Jet-Stream

News Summary:

Jet-Stream, an independent streaming specialist, recently benchmarked several popular video-on-demand and live streaming services on September 8, 2026, identifying that many did not meet their claimed encoding and packaging compliance specifications. Previously, on August 26, 2026, founder Stef van der Ziel, who has pioneered streaming since 1994, published an analysis on the absence of a shared European streaming technology stack, attributing its lack to "ego and control" following discussions about DPP platform cost benchmarks. The day before, on August 25, 2026, van der Ziel also addressed the pitfalls of applying a "broadcast mindset" to internet problems, asserting that copying solutions without understanding them ultimately fails, recalling a 2010 telecom conference where he presented after Cisco, then a major vendor building CDN edge sites with complex appliances. Earlier in the year, on January 6, 2026, Jet-Stream highlighted its "Dedicated Media Cloud," a professional streaming infrastructure built for digital sovereignty and media scalability, developed to counter the strategic risks posed by reliance on non-European cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. This focus on infrastructure and strategy followed the company's observation on December 16, 2025, that multi-CDN was becoming an urgent strategic topic for broadcasters and media companies at board and executive levels, rather than just a technical optimization.