SVA Releases Open Caching, QoE Guidelines

At its quarterly member meeting in New York, the Streaming Video Alliance released its Open Caching Systems Functional Requirements and QoE Industry Guidelines, which have been approved unanimously by SVA members and are the culmination of collaboration and input from the SVA Open Caching and Quality of Experience (QoE) Working Groups.

The requirements and guidelines, intended to help define new industry architectures and contribute to building best practices across the streaming video ecosystem, are the product of more than 18 months of collaborative work.

Founded in 2014, the Streaming Video Alliance's charter is to encourage deeper collaboration across the entire online video ecosystem, which includes the development of standards and best practices for an open architecture that will operate across the entire online video value chain. The SVA is currently focused on identifying issues and solutions related to open architecture, quality of experience and interoperability.

Members of the Alliance include: Beamr, Cedexis, Charter Communications, Ciena, Cisco, Comcast, Concurrent, Conviva, Encompass TV, Ericsson, FOX Networks, Hughes Satellite Systems, IneoQuest, Intel, Irdeto, Korea Telecom, Level 3 Communications, Liberty Global, Limelight Networks, MediaMelon, MLB Advanced Media, Mobolize, Nagra, NBCUniversal, NeuLion, Nice People at Work, Nokia, Nominum, PeerApp, Qwilt, Sky, System73, Telecom Italia, Telstra, Time Warner Cable, Ustream, ViaSat, Verimatrix, Verizon, Vubiquity, Wowza Media Systems and Yahoo.