Is your enterprise video ready to adapt to modern network architecture?

Enterprise networks are changing. As organizations move applications to the cloud, adopt direct internet access, and shift security controls toward cloud-delivered models such as SASE and Zero Trust, offices are becoming less dependent on traditional hub-and-spoke corporate networks.

One increasingly common model is often referred to as Coffee Shop Networking. Rather than backhauling traffic through a central corporate network, users at a branch or office can connect more directly to cloud applications and the internet, with security and access policies enforced through cloud-based services.

Most enterprises will not make this transition everywhere at once. Traditional corporate networks, SD-WAN environments, and Coffee Shop Networking architectures often coexist as organizations modernize location by location.

For enterprise video, that evolution introduces an important consideration.

An eCDN reduces bandwidth consumption by allowing viewers at the same location to share video locally, rather than requiring every viewer to retrieve an independent stream across the internet connection. Traditionally, private IP ranges have provided useful network context for identifying which devices belong to a particular site.

In newer network architectures, that relationship is not always as clear. Different offices may use overlapping or identical private IP ranges, meaning a private IP address alone may no longer provide enough information to reliably determine where a viewer is physically located.

Network modernization also has implications beyond video distribution. As network topology becomes more dynamic, organizations still need to understand the experience viewers are receiving, identify problems during important broadcasts, and determine whether locations are ready to support the video experiences being planned.

Hive eCDN is designed to support customers through this transition by incorporating additional network context into how viewers are identified and grouped.

For eligible locations that do not match an explicitly defined site, Hive can use public egress information alongside local network information to identify viewers that share the same network location and enable local peering. This allows those viewers to exchange video locally, reducing the number of duplicate streams that need to enter the office through its internet connection.

The result is that organizations can continue to benefit from efficient enterprise video delivery even as different parts of their network evolve at different speeds. Hive specialists can evaluate a customer’s architecture, connectivity, and configuration to determine where these capabilities can be applied.

Hive brings those capabilities together through eCDN delivery, video experience analytics, real-time operational visibility, and readiness testing.

As enterprise networks change, the architecture supporting video needs to change with them. Hive helps organizations maintain reliable, efficient video experiences across traditional corporate networks, modern internet-first locations, and the hybrid environments that exist between them.