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InMedia
Encoders & Decoders...
Flexible, reliable
and high-performing
T
oday's
By Adrian Pennington.
broadcasters and service providers
face significant challenges managing complex
workflows across multiple regions while keeping
budgets down. Additionally, ensuring low-latency,
reliable video transmission over IP for live events
is critical, as audiences expect real-time, highdefinition
viewing experiences. The rapid growth in
remote production raises another serious challenge
which is to provide an accurate timing reference
between all the sources and destinations.
These are just the sort of challenges that the
innovations featured here love to solve.
" Broadcasters and service providers must ensure
consistent
branding and meet
local
content
requirements while running everything on reduced
budgets, " says
Stephane Cloirec, VP, Video
Appliances and Software Product Management
at Harmonic. " Traditional
it
difficult and expensive to efficiently
infrastructure makes
tailor
channels with region-specific content, graphics
and advertisements, leading to higher investments
and operational costs, not mentioning logistical
complexity. "
Harmonic's XOS Advanced Media Processor and
VOS®
360 Media SaaS help unlock new levels of
efficiency, lower costs and improve profitability
while ensuring outstanding video quality - a
critical requirement in today's competitive video
streaming and broadcast environment, he says.
" The groundbreaking playout-to-delivery
capability on the XOS Advanced Media Processor
and VOS360 Media SaaS streamlines channel
origination and regionalization by
integrating
advanced playout, sophisticated branding and
premium encoding in a single software-based
solution or SaaS offering. This reduces
complexity - no more interoperability
nightmares, simpler operation - and
speeds up regional customization.
" The financial savings of such an
approach are also twofold: on one
hand customer saves on capex (less
boxes, less racks, less cabling, less
installation manpower), and on the
other hand he saves on OpEx too (less
power consumption, less
cooling,
Harmonic's XOS platform
lower support fees). Overall, this allows projects
that would have been historically impossible to
finance with traditional approaches to come to
life. "
FOR-A's SOAR-A EDGE targets the remote
production sector, where teams face significant
limitations with traditional
point-to-point
connections. The company's
explains, " This
conventional
IP
Peter Hattan,
approach forces
producers, editors, compliance supervisors,
and technical staff
to choose between being
on location or at master control, undermining
the potential benefits of remote workflows. For
major productions, content often needs to reach
multiple destinations simultaneously - from postproduction
houses to producers and executives in
different countries.
" The challenge lies in distributing high-quality
content over lossy networks like the
public
internet
while maintaining
security and low latency. Additionally,
productions
require the ability
handle multiple concurrent
and different
input
to
streams
formats, making
infrastructure management increasingly
complex. "
FOR-A offers
SOAR-A EDGE
Harmonic's Stephane Cloirec
to
addresses these challenges through an
innovative use of RIST (Reliable Internet
Stream Transport) technology. Hattan explains,
" The system creates secure, point-to-multipoint
connections over the public internet, protected
by 256-bit AES encryption. It seamlessly handles
multiple input formats - SDI, SMPTE ST 2110, and
NDI - packaging everything from video and audio to
control signals into secure RIST streams.
" What sets the system apart
is its integrated
WebRTC capability, allowing team members to
monitor feeds through standard web browsers, "
Hattan says. " The platform's cloud-based RIST
servers enable complex routing between multiple
locations, with automatic load-balancing ensuring
optimal
performance.
need
This
proves particularly
valuable for major sports events, where multiple
camera feeds
simultaneous
Video is
routing
between stadium, remote studios, and broadcast
headquarters. "
Matrox®
targeting live production,
including sports, concerts and seminars with
its Matrox Monarch EDGE Series. According to
Product Manager, Wayne Andrews, users in this
field face several challenges, primarily the need
for affordable yet high-quality solutions for remote
production. That's because traditional methods
like deploying satellite trucks or large production
teams are costly.
" Additionally,
ensuring
audiences expect
low-latency,
reliable
video transmission over IP for live events is critical,
as
real-time, high-definition
streams, " he says. " Finally, integration into existing
workflows can also be complex, especially when
handling multiple streams and ensuring postproduction
needs like recording and archiving are
met. "
Monarch EDGE technology
addresses
FOR-A's SOAR-A EDGE server
these
challenges by providing a cost-effective, reliable
solution for live production, Andrews explains.
" By enabling the transmission of low-latency,
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