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Aveco features hybrid on-premises, remote, and cloud playout with ASTRA MCR for 2020
Aveco, a leading automation provider, wants to make sure that you know all about its latest solutions for studio production automation, MAM, and playout. This includes Aveco’s ASTRA MCR, the only master control automation that handles on-premises as well as remote stream splicing and cloud playout, all in the same user interface.
Coming off of its win of the 2019 IBC Innovation Award for Content Everywhere with the ETV Bharat massive news automation project – which includes 24 studios and 24 full-time news channels for live and on-demand mobile viewership – Aveco’s customer base keeps expanding with new solutions installed in Asia, the Americas, and Europe.
For master control on-premises and cloud-based hybrid playout, Aveco has teamed up with Harmonic for integration of Harmonic’s VOS 360, dedicated end-to-end video cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) platform. Aveco’s automation solution, ASTRA MCR, manages hybrid on-premises and cloud-based playout using a single user interface, enabling users to easily manage on-air operations in multiple locations.
The ability to control on-premises, remote, and cloud-based playout functions from a single easy-to-use user interface brings new capabilities to broadcasters and media organizations, who desire the best of all worlds. Aveco provides users a choice for optimum utilization of their assets.
For example, users can deploy SDI and 2110 playout on-premises, run remote stream-splicing ad insertion, and handle cloud-based channel playout OTT, all managed from Aveco’s automation screen. Media companies pick which operations happen where, based on their business model and services desired by their viewers.
Another example is where broadcasters use their on-premises playout for their main TV channels, while using the cloud for disaster recovery, for temporary channels, and for niche/low-cost channels.
Integrated ingest and playout
Aveco is also extending its Redwood family of integrated playout devices for ingest, clip playout, graphics insertion, master control switching with DVEs, subtitling, independent branding of simultaneous channels, and many other broadcast features. Redwood is a result of the combined technologies of Harmonic’s video-delivery infrastructure solutions and Aveco’s robust, industry-standard automation system.
Redwood GREEN is an integrated playout device and multipurpose video engine with integrated IP and SDI interfaces, graphics, DVE effects, to-from live switching, ingest, and supports formats up to 4K UHD HDR for end-video delivery – for applications where quality and reliability are paramount.
For price-sensitive operations, the Redwood WHITE video engine is designed for cost-effective playout and integrated channel origination, emphasizing the best price-performance ratio as well as studio and MCR-oriented graphics engines. Redwood WHITE is fully integrated with Aveco’s ASTRA automation products, including ASTRA Studio, ASTRA MCR, and ASTRA MAM, providing cost efficiency and a high-performance solution.
Pavel Potuzak
CEO, Aveco
“We really miss NAB and other shows, especially since this has always been the opportunity to meet many of our customers, partners, and friends in one place, face-to-face. The situation requires certain restrictions, but on the other hand, it can create some new broadcasting opportunities.
We talk to our customers and help them with whatever they need in this special, uneasy, and unusual situation. For example, we enabled MCR to be managed by operators from their homes in Greece and the US, and helped quickly start up a new TV channel in the Czech Republic.
Seniors seem to be the most endangered group of people, so the Czech government is trying to protect them from coronavirus, advising them to stay at home at all times. The new public TV Channel3 structure is designed especially for this vulnerable target group to keep them informed, entertained, and happy (as much as it is possible under these circumstances). We are proud to be a part of such a helpful and beneficial project, which was decided, prepared, executed, and automated within just 4 days, which is quite fantastic and unique!”
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