There have been many, many words written recently about remote production, indeed the wider world of remote working generally, spurred on by significantly increased use during the pandemic. But remote production didn’t suddenly spring up overnight, either as a concept or reality.
Let’s step back first. We’ve seen huge growth in the use of IP bonding across sports, especially in the last five years: from single-camera streaming to complex, multi-camera productions, often on the move. From the Rugby World Cup, where LiveU technology was used not only to gather content but also as a disaster recovery solution by ITV Sport, to the FIA World Rally Championship, Austrian football and facilitating coverage of the Spanish lower leagues, the list goes on.
Accompanying that growth has been the rise of remote production. Why is that? What are the benefits?
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The global video streaming industry is a multi-billion-dollar market that’s enabled streaming services of every size to succeed. Yet, with great success comes new risks and responsibilities. The rapid growth of streaming services means that they are now not only home to high-value content but, in some cases, data from millions of customers. Cybercriminals now see streaming services as a treasure trove and are eager to mine premium content and users’ data including, customer payment details, email addresses, physical addresses, and names. Inevitably, the more successful a streaming service is, the more personal data it has, which makes it an increasingly attractive proposition to cybercriminals because they have a greater surface area to attack. Growing pains in these organizations can lead to an increase in cyberattacks that take advantage of the vulnerabilities specific to OTT platforms and technologies.
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Digital content has grown exceedingly in the last decade, both in size and type. With streaming taking the lead, consumption habits and the level of intricacies in content management have also grown complex. The legacy methods to backends always ended up in monoliths, which allowed little to no interoperability or expandability. Modern service-oriented architectures further pose unique challenges, commercially and technically. Let's look at how to develop, manage, orchestrate, and deploy an ideal service-oriented architecture.
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Xytech simplifies the complex operations of broadcasters, network operators and media facilities with the resource management software, MediaPulse, by integrating resource, order and asset management into a single solution. Accessed by a highly configurable web-based UI, MediaPulse can be hosted on premise or in the cloud using the Microsoft Azure platform with data centers convenient to your location. MediaPulse offers scalable solutions to meet your budget, optimizing the scheduling of valuable production resources, delivering a holistic view of feeds on your network and manages complex media-based workflows. Designed with integration in mind, MediaPulse can be easily connected to your existing eco-system. Headquartered in Los Angeles and with regional offices in New York, London, Germany and China, Xytech has successfully delivered innovative solutions to their media and broadcast customers for over 30 years and have provided over 500 software deployments in more than 20 countries around the world.
