Vbrick recently launched Vbrick Distribution to help networks deliver live and on-demand video, following a boom in the industry.
Demand for live stream video events has increased by 14% following the pandemic, Wainhouse research shows. As a result, a number of enterprises have been unable to support this level of network usage.
The newly published research, carried out in December 2021 and compared against a pre-pandemic survey in 2019, indicates that two years of remote work have changed the way employees engage with streaming video content.
With the shift to remote and hybrid work, the average daily workflow has undergone huge changes. Video conferencing has become the norm and applications like Microsoft Teams and Zoom have become household names. Town halls are now frequently used as live streaming venues, broadcasting to team members around the world.
As meetings and events have moved online, an extra load has been placed on the corporate network. Streaming video can easily overwhelm enterprise networks that aren’t designed to handle it. Without an eCDN, every time someone clicks to watch a video, a unique streaming session is started. Multiplying that by 100 or 10,000 could result in a slow network and a poor user experience, as well as create problems for technical teams.
David Jeyes, Director of Product Management at Vbrick, said: "Video usage was already exponentially growing in the enterprise even before our forced remote work experiment over the last couple of years, and it has only continued to accelerate.
"What we have seen is video habits have changed. People are bringing in new tools as they figure out how to collaborate remotely, and they are starting to bring those habits back as return to office is kicking off.
"It creates an unpredictable situation for a lot of our customers and prospects because return to office is not a light switch; you cannot just turn it on and off easily."
Many organisations are transitioning to hybrid working on a division-by-division basis and giving their employees freedom and flexibility in the meantime, Jeyes says.
For IT teams, it can be difficult to predict the upticks in network loads. According to the Wainhouse research, hybrid teams are likely to require more access to on-demand video than any other group.
Some businesses may also be returning to their offices to find that their network configuration may not be working as well as when they left it.
Vbrick Distribution eCDN Solution
Vbrick recently launched Vbrick Distribution, a flexible, secure, and scalable eCDN (Enterprise Content Delivery Network) solution, which can work with any network configuration.
An eCDN can eliminate latency and bandwidth issues associated with streaming video content.
Vbrick says its solution offers flexibility, security, scalability, and real-time network analytics. There is also no limit to the number of office locations, or users Vbrick Distribution can support.
