OVERON Moves Playout Operation to Cloud-Native Vipe

April 3, 2024
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OVERON Moves Playout Operation to Cloud-Native Vipe - Sets the Stage for Next Phase of Growth

Transformation eliminates technical debt and siloed playout workflows to achieve new levels of operational efficiency, enabling expansion and reinvestment in core business

Miami, FL USA and The Netherlands - April 3, 2024 - OVERON, the technical content delivery division of the leading audiovisual service provider Grup MEDIAPRO, has transformed its playout operations across North and South America with BCNEXXT’s cloud-native playout solution, Vipe. As a global media distribution powerhouse, OVERON is at the forefront of delivering tier-1 sports and live content, servicing over a thousand TV channels worldwide. The addition of 25 new premium television channels in the cloud underscores OVERON's commitment to leveraging cutting-edge technology like Vipe for modern media distribution, ensuring high reliability and agility in service delivery.  

We are in an era marked by financial prudence and operational change to thrive,” states Ricardo Flores, SVP Sales at Mediapro North America. “By embracing cloud playout and microservices architecture, OVERON and BCNEXXT can offer our customers a solution that is not only cost-effective but much more reliable than traditional playout solutions. Vipe  boasts a 99.9999% uptime and utilizes significantly fewer cloud resources, providing a sustainable model for media networks. It’s an efficient and cost-effective solution that can be tailored to any complex operational environment without the constraints imposed by traditional solutions.”

Emphasizing ease of transition for clients, OVERON and BCNEXXT offer Playout-as-a-Service. This model allows for flexible scaling, catering to specific needs like pop-up channels and live events. A sandbox environment is available to test playout workflows, ensuring clients’ confidence and satisfaction.

The strategic partnership, which spans almost a decade of collaboration on playout workflows for 70 plus channels, marks a significant milestone in the evolution of media distribution. By harnessing cloud technology and innovative playout solutions, the two companies are setting new standards for reliability, efficiency, and scalability in the media industry.

Building on a foundation of trust and proven performance, OVERON continues to add more VIPE channels to serve their clients,” states Graham Sharp, CEO, BCNEXXT US. “Vipe is the perfect solution, providing incredible efficiency and flexibility of operations, combined with 6 x 9’s  reliability, enabling Overon to service Broadcasters and Content owners demanding SLA requirements cost effectively.” 

BCNEXXT’s solution is designed to integrate seamlessly with any media network's existing processes. This cloud-agnostic approach ensures flexibility across various deployment scenarios, including hyperscale cloud, private infrastructure, or hybrid environments. Thus, Vipe seamlessly integrates with OVERON's innovative in-house Media Asset Management (MAM) system, supporting features like automatic metadata generation, AI-driven playlist management, and a business intelligence module for in-depth media analysis. The modern operation supports remote workflows, maximizing operational efficiency across multisite operations. 

 

Meet with BCNEXXT and OVERON at NAB2024 

NAB 2024 attendees can book a one-on-one meeting (IABM lounge in W236LMR) with BCNEXXT and OVERON to discuss playout services powered by the Vipe solution. 

 

About MEDIAPRO and OVERON 

About MEDIAPRO North America 

Part of Spain-based GRUP MEDIAPRO, MEDIAPRO North America is a leader in audiovisual and content production. With a presence throughout the Americas, MEDIAPRO produces more than 15,000 events around the world each year, providing the creativity and technical solutions necessary to design, produce and distribute any multichannel audiovisual project to any corner of the world.    

OVERON, MEDIAPRO's technical content delivery and playout division, enhances the audiovisual pipeline with its cloud-first approach, optimizing every aspect from creation to monetization.

About BCNEXXT 

BCNEXXT, based in the Netherlands, brings over a century of combined experience in developing Vipe, a virtualized, cloud-native system for Linear, VoD, and OTT publishing. This system sets a new efficiency benchmark, using significantly fewer resources and achieving near-perfect uptime.

OVERON Moves Playout Operation to Cloud-Native Vipe - Sets the Stage for Next Phase of Growth

Transformation eliminates technical debt and siloed playout workflows to achieve new levels of operational efficiency, enabling expansion and reinvestment in core business

Miami, FL USA and The Netherlands - April 3, 2024 - OVERON, the technical content delivery division of the leading audiovisual service provider Grup MEDIAPRO, has transformed its playout operations across North and South America with BCNEXXT’s cloud-native playout solution, Vipe. As a global media distribution powerhouse, OVERON is at the forefront of delivering tier-1 sports and live content, servicing over a thousand TV channels worldwide. The addition of 25 new premium television channels in the cloud underscores OVERON's commitment to leveraging cutting-edge technology like Vipe for modern media distribution, ensuring high reliability and agility in service delivery.  

We are in an era marked by financial prudence and operational change to thrive,” states Ricardo Flores, SVP Sales at Mediapro North America. “By embracing cloud playout and microservices architecture, OVERON and BCNEXXT can offer our customers a solution that is not only cost-effective but much more reliable than traditional playout solutions. Vipe  boasts a 99.9999% uptime and utilizes significantly fewer cloud resources, providing a sustainable model for media networks. It’s an efficient and cost-effective solution that can be tailored to any complex operational environment without the constraints imposed by traditional solutions.”

Emphasizing ease of transition for clients, OVERON and BCNEXXT offer Playout-as-a-Service. This model allows for flexible scaling, catering to specific needs like pop-up channels and live events. A sandbox environment is available to test playout workflows, ensuring clients’ confidence and satisfaction.

The strategic partnership, which spans almost a decade of collaboration on playout workflows for 70 plus channels, marks a significant milestone in the evolution of media distribution. By harnessing cloud technology and innovative playout solutions, the two companies are setting new standards for reliability, efficiency, and scalability in the media industry.

Building on a foundation of trust and proven performance, OVERON continues to add more VIPE channels to serve their clients,” states Graham Sharp, CEO, BCNEXXT US. “Vipe is the perfect solution, providing incredible efficiency and flexibility of operations, combined with 6 x 9’s  reliability, enabling Overon to service Broadcasters and Content owners demanding SLA requirements cost effectively.” 

BCNEXXT’s solution is designed to integrate seamlessly with any media network's existing processes. This cloud-agnostic approach ensures flexibility across various deployment scenarios, including hyperscale cloud, private infrastructure, or hybrid environments. Thus, Vipe seamlessly integrates with OVERON's innovative in-house Media Asset Management (MAM) system, supporting features like automatic metadata generation, AI-driven playlist management, and a business intelligence module for in-depth media analysis. The modern operation supports remote workflows, maximizing operational efficiency across multisite operations. 

 

Meet with BCNEXXT and OVERON at NAB2024 

NAB 2024 attendees can book a one-on-one meeting (IABM lounge in W236LMR) with BCNEXXT and OVERON to discuss playout services powered by the Vipe solution. 

 

About MEDIAPRO and OVERON 

About MEDIAPRO North America 

Part of Spain-based GRUP MEDIAPRO, MEDIAPRO North America is a leader in audiovisual and content production. With a presence throughout the Americas, MEDIAPRO produces more than 15,000 events around the world each year, providing the creativity and technical solutions necessary to design, produce and distribute any multichannel audiovisual project to any corner of the world.    

OVERON, MEDIAPRO's technical content delivery and playout division, enhances the audiovisual pipeline with its cloud-first approach, optimizing every aspect from creation to monetization.

About BCNEXXT 

BCNEXXT, based in the Netherlands, brings over a century of combined experience in developing Vipe, a virtualized, cloud-native system for Linear, VoD, and OTT publishing. This system sets a new efficiency benchmark, using significantly fewer resources and achieving near-perfect uptime.

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Cloud-native playout solution for live sports and events workflows, simplifies operations and reduces overhead by as much as 60%
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BCNEXXT Showcases Vipe RT and Native Adobe After Effects Integration at IBC

Beyond streamlining playout, simplifying operations, and significantly reducing overhead, Vipe delivers rich on-air graphics as envisioned in the design studioThe Netherlands - September 11, 2024 - At the upcoming IBC Show, BCNEXXT will showcase the latest version of Vipe, introducing for the first time Vipe RT, a dedicated, real-time playout engine that supports the most complex live event and sports scenarios. IBC attendees can experience Vipe’s native Adobe® After Effects® integration at the BCNEXXT exhibit in Hall 3, Stand 3.B23.Already deployed in hundreds of entertainment channels around the world, Vipe delivers major savings to organizations of all sizes by consolidating silos, streamlining resource usage, and increasing their automation and reliability levels.Vipe also enables differentiating on-air graphics, preserving the rich designs envisioned by the artists through its native Adobe® After Effects® integration. Typical playout workflows flatten rich 3D graphics into a single .MOV file, which is then keyed over the content. As a result, the graphic loses much of its dynamics. With native After Effects integration, Vipe’s rendering engine takes all design elements, including the timing markers, and renders them in 3D exactly as the designer envisioned.“Having native graphics integration as part of a playout solution enables a workflow that supports stylish, dynamic graphics to better differentiate a channel,” states Graham Sharp, CEO of BCNEXXT, USA. “In today's multi-channel world not only are we trying to make our users more efficient, but also enable them to creatively differentiate their channels, all with 99.9999% uptime.”Vipe can be deployed across public and private clouds, on premises as well as hybrid. With its highly optimized compute usage, Vipe ensures lower-energy consumption leading to more sustainable operations and significantly reduced costs whilst delivering unmatched reliability. To learn more about the Vipe playout workflow, please visit: https://www.bcnexxt.com/approach.Learn about Adobe After Effects and give it a try by updating the app today. To enhance your workflow even further, explore the many extensions that are available as part of the Adobe Video ecosystem today.‍Book a Meeting at IBC 2024To book a one-on-one meeting to learn more about this modern playout service and technology, please contact: ibc@bcnexxt.com.About BCNEXXTBCNEXXT, based in the Netherlands, brings over a century of combined experience in developing Vipe, a virtualized, cloud-native system for Linear, VoD, and OTT publishing. This platform sets a new efficiency benchmark, using significantly fewer resources and achieving near-perfect uptime.‍
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IABM interview with Graham NAB 2024

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Product of the Year Award 2024

The Netherlands - April 18, 2024 - BCNEXXT is pleased to announce that Vipe has won the 2024 NAB Show Product of the Year Award in the Asset Management, Automation and Playout category. The official awards program recognizes some of the most significant and promising new products and technologies showcased by exhibitors at the 2024 NAB Show. Vipe is a cloud-native, software-only offering that simplifies and speeds up the deployment of fully automated linear playout (including live), OTT streaming and VOD offerings. It removes multiple silos and simplifies media supply chains. Clients experience up to 60% cost reductions. “Vipe enables broadcasters and content owners to dramatically improve their operational efficiency,” states Graham Sharp, CEO, BCNEXXT USA. “Vipe intelligently scales resources to match the complexity of the content, consolidates linear, streaming and VOD silos under a single point of technical management, and automates most common playout tasks, increasing reliability and reducing costs.. We are honored to be recognized by the NAB and take home this prestigious award!” The 2024 NAB Show Product of the Year Award Winners were selected by a panel of industry experts in 15 categories. “NAB Show is the ultimate marketplace showcasing the latest trends and technology spanning creation, distribution and monetization in the broadcast, media and entertainment industry,” said senior vice president and chief customer success officer Eric Trabb, NAB Global Connections and Events.“Congratulations to BCNEXXT for winning the prestigious 2024 NAB Show Product of the Year Award, a testament to the groundbreaking innovation embodied by Vipe. Its profound impact on the content lifecycle underscores its pivotal role in empowering storytellers to navigate present challenges and embrace the opportunities of tomorrow.” BCNEXXT’s customer Comcast Technology Solutions was also recognized with an IABM BaM award at the 2024 NAB Show for their advanced playout workflow, which relies on Vipe. About NAB Show NAB Show is the preeminent conference and exhibition driving the evolution of broadcast, media and entertainment, held April 13-17, 2024 (Exhibits April 14-17) in Las Vegas. Produced by the National Association of Broadcasters, NAB Show is the ultimate marketplace for next-generation technology inspiring superior audio and video experiences. From creation to consumption, across multiple platforms, NAB Show, ranked as one of the top fastest-growing shows in the United States, is where global visionaries convene to bring content to life in new and exciting ways. Learn more at NABShow.com. About BCNEXXT BCNEXXT, based in the Netherlands, brings over a century of combined experience in developing Vipe, a virtualized, cloud-native system for Linear, VoD, and OTT publishing. This platform sets a new efficiency benchmark, using significantly fewer resources and achieving near-perfect uptime.
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BCNEXXT at NAB 2024

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New hire Arthur!

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awards

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