Adobe Portfolio Update from Streaming Media East

We’re exhibiting at the Streaming Media East trade show this week in New York City this week, and are making a few announcements via this post about our portfolio of Adobe products.

First, following up on the announcement we made at the NAB show in April, we are now rolling Adobe Flash Media Server (FMS) 3.5 technologies through our production network, with support for both the features in versions 3.0 and 3.5. New features in Adobe Flash Media Server 3.5 include dynamic streaming; enhanced H.264 video and High Efficiency AAC (HE-AAC) audio support; and the ability to pause and seek within a live stream.

Second, we are announcing our full support for Adobe’s open framework for building custom media players, code-named “Strobe.” We have long provided our customers with the tools so they could very quickly build their own media players, in an effort to help content publishers focus on what they do best – create and monetize great experiences.  Adobe’s Strobe initiative provides us an even greater ability to help our customers focus on brilliant experiences, as it taps into the wealth of talent, resources, and expertise already available in the content ecosystem.

As is customary for new product announcements, we’ve provided a quote, attributable to Peter Coppola, our vice president of product management:

“Limelight Networks is pleased to support Adobe Strobe as a key initiative for helping publishers better monetize their content. We have long been an active supporter of industry-platform projects, and Strobe is a welcome addition to the open online video ecosystem. We look forward to working closely with Adobe to develop innovative ways to integrate Strobe’s framework into our video delivery technologies, including enhancing the free player tools we already make available to customers and delivering plug-ins that will enable Strobe-based players to take advantage of the robust, scalable features of our network-based delivery platform.”

We’ll be working with Adobe over the summer to contribute to the beginnings of Strobe, and expect our plug-ins and tools to be available shortly after the Strobe framework launches in Q3.

If you are attending the show, please stop our booth (#400) at Streaming Media East.

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