The Broadcast Knowledge

Video: Secure Media Streaming and Delivery

Posted on 17th January 2019 by Russell Trafford-Jones

Storing, preparing, and delivering media content securely involves leveraging systems that can scale and ensure top-of-the-line security. This webinar explores doing that by implementing workflows in AWS’s highly available, scalable, and secure cloud services such as Amazon S3 for storage, Amazon Elastic Transcoder, and Amazon CloudFront for delivery.

This session came from the Discovery Track at Streaming Media East and shows how you can build a media stack on AWS and use JW Player to deliver protected HTTP Live Streams (HLS) to various devices, including iOS, Android, and Windows desktops.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc4AGBcrgPk

Secure Media Streaming and Delivery (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc4AGBcrgPk)

Speakers

	Nihar Bihani Senior Manager, Amazon Web Services WAF
	Jeroen Wijering Co-Founder, JWPlayer

Webinar: The Future of Live Streaming

Posted on 16th January 2019 by Russell Trafford-Jones

Date: January 17th 2019
Time: 10am PT / 1 PM ET / 18:00 GMT

For many content providers and rights-holders, live streaming represents an exciting opportunity to connect directly with their target audiences plus drive new revenue streams.

This webinar discusses topics including the pros and cons of live streaming as compared with broadcasting, how to measure quality of experience and reliability, which business models are being used, current best practices, ongoing challenges, critical initiatives, and much more.

Join Alec Hendry, Senior Director of Technology Convergence for Viacom, Will Richmond, Editor and Publisher at VideoNuze, and Henrik Eriksson, Service Line Manager at Akamai, for a roundtable discussion covering:

The state of live streaming today
How to measure quality in live streaming and ensure a positive user experience
Successful business models for live streaming
Best practices associated with live streaming

Speakers

	Alec Hendry Senior Director of Technology Convergence, Viacom
	Will Richmond Editor and Publisher, VideoNuze
	Henrik Eriksson Service Line Manager, Akamai

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Video: HEVC vs AV1

Posted on 15th January 2019 by Russell Trafford-Jones

Ian Trow looks at the two big names in the room, AV1 and HEVC to understand them from a business perspective as well as technical.

Speaking at the Northern Waves conference, Ian covers:

Head-end options
OPEX & CAPEX
Cloud vs traditional
Encoding challenges and latency
Evaluation criteria (Functionality, TCO, Time to Market and more)
AV1 for OTT
Royalties
Encoding Structure
CDN Savings
AV1 Timeline

…so quite a bit then!

Watch now!
and check out the technical paper Ian presented on AV1 at IBC 2018

Speaker

Ian Trow
Consultant,
Codec & Video Tech Evangelist

Video: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Optical Networking

Posted on 14th January 2019 by Russell Trafford-Jones

From the NANOG conference (North American Network Operators’ Group), Richard A Steenbergen tells us everything we need to know about fibre optics; essential knowledge in today’s network-centric world – though fibre has been in frequent use in broadcast for a long time.

Whether this is new to you, or you’ve been using fibre for ages, you’re sure to get something out this detailed look at optics covering:

How fibre works (the basics, fibre types and limitations, etc)
Optical power (understanding dBm, loss, using light meters, etc)
Working with optics (choosing the right type, designing optical networks, etc)
DWDM (how it works, muxes, OADMs and ROADMs, amps, etc)
Dispersion and other impairments (what is it, why do we care, how do we fix it)
Optical Myths (can I hurt myself looking into fibre, can I overload my optic, etc)
An update on the latest state-of-the-art optical technologies and trends.

You may also want to check out this page on the different types of fibre connectors

Speaker