M D S 3 1 1 - R1 Migrating live television distribution to the cloud, featuring FOX
Alastair Hamilton Evan Statton SVP Distribution Architecture, Media & Broadcast Principal Architect, Media & Entertainment FOX Corporation Amazon Web Services
© 2019, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. © 2019, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Who invented television? History of electronic television
Philo T. Armstrong’s Farnsworth Color walk on the patents Television First television television moon watched Digital Live HD DTV Broadcasters Broadcasters electronic presented at network in introduced by 600M television First public web migration begin cloud ready to television World’s Fair U.S. in U.S. people feasible HD broadcast streaming in U.S. migration migrate critical live workflows
1927 1939 1947 1953 1969 1990 1996 2006 2008 2019
AWS Elemental FOX Network founded launches native video services in AWS Management Console
CPUs fast enough AWS to process HD founded video in real time
Today’s television market
$317.2B 29.6% 22.5%
Global television North America U.S. market share broadcasting market market share ($71.3 billion) value in 2017 ($93.9 billion) Agenda
01 / A brief history of television
02 / How has broadcast television worked?
03 / FOX’s HEVC transformation
04 / re:Inventing television distribution
05 / The future of television production © 2019, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Television delivery pipeline Subscribers
Broadcast affiliate
Live TV production
Studio production
Broadcaster MVPD
Advertising $
dMVPD What do broadcasters do?
Sports, news
Shows, documentaries
Linear distribution
OTT/TVE distribution What do broadcasters worry about? What do broadcasters worry about? © 2019, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. History of FOX
News Corporation formed News Corp FOX News acquires Channel FOX Business Metromedia founded founded Sir Keith Rupert First U.S. print Murdoch buys Murdoch acquisition News Corp Disney acquires News Limited a minority inherits News Corp FOX buys 1/3 News Corp FOX film and was formed in interest in interest in acquires 20th Broadcasting share splits, 21st Century cable assets, FOX Adelaide, Australia News Limited News Limited Century FOX Company of DirectTV FOX created Corporation founded
1923 1949 1952 1973 1979 1984 19851986 1996 2003 2007 2013 2019 Who is FOX today? Who is FOX today?
1.2MM 60,000 16,000
Assets stored in the Hours of raw Annual live event cloud content annually hours Live broadcast channel
PCR
Studio
Event site Affiliate MVPD Production Production truck Audio mixer switcher
155Mbps HD-SDI J2KoIP or Satellite
Encode & mux TX RX Processing & TOC routing
Ads promos dMVPDs files
Editors
Live broadcast channel
PCR
Studio
Event site Affiliate MVPD Production Production truck Audio mixer switcher
155Mbps HD-SDI J2KoIP or satellite
Encode & mux TX RX Processing & TOC routing
Ads promos dMVPDs files
Editors Area of focus for FOX: Linear distribution
PCR
Studio
Event site Affiliate MVPD Production Production truck Audio mixer switcher
155Mbps HD-SDI J2KoIP or satellite
Encode & mux TX RX Processing & TOC routing
Ads promos dMVPDs files
Editors © 2019, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Television delivery pipeline Subscribers
Affiliate
Live TV production
Studio production
Broadcaster MVPD
Advertising $
dMVPD Television delivery pipeline
Affiliate Local automation OTA TX Studio
ASI-MPTS
IRD Processing & Encode & Modulate Los Angeles routing mux
MVPD
MPEG-2 MPTS 256 QAM
Rx or Processing & Encode & TOC IRDs Transcode & QAM studio routing mux remux modulate
dMVPD
HLS
Transcode Package SSAI CDN Television delivery pipeline
Los Angeles
MVPD
High-powered RF
SPTS MPTS DVBS2 HF MPEG-2 MPTS 256 QAM
68Mbps 8PSK
Transcode & remux Encoder Statmux Modulator Upconverter HPA IRDs QAM modulate
TS over IP Codec timeline
MPEG-4 VC-1 ATSC-1 HEVC
MPEG-2 VP-9 ATSC-3 AV1 VVC
1990s 1991 1993 1997 2000s 2003 2009 2013 2015 2017 2018 2020
MPEG-H AC-3 MP3 AAC AC-4 Evolution of encoding technology
2007 2016 2018 2019 Evolution of statmux technology Evolution of IRD technology Area of focus for FOX: Linear distribution
PCR
Studio
Event site Affiliate MVPD Production Production truck Audio mixer switcher
155Mbps HD-SDI J2KoIP or satellite
Encode & mux TX RX Processing & TOC routing
Ads promos dMVPDs files
Editors How does this map to AWS?
PCR
Studio
Event site Affiliate MVPD Production Production truck Audio mixer switcher
155Mbps HD-SDI J2KoIP or satellite
Encode & mux TX RX Processing & TOC routing
Ads promos dMVPDs files
Editors FOX Feb 2020: HEVC + AWS Cloud migration phase I
FOX NOC AWS Cloud FOX NOC
Contribution encoders Availability zone 1 Multiplexing / Encryption Modulation Broadcast / MVPD affiliate
Clear HEVC MPTS MK SP Mux IRD M6100 modulator N x AWS Elemental Live AWS Elemental Encryption Key Server MediaLive + Statmux Existing playout
NCC Director
RX1 Operative Medea
NCC Director Availability zone 2 Contribution encoders MK SP Mux Clear HEVC MPTS
N x AWS Elemental Live M6100 modulator AWS Elemental Encryption Key Server MediaLive + Statmux Existing playout
• On-prem playout • Cloud encode • On-prem encryption FOX October 2020: HEVC + AWS Cloud migration phase II
AWS Cloud FOX NOC
Availability zone 1 Multiplexing / Encryption Modulation Broadcast / MVPD Affiliate MK SP Mux Cloud Clear HEVC MPTS IRD Playout M6100 Modulator
AWS Elemental Encryption Key Server MediaLive + Statmux
NCC Director • Cloud Playout • Cloud Encode RX1 Operative Medea
NCC Director Availability zone 2 MK SP Mux Clear HEVC MPTS Cloud Playout M6100 Modulator AWS Elemental Encryption Key Server MediaLive + Statmux
• Fully Redundant • Cloud playout • Cloud encode • On-prem encryption History of electronic television
2019
Sir Keith Murdoch Rupert News Corp acquires buys a Murdoch 20th Century FOX News Limited was minority inherits FOX Disney acquires formed in Adelaide, interest in interest in News Broadcasting FOX film and cable Australia News Corporation News Corp splits, assets, FOX News Company 21st Century FOX Limited Limited Corporation created founded
1923 1949 1952 1979 19841986 2013 2019 History of electronic television
2019
Disney acquires FOX film and cable News Corp splits, assets, FOX 21st Century FOX Corporation created founded
2013 2019 History of electronic television
First major network originates from the 2019 cloud
Disney acquires FOX film and cable News Corp splits, assets, FOX 21st Century FOX Corporation 2020 created founded
2013 2019 Live statmux demonstration
AWS Cloud re:Invent PCR
Studio
Production Audio mixer switcher Analyzer
SPTS MPTS MPTS
Encode & mux RX Processing & TOC routing AWS Elemental AWS Elemental AWS Elemental MediaLive MediaLive Statmux MediaConnect
Ads Multiviewer promos files
Editors © 2019, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Live television channel
PCR
Studio
Event site Affiliate MVPD Production Production truck Audio mixer switcher
155Mbps HD-SDI J2KoIP or satellite
Encode & mux TX RX Processing & TOC routing
Ads promos dMVPDs files
Editors Live production of tomorrow
<250 msec
DX AWS Cloud: PCR on demand
Event site
Production switcher SMPTE 2110 J2K/TR-01 JPEG-XS
Audio mixer To TOC and Diverse and distribution redundant paths
Network Switch
Amazon FSx
DX
• Entire production control room spun up Future PCR – control surfaces only on demand; unused resources never sit idle again; spin down at end of show • Backhaul all raw camera feeds • Use ML/AI for clip generation and PCR Crew AI-aided event clipping publishing Learn media services with AWS Training and Certification Resources created by AWS experts to help you create professional-quality media experiences
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