IBC Show Previews G – H
Globecast – Stand: 4.C16
Globecast will be highlighting the latest advances to its cloud strategy at IBC 2023, benefitting both customers and SaaS providers. Having led the way with cloud playout since 2018, the last year has seen significant acceleration of the company’s proposition as the broadcast, media, and entertainment sector increasingly recognises the benefits of cloud use across the video value chain.
Consulting:
Most of Globecast’s customers are considering moving to the cloud, or to a hybrid solution of cloud and on premise. Thanks to its five-year transformation experience, multiple real-world cloud projects and major investments, the company proposes and resources customer-specific solutions, applying its highly evolved skillsets and knowledge, and that of its partners, to achieve this. Globecast works with customers at the consulting stage to understand their unique business objectives and how it can create, integrate, orchestrate, monitor – and, if desired – operate services for them.
Integration
With the release of its newly announced CloudMediaHub, Globecast combines its decades of understanding of live and on-demand content contribution, acquisition, distribution and delivery, with its extensive range of cloud processing capabilities. It integrates this unrivalled connectivity across satellite, fibre, 5G and IP with industry leaders’ media supply chain SaaS solutions, designing advanced, end-to-end services orchestration. This is the engine room that creates and delivers the service as defined at the consulting stage.
Global 24/7 Managed Services
Globecast leverages its CloudMediaHub capabilities, its integrations with strategic partners and its four MCRs in L.A., London, Paris and Singapore to monitor and potentially operate end-to-end services. This allows its customers to focus on their core business, saving considerable time and resources while fully benefitting from Globecast’s expertise, quality of service and latest innovations.
Cloud video headend: a real-world example
Earlier this year, Globecast developed and launched the first video public cloud video headend, powered by AWS, for a major European telco. The telco, a returning Globecast customer, wanted to optimise its video headend capabilities for its IPTV and OTT services, with an initial scope of 380 channels and 1,400 streams and a key objective to move to an OPEX environment, alongside greatly increased flexibility in terms of adding and removing services. After extensive consultation, the customer could clearly the see the benefits of using the cloud for the core capabilities, though it did want to keep some functions on premise: content acquisition and encryption, as well as some other, very specific add-ons. Globecast is uniquely positioned to provide flexible, hybrid solutions. All video processing functions are carried out in the cloud, with redundancy provided using different zones.
It’s important to note that Globecast works in partnership with AWS but also other key cloud providers including Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud.
Executives at the show will be available to discuss customer and service examples and will be participating in thought leadership discussions and panels.
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Grass Valley – Stand: 9.A01
Grass Valley, the leading innovator of solutions for live production, brings to the IBC 2023 Show an extensive product portfolio designed to support the dynamically changing live content creation, processing and distribution needs of today’s Media & Entertainment professionals.
With its “Anytime, Anywhere, Any Way” exhibit theme, Grass Valley showcases a powerful, open ecosystem that unifies the traditional hardware that broadcasters have long-relied upon with next-gen software-driven solutions, such as its innovative, cloud-native AMPP (Agile Media Processing Platform) production and distribution ecosystem.
“Major organizations around the world have put their faith and trust in our innovation and service that has made us one of the most trusted brands in our industry. Grass Valley has taken a leadership role in creating what is rapidly becoming the platform standard for our industry built to solve the most intense issues our industry is facing,” said Louis Hernandez Jr, CEO for Grass Valley. “With our GV Media Universe, AMPP, and the scalability and upgradeability of our hardware and software products across the suite, customers can now rapidly tailor their workflows based upon whichever traditional, hybrid or cloud approach best serves their needs today, and well into the future. With Grass Valley, there’s no longer a binary approach to choosing between ground and cloud.”
Anytime, Anywhere, Any Way
As the industry’s digital transformation continues, video professionals and media organizations are benefitting from the freedom to migrate between hardware, software and cloud approaches – or hybrid modes of their choosing – in response to market pressures and opportunities. Whether they choose a fully hardware-based facility, remote or mobile workflows or an all-in cloud strategy, AMPP – and the entire Grass Valley portfolio – give them the features and capabilities they need where and when they need it. AMPP lets them ramp up or down and expand or collapse their capabilities anyway they wish, for whatever duration they need.
As a fully cloud-native solution, AMPP is a highly secure, reliable open ecosystem architected with standard REST APIs throughout, integrating applications from 80 third-party partner companies, as well as over 100 cloud native applications of its own. Standard REST API integration points for every part of the solution allow for tight integration to both customer and third party control and deployment solutions, whilst comprehensive signal format support means that AMPP can be inserted into the customers’ signal path anywhere it’s required, from simple graphics overlays through to full workflow chains.
Easing into the Future
Visitors to Grass Valley’s IBC exhibit will see best-in-class solutions geared to live sports, newsrooms and entertainment production for linear broadcast, media streaming and/or over-the-top services.
“While we continually innovate and upgrade our products based on our customers’ ever-evolving needs, we’re committed to preserving the familiar interfaces, control panels and functionality that Grass Valley operators have come to count on, regardless of whether their equipment resides locally, in data centers, at remote sites, on trucks, in the cloud or a mix of them all,” said Ian Fletcher, CTO for Grass Valley.
Considered the industry-standard, Grass Valley video production switchers are widely installed in all sorts of Tier-1 production facilities, including broadcast networks, mobile OB units and remote sites, as well as studios run by corporations, universities, and houses of worship. A popular high-end choice is the Grass Valley K-Frame XP video processing engine, which can be controlled by control surfaces like the Grass Valley Kayenne, Karrera and Korona. Grass Valley’s software based switcher and production solutions powered by AMPP further compliment the portfolio to cater to any and all events.
Keeping the Future in Sight
The Grass Valley LDX 100 series broadcast camera platform exemplifies the flexibility and upgradeability of key products in its portfolio. This revolutionary camera system lets customers choose the camera/XCU configuration (and IP and SDI functionality) of their choice. It also lets them choose to license an upgrade to full IP connectivity later to do remote productions more efficiently. Whether it’s the video format or ability to do slow motion, customers have options, such as taking a 1080p camera today and licensing it for 4K for just a couple of weeks.
“As we further innovate software- and cloud-driven product lines, the industry can rest assured that we remain committed to dedicated, on-premises hardware. And as we enhance these systems, freelance crews will be able to sit down to familiar control panels without any learning curves to delay live production,” said Hernandez Jr. “With our GV One program, we now offer timely personalized customer support and issue resolution to ensure that productions keep moving forward. While change is inevitable in the Media & Entertainment technology sector, navigating it need not be disruptive, but rather a smooth, seamless and rewarding experience.”
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Hiltron – Stand: 1.D50
Hiltron Communications, a globally active producer of satellite systems and equipment, will promote the latest additions to its product range at IBC 2023.
Making its first IBC showing will be the HDCU2 de-icing sensor and heating controller. Developed for use with small to medium sized antennas, it provides IP66 protection against heavy rain or snow. The complete unit occupies a compact 180 x 180 x 90 mm weatherproof housing and is rated for operation in environments of -30 to +50 degrees Celsius at 5% to 95% non-condensing humidity.
The HDCU2 incorporates a PT 100 ambient temperature sensor and can accommodate an optional reflector in addition to a snow precipitation sensor. Up to three 2.9 kW heating circuits in three-phase 400 volt AC configuration can be controlled. The HDCU2 can alternatively be configured for single-phase 230 volt AC operation where the combined output load for all three power feeds does not exceed 2.9 kilowatts.
Load control can be performed individually for each of the three circuits. Each heater circuit can supply one or more antenna heater pads. The permitted current for the three heater circuits is controlled and monitored independently via IP or SNMP. The controller comes complete with an intuitive web-based interface and supports automatic as well as manual operation. Detected currents and temperatures can be monitored remotely. Monitor and control parameters displayed include heater circuit current thresholds, safety switchoff limit, heater activation/deactivation temperature thresholds and related timing.
Conforming fully to the relevant CE safety, EMC, emissions and immunity standards, the complete unit has a standby power consumption of just 4 watts. Connectivity ports along the underside of the housing are provided for a rain and snow sensor, dish temperature sensor, ambient temperature sensor, local area network, mains power input and heater output feeds.
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