Post on 12-Aug-2015
Changing Industry Landscape
Video Cloud
By 2015, every second 1 million
minutes of video content will
cross the Internet. Source: Cisco VNI
40 Hours of professional video
viewed per week per person. Source: Nielsen
$180 billion global Cloud
services market by end of 2015 Source: Gartner
60% of CIOs indicate cloud
computing is their top priority.
Source: Wikibon
1/3 of IT budgets to be
spent on cloud
computing in 2013 Source: Cisco
Ever growing demand for
professional video. 22,000 TV
channels worldwide Source: National Association of Broadcasters
Centralized assets in
one physical location
Central place to store
media, accessible
by many
Highway to move media
from point to point Provides searching,
organizing, viewing of
media and metadata
Production Asset
Management Shared Storage The Cloud Internet
Industry Tool Set Evolution
Storage tuned for large files,
not small transactional data
No put, get, or bandwidth charges
Support for all types of files
with no file size limits
Video player that is frame
accurate with time code
Secure environment
Searching, commenting, logging,
organizing, managing media and
metadata
Broadcast Video Cloud Requirements
• All assets in one central repository accessible by
anyone, regardless of their location
• Full Geographic disaster recovery
• Scalable - only purchase what is required today
• No physical constraints regarding space or HVAC
Benefits of the Cloud
• Private – Cloud Data Centers for broadcast video
• Control of hardware and software
• Media encrypted in transit
• Regular independent penetration testing
• Business continuity plans
Is the Cloud Secure?
• Video access should be controllable
– Create levels of organizations
– Create levels of access to media within the organization
• User access should be definable
– Who has permission to • Download
• Log
• Share via e-mail or link
• Forward
• Delete
Is Your Media Secure?
• Point to point transfers
– Many are accelerated
– Some use the internet, others can use public cloud
• With a private broadcast cloud, once original media or finished
programing is uploaded, it is available for
– Viewing
– Transcoding
– Organizing (commenting, logging, transcribing)
– Downloading
• One to many using a self serve model
Cloud Delivery Workflows
• Fox Sports
– National and International affiliates contribute the best sports
footage of the day
– Available on Fox Intranet site with link to Aframe for both proxy
viewing and transcoded high res master
– Quick look at everything and take what you need
One to Many – The Self Serve Model
• Vice Media
– Multiple channels on their web site
– All finished programing stored on Aframe
– Full Disaster Recovery model as media is in two geographic
locations
– Available for download by regional sites based on licensing and
Aframe permissions
One to Many – The Self Serve Model
Desktop Application allows for watch
folder delivery
Share Links make it easy to send proxy stream,
downloadable proxy, original or transcoded media
One to Many – The Self Serve Model
• Offices in London and Massachusetts
• Privately owned data centers – in New York, Los Angeles and London
• SaaS delivery – no software to download, no hardware to own or upgrade
• Flexible storage and transcoding – scalable capacity, no file size limits and
zero access or usage charges for uploading or downloading media
• Format Support and Edit Integration – support for most major acquisition
formats, link your media and metadata to Adobe, Apple, and Avid editing
systems
Cloud Video Collaboration Platform
• Accelerated File Transfer
• Cloud Storage for Broadcast
• Real time Collaboration
• Multi-Format Transcode
• Review & Approval
• Secure Media Sharing
• Media Asset Management