BBC Talks Resilient Cloud-Based Broadcast System | Video Breakthroughs | Scoop.it
From www.streamingmedia.com - November 27, 2013 4:02 AM

At Streaming Media West, BBC senior technical architect Stephen Godwin gave an in-depth look at the broadcaster's new Video Factory workflow.


With the popularity of iPlayer, the BBC found itself facing a challenge of creating a new and better ingest and transcoding workflow system. The new system is called Video Factory.

 

“Video Factory is designed to be scalable from the ground up, and to use the cloud,” said Godwin.

 

“We wanted something that would scale,” said Godwin. “The system we were replacing was 4-5 years old, and a hardware solution, and we didn’t plan for it to support smartphones. On the old system, we started running into limits, including storage limits.”

 

”When we designed the new system, we wanted a system that would scale in capability and price,” said Godwin. “The old system has some single-points-of-failure. We wanted to move to a model where we had the resiliency of the broadcast chain.”