Joining us this week is Adam Toll, Founder of Haste.
About Haste
Haste is a network optimizer for video games, reducing lag, packet loss, and jitter to improve your gaming experience.
Highlights:
- Adam History in pre-CDN technologies, streaming music, and gaming lag issues
- How Solve Lag Issues over Network
- Quality of Service and Multi-Path
- Challenges w/ Cached Content and Real-Time Content
- Edge Management with Network Unpredictability
Time Tracking
- 0 min 50 sec: Introduction of Guest
- Background on Satellite Communication in Early Days Leading to CDN
- Early Streaming Music Technology Startup
- Angel Investing Period
- 8 min 8 sec: How to Fix Lag Issues?
- Early Web and Rich Media Challenges ~ Content Distribution Networks
- Haste Focused on Real-Time w/ User Generated Content that is Dynamic
- Overlay Network Architecture ~ Spend Bandwidth to Achieve Performance
- 13 min 14 sec: Quality of Service and Multi-Path
- Anticipatory Gaming – Action Timestamps
- Duplicating Traffic on 4 Separate Paths
- 3 Layers: Infrastructure, Suite of Software Defined Networking Tools, & Software on Gaming Machine Locally Installed
- Caching Not Involved
- 21 min 24 sec: Challenges of Out-Of-Date CDNs
- Critical Issues
- Game Software Updates (Required) – Traditional CDN
- Active Game Play Stream – Haste Manages w/ EDGE GRAVITY by Ericsson
- Local Haste Service – Monitor Streams to Ensure Fastest Access to Various Game Servers
- Ensure Awareness of Various Game Servers Availability
- 28 min 52 sec: How Shape Edge Infrastructure Based on Network Unpredictability
- Path Diversity is Significant
- Improve ISP Delivery of Gaming Services by Adding Haste in ISP Networks
- Dynamic Allocation of Gaming Services based on Player Location and Network Features
- 39 min 23 sec: Wrap-Up
- Critical Issues
Podcast Guest: Adam Toll, Founder of Haste
Adam Toll is a Founder of Haste and focuses on alliances, future applications of Haste technology, and the strategic direction of the company. Adam was co-founder and COO of media startup BigChampagne which was acquired by Live Nation in 2011, and previously was a consultant in the satellite communications industry.