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Morpheus and ICE Deployment on Amazon Web Services (AWS) April 2019 TECHNICAL BRIEF
Morpheus and ICE Deployment on Amazon Web Services (AWS)April 2019
TECHNICALBRIEF
2wwwgrassvalleycom
TECHNICAL BRIEF MORPHEUS AND ICE DEPLOYMENT ON AWS
When broadcasters look at renewing their playout infrastructure or assessing al-ternative business models the public cloud is often a focus Whether for primary playout disaster recovery or short-term lsquopop-uprsquo channels the public cloud has a place in the broadcasterrsquos armory of possible solutions By utilizing cloud offerings such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) new approaches to resiliency and distribution become available The simul-taneous changes in consumer behavior mdash as we all become comfort-able with OTT delivery mdash and the increase in compute power available from todayrsquos public cloud server instances means new economic models are worthy of investigation Grass Valley a Belden Brand is proud to be able to offer playout using AWS alongside its uncom-pressed IP solutions for data centers and traditional SDI appliances
What it Does
Morpheus and ICE are Grass Valleyrsquos enterprise and feature-rich play-out solutions used across the globe by tier 1 broadcasters Morpheus and ICE are now available for deployment in AWS
Grass Valley has invested in several areas of product development to support this solution ensuring the various technologies with the playout product is suited to deployment in AWS For broadcasters already familiar with Morpheus and ICE wersquoll explain how the system you use today has evolved to be suitable for deploying in AWS For broadcasters and media distributors who are new to Morpheus and ICE for a more in-depth look at the products please take a look at the Morpheus and ICE datasheet on our website at wwwgrassvalleycom This paper covers the AWS-related aspects but not the full feature set of the products
Video IO
Essential to any public cloud deployment is reliable compressed stream format support ICE has recently been enhanced with integra-tion to Grass Valleyrsquos comprehensive video engine which includes several compressed streaming codecs This allows compressed for-mats more suited to web delivery to be used with ICE For the launch of ICE v60 H264 is added and will be followed by other web friendly formats Please ask Grass Valley about the video format you need to support your project
Operational Control
Operational control is accomplished using the latest generation of Morpheus user interface mdash Morpheus UX This HTML5 interface is naturally suited to cloud deployed systems with low bandwidth requirements and low compute needs for the userrsquos client PC
UX is unique in its ability to let users craft their own user experience for their operators Screens can be completely redesigned to support different operational requirements and is now in use by several major global broadcasters for live operations please ask us who they are
Example Morpheus UX screen with playlist and master control controls
3wwwgrassvalleycom
TECHNICAL BRIEF MORPHEUS AND ICE DEPLOYMENT ON AWS
Hybrid Operations
Public cloud deployments may often be considered in parallel with primary ldquoon-premiserdquo playout This might mean secondary chan-nels being deployed into AWS with primary playout still remaining on-premise Or perhaps a disaster continuity system that can be launched as required in response to an anticipated or actual major problem at the primary facility In these situations where traditional systems remain a part of the broad-casterrsquos operations it can greatly assist operational and engineering effectiveness to have a common user interface and backend techni-cal infrastructure
By deploying Morpheus and ICE both on-premise and in the cloud broadcasters can deploy a hybrid environment This allows a broad-caster to select which environment best suits any new services they need to deliver and to learn about cloud delivery of services at a pace that suits them
Any hybrid system based on Morpheus and ICE can allow operators to control all their channels via the common Morpheus UX user inter-face From a userrsquos point of view all channels are equal and have a consistent operational interface and functionality This includes schedule loading playlist editing and live controls and on-air brand-
ing feature set
Primary on-premise channels
Additional AWS channels
ICE ICE ICE
Morpheus
ICE ICE ICE ICE
Morpheus
Morpheus Morpheus
AWS Availability Zone
On-premise Installation
OTT Distribution
Monitoring
User Interface
Latency
The latency of channel output back to operational monitoring needs to be carefully considered A benefit of the adoption of Grass Valley video streaming technologies within ICE is that a range of low latency video encoding is possible Currently under investigation is VSF TR-06RIST There are many variables involved but proprietary equivalents of RIST such as Zixi would be expected to achieve delivery from AWS to your facility in just a few seconds
Example of a hybrid system with AWS and on-premise deployment monitored from a common UI
Morpheus UX
TECHNICAL BRIEF MORPHEUS AND ICE DEPLOYMENT ON AWS
Technical
bull Video transport
bull SMPTE ST 2022-2 mdash H264
bull Audio mdash AAC
AWS Instance TypesMorpheus
bull m44xlarge
Requires Windows Server 2016 MS SQL 2014
ICE
bull With standard graphics mdash c44xlarge
bull With Advanced Graphics mdash g3x4large
Requires Windows Server 2016
Timing
Amazon Time Service should be used to maintain an accurate ref-erence for the server for a larger scale deployment Grass Valleyrsquos Morpheus distributes the time to all its nodes using a proprietary method
Media Management and Storage
AWS offers various storage solutions Grass Valley can provide a Mor-pheus Transfer Agent designed to interface to AWS S3 storage This Transfer Agent is an integrated part of the existing Morpheus Media Management framework and allows content stored in an on-prem-ise system to be pulled into an AWS playout system in response to missing events in the loaded schedule Alternatively content can be directly pushed to the ICE server where it can be registered in the database and played out to air
Costs
There are several costs to consider such as the server instances themselves AWS provide a Simple Monthly Calculator online to guide customers on pricing You will need to ensure you compare pricing of a Windows server with or without MS SQL 2014 and con-sider whether to provide the SQL licensing separately Grass Valleyrsquos researching of costs suggests that a 24x7 system deployed on AWS remains cheaper compared to an on-premise deployment until about 18 months in This depends on many variables and customers are encouraged to investigate pricing for their particular application Once the basic server instances have been defined there are questions to consider about storage and resiliency Then therersquos distribution which might include both the cost of bandwidth plus any encoding for dis-tribution Finally consider any additional enabling technologies used to improve delivery over the public internet
Once the AWS-related costs have been defined Grass Valleyrsquos prod-ucts will need to be quoted so providing a written specification of the requirement is just as necessary with AWS as with any traditional play-out project Sales or Sales Engineering can provide the quotations
Roadmap
Public cloud deployment for playout and the related video technol-ogies are still in their relative infancy compared to traditional instal-lations We can expect video formats to mature and evolve as the industry demands improved functionality Grass Valley continually develops in RampD of the core video technology within ICE and as Grass Valley receives market demand extra functionality is added into the ICE product Some of the available formats that we are evaluating for inclusion in the product are
bull HLS
bull RIST
bull NDI
We would welcome customer feedback to help drive the roadmap for cloud playout deployment
GVB-1-0809A-EN-TB
This product may be protected by one or more patents For further information please visit wwwgrassvalleycompatents
Beldenreg Belden Sending All The Right Signalsreg the Belden logo Grass Valleyreg and the Grass Valley logo are trademarks or reg-istered trademarks of Belden Inc or its affiliated companies in the United States and other jurisdictions Grass Valley products listed above are trademarks or registered trademarks of Belden Inc GVBB Holdings SARL or Grass Valley Canada Belden Inc GVBB Holdings SARL Grass Valley Canada and other parties may also have trademark rights in other terms used herein
Copyright copy 2019 Grass Valley Canada All rights reserved Specifications subject to change without notice
WWWGRASSVALLEYCOMJoin the Conversation at GrassValleyLive on Facebook Twitter YouTube and Grass Valley - A Belden Brand on LinkedIn
wwwgrassvalleycomblog
reg
ICE
MorpheusNode
MorpheusNode
MorpheusCore
Morpheus Communucations
AWS Time Service
A larger scale system with multiple Morpheus servers
2wwwgrassvalleycom
TECHNICAL BRIEF MORPHEUS AND ICE DEPLOYMENT ON AWS
When broadcasters look at renewing their playout infrastructure or assessing al-ternative business models the public cloud is often a focus Whether for primary playout disaster recovery or short-term lsquopop-uprsquo channels the public cloud has a place in the broadcasterrsquos armory of possible solutions By utilizing cloud offerings such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) new approaches to resiliency and distribution become available The simul-taneous changes in consumer behavior mdash as we all become comfort-able with OTT delivery mdash and the increase in compute power available from todayrsquos public cloud server instances means new economic models are worthy of investigation Grass Valley a Belden Brand is proud to be able to offer playout using AWS alongside its uncom-pressed IP solutions for data centers and traditional SDI appliances
What it Does
Morpheus and ICE are Grass Valleyrsquos enterprise and feature-rich play-out solutions used across the globe by tier 1 broadcasters Morpheus and ICE are now available for deployment in AWS
Grass Valley has invested in several areas of product development to support this solution ensuring the various technologies with the playout product is suited to deployment in AWS For broadcasters already familiar with Morpheus and ICE wersquoll explain how the system you use today has evolved to be suitable for deploying in AWS For broadcasters and media distributors who are new to Morpheus and ICE for a more in-depth look at the products please take a look at the Morpheus and ICE datasheet on our website at wwwgrassvalleycom This paper covers the AWS-related aspects but not the full feature set of the products
Video IO
Essential to any public cloud deployment is reliable compressed stream format support ICE has recently been enhanced with integra-tion to Grass Valleyrsquos comprehensive video engine which includes several compressed streaming codecs This allows compressed for-mats more suited to web delivery to be used with ICE For the launch of ICE v60 H264 is added and will be followed by other web friendly formats Please ask Grass Valley about the video format you need to support your project
Operational Control
Operational control is accomplished using the latest generation of Morpheus user interface mdash Morpheus UX This HTML5 interface is naturally suited to cloud deployed systems with low bandwidth requirements and low compute needs for the userrsquos client PC
UX is unique in its ability to let users craft their own user experience for their operators Screens can be completely redesigned to support different operational requirements and is now in use by several major global broadcasters for live operations please ask us who they are
Example Morpheus UX screen with playlist and master control controls
3wwwgrassvalleycom
TECHNICAL BRIEF MORPHEUS AND ICE DEPLOYMENT ON AWS
Hybrid Operations
Public cloud deployments may often be considered in parallel with primary ldquoon-premiserdquo playout This might mean secondary chan-nels being deployed into AWS with primary playout still remaining on-premise Or perhaps a disaster continuity system that can be launched as required in response to an anticipated or actual major problem at the primary facility In these situations where traditional systems remain a part of the broad-casterrsquos operations it can greatly assist operational and engineering effectiveness to have a common user interface and backend techni-cal infrastructure
By deploying Morpheus and ICE both on-premise and in the cloud broadcasters can deploy a hybrid environment This allows a broad-caster to select which environment best suits any new services they need to deliver and to learn about cloud delivery of services at a pace that suits them
Any hybrid system based on Morpheus and ICE can allow operators to control all their channels via the common Morpheus UX user inter-face From a userrsquos point of view all channels are equal and have a consistent operational interface and functionality This includes schedule loading playlist editing and live controls and on-air brand-
ing feature set
Primary on-premise channels
Additional AWS channels
ICE ICE ICE
Morpheus
ICE ICE ICE ICE
Morpheus
Morpheus Morpheus
AWS Availability Zone
On-premise Installation
OTT Distribution
Monitoring
User Interface
Latency
The latency of channel output back to operational monitoring needs to be carefully considered A benefit of the adoption of Grass Valley video streaming technologies within ICE is that a range of low latency video encoding is possible Currently under investigation is VSF TR-06RIST There are many variables involved but proprietary equivalents of RIST such as Zixi would be expected to achieve delivery from AWS to your facility in just a few seconds
Example of a hybrid system with AWS and on-premise deployment monitored from a common UI
Morpheus UX
TECHNICAL BRIEF MORPHEUS AND ICE DEPLOYMENT ON AWS
Technical
bull Video transport
bull SMPTE ST 2022-2 mdash H264
bull Audio mdash AAC
AWS Instance TypesMorpheus
bull m44xlarge
Requires Windows Server 2016 MS SQL 2014
ICE
bull With standard graphics mdash c44xlarge
bull With Advanced Graphics mdash g3x4large
Requires Windows Server 2016
Timing
Amazon Time Service should be used to maintain an accurate ref-erence for the server for a larger scale deployment Grass Valleyrsquos Morpheus distributes the time to all its nodes using a proprietary method
Media Management and Storage
AWS offers various storage solutions Grass Valley can provide a Mor-pheus Transfer Agent designed to interface to AWS S3 storage This Transfer Agent is an integrated part of the existing Morpheus Media Management framework and allows content stored in an on-prem-ise system to be pulled into an AWS playout system in response to missing events in the loaded schedule Alternatively content can be directly pushed to the ICE server where it can be registered in the database and played out to air
Costs
There are several costs to consider such as the server instances themselves AWS provide a Simple Monthly Calculator online to guide customers on pricing You will need to ensure you compare pricing of a Windows server with or without MS SQL 2014 and con-sider whether to provide the SQL licensing separately Grass Valleyrsquos researching of costs suggests that a 24x7 system deployed on AWS remains cheaper compared to an on-premise deployment until about 18 months in This depends on many variables and customers are encouraged to investigate pricing for their particular application Once the basic server instances have been defined there are questions to consider about storage and resiliency Then therersquos distribution which might include both the cost of bandwidth plus any encoding for dis-tribution Finally consider any additional enabling technologies used to improve delivery over the public internet
Once the AWS-related costs have been defined Grass Valleyrsquos prod-ucts will need to be quoted so providing a written specification of the requirement is just as necessary with AWS as with any traditional play-out project Sales or Sales Engineering can provide the quotations
Roadmap
Public cloud deployment for playout and the related video technol-ogies are still in their relative infancy compared to traditional instal-lations We can expect video formats to mature and evolve as the industry demands improved functionality Grass Valley continually develops in RampD of the core video technology within ICE and as Grass Valley receives market demand extra functionality is added into the ICE product Some of the available formats that we are evaluating for inclusion in the product are
bull HLS
bull RIST
bull NDI
We would welcome customer feedback to help drive the roadmap for cloud playout deployment
GVB-1-0809A-EN-TB
This product may be protected by one or more patents For further information please visit wwwgrassvalleycompatents
Beldenreg Belden Sending All The Right Signalsreg the Belden logo Grass Valleyreg and the Grass Valley logo are trademarks or reg-istered trademarks of Belden Inc or its affiliated companies in the United States and other jurisdictions Grass Valley products listed above are trademarks or registered trademarks of Belden Inc GVBB Holdings SARL or Grass Valley Canada Belden Inc GVBB Holdings SARL Grass Valley Canada and other parties may also have trademark rights in other terms used herein
Copyright copy 2019 Grass Valley Canada All rights reserved Specifications subject to change without notice
WWWGRASSVALLEYCOMJoin the Conversation at GrassValleyLive on Facebook Twitter YouTube and Grass Valley - A Belden Brand on LinkedIn
wwwgrassvalleycomblog
reg
ICE
MorpheusNode
MorpheusNode
MorpheusCore
Morpheus Communucations
AWS Time Service
A larger scale system with multiple Morpheus servers
3wwwgrassvalleycom
TECHNICAL BRIEF MORPHEUS AND ICE DEPLOYMENT ON AWS
Hybrid Operations
Public cloud deployments may often be considered in parallel with primary ldquoon-premiserdquo playout This might mean secondary chan-nels being deployed into AWS with primary playout still remaining on-premise Or perhaps a disaster continuity system that can be launched as required in response to an anticipated or actual major problem at the primary facility In these situations where traditional systems remain a part of the broad-casterrsquos operations it can greatly assist operational and engineering effectiveness to have a common user interface and backend techni-cal infrastructure
By deploying Morpheus and ICE both on-premise and in the cloud broadcasters can deploy a hybrid environment This allows a broad-caster to select which environment best suits any new services they need to deliver and to learn about cloud delivery of services at a pace that suits them
Any hybrid system based on Morpheus and ICE can allow operators to control all their channels via the common Morpheus UX user inter-face From a userrsquos point of view all channels are equal and have a consistent operational interface and functionality This includes schedule loading playlist editing and live controls and on-air brand-
ing feature set
Primary on-premise channels
Additional AWS channels
ICE ICE ICE
Morpheus
ICE ICE ICE ICE
Morpheus
Morpheus Morpheus
AWS Availability Zone
On-premise Installation
OTT Distribution
Monitoring
User Interface
Latency
The latency of channel output back to operational monitoring needs to be carefully considered A benefit of the adoption of Grass Valley video streaming technologies within ICE is that a range of low latency video encoding is possible Currently under investigation is VSF TR-06RIST There are many variables involved but proprietary equivalents of RIST such as Zixi would be expected to achieve delivery from AWS to your facility in just a few seconds
Example of a hybrid system with AWS and on-premise deployment monitored from a common UI
Morpheus UX
TECHNICAL BRIEF MORPHEUS AND ICE DEPLOYMENT ON AWS
Technical
bull Video transport
bull SMPTE ST 2022-2 mdash H264
bull Audio mdash AAC
AWS Instance TypesMorpheus
bull m44xlarge
Requires Windows Server 2016 MS SQL 2014
ICE
bull With standard graphics mdash c44xlarge
bull With Advanced Graphics mdash g3x4large
Requires Windows Server 2016
Timing
Amazon Time Service should be used to maintain an accurate ref-erence for the server for a larger scale deployment Grass Valleyrsquos Morpheus distributes the time to all its nodes using a proprietary method
Media Management and Storage
AWS offers various storage solutions Grass Valley can provide a Mor-pheus Transfer Agent designed to interface to AWS S3 storage This Transfer Agent is an integrated part of the existing Morpheus Media Management framework and allows content stored in an on-prem-ise system to be pulled into an AWS playout system in response to missing events in the loaded schedule Alternatively content can be directly pushed to the ICE server where it can be registered in the database and played out to air
Costs
There are several costs to consider such as the server instances themselves AWS provide a Simple Monthly Calculator online to guide customers on pricing You will need to ensure you compare pricing of a Windows server with or without MS SQL 2014 and con-sider whether to provide the SQL licensing separately Grass Valleyrsquos researching of costs suggests that a 24x7 system deployed on AWS remains cheaper compared to an on-premise deployment until about 18 months in This depends on many variables and customers are encouraged to investigate pricing for their particular application Once the basic server instances have been defined there are questions to consider about storage and resiliency Then therersquos distribution which might include both the cost of bandwidth plus any encoding for dis-tribution Finally consider any additional enabling technologies used to improve delivery over the public internet
Once the AWS-related costs have been defined Grass Valleyrsquos prod-ucts will need to be quoted so providing a written specification of the requirement is just as necessary with AWS as with any traditional play-out project Sales or Sales Engineering can provide the quotations
Roadmap
Public cloud deployment for playout and the related video technol-ogies are still in their relative infancy compared to traditional instal-lations We can expect video formats to mature and evolve as the industry demands improved functionality Grass Valley continually develops in RampD of the core video technology within ICE and as Grass Valley receives market demand extra functionality is added into the ICE product Some of the available formats that we are evaluating for inclusion in the product are
bull HLS
bull RIST
bull NDI
We would welcome customer feedback to help drive the roadmap for cloud playout deployment
GVB-1-0809A-EN-TB
This product may be protected by one or more patents For further information please visit wwwgrassvalleycompatents
Beldenreg Belden Sending All The Right Signalsreg the Belden logo Grass Valleyreg and the Grass Valley logo are trademarks or reg-istered trademarks of Belden Inc or its affiliated companies in the United States and other jurisdictions Grass Valley products listed above are trademarks or registered trademarks of Belden Inc GVBB Holdings SARL or Grass Valley Canada Belden Inc GVBB Holdings SARL Grass Valley Canada and other parties may also have trademark rights in other terms used herein
Copyright copy 2019 Grass Valley Canada All rights reserved Specifications subject to change without notice
WWWGRASSVALLEYCOMJoin the Conversation at GrassValleyLive on Facebook Twitter YouTube and Grass Valley - A Belden Brand on LinkedIn
wwwgrassvalleycomblog
reg
ICE
MorpheusNode
MorpheusNode
MorpheusCore
Morpheus Communucations
AWS Time Service
A larger scale system with multiple Morpheus servers
TECHNICAL BRIEF MORPHEUS AND ICE DEPLOYMENT ON AWS
Technical
bull Video transport
bull SMPTE ST 2022-2 mdash H264
bull Audio mdash AAC
AWS Instance TypesMorpheus
bull m44xlarge
Requires Windows Server 2016 MS SQL 2014
ICE
bull With standard graphics mdash c44xlarge
bull With Advanced Graphics mdash g3x4large
Requires Windows Server 2016
Timing
Amazon Time Service should be used to maintain an accurate ref-erence for the server for a larger scale deployment Grass Valleyrsquos Morpheus distributes the time to all its nodes using a proprietary method
Media Management and Storage
AWS offers various storage solutions Grass Valley can provide a Mor-pheus Transfer Agent designed to interface to AWS S3 storage This Transfer Agent is an integrated part of the existing Morpheus Media Management framework and allows content stored in an on-prem-ise system to be pulled into an AWS playout system in response to missing events in the loaded schedule Alternatively content can be directly pushed to the ICE server where it can be registered in the database and played out to air
Costs
There are several costs to consider such as the server instances themselves AWS provide a Simple Monthly Calculator online to guide customers on pricing You will need to ensure you compare pricing of a Windows server with or without MS SQL 2014 and con-sider whether to provide the SQL licensing separately Grass Valleyrsquos researching of costs suggests that a 24x7 system deployed on AWS remains cheaper compared to an on-premise deployment until about 18 months in This depends on many variables and customers are encouraged to investigate pricing for their particular application Once the basic server instances have been defined there are questions to consider about storage and resiliency Then therersquos distribution which might include both the cost of bandwidth plus any encoding for dis-tribution Finally consider any additional enabling technologies used to improve delivery over the public internet
Once the AWS-related costs have been defined Grass Valleyrsquos prod-ucts will need to be quoted so providing a written specification of the requirement is just as necessary with AWS as with any traditional play-out project Sales or Sales Engineering can provide the quotations
Roadmap
Public cloud deployment for playout and the related video technol-ogies are still in their relative infancy compared to traditional instal-lations We can expect video formats to mature and evolve as the industry demands improved functionality Grass Valley continually develops in RampD of the core video technology within ICE and as Grass Valley receives market demand extra functionality is added into the ICE product Some of the available formats that we are evaluating for inclusion in the product are
bull HLS
bull RIST
bull NDI
We would welcome customer feedback to help drive the roadmap for cloud playout deployment
GVB-1-0809A-EN-TB
This product may be protected by one or more patents For further information please visit wwwgrassvalleycompatents
Beldenreg Belden Sending All The Right Signalsreg the Belden logo Grass Valleyreg and the Grass Valley logo are trademarks or reg-istered trademarks of Belden Inc or its affiliated companies in the United States and other jurisdictions Grass Valley products listed above are trademarks or registered trademarks of Belden Inc GVBB Holdings SARL or Grass Valley Canada Belden Inc GVBB Holdings SARL Grass Valley Canada and other parties may also have trademark rights in other terms used herein
Copyright copy 2019 Grass Valley Canada All rights reserved Specifications subject to change without notice
WWWGRASSVALLEYCOMJoin the Conversation at GrassValleyLive on Facebook Twitter YouTube and Grass Valley - A Belden Brand on LinkedIn
wwwgrassvalleycomblog
reg
ICE
MorpheusNode
MorpheusNode
MorpheusCore
Morpheus Communucations
AWS Time Service
A larger scale system with multiple Morpheus servers
