BroadStream Announces New ARMADA Toolkit at IBC 04

At IBC 2014 on stand 8.B29, BroadStream Solutions, the global broadcast solutions provider, will unveil ARMADA, the companys new fleet of applications that can be combined and configured to handle specialised tasks and enhanced integration. Adapting to customer requirements, ARMADAs toolkit uses flexible modules to deliver powerful tailored solutions to requirements such as time delay, media ingest, localisation, and more. The inherent flexibility of ARMADA allows broadcasters to build systems without restrictions thanks to powerful APIs that encourage integration.

Since ARMADA is a completely software based solution, customers and integrators have the freedom to build systems to suit their exact requirements as opposed to adopting a one size fits all approach offered by other suppliers, said Peter Wharton, VP Technology & Business Development at BroadStream. We realise broadcasters have unique challenges in terms of geographic locations as well as disparate systems, so while customisation and integration is fundamental, keeping the implementation as simple as possible is equally important.

Some of the specialised applications for ARMADA include:

Radar

Radar adds a MAM and orchestration layer over the OASYS Automated Playout Solution. This, as the name implies, allows users to search for and pick up objects, then move them around the entire broadcast network, playing out centrally, at the Edge or the Cloud, controlling the end to end process from any connected browser.

Time Delay

Time delay applications created with ARMADA can be used for live event production, time zone delays and a range of other applications. Key features include:

Playout immediately after record is started

Variable delay

Real-time control

Localisation

ARMADA apps can be used to create solutions for the regionalisation and localisation of feeds. Key features include:

Local commercial insertion

Local program substitution (blackout coverage)

In-band triggers

Playlist-driven insertion

Localised branding

Localised language substitution with audio track shuffling and subtitle management

Evergreen playout redundancy coverage

Media Ingest

Media ingest solutions can be created with ARMADA to manage the recording of live video feeds. Key features include:

Scheduled or manual recording

Ganged recording to allow simultaneous recording across any number of ingest channels

Immediate read-write confidence playback for mission critical applications

BroadStreams new ARMADA solution toolkit is available now worldwide. It will be showcased for the first time at IBC 2014 on Stand B.29 and is part of the full suite of BroadStream playout solutions.

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