The Remote Media Production project was initiated to verify the value of the IOWN Technologies applied to remote live media production use cases, to confirm their technology readiness, and to study the economical feasibility. For this purpose, the project has been conducted in accordance with the following steps:
- Define use case requirements for remote media production and the technology evaluation criteria [RMP UC]
- Define the reference implementation model (RIM) and the PoC requirements [RMP POC]
- Conduct PoC and report the result of PoC
- Study the economical feasibility by techno-economic analysis based on the RIM
This document covers steps 3 and 4, presenting both the PoC results and the techno-economic analysis.
For this use case, the most significant feature of IOWN Technology is the dynamic optical path provisioning of Open APN. This feature allows any remote sites such as broadcast stations, remote offices, venues, and private cloud providing production resources (called Media Production Center in the use case document [RMP UC]) to be connected purely optically as needed. By this feature, broadcast companies can use high speed, high capacity and ultra-low latency optical path, when necessary, e.g., only for the duration of streamed events. For example, by establishing the optical path during live broadcasting, multiple uncompressed video streams can be transmitted from an event venue to a broadcast station at low latency, and they can be edited and broadcast live. In addition, low and deterministic latency enables stable control of cameras and production equipment from remote sites. Furthermore, such an optical link will be provisioned with an on-demand purchase model, therefore it could be a cost-effective solution for remote media production.
The document explores the measurement results of the dynamic optical path provisioning with media production resource sharing. Since live media production requires high reliability for live broadcasting, test results for reliability are explained. As low latency is required for live broadcasts to allow operators to operate as if they were on site, the results of network delay are also analyzed. Then cost analysis was conducted to study the economic feasibility of the remote media production with Open APN compared to that with dedicated lines, and traditional on-site production. These results show how remote media production using Open APN is cost-efficient.
