video stream based at least in part on an encoding characteristic to generate a first transcoded video stream, a network monitor configured to monitor network conditions including a network bandwidth of a network, an adjustment module configured to cause the transcoder to adjust the encoding characteristic in response to a change in the network conditions, an advertising module configured to advertise to a client device an ABR profile that corresponds to the first transcoded video stream, wherein the advertising module updates the advertised single ABR profile when the at least one encoding characteristic is adjusted, and a network interface configured to transmit segments of the first transcoded video stream to the client device via the network in response to requests therefor.