Open Broadcast Systems has announced the launch of its UMP, an Uncompressed Media Processor built on COTS hardware.
The company, which provides software-based encoding and decoding solutions for B2B video contribution and distribution, said the UMP frees ST-2110 and other IP media processing from broadcast-specific hardware. With dual hundred gigabit interfaces (upgradeable to two hundred gigabit), the UMP enables processing and monitoring of uncompressed video on a wide variety of form factors, including monitoring of closed captions and teletext.
The solution enables numerous workflows that often require conversion back to SDI for monitoring or other processing, while the COTS hardware can be used for other workflows at the same time, something not possible with fixed function hardware, said the company.
Kieran Kunhya, Open Broadcast Systems founder and CEO said: “Until now broadcast ‘glue’ has been the home of costly fixed-function broadcast equipment in stark contrast to the move to IT and cloud in the industry.The UMP changes all of this, providing huge media processing capabilities using off-the-shelf hardware.
