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companies better protect , manage , store , and access their active and archived content . It combines resources to allow companies to take advantage of predictable costs , faster workflows , and the advanced scalability of cloud services . Plume : Data insights from Plumepowered home networks shows that although workers have returned to offices , the number of people online at home during the working day remains higher than the pre-COVID norm . Quickplay : More remote work and virtual collaboration provides flexibility and reduces our carbon footprint , but it makes coordination at critical times and group problem solving more difficult . Both activities benefit from face to face interaction . Onboarding new team members is also harder , as culture is hard to transmit over video alone . RIST : Although there has been some return to the office since COVID , many media businesses are continuing to encourage flexibility and a work-fromanywhere ethos . They have also found a need for fewer heads on site during production , thanks largely to a shift to less cumbersome , cloud-based workflows . The benefits of IP video contribution have stuck around and will likely continue to garner support . Rohde & Schwarz : The industry has settled in to a new normal . Processes that can be automated , or at least partially automated , can be managed remotely , and this is increasingly the case . But creativity depends on close collaboration , so successful production and post depends upon a return to campus . You simply get better results that way . Signiant : When the world locked down in 2020 , we saw an explosion of usage on our platform as the industry turned to remote work to keep content flowing . At this point , remote work looks here to stay . While many people are back in the office , hybrid approaches appear to be the norm . Many companies are making these solutions more permanent parts of their operations so their teams can work from anywhere and so they can easily tap into the global talent pool . Telestream : The latest IP technologies have been key to enabling the transition to remote production workflows by supporting centralised and agile production teams . However , remote production workflows that rely on media transported over the public Internet can be blind to problems that might occur to the content being transported . So , it ’ s paramount that the media quality within the
stream is monitored along the path . Torque Video Systems : The 24-hoursper-day nature of television makes 100 % remote work infeasible . Some engineering and operation staff will always be needed on-site to make sure things stay running . Witbe : The most effective new tools and methods of collaboration , born out of necessity during lockdown , have endured despite teams returning to in-person work . It ’ s clear that many companies invested in their operational procedures during lockdown , as their new practices reflect in the continued high quality of their services . Zixi : The lockdown really accelerated a trend that had already been underway . A combination of dematerialised cloud infrastructure , ubiquitous high-speed internet and the evolution of lowlatency video delivery over IP networks has enabled media organisations to collaboratively produce and distribute video leveraging from anywhere without sacrificing quality .
What effect has there been on virtualised / cloud-based services ? 7fivefive : Virtualised and cloudbased services now need to facilitate and support entire post-production workflows , which often involve the transfer and processing of large files by teams working remotely with limited bandwidth capabilities . Virtualised workflows have had to adapt to this at scale , meaning wider use of remote desktop protocols that need as little as 20Mb to edit remotely with ease . Accedo : The pandemic has accelerated the uptake of cloudbased services , meaning that many new media businesses are now starting out with their operations in the cloud and most existing ones have at least some elements based in cloud systems . Cloud-based and virtualised services have played an integral role in helping to deliver content in various formats to multiple platforms with ease . Broadband Forum : There have been increased calls from operators for improved quality and user experience , and that is why the broadband industry continues to migrate to software defined open networks . Cinedeck : For media production teams , virtualised and cloud-based services have not only grown in popularity , the confidence in them has also improved . This confidence means many organisations have continued to support cloud workflows , which is helping the infrastructures surrounding the cloud to also improve . Codemill : Virtualised and cloud-based services are adaptable by nature and therefore have been able to respond to the varying needs of different media businesses . Events of the past few years have sparked a greater uptake of cloud-native solutions and browser-based workflows . Mediaproxy : The adoption of virtual and cloud-based operations was happening prior to the pandemic but as is now almost a cliché , the need to react to the Covid crisis accelerated the up-take of these ways of working . This acted almost as a proof of concept for the broadcast and facilities sectors , that are now actively moving towards the cloud for at least some operations . This does not mean on-prem working is being abandoned , just that there is now a choice of
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