PeerApp Expands Streaming Video Reach

NEWTON, Mass. -- Following successful debuts last spring, the University of San Diego (USD) and Charleston Southern University (CSU) welcomed back students this fall with improved over-the-top (OTT) and other streaming video experiences enabled by PeerApp, a leader in helping campuses optimize their networks ̶ including ResNets ̶ to accelerate and optimize content delivery.

PeerApp, which has more than 50 higher education customers globally, offers local content delivery solutions that enable campus network operators to provide students, faculty and administrators with fast, high-quality on-campus access to live gaming, broadcast-quality TV programming, movies, live sporting events, and other popular content, as well as online educational tools and experiences.

Douglas Burke, senior director of Network Infrastructure Systems and Services at USD stated, “PeerApp has saved us approximately 25-35 percent of our Internet bandwidth and our students have stopped complaining about network speed. Additionally, in the past we have seen our Internet slow to a crawl with every new iOS upgrade. Today the first upgrade downloaded is cached and served to the USD community over our internal 10-Gig network, dramatically accelerating download time.”

In addition to greatly enhancing the quality of experience (QoE) for students, faculty and administrators, PeerApp helps higher education campus IT and networking professionals control and significantly cut operating and capital expenses.

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