Technical Specifications
Whether you need basic content delivery or sophisticated media encoding and streaming, we have you covered.
Network
Affordable
Our on-demand use of commercial cloud-based infrastructure allows us to provide our services at a rate much below that which a traditional enterprise CDN can offer.
Reliable
By leveraging the established base of all major cloud infrastructure providers we are able to route and re-route requests around the world as required, minimising outages.
Accessible
MetaCDN offers an easy to use web portal that makes deploying and managing your rich content as easy as point and click.
A RESTful, JSON based web services API is also available, enabling deep integration into your content creation workflow.
Coverage
Choose priority geographic locations to ensure your content is always available to your most important audiences. With over 70 points of presence (PoPs), we have you covered.
MetaCDN has over 50 core points of presence offering persistent storage and 20 additional edge locations to cache popular content.
Speed
Our patent-pending Cloud CDN overlay reduces congestion and dramatically improves access speeds for your audience, no matter where in the world they're located.
Management
Additional replicas of your content are added on-demand in your "hot-spots", keeping your page loads blazingly fast and your customers happy.
Existing replicas are destroyed if idle for long periods of time - no need to pay for it if it's not being used.
Reporting
MetaCDN keeps you on top of your usage at all times - giving you up-to-date reporting whether you are on a plan or paying as you go.
We also show you where, when and how your content is being accessed, allowing you to adjust your content and its distribution accordingly.
Encoding
Media encoding
Need to deliver audio and video content? Confused by all these different formats, containers, codecs, protocols and devices?
MetaCDN encodes, replicates and delivers your multimedia content, taking the hassle out of streaming high fidelity audio and high definition video content on the web.
Containers
We support all major media containers for standards compliant media delivery.
Video is placed in MPEG-4 (.mp4), Flash (.flv), Ogg (.ogv/.ogg) WebM (.webm) or 3GP (.3gp/.3g2) containers as required.
Codecs
We support all major codecs to ensure maximum device compatibility.
Videos are generated using H.264, H.263, Theora, and VP8 (WebM) codecs. Audio is generated using AAC, MPEG-2 Audio Layer III (MP3) and Vorbis.
Delivery
Presentation
MetaCDN chooses the right presentation method depending on the device or platform that is consuming your content to ensure optimal playback.
Flash, HTML5, Native/Custom (e.g. iPhone/iPad, Internet TV, etc) playback can be used to give the best possible playback experience for your end-users.
Visual Templates
The look and feel of your content is fully controllable and customisable, allowing your business to "own" all aspects of multimedia delivery regardless of the delivery platform.
Build unique templates for your deployments knowing that your branding will always be consistent.
Sharing
Seamlessly share your content on Facebook - MetaCDN automatically generates Facebook sharing metadata to ensure a consistent, branded experience for your customers.
We also support oEmbed, enabling best of breed content sharing on Twitter and hundreds of other 3rd party websites, portals and blogs.