Bridge Technologies has joined the Media eXchange Layer (MXL) initiative and containerised its entire range of audio and video scopes, which can now be accessed within Grass Valley's MXL-native AMPP OS.
AMPP OS is an open, cloud-native, microservice-based operating system and virtualised production platform. It uses MXL as its underlying transport layer to ensure low-latency interoperability.
What MXL brings to production
Developed in collaboration with the EBU, the Linux Foundation, NABA and leading broadcast technology vendors, MXL is a vendor-neutral, open-source layer designed for IP-native, software-defined production environments. Content is ingested once and shared through memory across multiple containerised processes, allowing several applications to use the same media stream simultaneously.
Scopes on demand
Bridge Technologies' containerised scopes operate independently of dedicated hardware. Furthermore, as MXL reduces constant network read/write cycles, latency, network overhead and infrastructure costs are reduced. Broadcasters can temporarily spin up these scopes as microservices, for example during the coverage of major sporting events.
With AMPP OS now MXL-native, Bridge's containerised monitoring tools can be accessed within the AMPP environment, giving users greater flexibility in how and when they deploy these capabilities, said Matt Yates, Director of Strategic Alliances at Grass Valley.
"MXL and containerisation provide exactly that: a flexible, efficient way to run our best-in-class scopes across larger, more dynamic production environments, without the overhead of dedicated hardware deployments", said Simen Frostad, Chairman of Bridge Technologies.
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