The Issue Al Jazeera Media Network was pioneering in its adoption of the digital transformation process that began in the media industry a decade ago. In 2006, it launched Al Jazeera English, the first 24-hour international news network to implement a complete High Definition file-based workflow, connecting London, Washington DC, Kuala Lumpur and the headquarters in Doha. While it was groundbreaking at that time to implement a complete file-based workflow in individual locations, the real challenge was to move petabytes of HD video between these locations in a fast, efficient and timely manner. Initially, traditional baseband transfer methods were employed to play out a video file, streaming it over the network, ingesting it on the other location, and editing it for production

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