
As published by SVG Europe Simen K Frostad, chairman at Bridge Technologies
The world of sport embodies a beautiful contrast between ideas of simplicity and complexity. The graceful arch of the body as a foot makes contact with the ball, the smooth lines and clean movement of the back and arms as a racket swings to strike; visually, these movements are artful in their purity and simplicity.
But the reality is that underneath lies a world of complexity; nerve impulses that travel in split second speeds (interestingly, different for each system: muscle position travels at 119ms, whilst pain signals travel at 0.61ms and touch signals at 76.2ms), muscle fibres that work together in complex and precise interactions to deliver millimetres of adjustment in movement, coordination between memory, instinct, the senses and the body to anticipate, react and strategise.
Top level athletes work to understand and control these complex actions, training, repeating and refining, so that when it is time to perform, the net result looks simple and effortless. As Greg Hull, manager of UK football team Leeds United has said: Know your sport or event in its utter complexity so you can practice it simply .
Immersion in the moment
There's also a beautiful contrast between simplicity and complexity in the presentation of sports. The end user flicks on a channel on their TV, or makes a selection through their chosen over the top (OTT) provider, and within a single second there is a crystal clear, 4K live broadcast in front of them. The viewing experience must embody pure simplicity for them; any disruption to the broadcast, anything that causes them to leave their chair or fiddle with settings is an utter disruption of their immersion in the moment. It is a lost customer.
And so underneath the production and broadcast process must unravel incredible levels of complexity. Highly technical engineering that moves packets of data across the world; disassembled, assembled, multiplexed, demultiplexed, routed, rerouted. Differing protocol standards, compressed, uncompressed The level of technical engineering knowledge needed to make this happen - and to understand what is happening - is simply immense.
All of these ideas about the interrelated dance of simplicity and complexity resonate strongly with Bridge Technologies, because a philosophy of making the complex simple has always been our core mantra. Sixteen years ago, when we anticipated the way that IP could revolutionise the field of broadcast, we embarked on our mission to develop an unrivalled understanding of packet behaviour across networks. We built a team of engineers who have devoted their careers to the analysis of packets loss and jitter - understanding their distributions and timing planes, and recognising how this impacts things such as image quality, latency and lag - ultimate, the elements which impact the quality of experience (QoE) and quality of service (QoS) experienced by the user.
Leadership founded on understanding
However, understanding packet behaviours on a network was only ever the first part of our mission. Returning to our sports analogy and Greg Hull's statement, a good manager is not just one who has a complex understanding of the game, but who can communicate that understanding and vision to those around him clearly, concisely and effectively to ensure that it is practiced simply, even in cases where the practitioner lacks that highly technical expertise.
It is this translation of complex theory into something that is simple and actionable and that is the hallmark of effective leadership.
And so it is this philosophy of leadership that we used to guide us as we sought to become leaders in the field of network monitoring and analytics. It was not enough that we had unparalleled understanding of network behaviours, we needed to translate this knowledge to something that could be accessed, understood and used by all.
We instinctually knew that visualisation and intuitiveness would lie at the heart of this mission. All the cleverness of what we do is hidden down in the guts of the system. What the network engineer, camera painter or media control room manager sees is clear, readable and simple. It tells them what they need to know about their network, in the way that they need to know it, at the time when it is most important to be known.
This philosophy of intuitive and usable has inspired our strategy through our sixteen year journey, and now permeates not only our individual product design, but our fundamental model of operation. This year sees us move to the development of our new Integrated Services Monitoring' (ISM) model.
When we started in the field, different components of the broadcast market tended to specialise; they generally stayed in their own lane'. It made sense for businesses to develop specific products for individuals, tailored to the specific ways in which they needed to understand and analyse their networks.
Holistic perspective
Today though, as the nature of production and broadcast becomes increasingly merged and hybridised, the deployment of individual, disparate solutions become a less and less tenable approach within the industry. With organisations diversifying to include multiple layers within their media cycle, from production to signal acquisition, contribution streams, OTT, streaming media, traditional broadcast distribution with DTT or satellite, and picture archiving, the deployment of effective and efficient technologies becomes an even higher priority.
Each technological acquisition must work in a versatile, multi-functional, effective manner, maximising decision making capability, and minimising the efficient expenditure of resources; time, space, people and money.
We recognised that leadership in our discipline meant accommodating that need; moving from the specific
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