Sports Graphics Production: Part 1 – Data Driven Visualization

Welcome to Part 1 of our new series on Sports Graphics Production - a collection of six articles presented in two parts, that examine two key areas of live sports broadcast; data driven visualizations and the rise of virtual studio environments.

Requirements For A Video CDN Blueprint

We continue our series discussing the current lack of sufficient streaming infrastructure capacity to meet demand if the current rate of consumer transition to streaming services continues. Here we have an assessment of the key industry wide objectives that future video streaming infrastructure would need to meet, to satisfy the…

IP Monitoring & Diagnostics With Command Line Tools: Part 6 - Advanced Command Line Tools

We continue our series with some small code examples that will make your monitoring and diagnostic scripts more robust and reliable

Broadcast Standards: Timing Systems In Cloud Compute Infrastructure

Our broadcast standards focused series on cloud compute infrastructure explores timing domains & reference sources in cloud compute infrastructure and new non-linear timing infrastructure proposals.

Ad & Content Targeting With First Party Data And Video SMS

The continuing rise in streaming combined with a swing away from third party to first party data is driving broadcasters to seek new ways of engaging and reaching viewers for both content and ad targeting. Some video service providers are turning to plain old SMS texting for reaching audiences because…

Building Software Defined Infrastructure: Monitoring Microservices

Breaking production systems into individual microservice based processors, requires monitoring over IP via RESTful APIs and a database system to capture the results.

Monitoring & Compliance In Broadcast: Monitoring QoS & QoE To Power Monetization

Measuring Quality of Experience (QoE) as perceived by viewers has become critical for monetization both from targeted advertising and direct content consumption.

Preventing The Streaming Tsunami

Today, most broadcasters deliver less than 10% of their total viewing hours via OTT streaming services. As that shifts to streaming first delivery the Tsunami will be big… so what can be done about it?

Making It Happen

Software-defined hardware still has its uses in broadcast, but the real value for ‘power users’ lies in hardware-agnostic processing apps—provided they meet the need for speed, availability, and agility.

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IP Monitoring & Diagnostics With Command Line Tools: Part 5 - Using Shell Scripts

Shell scripts enable you to edit your diagnostic and monitoring commands into a script file so they can be repeated without needing to type them manually every time. Shell scripts also offer some unique and powerful features that help to build monitoring systems.