BCNEXXT’s Vipe assembles content ahead of transmission, managing operations by exception, resolving issues in advance and saving manual intervention for true exceptions and live events.
BCNEXXT designed their cloud-native playout platform Vipe as an alternative to the traditional one-channel-to-one-server relationship. According to BCNEXXT, broadcasters and media service providers using Vipe can reduce playout operating costs by up to 80%, while increasing flexibility, reliability and scalability. Its software-defined architecture allocates resources dynamically, based on operational requirements, allowing organisations to manage projects and services ranging from premium live events to FAST and thematic channels – with greater efficiency and from a single platform.
The Value of Cloud Adoption
As broadcasters debate the cost of cloud operations and the importance of digital sovereignty, the conversation has shifted from factors involved in adopting the cloud, to determining where it delivers the greatest operational and financial value. Digital sovereignty concerns keeping control of data location, processing and movement despite disruptions, while complying with cybersecurity and privacy standards.
Vipe’s cloud-native approach aims for efficiency while giving organisations more control over where their operations and assets reside. With more control over cost as well, cloud deployment gives broadcasters the flexibility and agility needed to optimise modern playout operations.
"As we weren't trying to move a legacy playout system into the cloud, BCNEXXT had the opportunity to start fresh, building a cloud-native operating model from the ground up," said Graham Sharp, VP of Sales and Marketing at BCNEXXT. "That allowed us to rethink every assumption about how playout should work, eliminating the traditional one-channel-to-one-server relationship and dramatically reducing the cost and complexity of operating modern playout services."
Resilient, Predictable Software-Defined Operations
Unlike traditional playout architectures that perform all rendering in real time using permanently allocated infrastructure, Vipe pre-assembles content ahead of transmission and manages operations by exception. The broadcaster can identify and resolve issues ahead of airtime, while reserving operator intervention for genuine exceptions and live events.
The result is a more resilient, predictable operation that reduces infrastructure requirements, improves operator efficiency and means that broadcasters can launch new services very quickly, while only paying for the resources they actually consume with the cloud provider of their choice.
Vipe at IBC 2026
At the IBC 2026 show, BCNEXXT will demonstrate an updated version of Vipe. Its new capabilities continue to focus on improving efficiency and lowering operating costs for service providers. For instance, a new option for regional opt outs makes it possible to derive multiple personalised regional variants from a main channel under a single point of control, including rights blanking or replacement for streaming services that might have rights restrictions. The straightforward user interface features a 2-dimensional view where multiple opt-out channels and variable content can be managed simultaneously.
By dynamically optimising CPU/GPU functions and improving how data from the system infrastructure is presented, Vipe continuously unifies all system operating metrics into simple user interfaces, which helps organisations increase their channel count without recruiting further operators.
An enhanced lines recording package - which records incoming live feeds for replay later - now applies the efficiency of the Vipe platform to recording live content and sharing it across multiple channels. This record once, use many philosophy includes soft parting to extract short segments from longer streams, clipping, immediate playback while recording continues, and the management of the recorded content. Vipe also now features support for newer formats such as HDR HLG.
Together, these innovations enable broadcasters to manage live, linear, FAST, regional and event channels from an efficient, unified software platform while reducing cloud resource consumption and simplifying day-to-day playout operations. www.bcnexxt.com
