Televisionation: Edgecast’s Darren Lepke on Powering Livestreaming Sports

This episode features Darren Lepke, Head of Video Product Management at Edgecast (formerly Verizon Digital Media Services), a provider of CDN, edge computing, serverless computing and streaming-delivery services. The conversation focuses on the work that Edgecast is doing in streaming sports, including enabling livestreaming of the Super Bowl earlier this year. Lepke also discusses how the company overcomes the challenges involved in powering and scaling livestreaming events, outlines its business models, and casts light on the new, interactive features it has developed to enhance live sports programming.