The EBU is leading a 21-company consortium developing online delivery combining distributed edges connected via a satellite backhaul, which “improves playout quality and should reduce traffic costs by ingesting content as close as possible to the end user”, said Bram Tullemans, Senior Project Manager, EBU. “The project is called 5G-Emerge as it uses 5G technologies to achieve convergence.”
This is transparent to the audience as their media applications are redirected to local caches on the far edge. “These distributed edges could be deployed near 5G base stations, for example, or in local routers in homes or cars, or at a 5G base station on a ship,” he explained.
For content providers, the ecosystem functions as a normal (multi-) CDN setup. Satellite networks deliver multicast streams of popular content, jumping over busy interconnection points. Content to fill…
