We are at the beginning of a tsunami of change in the Motion Picture and Television industry. Part is due to the natural disasters in Asia and the other is due to Moore's law.
The Motion Picture and Television industry is very different from other businesses in its Cloud Computing needs. The challenges of moving very large files and the associated problems of upload and download speeds have hampered the use of cloud computing in the past. The 100GbE, standards developed by IEEE (IEEE 802.3ba) and the Advanced Air Interface with data rates of 100 Mbit/s mobile and 1 Gbit/s fixed standards(IEEE 802.16m-2011) may be helping to make Cloud Computing a reality in the Motion Picture and Television industry in the very near term.
If your network needs to send 4 to 6 Gigabits to a single ISP to support a customer event, you need to be sure that your primary transit provider can get the job done. A surprisingly high number of “Tier 1” provider networks have not been keeping up with the changing times or growing to meet continued demand.
As we move these large files around, we may want to keep the following questions in mind:
1) Does the Internet service provider (ISP) provider rely on other ISP providers to move your files?
2) Does the Service Level Agreements (SLAs) cover your traffic once it leaves their network.
3) Does the connection hop off and on the network between you and your customers? If so, you add an order of magnitude to the number of things that can go wrong with each hop of the providers network.
4) Is a 10 GigE port standard with the ISP provider that will be moving video files? .
We may want to look at this as an opportunity to define standards in the Cloud Computing solution for the Motion Picture and Television industry
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