Five Key Essentials for the New Generation of Intelligent Video Cloud

Shiwei Xu

Welcome

Videos have already become an important part of social content on the Internet. In the mobile Internet industry, even in all the other industries, enterprises are paying more attention to the production and spread of videos. With the rise of AI and, accordingly, the new trend of Intelligent Plus Video, the intelligent video cloud is bound to become a more mainstream cloud computing service than before.

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Shiwei Xu CEO of Qiniu Cloud

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1. Introduction

Mobile Internet industry in China has seen rapid development in the last decade, leading to a quick expansion and upgrade of IT infrastructure in all industries.

  • The average bandwidth in mainland China reached 52M in 2017, which exceeds many developed countries.
  • The number of devices with mobile Internet access surpassed 1.4 trillion, more than 60% of which had access to the 4G network.
  • With the approaching of 5G network, contents and display methods of videos are becoming increasingly diversified. In addition to basic scenarios such as live broadcasting and VOD, news trends like short videos and real-time audio/video interactions are emerging. Meanwhile, new video technologies will be applied to fields like security protection, health care, education, judicature, and broadcasting.

This article introduces major technical difficulties and challenges during the upgrade of video applications in all industries, proposes five key essentials and relevant reference standards for setting up the new generation of video cloud, and describes how intelligent video cloud help clients accelerate their upgrades with more convenient services at lower costs. In the future, application scenarios and fields of videos will probably become the core step when a company provides products or marketing its services. Also, its scalability perfectly matches the Matthew principle of the Internet. Thus, companies need to fully prepare for massive rich media materials in advance to avoid data disorder.

2. New Scenarios in the Video Era

3. Key Essentials for Intelligent Video Cloud

4. Cost Advantages of Intelligent Video Cloud

5. Added Applications of AI into Intelligent Video Cloud

6. Conclusion: Face unknown challenges from future industry upgrade calmly with flexible intelligent video cloud

Gartner

Forecast Overview: Consumer Video Media Services, Worldwide, 2017 Update

Fernando Elizalde, Amanda Sabia, Derek O'Donnell

14 August 2017

Stand-alone internet-delivered linear television offerings will challenge traditional pay-TV services in the long term. Technology strategic planners at video service providers need to develop a service portfolio roadmap that includes internet-delivered services to increase and retain subscribers.

Overview

This annually updated document contains the forecast market model or methodology and explains the market dynamics and foundational assumptions that underpin our understanding and analysis of the market.

Key Findings

  • Internet-delivered linear pay TV will initially target niche audiences. However, the market is growing fast with the potential to be a major threat to traditional pay-TV services in the long term.
  • The S-VOD market will become more competitive in all regions as the international popularity of Netflix continues enticing more players to launch these services. By 2021, the household adoption rate of S-VOD is expected to reach up to 66% in mature regions and 17% in emerging regions, from as low as 17% and 2%, respectively, in 2016.
  • Worldwide adoption of traditional pay-TV services will remain flat through 2021. While year-over-year adoption in emerging regions will grow by up to 11%, mature regions will experience negative growth as consumers switch to IDLTV/S-VOD alternatives.

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