Broadcast Video Servers Market Description, Market Analysis, Product Description, and Company Profiles

Wintergreen Research
July 15, 2007
280 Pages - SKU: WGR1521474
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Broadcast video servers are used to shape flexible on air systems. Integration is a fundamental layer of IT infrastructure, providing connectivity across applications and across platforms. Broadcast video server markets are growing as the broadcast industry changes to adjust to opportunities brought by the Internet and the small screen on wireless handset devices.

Broadcast video servers dominate on air channel adoption. Sports replay and product editing are market driving forces. Integration of servers is a fundamental systems aspect.

Video server technology is being deployed in on air applications across all broadcast segments. Digital systems are vulnerable to lack of security as well as needing to have six nines of high availability, high reliability. New video server systems address these issues by providing solid-state memory to increase reliability. Content owners include television and news stations, but the content originators are extending their position in the market, initiating broadcasting to traditional and nontraditional platforms

With an anticipated 3.5 billion cell phones in use in the next year worldwide, markets are evolving for broadcast to the small format. Digital content providers are proliferating. They have started using streaming video for news broadcasts and other programs, which include on-air services. Increased use of content management solutions to manage digital assets is expected to strengthen the growth of the digital video on air servers market.

Digital asset management helps operators to effectively manage video server solutions. Systems help manage their assets by archiving digital video files for searching, retrieval and re-purposing. A few specialized competitors dominate broadcast server markets.

Video broadcast server market worldwide revenues at $734.2 million in 2006 were up sharply from $513.4 million in 2005. Markets are anticipated to reach $5.6 billion in 2013. The introduction of media broadcasting in more venues will achieve market growth.