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BCNEXXT - Vipe RT

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Category   Playout

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Vipe is a cloud-native, software solution that simplifies and speeds up the deployment of fully automated linear playout, OTT streaming and VOD playout. The latest release introduces Vipe RT, a dedicated, real-time playout engine that supports the most complex live event and sports requirements. 

Vipe features
• Containerized microservices and 3rd party outbound services are carefully managed through a centralized orchestration layer. This levels the workload, minimizes resources, and uses lower processing power creating huge efficiencies and therefore cost savings.
• Multichannel error indicators enable a monitor-by-exception workflow so issues can be fixed as they arise, before delivery time.This  to the 99.9999% uptime seen by Vipe’s users.
• All deliverables go through an automated quality control process to check for availability, compatibility, timing and corruption. An embedded player enables manual checking, including audio and subtitles.
• Vipe’s cloud-based services can be accessed from any web browser, with easy to use and logical interfaces.
• Live feeds are decoded; DVE, graphics, subtitles, watermarking and any audio manipulation are applied and then re-encoded to be spliced into the transport stream playout process. 
• Switching between multiple live events and pre-rendered clips is seamless and resources are only deployed as required by the complexity of the content.
• Vipe can manage extremely complex graphics and offers a native Adobe After Effects plugin, providing creative freedom for designers.
• Broadcast-grade capabilities
◦ Subtitles INV/DVB/TT/SCTE-27
◦ Audio mapping
◦ Loudness correction
◦ SCTE-35 CUE tones
◦ Watermarking
◦ Join in progress
◦ Vchip

• New capabilities within Vipe RT include
◦ Advanced break management for sports like cricket without fixed break times.
◦ Live Master Control panel with real-time switching, graphics selection, emergency slates, and audio mapping, with the security of a low-latency Web RTC confidence monitor.
◦ Swimlane View for management of breaks in regional opt out channels. 
◦ Low-latency, live subtitling workflow. 
◦ CPU-only processing provides even more deployment flexibility.

Vipe is uniquely at the epicenter of the new and old worlds. 
 
Old - It has all the broadcast grade features required for live linear playout, whilst simultaneously consolidating Streaming, FAST and VoD onto a common platform with a single point of technical and financial management.
 
New - A modern, fully abstracted, containerized cloud native architecture utilizes the dynamic scaling ability of the cloud to minimize resource requirements based on the complexity of the content. Vipe reduces resources and therefore costs by up to 8x, whilst maintaining better than hardware-based reliability of up to 99.9999% as measured by users.
 
The BCNEXXT team of industry veterans have a combined hundreds of years of Playout automation knowledge, with the understanding of modern cloud architectures and technology to produce a robust, hugely efficient cross-platform playout solution. Our goal is to help today's media companies reach their reduced expense goals.