NEP Group has announced the commercial launch of its new software orchestration solution designed to boost interoperability across media production. Already deployed across several of the company’s own facilities, including recently-launched OB vehicles based in Norway and Australia, NEP Platform will be available to customers for integration into their own infrastructure.
The company will also act in an advisory capacity to users, with its engineers providing guidance and support tailored to individual deployments.
NEP Platform aims to provide users with increased choice and control over their workflow designs, offering what the company said is the “largest collection of trusted software applications for media production”. Unifying functions including vision and audio mixing, replay infrastructure, multiview and measurement, NEP Platform enables the selection of solutions from providers including Bridge Technologies, Calrec, Grass Valley, Lawo, Manifold, Panasonic, Sony and more.
Designed to minimise complexity, the system can be rapidly set up and configured, with NEP planning to further reduce these timings. It aims to “transform media infrastructure and production workflows”, as the move to software-based and hybrid environments continues, increasing flexibility, reliability and scalable to meet changes in demand.
“The NEP Platform launch marks an important step in NEP’s innovation journey as well as how the industry uses software,” said Martin Stewart, CEO of NEP Group. “Companies are delivering more content, across more markets, to more audiences than ever before, and that requires great agility. Our goal has always been to simplify content production so our customers can easily and securely deliver their content at scale. I’m delighted that NEP Platform offers that long-term solution with the ability to change as our customers do.”
Futureproofing production
The system has been created to evolve, enabling the addition of new capabilities through software updates and new applications, eliminating the need for major infrastructure rebuilds, said the company. This approach delivers a number of key benefits, including:
- Automatic allocation of resources as production demands change, allowing careful management of computing power and insights into resource and licensing usage.
- Continuous vulnerability scanning alongside strong identity and access controls, encryption and ongoing monitoring. NEP Platform also validates application versions and configurations at each deployment, avoiding many of the common pitfalls of software.
- Intelligent scaling helps reduce power consumption and the need to ship unnecessary hardware, enabling teams to meet sustainability targets and closely manage costs.
Commenting on the launch, Dan Murphy, VP of NEP Platform, said, “NEP Platform gives customers real choice without added complexity. From a single interface, teams can launch the applications they prefer, deploy workflows in minutes and scale as production needs change.
“With this new way of managing infrastructure, customers can transition to software-based solutions that seamlessly operate with existing hardware. This not only protects our customers’ investments; it positions them to take advantage of future technology.”
