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Disaster Recovery
Considerations
A small chance of failure can lead to massive problems
- with Pavel Potužák, CEO, Aveco...
L
et's be honest. There's a small
chance that you'll need to use a
disaster recovery (DR) system. The
problem is, that low probability
-
should the situation arise - can lead
to both loss of advertising revenue
as well as a loss of viewership that
continues past the DR event, because
a viewer that has left your channel will
never know that you are back on the
air/cable/satellite/streaming service,
unless they actively keep looking for
your channel. That may be in a few
minutes, an hour, a day, or longer.
And should a DR event occur because
of a natural or man-made disaster,
your brand reputation will
take a
major hit if you are a provider of local
or national news and you go off-air.
There are minimal DR systems as
well as 'top of the line' systems. We'll
take a quick look at each.
A DR site with minimal functionality
can keep you on-air at the lowest
cost.
The operational
model
is
similar to your primary workflow and
may only
require minimal training,
if training is needed at all. This is
a 'Dual Use' model, where backup
resources are 'housed' in your main
facility. In its basic form, it's extra
capacity located on-premises.
An additional studio could be used
Televisa Mexico
for live events without impacting your
main studio. Additional equipment
could be used for ingest and QA.
Dual Use is a decent model, but
you've probably already thought of
the issues that come with it: What
if my main facility is totally off-line?
What if my back-up power supply
fails? There are a lot of 'what ifs'.
Now let's take a look at a top of the
line DR system. For this example,
we'll use Televisa in Mexico, one of
Aveco's premium DR customers.
Televisa's DR system has a fully
redundant
master control
with
frame-by-frame disaster recovery for
80 TV channels that are located onpremises
and in the cloud.
For more in-depth information on Aveco DR solutions, please visit:
https://www.aveco.com/en/solutions/detail/11/disaster-recovery
Should there be any issue with
any (or even all) of Televisa's master
control
rooms (MCRs), the Aveco
system instantaneously switches to
the always-on backup DR system(s)
within frames
of an issue being
detected by the Aveco system.
Each disaster recovery MCR is
equipped with its
servers and duplicate playlist
own playout
for
immediate on-air takeover. No spin
up time is required as the disaster
recovery system mirrors the main
MCR output frame-by frame 24/7.
The disaster recovery MCRs are
located in a different city for optimal
security. Any latency is negated by
the disaster recovery MCRs running
an exact duplicate of the playlist with
weeks of program and commercial
content available.
This unique DR method allows
for ultimate redundancy quality at
fraction of the price that you might
be thinking with minimized hardware
and
other broadcast
devices,
due to Aveco's dynamic resource
management tools.
About Aveco
With our
of
manage/deliver,
sells, and
vision of
Aveco
supports
automation,
create/
designs,
studio
production automation, master
control
integrated
channel playout and media asset
management
Aveco operates
cloud
and
Deployments
in
systems worldwide.
on-prem, in the
hybrid
range from some
operation.
the industry's
channel, multi-site operations
end-to-end
largest multito
small
standalone systems and from
complete
production
and playout facilities to individual
products.
Aveco is a micro-services-based
modular platform, with the industry's
largest
library
implemented
TV industry's
of
interfaces
APIs. Aveco's
largest
and
the
independent
automation company, with legendary
reliability. In 2019, the company was
awarded the IBC Innovation Award
for a revolutionary automation and
media asset management system
supporting 5,000 reporters, 24
news studios and 24 full time news
channels, in 13 languages. Aveco has
won many other prestigious awards
stemming from constant innovation.
Since its formation in 1992, Aveco
has remained a stable,
privatelyowned
company with a long-term
commitment to steady growth and
timely support.
Aveco is
based in the Czech
Republic, the United States, India,
Russia, France and Hong Kong. Aveco
is celebrating 30 years in 2022.
https://www.aveco.com
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