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www.inbroadcast.com | Vol: 12 - Issue 2 | February 2022
InStudio
CP Communications Empowers
Cloud Production Workflows
with End-to-End Solutions
I
t's been nearly four years since CP
Communications
introduced
Red House
Streaming subsidiary,
which encapsulated the shift to IP
and bonded cellular technologies
happening
in
the
for the 2018
broadcast and
sports production world. The official
launch coincided with CP's content
acquisition strategy
TCS New York City Marathon, an
event that proved the reliability and
value of these modern networking
technologies
for large live
productions.
CP Communications' business
partnership with Mobile Viewpoint
formed the nucleus
House Streaming product family in
2018, with CP technicians relying
on the company's bonded cellular
encoders and robust compression
technologies to optimize bandwidth
and deliver broadcast-quality video
over IP.
Another Mobile Viewpoint
solution, LinkMatrix, foreshadowed
cloud-based
production as
increasingly
positions
the
next evolution for the Red House
Streaming business - an evolution
that
the
company as a global cloud solutions
provider for live production.
" LinkMatrix provided us with a
cloud-based management
of the Red
its
have since focused on bringing CP's
homegrown Red House Streaming
cloud
technologies
to market.
We can now offer true end-to-end
cloud-based solutions that take our
production services
to producers,
directors and journalists worldwide. "
A New RHS Era
Red
has
evolved
unforeseen
includes
the
House
Streaming's
into areas
four
years
recent
brand
ago.
and
perhaps
This
launch
of
RHS studios, a 5,600-square-foot
production complex
operations center within CP's Florida
headquarters that offers broadcastquality
studio production services.
The co-located network operations
center reflects
CP's embrace of
cloud production workflows for both
onsite and remote productions. CP
staffs
the NOC with
and
content
experienced
RHS technicians to manage all-IP
productions
delivery
tasks, no matter where the talent is
located. The NOC offers technicians
a mirror image of all RHS equipment
in the field, including CamSTREAM
systems - a key component of CP's
cloud production workflow.
control
center for all of our encoders in the
field, " said Kurt Heitmann, CEO of CP
Communications. " This empowered
remote technicians in our NOCs
with remote control, monitoring,
editing and network management
capabilities that shed light on the
power of cloud
technologies. We
" The CamSTREAM family was
launched with REMI and at-home
productions
in mind, providing
a range of complete content
acquisition and streaming systems
that are quick to set up and easy for
producers, directors and talent
use, " said Heitmann. " These systems
to
Extending the Cloud Ecosystem
As
with the earliest
RHS
technologies, the Bank of America
Chicago Marathon (October 2021)
and TCS New York City Marathon
(November 2021) were proving
grounds for Virtual Media Center and
FastReturn. The Virtual Media Center
is a browser-based
for live
multiviewer
designed
video signal
monitoring, and more specifically for
journalists worldwide covering press
conferences and events
remotely.
Media personnel can select which
video feeds to monitor through a
web-based interface, and all VMC
templates deliver video feeds with
secure authentication and less than
400ms of latency.
When coupled with CamSTREAM,
the Virtual Media Center becomes a
true virtual press room. This provides
live event producers with a complete,
cloud-based collaborative platform
for news media attending through
Zoom, Teams and other conferencing
software.
FastReturn is a secure
video
management platform that allows
users to access production content
on smartphones, tablets, laptops,
network
integrate bonded cellular encoders
among other technologies to capture
and
stream revenue-generating
programming from anywhere, and
are controllable in the cloud from
our NOCs. That was a significant
step forward in our cloud production
strategy, and unleashed a new wave
of CP product innovation through to
our newest cloud solutions: Virtual
Media Center and FastReturn. "
desktops and certain digital media
players. The platform can ingest any
H.264 baseline profile RTMP stream,
supporting HD resolution and
128kbit stereo audio with bitrates up
to 10 MBps with less than 400ms of
latency.
Perhaps most useful
for a cloud
ecosystem: FastReturn can spin up
edge servers around the world that
are geographically
closer to the
production to provide even lower
latency and better reliability. This
offers exceptional
flexibility when
working across production locations,
even when separated by oceans.
" FastReturn uses the power of the
cloud to deliver streaming return
video with ultra-low latency
so
users can manage live productions
from anywhere on any device in real
time, said Heitmann. " We can now
manage everything from IP signal
acquisitions at remote studios to the
signal distribution points. That can
include international data centers
with edge servers in the United
States, Europe and Asia, for example.
FastReturn's
base package
includes five streams and supports
up to 100 users and can be scaled
to accommodate additional sources
and larger crews. Perhaps more than
any technology in the RHS portfolio,
FastReturn represents
the true
power and efficiency of working in
the cloud. When coupled other RHS
technologies, NOCs and or studios,
CP customers now have a range of
end-to-end cloud solutions to meet
any production scale.
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