Reducing Congestion on Service Provider Networks with Intelligent Video Traffic Management

As Video streaming services contend for bandwidth with a growing army of locked-down, home workers the EU has urged the world’s top video providers to reduce streaming quality and help ease the burden on SP infrastructures.

This highlights an enduring issue that needs to be addressed when things return to normal. Video today, represents the majority of Internet traffic and Adaptive Bitrate (ABR) video technology, which adjusts video quality to suit available network capacity, can sometimes cause more congestion problems, particularly during periods of heavy traffic.

This session will illustrate how F5 can help Service Providers, both fixed and mobile, resolve the challenge of relying on Intelligent ABR Video Detection and Control capabilities.

By attending this session, you …

• Will understand the current situation of video traffic on the internet.
• Will gain insight into the limitations of using ABR to control network congestion.
• Will identify solutions for solving the video traffic management conundrum, particularly in cases of unforeseeable network congestion events.