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Facility Virtualization Bits on the Bay 2014
Facility Virtualization
Bits on the Bay 2014
Last Year we spoke of…
Reduced CAPEX
Less Complexity
Fewer devices
Lower installation costs
Less wiring
Fewer point of failure
Fewer vendors
Less integration
Reduced service costs
Reduced running costs
Power
Cooling
Space
Maintenance
Simpler upgrade
Reduced carbon footprint
Uptime better than 99.999%
To Address the ‘More for Less’ Challenge
CiaB Dramatically Reduces Total Cost of Ownership
Virtualization ( definition from vmware)
“The heart of virtualization is the “virtual machine” (VM), a tightly
isolated software container with an operating system and application
inside. Because each virtual machine is completely separate and
independent, many of them can run simultaneously on a single
computer. A thin layer of software called a hypervisor decouples the
virtual machines from the host and dynamically allocates computing
resources to each virtual machine as needed.”
More at : http://www.vmware.com/virtualization/
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Consolidated Use of IT
• Commodity IT equipment is cheap (relatively)
• Commodity IT equipment evolves at an incredible pace
• Commodity IT equipment is very flexible and easy to upgrade
• Commodity IT equipments allows users can exploit remote working effectively
• Commodity IT for compute is very powerful for a given footprint
• Commodity IT networking is not limited to port bound like conventional SDI
• Fast movement of very large files practical and available
Move to file-based or hybrid file/SDI technologies
Move to IT-based broadcast hardware
Move from hardware to software
Move to virtualized systems
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Virtualization and the Cloud?
• Reduction in costs
• Hardware abstraction
• VM deployment is fast and reliable
• Simplified deployment and management of infrastructure and workflows
• Very scalable
• Facilitates services “On Demand”
• Cloud is Cap Ex Free
• Work from anywhere
• Disaster recovery
Virtues of Virtualized Systems
– Multi-channel
– Redundant Architecture
– Core services & operator GUI
clients
– Rapid deployment of golden
systems
– Less hardware, less space, etc.
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Scalable 1
Load balanced RAC cluster Load balanced application nodes and Web Services
cluster
Enterprise scalability
Load balancing and high availability Add nodes to increase performance
Share tasks and load balance
across all tools and devices
Scale to thousands of users. Process
thousands of files concurrently.
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Scalable 2
MAM Server – scale for number of workflows and users
Workflow Application Node – scale for proxy, QC,
and controlled devices
Database – scale for the number and size of asset data
Appliance configuration Small Load
balanced
redundant cluster
Load balanced
redundant cluster Load balanced
cluster for high
proxy generation
Disk array – Database, Proxies, etc.
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Open Standards – FIMS, BXF etc.
The industry is pulling together to offer open consolidated software frameworks to promote
interoperability and reusability of services
FIMS – Framework of Interoperable Media Services (EBU / AMWA)
Media Companies deploying the FIMS framework can expect that doing so will promote
interoperability and reusability of services.
Consists of:
• Capture
• Transfer
• Transform
Services …in a consistent manner
http://www.fims.tv/
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Open Standards – S2022-1 to -6
SMPTE 2022 multipart standard. Various parts are signified by a dash after the
standard number, e.g. SMPTE 2022-1, 2022-2 and so on.
Platform
Layer
Dedicated or Virtual Hardware
Function
Layer
“a la carte”
Management
Layer
Generic IT Processors
Graphics Accelerators
Dedicated Hardware
Virtual Processing
FIMS/SOA/BXF
Application
Layer
“packaged”
On Demand Framework
Packaged Processing Products
Video
Server
Video
Mixer
Audio
Mixer Graphics
Captions
Subs
De-
interlace
Frame
Rate Media
Biometrics
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Web Services
REST
SOAP
XML
JSON
FIMS
BXF
MXF
HTTP
3rd Party API
Open Standards
Auto QC Snell Internal QC
Amberfin ICR UQC
Emotion systems eFF
Interra systems Baton
Tektronix Cerify
Telestream Vantage
Venera Pulsar
VidCheck VidChecker
Transfomations Snell Alchemist OD
Ateme Titan KFE
Ffmpeg
Harmonic ProMediaCarbon
Harmonic WFS
Telestream Agility
Telestream Flip Factory
Telestream Vantage
Other interfaces
Snell BXF Metadata
exchange
Snell Morpheus
Snell Alchemist OD
Open Cube MXFTk
Front Porch Digital Diva
Sony Juke Archive
Interfacing Technologies
Hybrid system with real-time delivery
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The Media Factory
Select files Preview Copy the files
to NLE Edit
Setup transcoder
Transcode to destination
format
Delete some space
Manually create
metadata
Manually transfer files to destination
Browse library Select clips Create
Storyboard
Auto consolidate
high resolution
Send to delivery point
Generate Metadata
File based operation
Automated Tasks Manual Tasks
Workflow
Media Asset Management
Workflow Automation
Virtualized Workflow
Playout Automation
Video
Server Mixer Graphics Captions
Channel One
CinB Integrated
Content Engine
Channel Two
Ingest Quality
Control Catalog Transcode Publish Archive
Management & Automation Applications
Appointment TV
Delivery
On Demand
Delivery
Central
Storage
Media
Processing Software based
processing
Diverse IP connectivity
Private circuits with guaranteed QoS
Operations PoP
Monitoring &
Control + Live and locally
originated content
Operations PoP
Monitoring &
Control + Live and locally
originated content
Media Factory in Private Datacenter(s)
Distribution PoP
Traditional
Distribution
Conversion &
Multiplex Interface to traditional
broadcast
infrastructure
Public Internet
Mass Public
Distribution
Virtual Media Factory
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Demands on new algorithms
• SOA
• Scalable
• Multi platform (supports all common Operating systems)
• Open API’s
• Open Languages (C++/Open CL)
• Support all architectures of hardware acceleration (AMD/NVIDIA)
• Flexible license model
• Ability to speed up transform services
• Integration with cloud services
• Intelligent workflow management
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Image is Everything
• Benign picture building (less fractures)
• Improved adaptive deinterlacing
• Scalable algorithm (mobile to 4k, 12Hz – 300Hz)
• Low frame rate conversion (23, 24 and 25Hz)
• Dynamic phase correlation
• Wavelet picture building
What does this mean?
• Bigger motion ranges
• More accurate motion vectors
• Better fallback modes
…amazing images!
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Thank You
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