Digital signage and the Australian National Broadband Network

Monday, May 25th, 2009 at 3:07 pm by DigitalSignageBlog, 1 Comment »

If you haven’t heard, in Australia the Federal Government is planning to spend 43 billion dollars to upgrade the Australian network infrastructure. What’s been interesting is the fact that the government did not award this project to any of the major Telcos – it will all be in house. Well this may potentially mean the infrastructure will not be monopolised by any of the Telcos. This is definitely a good thing for consumers.
Now if you’re a digital signage company you may be wondering how this may impact you. The first thing that popped into my mind was “more bandwidth…. means more bandwidth intensive applications can be used on the digital signage system”.

Here’s a list of things that popped into my mind when this was announced:

stream or cache high definition videos to the screens – this includes live TV, Foxtel, and even live events (Youtube has already introduced the Live Events program)
develop real time applications on the digital signage systems
shorter waiting times for content synchronisations
integrate the digital signage system with wireless hotspots
integrate with the upcoming digital radio services
develop interactive applications that require low latency and high bandwidth
real time monitoring of digital signage networks and quicker troubleshooting/response times

Seeing several opportunities, advertise me will hopefully launch several innovative solutions in the next couple of years so watch this space.