BCNEXXT: Time is ripe to introduce cloud-native Vipe into Japan

BCNEXXT, a provider of virtualized, cloud-native systems for linear, video-on-demand (VoD), and over-the-top (OTT) publishing, has announced their strategic expansion into Japan with the founding of BCNEXXT Japan and the introduction of the Vipe cloud-native playout platform to the Japanese broadcast market.

Vipe can manage file based linear and complex live events playout, VoD, and streaming in any format, within a single workflow and user interface. Content is assembled from a client’s existing storage location into the compressed transmission format with 99.9999% reliability, according to BCNEXXT.

As part of this expansion, BCNEXXT will collaborate with Techex as the orchestration partner to the Vipe playout platform, creating a complete cloud-based playout and publishing solution. Trusted by premier global broadcast and media customers with their most valuable live workflows, Techex transports and transforms the highest value live video-over-IP and in the cloud, often in the most technically challenging environments.

Helming BCNEXXT Japan is industry veteran Katsumi Yamamoto, who brings decades of broadcast and local market expertise, including time at Avid Technology, Discreet Logic, Omneon, Elemental, Harmonic, AWS and Haivision.

He said, “I really look forward to introducing the innovative Vipe platform to the Japanese market, so that our broadcasters can take advantage of the technology already used by over 500 channels in Europe and the USA. 

Sander Ten Dam, Managing Director, Sales & Marketing for BCNEXXT HQ, added, “Japan is a large and sophisticated market so it was an obvious choice to create a subsidiary there.

“We are very proud to have found Mr. Yamamoto to lead the business.”