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PEOPLE CAN NOW VIEW THE CLOUD AS AN EXTENSION OF WHAT THEY ARE ALREADY DOING TODAY

Last December, Grass Valley trialled its AMPP-connected programme with an EA esports tournament featuring more than 20 camera inputs. These were cut using K-Frame products connected directly to EC2 instances in AWS running in a Northern Virginia data centre. The contribution feeds were coming from Europe, with the technical director sitting in California. “Operators commented that in the middle of the show, they didn’t really know that they were working on AMPP. It worked just like any K-Frame.” The company is looking at enabling all sorts of equipment in this way, aiming to go beyond mere connectivity to being able to leverage what cloud can specifically offer. Teams could continue to work with the same systems and then scale up to the cloud for special events or when additional connectivity or capacity is required, with no changes whatsoever to the engineers’ interfaces and workflow. “The mantra for the K-Panel was ‘any panel, any frame.’ Now it’s changed to ‘any panel, any engine,’” says Cronk. “People can now view the cloud as an extension of what they are already doing today, without having to relearn all new interfaces. It’s important that there’s a smooth transition and people can still utilise the tools they’ve invested in,” he concludes.

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