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Cloud Playout

Unlock flexible and resilient channel operations with Arqiva’s Cloud Playout, combining dynamically adaptable operations, capabilities, architectures and resilience with broadcast-grade reliability.

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A smarter way to do Playout.

Adapt in hours

From seasonal pop-ups to mission-critical, multi-region channels – deployed in hours, not months. Deploy in a single cloud region, across multiple zones, or within your own tenancy – and scale up or down instantly.

Unify workflows

Linear, FAST, and VOD from one connected playout environment – ingest once, deliver everywhere.

Cut costs by up to 20%

A flexible commercial model with OPEX means you only pay for what you use.

Experiment without risk

No lock-in. Hybrid operational model: enabling you to remain in control with real-time visibility and supported 24/7 by Arqiva’s multilingual expert teams.

How Cloud Playout works

When broadcasters and streamers need a smarter way to run channels with the flexibility and the reliability of broadcast, Arqiva delivers Cloud Playout – dynamically adaptable across operations, capabilities, architectures and resilience.

Capability

Flexible and modular. Key features and services are made available to a channel when needed and removed when not required

Operation

Flexible operational support provided as part of the managed service, continuously or ad-hoc when human intervention needs to be on-hand. Can be based on tier, time of day or activity

Architecture

Our architecture offers the flexibility to deploy in the customers’ own AWS account or Arqiva’s AWS account, allowing for commercial, business, strategic, or operational opportunities

Resilience

Flex the cloud deployment models across regions and availability zones to achieve flexible resilience and redundancy to the required or preferred level

Who choose Arqiva?

Cloud-native playout with broadcast-grade reliability. One partner, one workflow, one SLA.

Built Cloud-Native: No Technical Debt

Purpose-built for the cloud from day one. No overbuilt infrastructure or sunk hardware costs – enabling lower total cost, faster change and long-term flexibility, with security and compliance built in.

Truly Modular

Add or remove capabilities such as live voice-over, automated subtitling, automated compliance, event switching and resilience by the hour –so each channel only uses what it needs.

Hybrid Operating Model

From fully managed to self-operated, or something in between on a channel-by-channel basis giving you the flexibility to choose.

Scalable By Design

Elastic scaling avoids over-provisioning, reducing unnecessary compute and power use.

Only pay for what you use

A flexible commercial model with OPEX models meaning you only pay-as-you-use.

Flexible Content Delivery Models

Whatever your chosen content delivery platform. Ingest once, deliver everywhere from a unified backend – simplifying reuse and monetisation.

Launch Ready Immediately

Pre-configured workflows, fast onboarding, and 24/7 monitored delivery with clear accountability, enabling faster time-to-revenue.

An extension of your team

You will be supported by 600+ of the most experienced Playout architects, engineers and product specialists in the industry.

It’s time to get more from your content

Speak with an Arqiva Media Services specialist to see how Cloud Playout helps reimagine your playout operations.