For the initial announcement of its Multicast-Assisted Unicast Delivery (MAUD) technology at the end of 2023, BT Group has now revealed it is using technology from Broadpeak.
MAUD features Broadpeak’s nanoCDN multicast ABR (mABR), which will be integrated into BT Group’s consumer smart hub routers, leveraging multicast capabilities to group individual streams together in the network core, before converting them back to unicast at the edge for consumption by player applications on end-user devices, said the company.
According to BT, MAUD’s unique architecture takes mABR one step further by integrating it with content provider player applications, eliminating the need to modify customers’ apps.
Using up to 50 per cent less bandwidth during peak events, MAUD reduces energy usage through the reduction of the number of deployed caches, said BT.
“As more live events move online – or to online only – we are seeing a big increase in traffic. MAUD is a revolutionary development in how live video is delivered over the internet,” said Howard Watson, chief security and networks officer at BT Group.
“It will improve video streaming experiences for viewers, delivering a more reliable, consistent picture and increases content delivery efficiency for broadcasters and video service providers.”
