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SUSTAINABILITY BREAKDOWN

Significantly improved processing throughout, shaving as much as half off infrastructure requirements 60% LESS COMPUTE

Content-aware delivery efficiencies to further reduce infrastructure load 50% LESS BANDWIDTH

70% LESS

CARBON

Added support for ultra-efficient ARM processors, enabling exponentially efficient resource utilisation, including new AWS Graviton 2/3 processors, delivering enormous leaps in performance while reducing carbon footprint

Awarded DPP Sustainability shelf for developing innovative sustainability solutions

As well as making its platform more efficient, the company has been subjecting the environmental impact of its day-to-day operations to scrutiny. “We are as mindful as possible of our business practices,” says Brooks, who agrees with the suggestion that the pandemic has increased the industry’s acceptance of remote working. “For example, we have reduced our travel requirement considerably. Unless there is a specific

around 100 people. “We have a primary headquarters in Waltham, Massachusetts, US and a factory in Tel Aviv, Israel, along with people in Asia, Europe and Latin America. But most of those are based out of their homes,” states Brooks. Looking ahead, Brooks is confident of further enhancements to SDVP’s efficiency, thanks in no small part to the vision of Zixi chief technology officer and founder Uri Avni. “He is brilliant and knows this space so well having worked in it for many years now,” he concludes. “Whenever he sets his mind to something, he studies it from all angles in order to get the best possible result. For specific next steps, we will be looking at GPUs and how that whole aspect can become more efficient – it’s an incredibly exciting area.”

it’s also the right thing to do whether or not they are especially involved. Certainly, if you can present the economic benefits – and with such big reductions in energy consumption that’s not hard to do – then more and more people will engage with the topic. As I know from a recent online event in which I participated, ‘sustainability with payback’ is a term that is used a lot these days.”

training session or a meeting that calls for in-person attendance, we don’t require people to go into the office.” In any case, the company itself is

WHEN WE LAUNCH ZIXI BROADCASTER V17 FOR IBC 2023, THAT FIGURE WILL RISE TO 14X MORE EFFICIENT

streamlined, with a global workforce of

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