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Module Functions
- Customized workflow tailors
to any operation
- Powerful schedule management tools for turnaround,
PPV, NVOD, barker, promos
- Simplifies and speeds up last minute,
day of air changes
- Automatically synchronizes EPG, CAS, and SMS
for effortless offer management
- Full stream and service management
for bandwidth saving for day-parted and
virtual services
Application Overview
Broadcast Manager provides advanced tools for scheduling
content based on service profiles, and power tools to generate
complex
schedule patterns for NVOD, series, and barker channels. Broadcast
Manager displays the association of offers and programming and
uses this information to synchronize the CA, EPG and SMS subsystems
to make executing the most complex marketing offers effortless.
It also simplifies advanced guide presentations and navigation
such as Mosaics. Broadcast Manager synchronizes and works in conjunction
with the subsystems that position antennas, tune receivers, or
switch signals, record and playout content. It provides complete
control over service definition. It supports day-parted services
(where each service uses the compression resource for part of the
day) for efficient re-use of compression resources and minimizes
bandwidth use by simplifying the task of creating virtual channels
(for example, multiple services constructed with the same video
stream, but different language audio streams) and bandwidth stealing
(where a premium program scheduled on a service can borrow bandwidth
from or override base services).
Business Rationale
Scheduling complexity increases with the number
and types of services offered. SunUp's Broadcast Manager
handles turnaround channels and originated channels with ease.
Frame accurate scheduling ensures
perfect presentation, power tools simplify NVOD, barker, and promo
scheduling, and intelligent interaction with other subsystems makes
complex offer management such as clear-to-scrambled transitions
and sports blackouts easy. SunUp's Broadcast Manager creates
a better look and feel to the subscriber, saves money by reducing
operational workload, and enables sophisticated marketing efforts.
Bandwidth-saving features help pack more services into the available
bandwidth. Broadcast Manager integrates fully with other optional
SunUp software modules to facilitate even greater overall operational
efficiencies.
Key Features:
- General
- Built on SunUp's open product
platform architecture
- Providing
secured web access for users
- Supports standards-based and proprietary
interfaces to third-party subsystems
- Customized workflow definition,
execution and tracking of all steps in the workflow
- Exception-based
notification
- Schedule Management
- Powerful tools for making last minute day
of air changes or for creating schedule templates months
in advance
- Frame
accurate operation
- Power tools for repetitive NVOD, barker channel,
promo, and series scheduling
- Import and management of schedules
from listing services, ad sales, or other applications
- Automated
validation checks to insure schedules meet contractual
rules and service profiles and are ready for air (QC completed,
resources allocated and available...)
- Schedule driven
management functions such as bandwidth management,
iTV applications management, content, services and resource
management, etc.
- Advanced EPG/IPG integration for Mosaics scheduling,
and thematic and genre based searches
- Automatic coordination of
EPG, CAS, and SMS simplifies offer management
- Non-real time content
(application data, software updates) can be automatically
inserted into bandwidth freed by video service
schedule
- Printed reports for audit trail, station log, pull
and load lists and many others
- Stream Management
- Elementary Stream Profile definition at service,
program and event level for video, audio, subtitle, tele-text
and data elementary
streams
- Binding of Elementary Stream Profile to physical resources
at service, program and event level
- Sharing of compression resources
between various services in the same transport stream
(such as in virtual channels)
- PSI synchronization with the compression sub-system
using bi-directional interfaces
- Bandwidth Profile definition at
service, program and event level
- Tracking of actual bandwidth through
interface with compression system (where available)
- Historical reporting
and analysis of bandwidth usage for a service
- Subsystem
Management
- Intelligent DRM, CA, SMS, EPG/IPG, and Automation interfaces
and subsystems integration
- Resource allocation of all record, playback
and archive resources
- Ability to flag individual resources as on-line/off-line
for specific time periods for repairs / maintenance.
- Rules-based
look-ahead algorithms for intelligent and efficient resource
allocation
- Periodic
synchronization with video servers to resolve discrepancies
in content information
- Distribution control through delivery of deferred
commands to automation system or direct control of video
servers for playout
- Tight standards-based and proprietary interfaces with
the leading industry vendors
- Monitoring
- Day-of-air view of record and playout schedules at
program and event levels
- Resource views for tracking resource utilizations
- Subsystem alarm
presentation
- Various text audit and debug logs for off-line monitoring
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