Ground to Cloud is a handy way to say ‘getting things into the public cloud’. Whether you’re using AWS, Oracle or another cloud provider, you need to get your data there and since that’s called sending to the cloud, anything that’s not the cloud is…the ground. Within broadcast, files aren’t too tricky to get into…
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What are Microservices and are they good for Broadcast?
Promising to simplify programming, improve resilience and redundancy, Microservices have been moving into the media and broadcast space for several years now adopted by names such as EVS and Imagine Communications as well as being the focus of a joint project between SMPTE, EBU and Open Services Alliance. Microservices are individual, independent programs that talk…
What is the VSF (Video Services Forum)?
The Video Services Forum was founded in 1998 to provide forums to identify issues related to video networking technology and foster resolution of issues common to the video services industrypromoting interoperability by contributing to and supporting development of standards by national and international standards bodies What this meant is that they worked together with a…
What is SSAI (Server-Side Ad Insertion)
Ads are critical to many streaming services as without the revenue they bring the service would not be commercially viable. No-one’s under the illusion that people universally enjoy watching ads, but a lot of money goes in to producing them and delivering them because of how important it is to serve ads. Just like adverts…
5G – Beyond the Hype
Who’s fed up with the 5G sensationalism and clichés? You only have to dig a little below the headlines to start understanding what 5G really is and actually delivers. In fact, that’s exactly what we’ll do right now: