The Future is Digital….but much, much faster!
Posted in Distribution, Technology, The State of Content on December 7th, 2009 by chyland – Be the first to comment
The picturesque, if somewhat storm-weathered, town of Dingle in the most south western peninsula of Ireland was the backdrop to Saturday night’s world-first showing of Intune Technologies’ laser-based next-generation network (NGN) technology.
In the front foyer and backrooms of Benners Hotels on Main Street, Dingle, locals and visitors could watch a live, high definition transmission of a rare performance of Snow Patrol and an extended entourage of Irish musicians (16 in total!) from St. James’ Church across the road.* Those with iPhones could also watch the show without any of the usual lags or video outages.
The broadcast was delivered over an optical burst packet switched fibre network, which came through on its promise of uninterrupted, premium quality content – something that has been unachievable before now. The implications are massive for future content delivery.
Just consider the traffic generated by the BBC iPlayer – the iPlayer generates 20-25% of UK (pop 60M) Telecom Traffic after two years from only 1.5m subscribers in 2008.
With Intune Networks Technologies underpinning the next-generation web, humans’ addiction to video will grow exponentially, with digital content multiplying by a factor of 10 over the next five years to take the volume into Zetabytes.
* I was lucky enough to have a seat in pew no.4. in a total audience count of 60 – an amazing Saturday show in The Other Voices Series, due to be shown on RTE from Wednesday Jan 14th 2010.