More Video Training Doesn't Have to Cripple Your Bandwidth

As the digital landscape evolves, businesses are recognizing the dominance of video in our society. Organizations are turning to video content as a powerful tool to engage with their frontline, disseminate information, and facilitate the onboarding process for new employees. Sandvine’s 2021 Mobile Internet Phenomena Report found that video now accounts for 48% of all traffic on mobile networks, which further exemplifies how our engagement with video content is at an all-time high.

IT departments for organizations big and small are increasingly being asked to support a larger volume of video content that can be distributed throughout the business. While those less familiar with IT infrastructure may not fully grasp the complexities of this request, your IT team understands the immense challenge of supporting video content, PoS, inventory, and time management systems simultaneously.

Videos tend to consume a significant amount of bandwidth, whether they are being uploaded to the company server or streamed to various business locations across the country. However, the advancements in mobile content management systems in recent years have rendered the commonly held notions about the bandwidth requirements of video content somewhat obsolete.

As the pressure mounts to distribute more and more video content for your organization, take solace in the fact that increased video content doesn't have to overwhelm your bandwidth. Let's explore some ways in which you can minimize the impact of video content on your bandwidth, ensuring that you can provide an exceptional user experience without compromising the stability of your network.

Synchronize Instead of Stream

If you maintain your entire network, you’re likely leaning on your Quality of Service (QoS) to prioritize traffic within your company’s network. Your QoS is responsible for dependably running high-priority applications without exceeding the limits of network capacity. Unfortunately, an in-network QoS often creates unreliable, constantly buffering video experiences for end users.

To alleviate your reliance on QoS technologies and enable users to watch video content instantaneously, opt for a mobile content management system that allows you to push and sync your video content to live locally instead of streaming it.

While streaming video content requires an active connection and continuous bandwidth, pushing and syncing video content can take place in the background while devices are sleeping. You can even schedule when and where your video content is synchronized to ensure you’re using bandwidth at a time when it’s not in high demand.

Store Video Content Locally

When you choose to sync instead of stream video content, you’re empowering your mobile workforce to access the information they need when and where they need it. Synchronizing video content in the background of corporate mobile devices enables you to push the edge of the internet all the way down to the individual store. 

While offloading content and storing it on local devices may seem like a big undertaking, platforms like PlayerLync can centralize the video synchronization process through a sophisticated, user-friendly application. An all-in-one solution to storing video content locally will greatly reduce the load put on your network and ensure bandwidth is freed up to handle other core responsibilities. 

Compression is the Key

It’s easy to imagine that storing all enterprise video content locally and pushing that content onto each individual mobile device would require an excess of network bandwidth. 

Luckily, content compression enables your organization to move mountains of video content while only using a fraction of standard bandwidth. Once you’ve properly compressed all video content, you’ll have no trouble syncing it across your networks and delivering the best end user experiences possible.

High-quality video content can fill up servers in a heartbeat. To free up network bandwidth and ensure your end users aren’t at the mercy of their WiFi connection, compress your video content so that you’re able to sync and push more content while using less bandwidth.

PlayerLync Empowers Your Mobile Workforce

If you’re ready to prepare your business, employees, and processes for the future and position them for long-term success, PlayerLync is here to help. Our proven technological solutions give frontline employees instant access to the current, personalized content they need to translate corporate strategy into exceptional service.

From content compression to overarching mobile content management, our team is dedicated to tailoring our technical skills and services to the individual needs of your organization. If you want to learn more about our solutions or if you’d like to request a demo, don’t hesitate to contact us today.