GV Stratus Playout combines the efficiency and flexibility of cloud computing with
the performance and reliability of an on-site solid-state playout serve – all on a
single card.
This cloud-enabled Software as a Service (SaaS) technology enables facilities to
regionalise channel content and begin playout in minutes.
GV Stratus Playout works with Grass Valley’s Densite SSP-3801 solid-state
playout card, which enables broadcasters to leverage the immense flexibility of
the cloud-enabled playout control system with the security of housing all media
content on site. Using high-grade media storage, the module is easily configured
and installed. The card sits at the edge of any network where it provides frame
accurate playback and displays still and animated logos and high quality pre-
rendered graphics.
Stratus makes use of Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform-as-a-service, which is
hosted in Microsoft Data Centres, and is vastly superior in terms of performance,
resilience and scalability to anything that could be economically viable within a
broadcast facility.
All GV Stratus Playout metadata is stored within the local Microsoft Data Centre
and automatically synchronised to a geo-redundant data centre – making data
supremely redundant and unassailable.
