Software-Defined Media Infrastructures
There are three generations of media infrastructure design patterns; analog, digital and now software-defined. This article outlines the salient aspects of software-defined networking, computing and storage. The focus is on the application of software-defined methods to support media workflows using private and public infrastructures. Considered are the fine tunings needed to use commodity hardware to achieve realtime, high quality, media transport, sync/timing and audiovisual processing. Also covered are methods to scale for workflow loading and reliability.
- Print ISSN
- 1545-0279
- Electronic ISSN
- 2160-2492
- Published
- 2016-08
- Content type
- Original Research
- Keywords
- Software-defined, infrastructure, media, converged systems, cloud, SDDC, web-scale, hyper-converged, SDMI, virtualization
- DOI
- 10.5594/JMI.2016.2581059
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