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ACTIVATING ELASTICITY’S FLEX CAPACITOR
Jamie Dunn, CCO, Lawo
Some imaginary concepts are so plausible that they quickly lead a life of their own. Now is probably the perfect time for some mind games aimed at solving the conundrum of ever dearer sports rights for an increasingly fragmented audience.
A lot has been tried, tested and sometimes adopted to turn those precious eyeballs in the right direction. While full-blown audience engagement is certainly appreciated by broadcasters, private enterprises need to focus on keeping the revenue stream going. Public broadcasters may not necessarily experience this pressure but are confronted with another challenge: how to remain relevant and justify continued funding.
Agile technology, both software- and
hardware-based, provides elastic relief: edge computing avoids traffic jams and complexity on the network. Processing apps on standard servers can be configured, expanded, shrunk and stopped at the click
of a button. Extending the lifecycle and capacity of your server hardware is a matter of replacing the network interface card with a higher-bandwidth model or adding further processing capability with GPUs.
“Cloud-like flexibility closer to home – on-premise and/or in private data centres – is becoming the business model of choice”
The honeymoon in the cloud was beautiful while it lasted. Yet, a growing number of broadcasters now consider that ingress and egress costs, as well as a looming reckoning regarding the backhaul of content, make the cloud a great tool for specific processing tasks rather than the new home of media assets and production. Cloud-like flexibility closer to home – on-premise and/ or in private data centres – is becoming the business model of choice. In any case, Lawo
believes that its customers know best where and how to deploy their production tools and offers solutions for all workflows. With its Lawo Flex model, Lawo extends the Home Apps processing agility to the commercial side. Staple processing infrastructure can be purchased in the form of permanent licences. To cater for sporadic needs, a subscription model with credits that unlock any existing and future Home App is available on a temporary basis (monthly, half-yearly, yearly). While they last, such credits can unlock multiviewing in the morning, format cross-conversion at noon and stream transcoding in the evening – in any combination. This is similar to a locker in a public pool: you insert a coin into the slot to lock the door and activate the ‘storage service’. When you are done, you take back your coin and insert it into a different locker – or spend it on something else. The future of broadcast is elastic. 8.B90
MAKING IP CONNECTIONS AT CENTRAL STATION Clear-Com BY DAVID FOX
Clear-Com has announced new features for its Arcadia Central Station, including I.V. Direct, which allows connection between Arcadia and the LQ Series of IP interfaces, Eclipse HX digital matrix system (via E-IPA card), and other Arcadia systems
over LAN, WAN or internet. The update will also provide a substantial increase in capacity for beltpacks, transceivers and HelixNet user stations. The I.V. Direct ports will allow intercom audio, logic controls and call signals to be passed between separately managed Clear-Com systems and assigned to channels, groups and keys in the individual systems. This can be done with
an easy setup for various levels of network quality of service and internet-friendly security features. Interfacing with LQ will allow
Arcadia users to expand their analogue connections using two-wire, four-wire and GPIO ports. It will also support Clear- Com’s Agent-IC and Station-IC virtual clients, two-way radios and SIP telephony, without the need for multiple audio and
control cables, allowing for full integration of all team members who need to communicate. In addition to local Dante- based connection capabilities, I.V. Direct connections will allow Arcadia’s network interfacing to extend globally, making it suitable for large, multi-site live events, remote broadcasting, or multi-country productions. 10.D29
Arcadia Central Station now supports distributed workflows with I.V. Direct
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