SWR redoubles its commitment to streaming with Logic Portal easystream

Logic Easystream Portal leads the future of streaming within SWR, German public television that sets its sights on automating its workflows and reducing costs.

SWR has decided change your architecture to modernize your operations in those relating to the broadcasts with streaming. The chain has started using a AWS-based infrastructure, in which service providers LTN Global y LOGIC They simplify the workflow with their solutions.

The core of the implementation is the backend Portal easystream, which automatically forwards streams delivered via AWS a la CDN of the station. Within the solution developed for the SWR event streaming, Portal automatically starts the resources AWS necessary when delivering a streaming signal to AWS infrastructure y provides the stream via CDN (Cloudfront). As soon as a flow managed by LTN Global, the start of the AWS services corresponding via an API call. Himself procedure It is used to stop the flow. The structure of an event flow it is totally redundant within AWS and has no single point of failure.

PORTAL.easystream It is not only designed as a backend, but also as a frontend which can be used to manually intervene in the process or to workflow monitoring purposes. Another advantage of the solution used by Portal easystream is the cost reduction- AWS services do not need to be permanently reserved, but are only used when needed (the stream is available) and are therefore charged.

Portal easystream is part of Portal Technology, which provides media frontends and workflows in the AWS cloud under the umbrella of the Portal framework. By implementing frontends, various functions in AWS can be operated by non-technical people and “easily” managed by administrators.