A world-first video encoding breakthrough has come not from AWS Elemental, Synamedia, Harmonic, Telestream, or Vitec but from an unlikely source in UK-based Open Broadcast Systems – claiming the first encode/decode platform supporting 100 Gigabit Ethernet. The engineering exploit will further shepherd the transition of broadcasters from SDI to IP and cloud-based video infrastructure. Faced with strong customer demand for bulk encoding from ST-2110 (the video-over-IP suite of standards) to MPEG-TS (Transport Stream) or SRT (Secure Reliable Transport) streams, the result of Open Broadcast Systems’ leap forward is a “game-changer” for customers in the business of live video delivery. Sky, Warner Bros Discovery, and IMG are three clients Open Broadcast Systems can name publicly which are currently on 25 Gigabit…