Faultline’s stomping ground is rife with loaded terms, and contribution is one that means many different things to many different people. Our sister service, Rethink TV, has published its examination of the new crop of open-internet contribution transport protocols, which it says will reach $2.4 billion by 2027. However, most people tend to assume that any mention of contribution refers to the first step in a three-part chain – the initial contribution from a remote location to a centralized production facility. Most do not put much thought toward the cloud-to-cloud contribution links, which shuffle video feeds from one production environment to another, and then the final contribution step, where the video feed is sent into TV headends and CDNs. To…