Broadpeak’s award-winning nanoCDN technology has been pre-integrated on AirTies’ Air5650 wireless routers and Air4742 media streamers to improve live OTT video delivery. Utilising a combined Broadpeak and AirTies’ solution, cable and telecom operators can cost-effectively deliver live OTT content to millions of subscribers using only a few megabits per second on the operator’s network.
“We are excited to partner with AirTies on this very important initiative,” said Jacques Le Mancq, CEO and president of Broadpeak. “The recent explosion in OTT video consumption is significantly impacting the traditional video delivery landscape. As operators deliver a growing amount of OTT content to more and more devices with limited infrastructure resources, it becomes challenging to guarantee a high video quality, especially for live content. A unified Broadpeak nanoCDN and AirTies’ solution enables operators to extend CDN technology into the subscriber home, reducing their capital and operational expenses. Because AirTies’ media streamers can simultaneously connect to up to four home devices, operators can now deliver a superior OTT experience anywhere, on any device.”
Leveraging home networks, RFID tag dramatically lowers infrastructure investments for operators while allowing them to deliver high-quality video services more efficiently to end-users. nanoCDN improves the scalability of live OTT TV content by effectively managing video consumption peaks that are not supported by the network infrastructure.
AirTies’ Air4742 dual-band concurrent media streamer provides reliable, predictable bandwidth and unprecedented high-speed performance for real-time video distribution and data transmission to the home. Featuring four Wi-Fi antennas, the streamer can easily be connected to any device with an Ethernet port, such as connected TVs, STBs, smartphones, tablets, and game consoles, to stream high-quality SD and HD video simultaneously over a 5GHz connection. Utilizing the company’s Air5650 WAN VDSL router, service providers can offer sufficient bandwidth for Internet services.
“We’re thrilled to implement Broadpeak’s nanoCDN on our industry-leading media streamer and router solutions,” said Bulent Celebi, executive chairman and founder of AirTies Wireless Networks. “Together, Broadpeak and AirTies are making high-quality, live OTT content a reality for consumers on any device.”
Markey has long advocated for campaign finance reform. During a 1992 debate, the Boston Herald reported that Markey called for campaign spending caps, a ban on PAC donations and public financing of campaigns. In 1993, he voted for a bill that would have capped fundraising and spending for congressional candidates. He introduced a 1996 campaign spending reform bill that would have limited the amount of PAC contributions and large individual donations a congressional candidate could accept. Markey supported the House version of a bill that would become the McCain-Feingold Act, which increased campaign contribution limits but banned the use of “soft” money - money not subject to campaign finance laws - by political parties in federal elections, and eliminated the ability of corporations and unions to air “issue ads.”
Recently, Markey has supported passing a constitutional amendment overturning the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision, which allowed corporations to make unlimited political expenditures. He supported the DISCLOSE Act, which would require independent groups that spend in political campaigns to disclose their major donors.
However, Markey has a complex history relating to special interest money funding his own campaigns. In 1984, embarking on his first U.S. Senate campaign, for the seat vacated by Democrat Paul Tsongas, Markey decided he would no longer accept money from PACs. Though Markey, who has served in Congress since 1976, took PAC money during his prior U.S. House campaigns, the Boston Globe reported that Markey returned all PAC donations he received in 1984 and announced a new policy of refusing PAC money. He told the Globe he wanted to establish "PAC-free" campaigns in Massachusetts. Several other candidates in that race, which Markey dropped out of and which was won by Democrat John Kerry, also swore off PAC money.
Today, PACs continue to contribute to Markey. The non-partisan Center for Responsive Politics reports that since 1989, Markey has raised $7.98 million from individuals and $2.77 million from PACs. In each election cycle since 2006, Markey has received at least 40 percent of his donations from PACs.
Sheila Krumholz, executive director of the Center for Responsive Politics, said Markey’s shift reflects changing times in campaign finance. In the 1980s, PACs were vilified.” They were thought to having a corrupting influence on Congress and politics,” she said.
With the growth of political non-profits, “super PACs” and outside independent expenditure groups, PACs lost their stigma, and became more important. “In this world of increased independent expenditures, members of Congress are arguably more dependent on money from wherever they can get it,” Krumholz said. “For those members who are lucky enough to be attractive to PACs, it’s not surprising they might have a change of heart about their willingness to accept those funds.”
Dave Levinthal, senior politics reporter at the non-partisan Center for Public Integrity, said particularly after the Citizens United decision, campaigns are more expensive than ever and outside groups are taking a larger role. “Many candidates feel that as a practical matter they have to raise as much money as they possibly can,” Levinthal said. “There’s an extreme amount of pressure to get money wherever you can get it to fuel your campaigns…That’s even the case with some of the most vocal critics of money in politics or the Citizens United decision.”
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