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FRANKLY, CLOUD IS THE FUTURE efore being acquired by Frankly, Frankly Media is using AWS Elemental to create an entire channel management system in the cloud
company shipped its own hardware appliances built to receive and record an SDI broadcast, allowing the customer to do live-to-VOD editing using a DVR function on the appliance, as well as live streaming. “That architecture was the correct one for a long while,” says Omar Karim, COO at Frankly. “At that time it was hard to push high-quality video to the cloud and then work with it remotely. But over the last few years we have pivoted that whole architecture into the cloud.” What was once potentially risky has become an obvious choice for many broadcasters. Bandwidth is stable and
more affordable, so companies can leverage a fast connection in and out of the cloud very reliably. Karim points to other practical reasons for using cloud architectures. “The cloud also allows us to diversify video sources,” says Karim, “so now we’re not just working with a primary broadcast signal but we also bringing in secondary signals from the station or feeds from the field. The goal has been to take all of our customers’ investment in IP video workflow and help move that up into the cloud so they no longer need to be connected to a local appliance. It can all be done through
WorldNow had been in the digital solutions business for broadcasters since 1999.
The company provided a digital publishing platform, which included CMS and multimedia functions with a front end that delivered to a variety of platforms including iOS, Android, Apple TV, Fire TV, Roku and the Web. It was primarily used by TV and radio broadcasters, as well as some newspapers. In response to demand from broadcast customers, Frankly developed a fully- integrated video workflow system. The
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