While interviewing Imagine Communications CTO Steve Reynolds for today’s NAB Hot Topic feature article, “IP, Virtualization To Drive Workflows At NAB,” the conversation turned to microservices and their role in virtualizing a broadcast function in an on-premise datacenter or in the cloud. For those unfamiliar with microservices, Reynolds defines them this way: “A microservice is […]
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For Some European Broadcasters, NFL Underscores Potential Of IP
Deluxe offers broadcasters an alternative to managing their own master control and playout complete with commercial insertion, branding and all of the other accoutrements of television. At the core of the service offering is IP transport and virtualization of functions traditionally done with standalone black boxes running proprietary software in equipment racks. Shortly before IBC […]
Rio Olympics Offers Textbook Case For The Cloud
The benefits NBCU will derive from using Microsoft Azure Media Services to encode and transcode digital streams of its 2016 Rio Olympics coverage reads like a textbook for virtualization, IP and the cloud. They include: Elasticity — NBCU, which relies on Azure Media Services on a regular basis for encoding and transcoding for its digital audiences who watch sporting […]