Heading to the Cloud in 2022

IBC365: Greater adoption of remote production will in turn accelerate the shift of live workflows to the cloud, according to an IBC Digital panel tasked with examining the broadcast and media tech trends that will define 2022.

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Unsurprisingly, having been accelerated by Covid, remote production figured strongly in the discussion among the technology leaders.

As Gordon Castle, SVP for technology and operations in EMEA for Discovery, pointed out, cloud already plays a limited role, with cloud-based contribution used as backups to big events. “What’s going to happen next is that we’re going to move big media processing, vision mixers, communication systems and audio systems all into the cloud,” he said.

“You can do all these things in the cloud today but not at the full scale you need for a big live production,” said Castle, stating that there are two key hurdles.

One is handling the sheer complexity of a large-scale live event with multiple inputs, replays and complex audio mixing. The other is latency.

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