Ideal launch new cloud-based Disaster Recovery platform for Broadcasters.

Ideal launch new cloud-based Disaster Recovery platform for Broadcasters. posted: 24/03/2020

In response to the COVID-19 Pandemic and our customers requests, Ideal Systems today announces a new cloud-based broadcast platform for Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity. The platform offers three quickly deployable services.The first service is cloud-based automation and playout for live linear broadcast TV channels. The system which can be remotely deployed and operated allows operators to run their TV channels with all of their branding, graphics, subtitles, languages and SCTE triggers in SD, HD or 4K and deliver these channels to DVB-S, T, IPTV or to other platforms.

The second service is a low latency bandwidth efficient multi-viewer which provides the remote monitoring for Program Control Rooms, Master Control Rooms or Studio Galleries that can be operated securely off-site from the broadcast facility. It supports multiple operators in multiple locations thus enabling the physical distancing as recommended by the WHO in a situation where access has been restricted to any of a broadcasters control rooms.

The third service is a remote live studio workflow that enables the quick setup of offsite or remote studios for the situation where access to TV studios becomes restricted. Full studio operating functionality is created using cloud-based NDI infrastructure that enables remote camera operation, all signal mixing, processing and routing for video, audio, graphics, multi-viewers, and distribution over SRT.

The Ideal DR platform is cloud agnostic and can be deployed in the customer's choice of provider such as AWS, Tata or AliBaba Cloud. The end-to-end platform is based on Ideal's own cloud integration fabric which has been pre-integrated for speed of delivery with best of breed solutions from BCNexxt, Sienna and Caton. Ideal supplies the platform as a rapid turnkey solution with all of the bridges and adaptors for content, signals, schedule files, graphics and data in to and out of the physical world to the cloud. The solution applies equally to national broadcasters with low channel numbers and to multi-channel operators such as pay TV operators with large channel counts. The DR set up costs are minimal compared to traditional on-site broadcast systems and an OpEx usage model keeps running costs incredibly low.

In keeping with the cloud nature of the system, Ideal MediaWorks which is the cloud division of Ideal Systems is offering personalized Zoom video conference for customers to both present and demonstrate the system in operation.

About Ideal Group

With 14 offices across Asia, Ideal Systems is one of the region's largest broadcast media and AV systems integrators. Ideal is a multinational organization providing innovative media, design and AV solutions and consultancy to sectors including broadcasting, media, telecoms, corporate and government. Ideal provide services that range from systems and business consultancy, software and systems design, systems deployment and support, building of media facilities to cloud based services and systems.

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