This cloud-based system has been developed thanks to the infrastructures available in the TEIDE HPC supercomputer, which allow to offer a scalable service on demand and adapted to the needs of customers.
The Instituto Tecnológico y de Energías Renovables (ITER), dependent on the Cabildo Insular de Tenerife, has developed a multimedia content processing system, which allows the implementation of audiovisual media channels that can be delivered over the Internet for use by operators of OTT or DTT television platforms.
The platform, developed entirely by ITER, is already being used since last June by the company COVENT Multimedia to manage 10 television channels nationwide, which are offered through over-the-top (OTT) platforms, i.e., offering video content over the Internet instead of more traditional television channels such as DTT, Cable or Satellite.
This platform is called ITER Cloud Expert Broadcasting (ICE-B) and is offered on a pay-per-use basis, depending on the technical options chosen by the Client and the time of use of the platform.
The technology on which the ICE-B platform is based is based on the premise of reusing the ALiX project infrastructures, through a virtualized environment in the Teide HPC supercomputer, housed in the D-ALiX Data Center, and making use of its fiber optic telecommunications networks.
A technological context in which a software platform unique in the world is deployed for the operational management of the broadcasting of television channels in a delocalized way and through the Internet, which guarantees the continuity of the broadcasting of programming and live retransmissions.
A modular and scalable platform, thanks to ITER’s computing and connectivity infrastructures. ICE-B facilitates the generation and programming of content, as well as its delivery and broadcasting, can be done from anywhere in the world. Using ICE-B simplifies from the broadcasting of a channel in streaming to the delivery of the signal for broadcasting through DTT (terrestrial) or DVB (satellite).
Since 2014, ITER has been developing a wide activity in the audiovisual sector thanks to its human and technical resources. Thus, from the TEIDE HPC supercomputer, on-demand computing services have been provided to companies in the sector, allowing to reduce costs and production times.
Also based on the availability of this state-of-the-art technological infrastructure and through the Software Development Department of ITER’s Engineering Area, the development and implementation of different technological solutions for the management, storage, processing and public availability of audiovisual content has been carried out. Within this work is the support provided by ITER to the communication activity of the Cabildo de Tenerife, through the processing and broadcasting of multiplatform streaming, as well as the portal https://canaltenerifetv.com/, where you can find an extensive audiovisual archive of the activity developed by the different Areas and Services of the Island Corporation.
