A Sioux Falls, S.D., broadcast equipment supplier with more than 70 years of experience in the industry intends to use IBC2022, where it will take booth 1.F72, to launch its new Centra Gateway, which it describes as “a comprehensive and holistic network orchestration system.”
The new platform from Sencore marks the company’s move to provide “Solutions as a Service,” it says.
As Sencore sees it, Centra represents “an end-to-end, holistic orchestration platform that will allow broadcasters to manage the full extent of their media chain, on multiple levels, from a centralized, intuitive interface which can either be located in the cloud (and thus accessible remotely from anywhere in the world), or through an on-site installation as required.”
The Centra platform can provide network management across a range of layers of operation, with plans to expand functionality over the upcoming year. The release introduces the core functionality of the platform; namely, the reception, transmission and conversion of internet protocols for optimized distribution of video.
Protocols supported will include RIST, SRT, Zixi, and HLS, along with MPEG over IP.
Sencore adds that, in its view, Centra “represents a ‘mothership’ for the orchestration of streaming; collecting, converting, aggregating, orchestrating and distributing as required. Automation will be built into many of the processes; communicating with edge devices to ascertain capacity, required protocol, etc., and then distributing on that basis.”
Constant metrics assessing latency across network links will allow for Centra to optimize
transport according to resources and need, the company adds, while the second layer of the Centra Gateway can facilitate asset and device management. This, Sencore suggests, will allow users to determine at-a-glance the location, software version, license status and health of their various assets, with the “at-a-click” ability to manage and upgrade these elements — either through purchase or loan — through the Sencore store.
The third layer of the Centra platform will integrate monitoring and analysis of the entire network.
