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German broadcast-infrastructure innovator Lawo and Belgian-based Skyline Communications, maker of DataMiner, a trailblazing transformational xOps platform, today announced a joint technology demonstration at NAB 2025 to show and discuss the potential of, and the prerequisites for, dynamic resource management in dynamic media facilities. Further to the growing momentum of the Dynamic Media Facility initiative spearheaded by the EBU as well as broadcasters in North America and other parts of the world, it is becoming increasingly clear that the future of broadcast will be centered on hardware-agnostic processing apps that can be provisioned dynamically, enabling operators to utilize the available compute power as effectively as technically feasible.
Skyline and Lawo will showcase an automated scheduling and resource provisioning tool to manage the lifecycle of Lawo HOME Apps. “Although it is still early days, we are convinced that our collaboration paves the way to manage dynamic resources in a highly automated and efficient manner. DataMiner will not only automate starting, stopping and the configuration of HOME Apps, we also keep track of the available HOME credits to ensure that HOME Apps scheduled for future assignments always have sufficient license credits available.” said Thomas Gunkel, Skyline Communications’ Market Director Broadcast.
“With the advent of software-based signal processing for live productions, media facilities gain the ability to dynamically change their production setups,” added Axel Kern, Lawo’s Senior Director of Cloud and Infrastructure Solutions. “Leveraging the full potential of a Dynamic Media Facility setup inherently hinges on an orchestration layer that fully automates the provision of processing apps, licenses, CPU and network capacities.”
The NAB showcase is based on Skyline’s MediaOps solution, tracks current and future processing resource utilization, and monitors scheduled application requests over time to provide seamless, collision-free operation across all infrastructure layers via an intuitive user interface. For an event booked ahead of time, the solution will allocate HOME Apps from resource pools and, at the same time, check if there will be sufficient HOME licenses available, while also avoiding any resource conflicts. Both Skyline Communications and Lawo are looking forward to showing their proposition and learning what else broadcast professionals expect from a scheduling system that triggers intuitively configurable, automated, yet dependable configuration changes to an apps-based Dynamic Media Facility.
Industry professionals are cordially invited to a demo at Skyline’s (W1957) or Lawo’s booth (N623) at NAB 2025 in Las Vegas (April 5th through 9th, 2025).