Arabsat will take its broadcast to the cloud with Grass Valley's AMPP platform

The Playout X solution, integrated into the AMPP SaaS platform of Grass Valley, will allow the satellite operator's customers Arabsat broadcast content using cloud technology.

Using Playout X, the partners of Arabsat They will be able to emit quality signals in a “more flexible and efficient” way. Alhamedi Alanezi, CEO and president of the company, provides more details on how they will leverage the benefits of the Grass Valley: "These new AMPP-based services will allow our customers to set up a new television channel in just a few minutes. Since this new agile, accessible and scalable cloud-based transmission technology is also more affordable, it will allow us to reach many new customers."

Arabsat will offer three products that leverage the GV AMPP orchestration platform as well as its next-generation private cloud infrastructure: TV Starter, TV Advanced y TV Pinnacle. While the first two are designed to meet the current broadcasting needs of broadcasters in terms of high quality and reliability in a “profitable” way, TV Pinnacle It is presented as a “very sophisticated” cloud production and broadcast capable of managing multiple live sources for the most demanding events.

Louis Hernández, CEO and President of Grass Valley, celebrates its agreement with Arabsat at a time of “television broadcast paradigm shift.” “Both companies have a long track record as leaders, and this collaboration represents the next logical step in terms of the ease, scalability and affordability of television distribution.”