Virtual Playout in the Cloud

Today's rapidly changing broadcast marketplace necessitates faster channel launch and much more flexible content management, all while dealing with a massive increase in 8K, HD, and UHD data requirements and the ongoing need to reduce infrastructure and production costs. The white paper reflects specifically on these requirements by investigating the possibilities provided by an open broadcast content management and playout scheme, which, unlike all other broadcast technology, is completely deployed in the Cloud.

In Conversation with Symply a Global Distribution Brand

In this interview, Alex Grossman (Chief Marketing Officer, Symply a Gobal Distribution Brand) talks to IABM TV about Symply Workspace, an expandable desk-side multi-user storage solution for collaborative editing.

Covid success story: Zixi

The current climate has certainly spurred a movement towards the virtualization of broadcast media infrastructure. Zixi’s Software-Defined Video Platform can help media companies navigate this transition expertly, without sacrificing continuity of broadcast operations. Despite the challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, Zixi has been able to provide continuity and quality of service, both within the company and for our clients and partners.

Future Trends Channel Cloud and Virtualization Panel

We have gathered a panel of expert vendors to find out how their customers are embracing cloudification and the dematerialization of media operations, including innovative technology solutions to address social distancing, at-home production and distributed media workflow.

Pixel Power

Pixel Power develops software-defined, virtualizable, solutions for broadcast playout, automation, master control, graphics & branding used in linear television channels, OTT and VOD. Our award-winning branding and promotions systems, graphics-enabled master control switchers and sophisticated switchable graphics production systems allow producers to deliver dynamic live and pre-recorded content for any SD, HD, 4k, mobile, online or interactive application. Pixel Power has 33 years’ experience of engineering prowess and dedication to customer support that has made it the industry’s first choice in playout, graphics and branding. With several thousand installations worldwide, customers include market-leading broadcasters such as BBC, Ericsson, ITV, SWR, WDR, TV2 Norway, Danmarks Radio, TV5 Monde, CBC, Disney, Discovery, ESPN, ViaSat and Sky. Recently acquired by Rohde & Schwarz GmbH, Pixel Power corporate headquarters are in Cambridge UK with regional offices in Grass Valley California and Dubai UAE.

How cloud and IP are transforming media operations and productions

The COVID 19 pandemic has accelerated the ongoing transformation of the media landscape and its new modes of consumption and businesses are constantly under pressure to meet end-user needs that are becoming more and more demanding. Consumer’s expectations today include a larger choice of content, a personalized viewing experience, broadcast-grade video quality and ubiquitous availability – consume everywhere, anytime, on any device and connection. Learn more about the acceleration of cloud and virtualization for media production.

How to profit of state of the art KVM systems within virtualization and hybrid infrastructures

Andreas Gerlach, Field Application Engineer at G&D, introduces the RemoteAccess-CPU, which lets you integrate virtual machines into existing KVM matrix installation.

Shedding light on the Cloud in broadcast production

Cloud technology brings high expectations for our industry especially in terms of scalability, reusability and remote access. But deploying a full public cloud solution still comes with its set of challenges. Through real-world use cases, we’ll show how broadcasters and content creators can make their way around and across the current barriers of the cloud, by leveraging other emerging technologies or by deploying hybrid models that serve to fulfill their desire for more future-ready production infrastructures.

Remote Headend Management

This presentation shows you ways to leverage the equipment you have today to build enough flexibility so that you can produce, switch, and diagnose remotely. The presentation will also cover the options for moving video around the Internet, both for monitoring in consumer devices (protocols such as RTMP and HLS) and for low-latency, high-quality contribution (protocols such as the Reliable Internet Stream Transport – RIST).

Building your own serverless media management system

In this presentation, we’ll look at the theory of how a serverless approach could work, and then walk through a practical example, using standard interfaces to provision services and create and publish a customized web application for searching, managing and viewing video.

Virtual Playout in the Cloud