The digital revolution, and the data explosion that has accompanied it, has transformed the world — and in turn increased the need for people to send and share information across a massively interconnected world. This is particularly true in media where file sizes keep getting bigger, workflows continue to become more global and more complex and security threats are top-of-mind. Media companies of all sizes need to move ever more data, over ever greater distances, at ever faster speeds. The parallel advances in computer storage, networking, and processing have all enabled this transformation, but a bottleneck has been left at the core of the standard transport layer of this global digital ecosystem. The Internet Protocol (IP) networks that carry the traffic aren’t being used optimally for sending large data sets over long distances, and enterprises needing to send large files quickly, safely, and reliably face an ongoing challenge.
