LNK Group Migrates Five Networks to Grass Valley AMPP

Lithuanian broadcaster LNK Group has completed a migration of playout and media management for its five national television networks - LNK, BTV, TV1, InfoTV, and 2TV - to Grass Valley's AMPP Media Operating System. The project was delivered by Hannu Pro, Grass Valley's certified AMPP Managed Service Partner in the Baltic region.

The deployment runs Playout X and Framelight X on AMPP Local at LNK's Vilnius facility, alongside a cloud-based disaster recovery environment on AWS with Wasabi storage. Redundant Playout X chains provide continuity across all five networks, with support for live inputs, secondary recordings, HTML5 graphics, advanced audio, and SCTE insertion. LNK and BTV also support SRT contribution feeds. Framelight X handles media management, logging, editing, record scheduling, and content review, connecting to an archive of approximately 150,000 assets in Telestream DIVA.

This project represents an important step in the modernization of LNK Group's broadcast infrastructure, says Ri ardas Kazlauskas, CTO, LNK Group. Our objective was to maintain the reliability required for national television broadcasting while giving us more flexibility in how we deploy and develop our services. Moving our five networks to AMPP and Playout X alongside our transition to SMPTE ST 2110 provides that foundation.

One of the most important aspects of this transformation is that broadcast applications are no longer tightly coupled to dedicated hardware, says Justinas Kunickas, CIO, LNK Group. With AMPP we can run applications on shared compute infrastructure, integrate them with our existing systems and introduce or change workflows without rebuilding the underlying signal chain. For us, that architectural flexibility is one of the key benefits of moving toward a Dynamic Media Facility environment.

LNK Group demonstrates how software-defined applications can be introduced into established broadcast operations while maintaining the resilience required for national television, says Carlos Ferreira, VP of Sales, Southern Europe, Grass Valley. AMPP gives LNK a common platform for playout and media management across five networks, with the flexibility to run applications on premises and extend critical services into the cloud.

We would like to thank LNK's management for the trust they have placed in Grass Valley and Hannu Pro while making the bold move into the AMPP Dynamic Media Facility world - among the first broadcasters in the Baltics, says Kalvis Baumanis, CEO, Hannu Pro. With AMPP, LNK's technical team has hundreds of broadcast tools immediately at hand, covering practically any television production need. Where adding a new capability once meant months of ordering, installing and configuring dedicated equipment, it can now be deployed in minutes.

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