Enabling Broadcast-Quality Video in the Enterprise

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 12:57:00 EDT

Until recently, video in the enterprise was reserved mostly for training or conferencing, but companies are now expanding their use of video to share knowledge with employees and customers. Industry research firm Forrester has found that 45% of business technology users are already watching some type of video for work, while 44% of IT professionals say that their organizations are implementing or planning to implement enterprise IP video for internal use. This trend is expected to continue; a recent Cisco study estimates that by 2013, 55% of all corporate traffic will be video. While video can benefit the way an enterprise shares information and engages with customers, it poses myriad challenges for IT professionals whose job it is to maintain delivery of critical services over the network. For these IT professionals – especially those in large enterprises with many locations and varying bandwidth capabilities – delivering high-quality live and on demand video content to employees anywhere, at any time, can be a huge nightmare. The most significant challenges are guaranteeing security, achieving acceptable performance on all devices, and minimizing network impact.

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Enabling Broadcast-Quality Video in the Enterprise