Balancing the cloud and home cloud for multiscreen Pay TV

Charles Cheevers, CTO, CPE Solutions at ARRIS, explains when it makes sense to deliver premium content direct from the cloud to multiscreen devices around the home and when operators need to use a ‘home cloud’ solution, taking broadcast feeds and transcoding them locally. He explains why a hybrid approach is common today, how the industry will slowly move towards more cloud delivery, and how smart gateways will be able to decide, dynamically, whether to request content from the cloud or the local transcode resources