Enterprise Video Streaming – Power to Go Mainstream
Streaming internet video is clearly no passing fad-YouTube is one of the most popular sites on the internet and Video-On-Demand websites like Hulu and Netflix are serving video to a rapidly growing user base. According to industry experts, with advancements in technology and increased bandwidth, users are looking for more effective means of media communication and demanding better content. This is driving the demand for enterprise video streaming.
Enterprise Video Streaming: Uses
While consumers are rapidly transitioning to online video sources for entertainment and education, analysts see streaming media disrupting the enterprise space in three major areas – streaming of corporate events, employee training, and live television feeds. As travel costs continue to escalate and some companies freezing all business travel, video streaming has helped bring employees from remote locations to a single, consolidated platform. Also, streaming video can serve as a scalable and cost-effective platform for spread out enterprises to build and deliver a company-wide training program.
Streaming media for enterprises is another form of knowledge sharing between employees, stakeholders, and customers.
Enterprise Video Streaming: Requirements
Similar to every application in the Web 2.0 space, streaming media requires high-performance IP network deployment. Given the need for a smooth video experience, organizations will need to implement a network management solution that is not only capable of real-time network monitoring, but can also diagnose and isolate performance degradation or other network problems.
Once the network infrastructure is in place, you will need a dedicated server. Servers can run both on proprietary or third-party software. Another element users need to consider when planning a streaming media solution is content generation and capture. Broadcasting video is simple and straightforward, but deciding what to broadcast and the overall look and feel of the package, is equally complex and time-consuming.
If you are looking for a high quality, reliable content delivery service provider, look no further than Ignite. Ignite provides the industry’s most secure and scalable content delivery solution, enabling customers to efficiently publish, deliver, and manage digital assets-from rich media content for training and communications to software patches and virus updates – anytime, anywhere. For more details, visit http://www.ignitetech.com
By: Alice Shown
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Filed under Computers And Technology by on Aug 8th, 2010. 