Matrox ORIGIN
Software-Defined Infrastructure for Building Dynamic Live Media Facilities
Broadcast and media professionals are under pressure to create more content for a fragmented audience—all with fewer resources than ever before. The promise of IT and cloud technologies offers a path forward, but traditional broadcast workflows don’t align with how IT systems are designed to operate. Matrox ORIGIN bridges this gap. Instead of simply replicating legacy approaches, it empowers you to run IT infrastructure as it was meant to be used, unlocking unprecedented adaptability, agility, and scalability. By leveraging the massive R&D investments of the IT industry, Matrox ORIGIN enables innovation beyond the limits of traditional broadcast, delivering a system that doesn’t just match legacy capabilities—but surpasses them.
What is Matrox ORIGIN?
Matrox ORIGIN is a media aware development framework designed to empower developers to build software-defined broadcast infrastructure that runs on generic IT equipment—whether on-premises or in the public cloud. It replaces bespoke broadcast hardware interconnected with clocked, synchronous protocols like ST 2110 or SDI with applications composed of multiple media services operating in a distributed COTS environment and interconnected via an uncompressed fabric—all of which is running asynchronously. Matrox ORIGIN combines this unique distributed architecture with comprehensive control capabilities, decoupling media processing capability from any of the limitations of the underlying hardware to achieve exceptional scalability, agility, and redundancy. Matrox ORIGIN equips you with low latency, resilient, scalable and highly dynamic broadcast-grade media solutions for deployments of any size—including large-scale Tier 1 operations—all with best of breed choice.
For media service developers, Matrox ORIGIN’s media service SDK provides intuitive APIs for building stateless media functions with powerful control interfaces, enabling developers to create services once and repurpose them for various use cases.
For control application developers, Matrox ORIGIN’s REST API offers a powerful, high-level interface for building high-performance and scalable media applications without requiring low-level broadcast development expertise
Matrox ORIGIN key benefits
Easy, frame-accurate control
The unique control mechanism enables you to dynamically control and change complex workflows seamlessly in a distributed environment. The control has routing functionality built into it, allowing for clean switching through the content transfer fabric with guaranteed AV synchronization. Anything can be routed anywhere cleanly, independent of signal path, and at any scale.
Low latency
Operate at the speed of your IT environment to achieve unprecedented low latency workflows. Matrox ORIGIN has reimagined how you can leverage generic IT equipment to build an asynchronous interconnect. Synchronous interconnects such as SDI, ST 2110, and NDI are used as I/O for your infrastructure, not the backbone of it. Low latency is achieved by having media services execute as fast as the hardware can run, and having uncompressed video transported at the speed of your network.
Live migration capability
Matrox ORIGIN can live migrate media services in runtime without dropping a single frame or disrupting the control system. If more capacity is needed, media services can be migrated onto additional compute to expand capability. If less capacity is needed, media services can be consolidated on the same compute to reduce costs
Built-in redundancy
Enable redundancy in your workflow without doubling cost and with no additional control complexity. Choose the right level of redundancy by simply deciding how many identical media services run, and when and where to run them. Matrox ORIGIN has built-in redundancy which can span across multiple Amazon Web Services (AWS) availability zones for public cloud deployments that require mission-critical resilience.
Simple Development APIs
With two levels of APIs, you can create control applications tailored to your needs and develop specialty media services. An open framework, Matrox ORIGIN allows you to find or build best-of-breed offerings. The development APIs are available to broadcasters with internal development teams, system integrators, and software developers.
Matrox ORIGIN architecture
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“At Dynadue Technology Partners, we’re thrilled to join forces with Matrox ORIGIN because we see it as a game-changer for the broadcast industry. Matrox ORIGIN’s asynchronous framework offers a fresh, efficient approach that not only streamlines and future-proofs broadcast workflows but also addresses the economic pressures our industry faces. By embracing this innovative architecture, we’re confident we can help our customers unlock new levels of scalability, flexibility, and cost-efficiency—paving the way for sustainable growth and transformation in broadcast production."
Jamie Duemo
Founding Partner, Dynadue Technology Partners
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