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INDUSTRY WATCH platform to broadcast and IPTV head-ends, or‘ over the top’ directly to the increasing numbers of consumers watching via the Internet and on mobile devices.
Focusing on what matters
Since the launch of LeapCloud at NAB Show 2013, over 20 broadcasters and content owners are already using it for playout and media asset management. Deluxe foresees strong growth in customer numbers over the near term, owing to the capabilities and year-on-year cost savings the platform has demonstrated it can deliver. Among LeapCloud’ s customers is one of the world’ s largest sports rights-holders that relies on the service’ s delivery and MCR capabilities to manage secure contribution and distribution of high-quality broadcast streams globally over low-cost IP connectivity. It took just 30 days to commission and deliver the service to five sites, with many more in the pipeline. The customer is benefitting from significant cost savings compared with traditional infrastructure and enhanced visibility of all of its global streams.
“ With Interxion as our data centre partner, we’ re confident we have the optimum environment for the LeapCloud platform,” said Stichbury.“ Working with Interxion gives us the peace of mind to concentrate on our core business of providing broadcast services, while they take care of everything else.”
LeapCloud
The service is based on a non-proprietary, distributed IT-centric platform housed in multiple Interxion data centres. It’ s available as a complete outsourced broadcast playout solution, or on a flexible PaaS basis so that customers can mix and match the elements they need. The service interoperates with all the Deluxe services that support traditional broadcasting, giving broadcasters full control over the end-to-end workflow. There are four elements to the service:
• Portal. A comprehensive orchestration and digital asset management system presented through a web browser. Functionality includes search, browse, EDL generation, spot check, temporal metadata annotation, content and schedule tracking to manage TX readiness and remote channel monitoring
• PortaLive. A suite of tools for monitoring, controlling and recording( MCR) the entire contribution and / or distribution network within a web-based environment. It can manage any number of live feeds and group virtual routing clusters for brands, genres, operational needs and so on
• Playout. A software-centric, scalable, resilient and feature-rich playout platform that’ s accessible globally. It can deliver any type of channel from the simplest linear to the most complex arrangement and can handle live event and subtitle insertion, complex graphic event scheduling with voice-overs and social media interactivity
• Delivery. A suite of tools for transporting premium broadcast streams reliably and securely across almost any network topology – including the public Internet – with high levels of service quality, security and reporting. It includes the ability to hand off to traditional satellite and fibre distribution networks as ASI, IP and SDI / HD-SDI interfaces • www. intelligentcio. com INTELLIGENTCIO
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