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GV STRATUS Cloud Hybrid
Playout System Launches
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t NAB, Grass Valley announced
new media services for its
market-leading GV STRATUS
Nonlinear Media Production Tools.
The new GV STRATUS Playout
is a secure and native cloudbased automation playout
control solution hosted through
Microsoft's Windows Azure system
to orchestrate on-site media

playout via SSD-based SSP-3801
playout cards that ﬁt within the
Densite modular platform.
GV STRATUS Playout employs a
hybrid cloud approach. Customers
retain full control of the location and
movement of their broadcast media
assets. Ingest, content preparation,
and asset management remain
on-site, with control and data
management in the cloud.
"Broadcasters, although
conservative in their
workﬂow choices, have
been trying to leverage
the cloud to increase
revenues and take cost
and complexity out of
GV STRATUS Playout
offers secure cloud-based
automation playout control

their playout operations. They have
not had much success, but that
changes with GV STRATUS Playout,"
said Mike Cronk, Senior Vice
President of Strategic Marketing,
Grass Valley.
"With the GV STRATUS Playout
solution, content can be further
localised at the edge without
i n c re a s i n g s a t e l l i t e c o s t s .
Additionally, multi-channel playout
operations can get on air quickly
with low up-front costs and a small
footprint and stay nimble for nearly
limitless expansion."
The GV STRATUS SOA allows
customers to combine, and conﬁgure
the precise functional components
they need to build and orchestrate
the most efﬁcient workﬂows for their
unique production environments.

Megacable Deploys Harmonic Headend
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egacable, one of the largest
challenging to provide a consistent
Since deploying the Harmonic
cable TV providers in Mexico,
channel lineup and good video
solution, Megacable has consolidated
has deployed an integrated headend
quality to our customers," said
more than 110 headends situated in
solution from Harmonic to power its
Emerson Sampaio, Chief Technology
cities across its service area down
cable TV services.
Ofﬁcer at Megacable.
to two main headends - located
Employing a high-density, scalable
"Through a unified headend,
in Guadalajara and Veracruz -
architecture that includes Harmonic's
Harmonic's unique video processing
which feed approximately 20
Electra 9200 universal multiservice
and network management solutions
regional headends.
improve our operational efﬁciencies,
From the Guadalajara headend,
encoder, ProStream 9100 with ACE
allowing us to deliver exceptional
Harmonic's Electra 9200 encoders
high-density stream processor and
transcoder, and NMX Digital Service
video quality and uniform channel
provide high-quality, low-bandwidth
Manager video network management
lineup, and to rapidly roll out
MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 AVC encoding
new channels and revenuesolution, Megacable cost-effectively
of SD and HD video content for
delivers high-quality SD and HD
generating services."
Megacable's television services.
video content to set-top boxes
(STBs) located in more than 110
cities throughout Mexico.
"Prior to this installation, we
were managing a variety of
diverse headends around
the country, which made it
Delivering content: Harmonic's Electra 9200 universal multiservice encoder

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Panasonic
VariCam HS
USA: Panasonic used NAB to introduce
its third-generation VariCam HS.
Incorporating AVC-ULTRA video
codecs and high-speed 1080p image
capture for documentary, sports
or SFX slow-motion applications,
it features a modular design.
The VariCam HS 2/3 type
camera head docks with the
AVC-ULTRA recording module.
Providing further flexibility an
umbilical cable can connect the
camera module and the recording
module for "remote" camera head use.

Globecast OTT
Anevia Suite
FRA: Globecast has chosen
Anevia's ViaMotion suite -
Packager, Origin and Edge - to
support its OTT modular solutions.
The platform pairs performance
w i t h s c a l a b i l i t y, e n a b l i n g
Globecast customers to
accelerate the delivery of live,
VoD and live-to-VoD TV services.
A transcoder agnostic platform
Viamotion Plus means that
Globecast can now provide full
content management services
to broadcasters and pay-TV
operators willing to push advanced
VoD features.

High Density
Video Platform
USA: Ericsson launched a new
video processing platform at NAB,
designed for ultra-high density stream
processing and operational reliability.
The first product on the new
platform is the Ericsson AVP 1000
Stream Processor, claimed to
be the most dense and powerful
stream processor of its kind.
Each component and functional
element of the new 2RU platform
has been designed for future
performance needs.

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