TECHNICAL FIELD

The present disclosure relates to content delivery, and in particular, distributed adaptive bitrate (ABR) delivery.

BACKGROUND

A client device typically includes a content player that sends requests for media assets, which, in turn are delivered to the client device. For example, at a first time the content player receives a first adaptive bitrate (ABR) asset from a first content delivery system, and at a second time the content player receives a second ABR asset from a second content delivery system. The content player may send respective requests to the first and second content delivery systems in order to facilitate changing between receiving the first and second ABR assets. However, there is a relatively high amount of latency associated with the respective requests, leading to a degradation of user experience at the client device. Additionally, encoding inefficiencies often exist across multiple content delivery systems as they collectively provide ABR assets to multiple client devices.

