By Daniel Frankel, FierceTelecom, November 14, 2014
Conspicuously launching without the two biggest operators in the Internet video market, a group of 17 MVPDs, programmers and technology vendors have formed a new industry trade group, the Streaming Video Alliance.
The group, which was partly organized by Frost & Sullivan analyst Dan Rayburn, includes leading pay-TV operators Comcast, Charter Communi- cations and Liberty Global, as well as a who's who of other video industry heavyweights: Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco, Viacom, Epix, Fox Networks Group, Korea Telecom, Level 3 Communications, Limelight Networks, Major League Baseball Advanced Media, Qwilt, Telecom Italia, Telstra, Ustream, Wowza Media Systems and Yahoo!.
Netflix and Google, which together consume up to half of all Internet traffic with their video streams, are not in the group of 17.
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