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Evolve your playout
environment with
Pebble Beach Systems
The Pebble Beach Systems team, led by CEO
Tom Gittins (second from left), is on hand to
attend to visitors at BroadcastAsia2017.
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Playout environments are beginning to move
to a virtualised and software-defined envi-
ronment, says Pebble Beach Systems, as the
company highlights its Orca and Lighthouse
solutions.
Orca is a software-defined virtualised
IP channel solution that provides a flexible
option to deploy or contract IP-based chan-
nels “almost instantly”, without the burden of
racks of complicated hardware, or weeks of
set-up and provisioning, says Pebble Beach
Systems.
As a complete virtual channel-in-a-box
solution, Orca channels run in a virtual ma-
chine (VM) in a private cloud with IP inputs
and outputs. It is also designed to deliver
all the functionalities that could previously
only be handled by discrete hardware video
servers, graphics and captioning systems —
within a pure software environment, main-
tains Pebble Beach Systems.
At booth 6J3-05, visitors can also check
out its Lighthouse, a Web-based remote
management and monitoring dashboard for
the company’s Marina automation system.
Lighthouse extends Marina’s function-
ality to business users, operational staff
and engineers both inside and outside the
broadcast facility.
It offers control, monitoring, media
management and system configuration
tools via an array of widgets on configurable
Web-based dashboards. Lighthouse can also
span multiple Marina systems, which may be
running different software versions and can
be operating at different frame rates.
As Pebble Beach’s product portfolio
continues to expand into the virtual world,
Lighthouse also offers a series of interfaces
that deliver configuration and deployment
functionality for Orca virtual channels.
Other highlights include Dolphin, an
inte grated channel device that operates un-
der Pebble Beach Systems’ automation con-
trol. It delivers highly automated integrated
audio, video and graphics functionality for
ingest, channel branding and frame-accurate
multi-channel playout.
There is also a celebratory mood around
the Pebble Beach Systems booth, as the com-
pany announces a number of key deals. To
be deployed in the next few months, Pebble
Beach Systems is completing a project for
India’s public broadcaster, Doordashan, for
playout and news automation integration.
In Sri Lanka, Voice of Asia’s new chan-
nels are already on air, supported by ingest,
playout and media management systems
from Pebble Beach Systems.