Lumen^® CDN Load Balancer support: Overview

CDN Load Balancer is a client-side multi-CDN load balancing tool designed to virtually eliminate potential downtime and poor streaming quality due to CDN failure. Our solution uses real-time feedback from the device to choose the optimal CDN on a segment-by-segment basis during the individual video session. It can therefore switch CDNs midstream for a seemless user experience and customeized video delivery for each viewer.

Upcoming release
 

• Improve offload by using more peers' contextual information
  
  
• Web Add support of NexPlayer
  
  
• Web Improve offload for reduced-latency contents
  
  
• Web Improve interaction with ABR
  
  
• Web Improve support of Tizen
  
  
• iOS Add support of AVQueuePlayer
  
  
• Android iOS Other platforms Add SDK errors and vitals to client API
  
  
• Android iOS Other platforms Add support of cookie-based contents' authentication
  
  
• Android iOS Other platforms Improve support of DASH contents

Q1 2023

• Improved backend services resiliency
  
  
• Web Added support of RXPlayer v4
  
  
• Web Improved mitigation logic on HTTP 4xx error codes from CDN
  
  
• Web Evaluated P2P resources usage footprint compared to CDN delivery, to assess product sustainability
  
  
• Web Fixed playback failure for non-streaming response causing a Transmuxer reset loo
  
  
• iOS  Improved detection of Playback State
  
  
• iOS  Improved integration guidance by Plugin
  
  
• UWP Improved support
  
  
• VLC player Improved support
  
  
• Android iOS Other platforms Added support of THEOplayer
  
  
• Android iOS Other platforms Added support of HTTP Response Header modification
  
  
• Android iOS Other platforms Added support of Gzipped HTTP Body
  
  
• Android iOS Other platforms Changed SDK version reporting
  
  
• Android iOS Other platforms Changed internal module architecture
  
  
• Android iOS Other platforms Fixed header mismatch for HTTP Keep-Alive
  
  
• Android iOS Other platforms Fixed rewriting of SegmentTemplate nodes of DASH
  
  

• Android iOS Other platforms Improved SDK module tear down logic
  
  
• Android iOS Other platforms Improved SDK telemetry and statistics
  
  
• Android iOS Other platforms Improved DRM support for HLS
  
  
• Android iOS Other platforms Improved HTTP connections lifecycle
  
  
• Android iOS Other platforms Improved support of empty HTTP Content-Type
   

• Web Android iOS Other platforms Several minor bug fixes and improvements

Q4 2022

• Users can blacklist a CDN globally or on a particular CDN list, via API
  
  
• Web Added support to hls.js 1.3.x
  
  
• Web Added support to dash.js 4.5.x
  
  
• iOS Added support to Xcode 14 and dropped support of iOS below 11
  
  
• iOS Added encryption compliance flag as per Apple guidelines
  
  
• Android Fixed contents' certificate verification error on root entity expired as per Let's Encrypt guidelines
  
  
• Android iOS Other platforms Improved SSL certificate validation
  
  
• Other platforms Added experimental support to Universal Windows Platform (UWP) and Reference Design Kit (RDK)
  
  
• Web Android iOS Other platforms Several minor bug fixes and improvements

For issues related to CDN Load Balancer, please email us.