Amsterdam is preparing once more to host a melting pot of products and services in the low-latency streaming department, and a perfect primer for IBC 2024—two weeks from now—is a new report claiming that Zixi’s dominance will be countered by the rise of alternative protocols. The forecast’s focus, from Faultline’s sister service Rethink TV, is on the open internet contribution protocol part of the video assembly line. It forecasts a modest market increase from a little under $2 billion in 2024, to nearly $2.6 billion in 2029, which some of the chief flagbearers in this industry might say is underwhelming, even undermining. However, the key cut of this forecast is the cloud slice – covering the three segments of initial…