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Scality and Broadpeak

Powering a feature-rich, always-on cloud PVR service

Broadpeak and Scality have partnered to architect a solution that offers the performance demanded by consumers — plus the low cost, scalability and resiliency that TV service providers require to maintain 24×7 service.

Scality provides cost-effective, infinitely scalable, geographically distributed storage ideally suited to the demands of media and video content

A perfect complement to Broadpeak’s portfolio of solutions and technologies, which power the delivery of movies, television programming and other video content over managed networks and the internet for viewing on any type of device.

Video consumption has changed

In the 1990s, if we wanted to record a television program or watch a recording, most of us used VHS tapes. Around the end of the 1990s, the first digital video recorder (DVR) appeared, which allowed us to record directly to a local storage device.

DVRs were costly to deploy and maintain at scale, so service providers quickly moved to a centralized storage architecture where video content is stored in a data center and remotely accessed by the consumer.

Unlimited content

Fast forward to today, and we can now stream virtually unlimited content on a variety of devices ranging from traditional televisions to tablets to mobile phones—the age of cloud personal video recording is here.

Regulatory and Copyright

Legal, regulatory and financial considerations related to copyright and carriage agreements affect the technical implementation

Low Cost

Challenges include architecting a solution that provides the performance required by consumers withthe low cost, scalability, and resiliency TV service providers require to maintain 24×7 service

Scality RING & Broadpeak

Video consumption has changed

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Scality and Broadpeak

Flexible and modular, Broadpeak’s cloud PVR solution is built around a high-performance recorder (with built-in caching). A recording manager oversees the copy policy and scheduling of recordings.
Storage costs are optimized by using on-the-fly packaging and leveraging Scality’s RING storage.

Lower Costs

Scality RING lowers TCO through storage usage efficiency, standard x86 server support and simple management—and it grows with production, resolution and your catalog, offering unlimited, linear scalability.

Safer Data

Scality enables 100% availability and up to 14 nines durability, with multi-site options to tolerate entire site failure. Upgrade, expand and maintain access, even during unexpected outages—it’s good for business.

Faster Streaming

Scality provides high throughput for streaming HD content to many simultaneous users in many formats through multiple CDNs, including public cloud providers. Plus, Scality RING runs on standard x86 hardware and has been pre-integrated with a rich selection of enterprise storage hardware.

Flexibility

Broadpeak’s cloud PVR solution enables implementation of cloud DVR services in either a shared copy, a private copy or a hybrid mode. For private copy-based deployments, we additionally support a number of storage optimizations, such as low-profile storage, file-based deduplication and storage tiering.

Simplicity

It’s easier than you think! The Broadpeak cloud PVR solution is pre-integrated with major content management systems and supports delivery to legacy STBs and OTT devices. Equally, the Scality RING solution is pre-integrated and tuned for the Broadpeak cloud DVR workload.