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SMPTE Australia 2011 White Paper
An integrated model for predictable, high-speed global content delivery The media supply chain needs to become fluid, predictable, efficient—and ubiquitous. File formatting standards help. But the movement of files globally and internally needs to operate less like an error-prone relay race, and more like an interconnected, high speed pipeline. Assets, regardless of size, should flow at a rate determined by the business (not at the de facto speed of bottlenecked protocols), across any available networks. The processing, inserting, and merging of asset files and formats should be easy or automated, using established workflows and IT infrastructure. Broadcast IT needs help supporting this new business through elastic service architectures that scale non-disruptively based on supply and demand. Independent workflows could be easier to manage through interoperable service architectures, offering integration and consistency with justifiable returns. File-based workflows provide the groundwork for moving to services through SOA, but not without planning and integration. Workflows, while easy to manage in their own respect, have become specialized, isolated silos; moving and managing files across workflows could be much easier. Prepared by Michelle Munson, Aspera President and Co-founder, and Jason Goodman, Director of Product Marketing, for the SMPTE Australia 2011 conference, this paper explains Aspera’s design philosophy and position on a model for content delivery using commercial software integrated through open service-oriented architectures (SOA) and high-speed transport, Aspera fasp™ and fasp-AIR™. We’ll describe requirements and use cases where contribution, processing, and distribution can become more efficient, predictable, and integrated across workflows. |
