Introduction
Economic News Broadcaster for Investors
Korea Business News TV is a multimedia company that engages in cable TV broadcasting business, Internet service business, and education content business among others. There are two goals pursued by the company: one is to distribute various information for investors, and the other is to create a new form of broadcasting that is free from everything and everyone but the investors. Currently, VOD streaming service for securities information programs are provided on WOWNET.
Background
Uniform Quality on Diverse Devices and Optimized Streaming Service
Korea Business News TV’s VOD streaming service is available on computers as well as on mobile devices operating on iOS or Android. The fact that the service is provided in multiple OS environments means that the video output method must be optimized for each OS environment.
Errors occurred on various devices, unfortunately, and Korea Business News TV sought a solution to prevent such problems and ensure uniform video quality on all devices.
What did KINX do?
CDN Video Streaming Service and Monitoring Service
As a way to improve the overall quality of Korea Business News TV’s VOD stream service, KINX proposed the CDN video streaming service. KINX’s CDN video streaming service enables delivery of video content encoded into a format that allows playback on diverse platforms including mobile devices and computers. The service can be rendered on mobile devices using iOS (iPhone, iPod and iPad), Android and Windows Mobile as well as PCs.
KINX also offered an add-on services that was optimized for Korea Business News TV such as a monitoring service for each type of device during stock trading hours.
Effect
Overall Improvement of VOD Streaming Service and Prompt Troubleshooting
With KINX’s CDN video streaming service, Korea Business News TV was able to improve the overall quality of its VOD streaming service. Plus, during stock trading hours when the main users of the VOD streaming service would react most sensitively to network troubles, etc., real-time monitoring service was provided for each type of device to promptly handle any problems in order to boost the service satisfaction rate.