Streaming toward television’s future: A detailed look at 4K video and how Akamai is making it a reality

Among the first order of business for 4K video is bandwidth, particularly the last-mile kind. Although there’s quibbling about exactly how much oomph is needed to faithfully render ultra-high definition images on screens, the early consensus is that 4K will demand downstream throughput of 15-20 megabits per second, minimally – and as always, more is better. Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, for instance, said he thinks a steady rate of 15Mbps is sufficient to do the job. “It’s around 15 megabits per second,” Hastings said in an interview from the 2013 Copenhagen Future of TV Conference. “It’s not too bad.”

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The Use of Virtual Reality to Promote Sustainable Tourism: A Case Study of Wooden Churches Historical Monuments from Romania

whitePaper | April 30, 2021

The accelerated development and expansion of cultural tourism in areas with unique tourist objectives, characterised by a high degree of risk in terms of their physical and chemical integrity, requires sustained efforts by all stakeholders to identify new methods, techniques, and procedures for their conservation, protection, and capitalisation, with respect to tourism. The aim of this study was to propose an optimal methodology for capitalising on tourism related to wooden churches, regarded as a structural item of tangible cultural heritage, with positive effects on theprotection, conservation, information, and awareness of all stakeholders in tourism development.

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ARC Whitepaper

whitePaper | January 1, 2023

The development of Web3 has traditionally been a slow and tedious process. It’s plagued by communication problems between technical and non-technical team members. Moreover, web3 (not unlike web2) is littered with malicious and bad actors exploiting seemingly unavoidable security flaws and oversights. ARC’s development ecosystem offers solutions for speed, cost, scalability, and security. ARC achieves this through our suite of tools that make product development and deployment easier and more secure, each in its own unique way. Our development ecosystem not only streamlines the way web3 applications get developed but also has far-reaching implications on the way data gets managed across the web.

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Uncompressed Media Over IP On Amazon Web Services (AWS)

whitePaper | October 6, 2022

As part of the ongoing transition to Internet Protocol (IP) networks for media workflows, the media and entertainment industry has developed new IP standards for transporting broadcast signals. This white paper offers guidance to help broadcasters and media organizations transition to IP, and demystifies common misconceptions when using the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) 2110 standards and associated IP infrastructure. It provides details explaining why organizations transition from traditional Serial Digital Interface (SDI) to IP workflows using SMPTE 2110 standards and covers important topics related to workflow design, synchronization, and clocking, including relevant standards to support uncompressed contribution. It also provides details around Networked Media Open Specifications (NMOS) registration and discovery on an IP network.

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Exploring the metaverse and the digital future

whitePaper | February 15, 2022

The GSMA is a global organisation unifying the mobile ecosystem to discover, develop and deliver innovation foundational to positive business environments and societal change. Our vision is to unlock the full power of connectivity so that people, industry and society thrive. Representing mobile operators and organisations across the mobile ecosystem and adjacent industries, the GSMA delivers for its members across three broad pillars: Connectivity for Good, Industry Services and Solutions, and Outreach

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Build Modern Data Streaming Analytics Architectures on AWS

whitePaper | May 17, 2022

Modern data architecture is about using the right tool for the job. It acknowledges that a “one size fits all” approach leads to compromise, and a solution that is not optimized for anyone. With modern data architecture, customers can integrate a data lake, data warehouses, and purpose-built data services, together with a unified governance layer, to create a system without boundaries, enabling data-driven decisions

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2019 U.S. Music Consumption Year End Report

whitePaper | January 31, 2020

As a result of consumers continuing to move more towards streaming music, ondemand stream consumption now represents 85% of all music consumption in the United States; a 7.6-point jump over 2018 (77%). On-demand audio stream consumption in 2019 set a record high with 705 billion streams, up 32% over 2018’s 534.6 billion audio streams. While album sales and song sales continued to decline, 23% and 26% respectively, vinyl album sales in 2019 experienced another double-digit growth year; up 10.5% over 2018. The 2019 BuzzAngle U.S. music report is filled with many more stats on all forms of consumption. We hope you enjoy this year’s report and we welcome your feedback.

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