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MEDIA ALERT: Giraffic to Demonstrate Adaptive Video Acceleration Technology at CES 2015
[January 05, 2015]

MEDIA ALERT: Giraffic to Demonstrate Adaptive Video Acceleration Technology at CES 2015


Giraffic, an Israeli-based video technology company, will be sharing the latest advances to its Adaptive Video Acceleration™ (AVA) and demonstrating how it enables broadcast TV quality over the Internet by outsmarting bandwidth limitations.

Giraffic's AVA allows device manufacturers and OTT providers to boost the video streaming performance over any Internet connection. Supported on all major operating systems, and compatible with all HTTP-based streaming protocols including HLS, MPEG-DASH and Smooth Streaming, the technology can run on any device, including IP set-top boxes, smart TVs, smartphones and tablets.

Giraffic will be conducting side-by-side demonstrations with a broad range of partner products integrated with AVA technology to show the dramatic improvement in streaming quality when compared with devices that do not have AVA:

Samsung (News - Alert) Smart TV - Giraffic's AVA enables true HD and UHD 4K, and accelerates video streaming by 3X on average. AVA is currently integrated in Samsung's Smart TV and Blu-Ray 2014 models and onwards. Giraffic's suite is probably the only place at CES displaying true 4K that is actually being streamed.

Broadcom (News - Alert) - Giraffic accelerates Broadcom based hybrid IP Set-top-Boxes and other media streaming devices, demonstrating side-by-side HD video streaming with zero buffering over regular home Internet connections.

Sigma Designs (News - Alert) - Giraffic will be showcasing its new turnkey reference design and SDK developed jointly with SigmaDesigns' set-top boxes (STBs) and Smart TV chipsets that significantly improve the HD and UHD 4K video experience. Joint testing on the Sigma platform showed a 200-300%, increase in average download speeds, and elimination of buffering events, with minimal utilization of CPU and memory resources.



Vuser WiPao projector - Giraffic brings enhanced high quality and HD streaming innovation to China's over-the-top market through its partnership with Vuser. AVA allows Vuser's high quality set-top box with the built in DLP Pico Projector, WiPao, to deliver more consistent and higher viewing quality, offering true HD playback.

Intel Media Gateway (News - Alert) - Giraffic's AVA accelerates video performance delivered to all consumers' home devices via one integration into the Intel Puma Home Gateway


Mobile - Giraffic will be unveiling its AVA mobile solutions, which accelerates:

  • OTT video apps to mobile devices delivering throughput of over 10 Mbps HD and UHD videos.
  • Large mobile-to-mobile file transfers over Wi-Fi enabling faster delivery and higher robustness and fault tolerance to network disconnects

Giraffic Network Insights (GNI) - This set of monitoring and reporting tools helps CE device manufacturers identify and improve in real-time end-user's streaming experience. Insights have been collected exclusively client-side from the user's angle to provide key analytics about customer usage, viewing experience, user engagement, and network characteristics.

Giraffic's Distributed Adaptive Streaming™ (DAS) - Giraffic will be showcasing high-performance delivery of video, games and software updates, while offloading over 70% of CDN bandwidth.

Giraffic will be conducting demos at the Westgate Hotel (formerly LVH) during CES (News - Alert). To set up an appointment, please contact [email protected].

About Giraffic

Giraffic is the inventor of Adaptive Video Acceleration™ (AVA) - a new client-side network throughput optimization technology that offers consumers High Definition video, without re-buffering pauses or streaming resolution reduction. With 10's of millions of users worldwide enjoying accelerated high-quality video via Giraffic AVA, and thousands of Giraffic enabled devices or Apps being deployed daily, Giraffic's groundbreaking technology has been validated and benchmarked by some of the world leaders in Consumer Electronics and OTT TV, to provide dramatic Internet throughput increase. Giraffic provides its video acceleration software to OTT Video Apps Providers, as well as to Consumer Electronics Device Manufacturers such as Smart TVs, Set-Top-Boxes, Tablets and Smartphones.


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