Looking to the Cloud for Multiscreen Video Contribution Management

In today's highly complex video and broadcast operations, broadcasters are constantly challenged to reliably deliver low-latency, high-quality video to multiscreen audiences on-air and online. Media operations have plenty to learn from today's corporate IT environments, many of which have migrated to a virtualized computing model that shifts processing away from physical hardware on premises and locates critical functions, such as video distribution, in the cloud. In this presentation, we will describe a cloud-based management system for a broadcast facility that performs routing of contribution content and online publishing services within a virtual, centralized cloud infrastructure, while providing real-time and historical analytics. The cloud-based setup can manage live feeds, remote transmissions from bonded wireless transmitters, and network feeds, while allowing users to also record and transfer files effortlessly. Acting as a type of virtual sub-router for the main HD router, this solution integrates into a wide range of broadcast IP-based workflows and gives the operator a single dashboard for managing contribution assets and viewing and routing content—thereby offering a powerful toolset for simultaneously distributing low-latency, high-quality live content across multiple delivery platforms.

Published

2015-07

Content type

Original Research

Keywords

Cloud, Virtualization, High-quality Video, Low Latency, Multiscreen, Cloud Infrastructure, Live Content, Video Over IP

DOI

10.5594/M001608

ISBN

978-1-61482-955-3