NPC Media picks BCNEXXT’s Vipe for technology refresh in Australia

BCNEXXT, the developers of the advanced playout platform Vipe, have announced a new Service Provider Partner agreement with NPC Media, the Australian managed playout service provider for several of the nation’s major networks.

This strategic alliance follows an extensive evaluation period, after which NPC Media selected BCNEXXT’s Vipe platform as part of a major technology refresh, which will provide a new level of efficiency, flexibility and reliability to their services.

Vipe’s adaptive, containerised microservices architecture represents a paradigm shift from traditional playout models. By orchestrating resources in real time and scaling automatically to the complexity of the schedule, Vipe not only reduces infrastructure and operational costs, but also delivers uncompromising reliability, achieving 99.9999% uptime, said BCNEXXT.

Its unique pre-assembly and exception-based automation architectures allow operational resilience, with many routine processes handled automatically. This increases channel-to-operator ratios for all types of content. 

NPC Media identified Vipe as the optimal solution to meet its long-term strategic objectives, as Paul Mullen, CEO, NPC Media, explained, “Vipe is the most advanced containerised microservices-based playout software on the market and is particularly suitable to our highly reactive environment.

“It will enable NPC to provide truly scalable, cost-effective and highly reliable services to the Australasia market.” 

Vipe’s approach to playout fundamentally breaks the one-to-one channel-to-server relationship, transforming fixed costs into dynamic, usage-based models. It consolidates silos by enabling linear, Free Advertising Supported Television (FAST), streaming and video-on-demand (VoD) channels to be played from a single platform and content pool. 

Vipe is fully broadcast grade, including support for Dolby, high dynamic range (HDR), and SCTE triggering, meeting the demands of modern media operations. 

Sander Ten Dam, COO, BCNEXXT, added, “We are looking forward to working with NPC Media as part of their multi-channel technology refresh.

“We have a high regard for their operations and believe we can enable them to stay at the forefront of the transitioning playout services business in Australasia, while helping them broaden their services offering.”