17 streaming video firms form an alliance… without Netflix or YouTube

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Streaming Video Alliance

A new industry group, the Streaming Video Alliance (SVA), has formed to work on industry-wide standards and best practices in internet video. There’s 17 members of the group but the problem is, YouTube and Netflix aren’t among them. The founding members of the SVA do include some big names such as Alcatel-Lucent, Charter, Cisco, Comcast, Epix, Fox Networks Group, Major League Baseball and Yahoo. However, since YouTube and Netflix are the two biggest sources of bandwidth usage in the world, they’re major omissions. The group plans to focus on three areas: open architecture, defining specifications for network and cloud-based streaming...



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