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Morpheus and ICE Deployment on Amazon Web Services (AWS) April 2019 TECHNICAL BRIEF
TECHNICAL BRIEF MORPHEUS AND ICE DEPLOYMENT ON AWS
When broadcasters look at renewing their playout infrastructure or assessing al-
ternative business models, the public cloud is often a focus. Whether for primary
playout, disaster recovery, or short-term ‘pop-up’ channels, the public cloud has a
place in the broadcaster’s armory of possible solutions.
By utilizing cloud offerings such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), new Video I/O
approaches to resiliency and distribution become available. The simul-
Essential to any public cloud deployment is reliable compressed
taneous changes in consumer behavior — as we all become comfort-
stream format support. ICE has recently been enhanced with integra-
able with OTT delivery — and the increase in compute power available
tion to Grass Valley’s comprehensive video engine, which includes
from today’s public cloud server instances, means new economic
several compressed streaming codecs. This allows compressed for-
models are worthy of investigation. Grass Valley, a Belden Brand, is
mats more suited to web delivery to be used with ICE. For the launch
proud to be able to offer playout using AWS, alongside its uncom-
of ICE v6.0, H.264 is added, and will be followed by other web friendly
pressed IP solutions for data centers and traditional SDI appliances.
formats. Please ask Grass Valley about the video format you need to
What it Does support your project.
Morpheus and ICE are Grass Valley’s enterprise and feature-rich play- Operational Control
out solutions used across the globe by tier 1 broadcasters. Morpheus
Operational control is accomplished using the latest generation of
and ICE are now available for deployment in AWS.
Morpheus user interface — Morpheus UX. This HTML5 interface is
Grass Valley has invested in several areas of product development naturally suited to cloud deployed systems, with low bandwidth
to support this solution, ensuring the various technologies with the requirements, and low compute needs for the user’s client PC.
playout product is suited to deployment in AWS. For broadcasters
UX is unique in its ability to let users craft their own user experience
already familiar with Morpheus and ICE, we’ll explain how the system
for their operators. Screens can be completely redesigned to support
you use today has evolved to be suitable for deploying in AWS. For
different operational requirements and is now in use by several major
broadcasters and media distributors who are new to Morpheus and
global broadcasters for live operations, please ask us who they are!
ICE, for a more in-depth look at the products please take a look at the
Morpheus and ICE datasheet on our website at www.grassvalley.com.
This paper covers the AWS-related aspects, but not the full feature set
of the products.
Example Morpheus UX screen with playlist and master control controls.
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Hybrid Operations
Public cloud deployments may often be considered in parallel with Any hybrid system based on Morpheus and ICE can allow operators
primary “on-premise” playout. This might mean secondary chan- to control all their channels via the common Morpheus UX user inter-
nels being deployed into AWS, with primary playout still remaining face. From a user’s point of view, all channels are equal and have
on-premise. Or perhaps a disaster continuity system that can be a consistent operational interface and functionality. This includes
launched as required in response to an anticipated or actual major schedule loading, playlist editing, and live controls and on-air brand-
problem at the primary facility. In these situations where traditional ing feature set.
systems remain a part of the broad-
caster’s operations, it can greatly
AWS Availability Zone
assist operational and engineering
effectiveness to have a common Morpheus Morpheus Morpheus
user interface and backend techni-
ICE ICE ICE
cal infrastructure.
By deploying Morpheus and ICE OTT Distribution
both on-premise and in the cloud,
broadcasters can deploy a hybrid
environment. This allows a broad-
caster to select which environment
Monitoring
best suits any new services they On-premise
need to deliver and to learn about Installation
cloud delivery of services at a pace
that suits them.
User Interface
Morpheus
ICE ICE ICE ICE
Example of a hybrid system with AWS and on-premise deployment, monitored from a common UI
Latency
The latency of channel output back to operational monitoring needs to be carefully considered. A benefit of the adoption of Grass Valley video
streaming technologies within ICE is that a range of low latency video encoding is possible. Currently under investigation is VSF TR-06/RIST.
There are many variables involved, but proprietary equivalents of RIST such as Zixi would be expected to achieve delivery from AWS to your
facility in just a few seconds.
Primary on-premise channels
Additional AWS channels
Morpheus UX
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Technical
Morpheus
• Video transport Communucations Morpheus
Core
• SMPTE ST 2022-2 — H.264
• Audio — AAC
AWS Instance Types
Morpheus
• m4.4xlarge
Requires: Windows Server 2016, MS SQL 2014
Morpheus
ICE Node
• With standard graphics — c4.4xlarge
• With Advanced Graphics — g3x4large
Requires: Windows Server 2016 Morpheus
Timing Node
Amazon Time Service should be used to maintain an accurate ref-
erence for the server. for a larger scale deployment, Grass Valley’s
Morpheus distributes the time to all its nodes using a proprietary
method.
ICE
Media Management and Storage
AWS offers various storage solutions. Grass Valley can provide a Mor-
pheus Transfer Agent designed to interface to AWS S3 storage. This
Transfer Agent is an integrated part of the existing Morpheus Media
Management framework and allows content stored in an on-prem-
ise system to be pulled into an AWS playout system in response to AWS Time Service
missing events in the loaded schedule. Alternatively, content can be
directly pushed to the ICE server where it can be registered in the A larger scale system with multiple Morpheus servers
database and played out to air.
Costs Roadmap
There are several costs to consider, such as the server instances Public cloud deployment for playout and the related video technol-
themselves. AWS provide a Simple Monthly Calculator online to ogies are still in their relative infancy compared to traditional instal-
guide customers on pricing. You will need to ensure you compare lations. We can expect video formats to mature and evolve as the
pricing of a Windows server with or without MS SQL 2014, and con- industry demands improved functionality. Grass Valley continually
sider whether to provide the SQL licensing separately. Grass Valley’s develops in R&D of the core video technology within ICE and as Grass
researching of costs suggests that a 24x7 system deployed on AWS Valley receives market demand extra functionality is added into the
remains cheaper compared to an on-premise deployment until about ICE product. Some of the available formats that we are evaluating for
18 months in. This depends on many variables and customers are inclusion in the product are:
encouraged to investigate pricing for their particular application. Once
• HLS
the basic server instances have been defined, there are questions to
consider about storage and resiliency. Then there’s distribution which • RIST
might include both the cost of bandwidth, plus any encoding for dis- • NDI
tribution. Finally, consider any additional enabling technologies used
We would welcome customer feedback to help drive the roadmap for
to improve delivery over the public internet.
cloud playout deployment.
Once the AWS-related costs have been defined, Grass Valley’s prod-
ucts will need to be quoted, so providing a written specification of the
requirement is just as necessary with AWS as with any traditional play-
out project. Sales or Sales Engineering can provide the quotations.
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