Cloud Playout is a proven technology for the specific needs of mission-critical linear television Broadcasting, and the way to go in the future.
Veset develops and markets pioneering cloud playout software-as-a-service solutions enabling broadcasters to create professional linear TV channels and deliver them to any linear television distribution platform.
Veset’s solutions eliminate the need for upfront investments in hardware, long-term commitments or hidden financing arrangements.
Veset Nimbus Cloud Playout – Epeegee
To fully understand key cloud features and benefits, broadcasters should focus on:
- To access and use cloud resources, no specialized, playout-specific, hardware is required. Computing resources can be remotely accessed through the Internet!!
- Pooling computing resources. Users benefit from the cloud provider’s ability to pool computing resources, dynamically sharing physical and virtual resources. This pooling allows for cost reductions through more efficient load utilization. Standards have evolved to ensure that pooling does not come at the expense of security. In fact, many mission-critical enterprise systems now run in the cloud.
- Elasticity. A key feature of the cloud is its ability to scale rapidly in response to demand.
- Redundancy. Computing resources managed as part of cloud technology are combined in such a manner that ensures automatic back up of all resources at any point in time. By default, users can assume that media and other assets are automatically backed up and do not require additional solutions and resources.
Many video content owners use the Veset Nimbus playout platform to originate linear TV channels from the Amazon Cloud. This solution requires no upfront investment nor long-term commitment. It is a fast and economically viable option to create and manage linear TV channels.
With Veset Nimbus Cloud Playout, a channel can be launched, modified, or shut down more quickly than with a traditional broadcasting platform. It can also be delivered to different distribution platforms—both OTT and traditional.
Over 65 linear TV channels operate on the platform. The majority of the channels are in high definition (HD), some are in standard definition (SD), and a few have 4K definition or Ultra HD (UHD). There are 21 customers in 15 countries, including Fashion TV, Ginx TV, XITE, In The Box, ProSiebenSat.1 Puls 4’s Zappn TV, A1 Telekom Austria, Siminn, GospelTruth TV, Levira, and YuppTV.
Channels are distributed through the following methods:
- Traditional broadcast distribution using a multichannel video programming distributor (MPVD) such as satellite, terrestrial, cable, and IPTV headends.
- Over the top (OTT) directly to end users, including YouTube, PlayStation Vue, Samsung, FuboTV, and ZAPPN TV.
The steps to create a channel are as follows:
- Ingest content: Content is ingested from by content owners or fetched from customer-designated repositories (external S3 bucket, FTP, SFTP, and public clouds).
- Input live content: Live stream inputs are connected directly to playout using different modes: stream in UDP/RTP or Real Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP) or HTTP live streaming (HLS) streams directly connected to playout.
- Create a playlist: A playlist is a frame-precise schedule that defines primary (video assets from S3 or live streams) and secondary events (broadcast graphics, SCTE35 markers, EPG data) to be played out in the channel.
- Create a channel: The channel is created using content library/live events and the playlist created in the previous steps. Different options can be configured with SD, HD, or UHD definition and different output encoded in MPEG2, AVC, or HEVC.
- Add redundancy: The channel configuration offers different redundancy levels to match the availability and cost requirements:
- Basic option with a single playout configuration.
- 1+1 Warm Backup configuration with a backup playout in standby mode in a different AWS Availability Zone. It’s activated automatically by a monitoring alert, or switched manually during maintenance or software-update periods.
- 1+1 Hot Backup with two synchronized active playouts running on separate EC2 instances in different Availability Zone
veset cloud channel diagram – epeegee
Running the Veset Nimbus Cloud Playout platform on AWS provides you with an extremely fast and economically viable tool to originate linear TV channels. A channel can be launched, modified, or shut down in minutes—compared to months to set up a traditional broadcasting platform. It can be delivered in various flavors to different distribution platforms—both OTT and traditional. The combination of Veset Nimbus and AWS Managed Services like MediaLive, MediaPackage, and MediaConnect lets you solve distribution and monetization challenges in one seamlessly managed and transparently priced environment.
High uptimes and reliability demand of linear television, combined with increased cost efficiency and flexibility, are addressed through a robust solution architecture. The use of different EC2 instances for different types of video quality allows for optimization of operational costs. Using tools such as Spotinst to leverage a mix of EC2 instances brings further efficiencies and resilience. Furthermore, by running playouts on instances in multiple Availability Zones, or even separate AWS Regions, Veset Nimbus offers a solution with high availability at the levels required in broadcasting.
veset cloud channel diagram – epeegee
Veset is collaborating with Epeegee to provide their cloud solutions to the Greek broadcasters.
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