Opportunities in Online Video Streaming in a Post-COVID-19 World
Peter Wielgosz, CEO of European deep tech startup POLAR HPC Solutions Limited, discusses the opportunities that the coronavirus quarantine measures have created in the online video streaming space.
Video streaming has developed into a popular form of entertainment throughout the lockdown period that has affecting many economies around the world. However, new applications have further increased demand for streaming services, pushing network capabilities to the limit.
With the current Internet infrastructure unable to shoulder this new demand, the market is demanding a solution.
Unfortunately, many attempts to improve the speed and quality of streaming services are topical at best because they do not address the crux of the problem. The mathematics used to facilitate the transmission of video via the Internet are unable to scale to meet increased demand because they are computationally complex.
This means that, as demand for higher quality video streams increases, so do the number of calculations per pixel to the point that HD video streams require a tremendous amount of power.
Peter describes POLAR’s groundbreaking solution which decreases code complexity of the software used to compress video files and also accelerates that software on proprietary-built hardware devices that further lower latency and energy costs.
For the same number of computational tasks, POLAR’s codec would require fewer hardware resources due to its superior computational speed, and this in turn directly influences data centre savings.
The solution presented by POLAR offers a unique opportunity for interested investors.
To find out more about how POLAR’s solution for the online video streaming industry can be of benefit to your data centre, please visit: http://www.polarhpc.com
