Managed service provider G&L Systemhaus has delivered a new streaming platform for the European Parliament that enables member countries to clip live video during ongoing sessions and share them in multiple languages.
G&L has delivered a modular, hybrid infrastructure that combines on-premises and multi-cloud technologies, ensuring maximum availability and scalability, said the company. With hardware-accelerated video encoding, cross-location clusters, and intelligent load balancing, the architecture achieves high efficiency while maintaining environmental sustainability, G&L added.
Key features of the platform include:
- Live streaming with 30 channels and 32 audio tracks per channel
- Distribution via Akamai CDN
- Delivery to social media with up to 200 different destinations
- Energy-efficient encoders utilising ARM-based CPUs from Ampere and ASIC-accelerated hardware from NETINT for real-time transcoding powered by the Norsk SDK
- High-availability architecture spanning three customer locations, two carrier-neutral data centres, and two cloud locations within Europe
- Advanced security architecture featuring ISO 27001 certification, zero-trust identity management, and DDoS protection
- Kubernetes-based hybrid infrastructure for flexible orchestration of workloads
- Intuitive clipping tool for tailored global publishing
- Comprehensive observability for streaming performance and user engagement via Bitmovin Analytics, CMCD-enhanced CDN logs, and visualisation via Grafana with targeted alerting and scheduled alert routing
- Long-term archiving of all events along with integration of legacy content, managing over 89,000 videos from 21,000 events
The platform enables the Parliament to live broadcast sessions on its website with up to 32 audio channels per stream, and during live broadcasts, Members of Parliament can clip their own speeches in the desired language and instantly share them on social media or send them as MP4 files.
