But one of the most worrying models predicts that electricity use by ICT could exceed 20% of the global total by the time a child born today reaches her teens, with data centres using more than one-third of that (see ‘Energy forecast’) 1. What could happen in the future is hard to forecast. That puts ICT’s carbon footprint on a par with the aviation industry’s emissions from fuel. Data centres contribute around 0.3% to overall carbon emissions, whereas the information and communications technology (ICT) ecosystem as a whole - under a sweeping definition that encompasses personal digital devices, mobile-phone networks and televisions - accounts for more than 2% of global emissions. That is more than the national energy consumption of some countries, including Iran, but half of the electricity used for transport worldwide, and just 1% of global electricity demand (see ‘Energy scale’). Now, along with other compressed and uncompressed sources found in production environments, they have native support for JPEG XS signals as well.Already, data centres use an estimated 200 terawatt hours (TWh) each year. This addition allows our customers to use the latest compression technologies for cloud workflows with confidence that they can probe, decode display and analyze JPEG XS sources at the input. One platform, our MCM-9000, empowers customers with the latest tools and solutions to reach remote and cloud-based production quickly and with Zero Friction®, providing true scalability and economics in the cloud. TAG is proud to have the only all IP software- based and cloud-based probing and monitoring system that supports JPEG XS in the cloud.
Low latency combined with compression allows these high-quality signals to transit over available and economical network connections resulting in reduced costs and increased operational agility.Īdded Joyce, “Flexibility is another benefit for our customers. While the format provides a pristine image quality – critical in live production, its extremely low latency unlocks another key to successful remote operation and real-time switching in the cloud. Optimized for contribution, JPEG XS allows customers to preserve their original content fidelity as they transfer content from live events between and within 2110 facilities and the cloud for remote production applications. We’re also the only monitoring, probing and multiviewing solution that offers both JPEG 2000 and JPEG XS support without requiring a GPU or FPGA, which allows our customers to run in much more economical cloud instances.” So, it was a no- brainer for us we added support to our MCM-9000 platform, the first in a cloud monitoring platform to offer it natively. JPEG XS potentially reduces cloud bandwidth and network utilization by 90% without sacrificing quality or latency. Said Joyce, “Finding a workable, effective and budget-pleasing path to production in the cloud using compression technologies is becoming a huge priority for our broadcast customers. He explained, however, that support for JPEG XS appeals to a much broader audience. Adding support for JPEG XS to TAG’s MCM-9000 probing, monitoring and multiviewing platform allows customers to directly and natively monitor and view JPEG XS sources, eliminating the need to decode or convert them to other standards.Īccording to Kevin Joyce, TAG’s Zer0 Friction Officer, integration of JPEG XS into the MCM-9000 was instigated by FOX for its cloud Media Center in Tempe, Arizona running in AWS to enable low-latency, cloud-based playout for live workflows, and also by NBC Olympics for coverage in Tokyo.
JPEG XS provides all the benefits of uncompressed IP workflows over long-distance remote and cloud production environments without the expense and complexity of engineering and implementing an uncompressed network and cloud connectivity. JPEG XS is a format that answers the need for visually lossless quality with microseconds delay – significant concerns as more broadcasters seek to migrate their live production workflows to the cloud where overall contribution quality and latency are critical. TAG Video Systems, the leader in realtime cloud-based monitoring of linear video workflows once again sets an industry first by supporting JPEG XS to allow live production in the cloud. Enhancement answers need for outstanding quality, decreased latency