In another project aiming to bring intelligence to dumb delivery pipelines, CDN behemoth Akamai has teamed with US video compression vendor Bitmovin. The new joint offering, launched just in time for NAB 2023, professes to minimize the negative impact of content delivery errors occurring due to separate data siloes between video players and CDNs. By pooling the Bitmovin Player with Akamai’s CDN and DataStream, the goal here is to minimize the cost of errors, which in an ideal world means eradicating errors entirely. This is why the joint offering is designed to support video developers with sniffing out the root causes of streaming issues and identifying ways to ultimately improve QoE – by sending content IDs and session IDs from…