Spinning up high-performance video encoding should not require a weeks-long infrastructure project or a hyperscaler feature request. Mark Mahle, co-founder and CEO of NetActuate, joins Voices of Video to discuss a network-first approach to global infrastructure as a service, and why the “plumbing”…
Cloud video infrastructure is getting squeezed from both sides: audiences expect better quality and more formats like AV1, while finance teams are staring down cloud bills that don’t scale with reality. We sit down with Sarah Walter from Akamai for a one-year check-in on VPU-accelerated instances…
Swapping the engine while it runs sounds risky - and in production video systems, it is. Hardware acceleration often gets positioned as “faster encoding,” but that’s not what makes engineering teams hesitate. The real challenge is introducing a new compute model without breaking workflows that…
The hardest part of streaming isn’t picking a codec or buying faster hardware. It’s making the whole system work together. In this episode of Voices of Video, Mark Donnigan from NETINT sits down with Joe Waltzer, CEO of Arcadian, to break down the real anatomy of a modern video streaming platform…
The fastest benchmark number is comforting right up until your video system meets the real world. Staging looks stable. Charts look clean. Then production introduces variability at scale: messy networks, mixed content, thermal constraints, I/O bottlenecks, memory pressure, and timing issues that…
“Ramageddon” is what happens when memory pricing goes vertical and suddenly your infrastructure plans no longer pencil out. In this episode of Voices of Video, we talk with Dell Technologies about why video infrastructure is being rebuilt around power limits, cooling realities, and purpose-built…
Your neighbor cheered before your stream - now what? In this episode of Voices of Video, we move past the generic advice to “make it faster” and dig into why latency has become a structural constraint in modern video systems. It’s no longer just a performance metric. It dictates where compute…
Real conversation dies the moment latency enters the room. In this episode of Voices of Video, we break down what truly separates traditional streaming from interactive streaming and why the old playbook of centralized encoding, deep buffers, and best-effort delivery simply cannot support audiences…
What if live video could be small, cool, and endlessly reliable, whether you’re in an OB van, an operating room, or a rail yard? We take you from the edge to the cloud and back again, showing how compact encoders and long-life servers turn constrained spaces and tight power budgets into stable…
