Nevion makes VideoIPath a “one-size-fits-all” solution by supporting resource federation

The VideoIPath media orchestration platform from Nevion (Sony) now supports federation, a “unique” development in the industry that results in the ability for multiple autonomous VideoIPath instances to collaborate within and across locations.

Nevion considers that this improvement for VideoIPath represents a “great advance” in the distributed production across multiple sites, since, thanks to resource federation, it is possible to share and use different production resources regardless of their location. The Sony company has promoted this development by identifying how broadcasters, media and production companies they increasingly seek to increase the flexibility and profitability of your live productions moving to remote and distributed production. Such productions, Nevion notes, include studios, control rooms, staff, on-premise and cloud processing located at multiple sites. Share, control and connect these resources with ease through networks LAN, WAN, 5G y GCCG (Ground-to-Cloud-Cloud-to-Ground) is “one of the biggest challenges to enabling this type of production,” a challenge that is being solved by the VideoIPath resource federation.

As an example, Nevion points out that, with the federation, individual systems of VideoIPath can now Collaborate with other VideoIPath systems to share, control and connect resources in all locations safely. Since each system is autonomous and takes care of its own resources, continues to function and collaborate, even if problems occur in other parts of the federation. The federation capability also allows VideoIPath to achieve new heights of scalability, to manage all production resources and all media flows involved.

Although remote and distributed production are obvious applications for VideoIPath's federation functionality, the capability can also be used to compartmentalize networks within facilitiesFor example, between ingesta, la producción y la emisión. Por otro lado, las capacidades de federación de VideoIPath también permitirá ofrecer una orquestación WAN para unir las diferentes instalaciones de sus usuarios.

Arne-Johan Martinsen, director de producto of VideoIPath in Nevion, considera que la nueva capacidad de federación de recursos será una “pieza clave” en el futuro de la producción de contenidos. Del mismo modo, Martinsen apunta que este desarrollo optimizará todas las operaciones, ya que “al ocultar a los usuarios la complejidad de la infraestructura subyacente y proporcionar escalabilidad, fiabilidad y seguridad, VideoIPath permite a los productores de contenidos centrarse en la creatividad, al tiempo que aumenta la eficiencia y la eficacia”.