What Is Transparent Caching?
This is another installment in our series of What Is.? articles, designed to offer definitions, history, and context around significant terms and issues in the online video industry.
With the explosive growth of video content on the web including user-generated content that goes viral, resulting in a massive number of views in fairly short timeframes the old way of doing the business of video has shown signs of faltering. Based on projected numbers, some of which place video content at over ninety per cent of all internet traffic by 2013, service providers have begun to look in earnest at a number of solutions that allow video content viewing without tying up precious backhaul data pipes.