In this webinar, learn what challenges there are in today’s production and how EVS has teamed up with Aspera at major international sporting events to build Cloud-based production workflows that connect live content with production teams, accredited teams and final viewers. Also discussed is how next generation sports broadcasting workflows are transforming the digital media supply chain.
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Video from SMPTE Technical Conference taking a look at why Microservices is a common sense architecture for modern broadcast solutions. What are the alternatives and why are Microservices better?
Darren Gallipeau shows how architectures can break down into small building blocks allowing firms to deploy simpler applications rather than large monolithic applications. This allows easier testing, cross-use and flexibility.
Sections:
1) What are Microservices?
2) Why do they matter – or what can I do with them?
3) What do they have to do with the future of cloud and virtualisation?
AWS are hosting half a day of free training about their platform. A great chance to bring you and your colleagues up to speed on, for many, the “go to” platform for testing and deploying cloud services.
Date: Thursday, 22 March, 2018
Time: 10:00 – 13:40 CET / 09:00 – 12:40 BST
Location: Online
The AWSome Day Online is a free, virtual training event that will provide a step-by-step introduction to the core AWS services for compute, storage, database and networking. AWS technical experts will explain key features and use cases, share best practices, walk through technical demos, and be available to answer your questions one-on-one.
Based on the AWS Essentials Course, AWSome Day is ideal for IT managers, business leaders, system engineers, system administrators, developers and architects who are eager to learn more about cloud computing and how to get started on the AWS Cloud.
Join for live Q&As, one-on-one Ask an Architect sessions and more:
10:00 – 10:30 CET Keynote: Introduction to AWS
10:30 – 11:00 CET
AWS Introductions
Well Architected Framework and AWS
Trusted Advisor
Global Infrastructure
Demo – Designing the network (VPC) for HA and FT
VPC Network security
AWS S3 and Glacier for large volume object storage
Demo – Create a bucket and create a website
Amazon EC2 compute platform
Demo – Launch our first EC2 applications with EBS storage
Understanding EC2 pricing and lifecycle
Storage options for compute
AWS CloudFormation for IAAC (Infrastructure as Code)
Let the data decide!
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
Demo – Deploy Multi-AZ database in VPC
Amazon DynamoDB (NoSQL)
Intro to AWS Athena and Redshift
AWS Shared Security Model Identity Access Management (IAM)
Governance and Compliance
AWS CloudTrail for audit and change management
AWS Config and Config Rules
Adding elasticity to our applications in AWS
Introduction to AWS load balancer services
Introduction to autoscaling groups and launch configurations
Demo – Add autoscaling to our demo application
Next steps: Taking it to the next stage
Serverless architecture with Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB & more
Wrap up – User Groups, Blogs & further training
Starting with a look at how playout has evolved to what it is today, Wesley Thiesson from Evertz Microsystems explains how Master Control and OTT MAM workflows can be improved by the cloud. He then finishes by a look at how far we can push MAM into the cloud, now and in the future.
Talking to SMPTE’s Philadelphia Section, Mr. Thiessen, Senior Solutions Architect, covers the following:
Part 1: Linear Master Control playout from the cloud. A brief history of the evolution of Master Control that makes moving to the cloud feasible. A review of the effects, requirements, possibilities and planning required to make this a reality, reviewing the use case of a facility running dozens of channels 24/7 from the cloud, with live events, time delay and rebroadcast.
Part 2: Feeding the machine. An overview of master control and OTT media prep (MAM) workflows enhanced and enabled in the cloud. Optimizing workflows to deliver your S3, D4 and other OTT content. In today’s OTT world every platform wants a different touch applied to the encoding, the packaging, and the metadata. Using the work completed for linear to drive packaging and ad insertion, along with metadata standardization and transformation, minimizes the effort to deliver multiple formats to multiple destinations.
Part 3: Full Tilt MAM. Bring MAM to your production suite. An overview of some challenges in production and solutions and tools in Cloud based MAM to ease the load. Enrich your production workflow with smart application of artificial intelligence tools, a look at the future that is already here.
Mr. Thiessen is a graduate of the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology Broadcast Electronics program. When he started in live and post production with Umatic for offline, DVE’s that took ½ rack per channel and could heat your home, digital video was transmitted in parallel, archives had paper logs and reels on a shelf and telecines had flying spots.
He worked in archive management with Masstech for ten years, managing LTO (and other) libraries, before moving to product management with an encoding/ transcoding/ streaming video company. Five years ago, he joined Evertz. Wesley managed a Joint Master Control installation that encompassed everything from the Master Clock and IRDs to the ATSC encoder and all the SDI devices and file based workflows in between.
Most recently Wesley has been involved on the Solutions Architect team at Evertz with the first 24/7 multichannel broadcast master control project now playing all of Discovery Networks’ USA content from the Cloud, as well as major installations of Media Asset Management for international and domestic content delivery for broadcast and OTT delivery, streamlining automated delivery of more than 10,000 assets per month in nearly 100 formats and packages.
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