Media-Insert Communications

Media-Insert Communications

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Network transformation is required to make way for the large amounts of data that will be transferred over 5G.

An International media company wants to consolidate its video editing operations in New York and London. This will split their video data between their offices in the two cities. In London 60TB will be stored there, and the same amount of data will be stored in New York. Yet the company needs to have the capacity to move this data in between their two datacentres in these locations.   

It’s not just a consolidation exercise, but a data synchronisation one and the challenge is to mitigate the impact of data and network latency, which usually increases the further apart datacentres are located from each other. The response has traditionally to place each datacentre in close proximity to themselves. Such as strategy for reducing latency is risky, because if a natural disaster were to occur the two datacentres could be affected and this would put your organisation’s ability to operate in jeopardy. Not only that, it could damage your reputation and lead to downtime and financial losses.   

So, if your company or its products are reliant on video data, then there is a need to seek an approach that permits both datacentres to be placed outside of their respective circles of disruption – at a distance from each other. The answer isn’t to use WAN optimisation as this can’t deal with data compression efficiently. Instead data acceleration tools such as PORTrockIT should be deployed to allow encrypted and compressed video data to flow without being hindered by data and network latency, and it can reduce jitter that can spoil the viewing experience.  

Read the complete article on IT Pro Portal.  

Published by IT Pro Portal on 29th August 2017. By-lined to David Trossell, CEO and CTO of Bridgeworks. #Bridgeworks. #YearInReview

 

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