Vector Multiplay: the option for multichannel installations

Vector MultiPlay includes innovative redundancy management in the workflow that allows broadcasters with multichannel broadcasting to assign backup resources corresponding to the main and secondary channels with the consequent savings in server duplication.

As was evident in the last NAB, many broadcasters are concerned about a key aspect such as disaster recovery. With extensive experience in media management, Vector 3's “all-channel-in-one-box” solution VectorBox presents a value-for-money option in both SD and HD for disaster recovery.

VectorBox supports all video file formats without the need for a second ingest system. Their technology can also read almost any playlist format. Based on these two premises, VectorBox allows you to immediately resume the broadcast without any problem in the event of any failure and put on air the same files and playlists that were programmed in the main system. In this way, any broadcaster can have a disaster recovery mechanism without additional costs.

On the other hand, along with its high performance as a playout based on IT technologies, Vector MultiPlay includes innovative redundancy management in the workflow that allows users to assign the corresponding backup resources to each channel.

Román Ceano, general director of Vector 3, explains the Vector MultiPlay concept, ensuring that “broadcasters with multiple channels can with this solution increase redundancy in the main channel by establishing a lower level of security in their sub-channels or secondary channels. For example, they can dedicate several servers to protect their main channel, while the rest of the channels can share a smaller number of servers. This means significant savings by not having to double server costs to have a redundant system in all its channels.”
The flexibility allowed by the Vector MultiPlay system allows any broadcaster to manage and adjust the level of redundancy and backup of both the assets and the corresponding playlists, compensating at any time for a possible failure that may occur in a multichannel environment, setting priorities between the main channel or channels and those where redundancy is not vital.

Vector MultiPlay, the newest member of the Vector 3 family of solutions, has leveraged more than twenty years of experience in broadcast environments to offer the market a full range of master control capabilities along with tools such as channel branding and Integrated effects engine with universal file-based playback that supports any format in both SD and HD, even simultaneously. Other aspects worth highlighting about the Vector 3 playout proposal are centralized control and monitoring for multiple and unlimited channels, real-time up/down scaling of SD and HD content, emission of multiple signals with different compression simultaneously and a powerful engine. for advanced graphics.

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