Workflow as a Service Delivered by the Dynamic Media Services Architecture

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Publisher: SMPTE — White Plains, NY, USA
Doc Type: Journal Article
Content Type: Original Research
Abbreviated Title: SMPTE Mot. Imag. J
Volume: 131, No. 9, pp. 59–70
Abstract: Workflow as a Service (WaaS) is a term representing a platform that serves users wishing to deploy their workflows on-demand onto cloud-managed, hybrid, or on-premises services. While the idea of WaaS has been around for many years (and perhaps has its origins in the Ptolemy 1 and Kepler 2 projects), it is only now, as a consequence of broadcast facilities being constructed based on information technology (IT), that the WaaS paradigm is becoming applicable and relevant to broadcast production workflows. The Dynamic Media Services Architecture (DMS Architecture) described in this article lays out an architectural approach that has the potential to deliver WaaS to the media industry. Truly dynamic facilities require the near-constant creation, consumption, and dissolution of workflows, workflows that are created by taking advantage of capabilities provided from a pool of shared resources. This article describes an architecture capable of delivering this vision and breaks down the functionality in the architecture into major layers. The DMS Architecture provides a way forward, identifying key concepts, components, and layers required to deliver some of the many promises of IT to our industry.
Publication Date: 2022-10-01
DOI: 10.5594/JMI.2022.3198485
ISSN: Print: 1545-0279 | Electronic: 2160-2492
Link: https://doi.org/10.5594/JMI.2022.3198485
Author(s): Brad Gilmer
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Brad Gilmer is the president of Gilmer & Associates, Inc., Atlanta, GA, the executive director of the Video Services Forum (VSF), NJ, and the executive director of the Advanced Media Workflow Association (AMWA), WA. Both the VSF and the AMWA received Emmy Awards during Gilmer’s tenure. He is a SMPTE Fellow and the first recipient of the SMPTE Workflow Systems Medal. He was previously employed at Turner Broadcasting System, Atlanta, GA, where he and his staff were responsible for engineering and operations for the Entertainment Division worldwide. He is an author and editor and has written many articles on computers and networking for media industry publications.
Grant Hammond
bio
Grant Hammond is a management consultant and a chief architect, with over 20 years of experience in developing and directing complex, industry-redefining technology, and business change programs within the media and entertainment sector. He has consulted with many telcos, state-, and privately-owned broadcasters globally. He has been responsible for planning and architecting both the earliest and (lately) the very largest IP-based live production facilities, including a pan-European private cloud for live media production (soon to exceed 350,000 SMPTE ST 2110 endpoints). He is considered a leading authority on the design and delivery of hybrid cloud media production platforms and the requisite business transformations for their effective operation.
Keyword(s): CI/CD Media Production, Dynamic Media Services Architecture, Infrastructure-as-code (IaC), Layered Media Architecture, NMOS, Software Defined Media Production, ST 2110, Workflow-as-a-Service (WaaS)
Copyright: © 2022 SMPTE

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