Akamai, Synacor demonstrate TV Everywhere technology

Cloud-based services provider Akamai Technologies and internet services company Synacor have unveiled a technology demonstration designed to show how programmers and operators can facilitate TV Everywhere services. TV Everywhere is a new model to provide paying subscribers with access to TV programming across multiple devices. This will enable consumers to access the content they consume on television across all of their devices, including PCs, tablets and mobile devices. The demonstration showcased unveils a way to connect programmer content libraries with operator subscribers in the context of TV Everywhere by using Akamai's identity services, a common standards-based set of APIs, along with Synacor's authentication and authorisation platform, which work together to grant entitlement of content to authorised subscribers. The companies have offered authentication and authorisation of subscriber identity to supply consumer and operator specific metadata for business rule decision making and smart identity provider discovery functionality that is designed to surface only relevant consumer options for login, using geo-targeting and common domain footprints. Each company has contributed capacities to the demonstration including Single Sign On (SSO) to minimise disruptions to the viewing experience, viewing continuity and Akamai HD Network integration for secure streaming and audience analytics.