Mark Donnigan talks with Olivier Avaro, CEO of Blacknut, about enabling the transition from console and PC-based gaming to streaming games from the cloud. Blacknut offers a complete solution for service providers and OTT services, providing the technical platform and licensed gaming content from more than 100 publishers. The conversation addresses the OPEX challenges of cloud gaming and the technical hurdles of using the open internet for latency-sensitive applications, and presents an architecture combining CPUs with GPUs for game rendering and VPUs for encoding.