The Technology Of The Internet: Part 2 - Bandwidth And Adaptive Streaming

How CDNs, Adaptive Bit Rate streaming protocols and codecs have evolved together to take video streaming forward from the earlier inconsistent and low-quality experience, to deliver broadcast quality today in many cases.

Understanding IP Broadcast Production Networks: Part 3 - Resilience

How distance vector routing simplifies networks and improves resilience.

What Everyone Wants To Know About Live Production In The Cloud

What exactly is live production in the cloud? Let’s start with what it is not.

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The Importance Of CDN Selection To Achieve Broadcast-Grade Streaming Experiences

Multi-CDN is a standard model for today’s OTT Operators, which automatically requires a CDN selection solution. As streaming aims to be broadcast-grade and cost-effective, how are CDN Selection solutions evolving to support these objectives?

IP Monitoring & Diagnostics With Command Line Tools: Part 9 - Continuous Monitoring

Scheduling a continuous monitoring process will detect problems at the earliest opportunity. If the diagnostic tools run often enough, they can forecast a server outage before a mission critical failure happens. Pre-emptive diagnosis and automatic corrections are a very good thing.

One of two new Visual radio studios at RTÉ’ in Dublin Ireland. Both were designed for comfort and operational flexibility.

System Showcase: Ireland’s RTÉ Adds Video To Its Radio Studios To Increase Content Value

RTE’s move to new studios prompted a project to add more sophisticated video capabilities to its new radio studios, reflecting a global trend towards the consumption of radio online.

Understanding IP Broadcast Production Networks: Part 2 - Routers & Switches

How Routers & Switches reduce traffic congestion and improve security.

The Peril Of HDR: Just Because You Can Doesn’t Mean You Should

There is a disturbing and growing consensus among viewers that many movies and TV shows today are under illuminated or simply too dark. As DOPs, we surely share some of the blame, but there is plenty of blame to go around.

OTT’s Unique Storage Requirements

Central storage systems for OTT are unique in the world of media storage. They combine a set of requirements which no other media use case must handle.

Waves: Part 9 - Propagation Inversion

As a child I came under two powerful influences. The first of these was electricity. My father was the chief electrician at a chemical works and he would bring home any broken or redundant electrical parts for me to tinker with, dismantle and occasionally repair.