38 TVBEurope Forum Channel in a Box Tom Gittins, Pebble Beach
product called EdgeBox, designed to achieve this for Tier 1 broadcasters. We also offer Multi Playout Manager which allows single and multiple channels to be remotely managed, controlled and monitored with different levels of rights management assignment. For commercials insertion, we have a product called AdBox for the remote insertion of adverts — or programmes, interstitials — at a remote location. These can be
controlled and monitored centrally via the internet. Insertion is triggered by cues that run a preloaded playlist. Calverley: Very practical. As long as there is no time-critical messaging between the remote and central sites, there is no reason why the actual playout device cannot be located anywhere in the world. Gittins: The Pebble Beach Systems solution deploys a distributed architecture with Marina automation controlling the
Dolphin integrated channel device(s). Unlike more basic solutions, it does not simply offer a confidence feed which is returned to the central site, but also incorporates the ability for operations to know in advance that all primary and secondary content is loaded. In fact, exactly the same status and media validation updates are given as if the Dolphin were being controlled locally. Ten Dam: One should consider the impact of operating remote channel(s). Usually remote playout is chosen because of cost reduction and thus low speed connections. Content is often drip-fed into the playout facility over that cost-efficient connection. This means it’s probably slower than realtime, which has an impact on channel content refresh rates. Caching content on the playout nodes is the best way to solve this problem. Various scenarios can have content loops with minimal refresh to use as a default and/or emergency scenario. It’s not uncommon that similar solutions are actually used for disaster recovery playout. Weigner: Very. That’s why being IP-capable — to receive or
emit streams via IP – including the confidence, preview, multi- viewer – is a must. Something we do from day one. If the solution was not architected with IP-based remote operations in mind, then it’s too late now. Wright: From Pixel Power’s point of view, the entire way that ChannelMaster was architected from day one is that it’s an enterprise-grade, client/server architecture. That allows the technology to be sited where it’s most convenient for the customer’s business. Before a single line of code existed this
was a decision we’d taken. So in terms of how robust and scalable ChannelMaster is, the answer is very in both cases. Zdravkoski: Our recent
project for Telecom Italia is a good example. The VideoServer is located in Milan, yet the operators are in Rome. Nowadays, the actual location of a VideoServer and its place of operation are quite irrelevant. In other projects, we have installed the VideoServer in Vienna, but the studio and the channel operator are located in Kulmbach, Germany.
www.tvbeurope.com January 2014
Bruce Straight, ToolsOnAir
Ofer Lugasi, Orad
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