Groundbreaking Technology Innovations and Product Demos to be Showcased at METexpo 2024 in Australia

ARKONA, a prominent provider of IP core infrastructure solutions for broadcast productions, is poised to make a significant impact at METexpo 2024 in Sydney, Australia from 5 – 7 March. The company will showcase its state-of-the-art technology at Magna Systems & Engineering’s Stands 46 – 49 in the Kensington Room at Royal Randwick Racecourse. Attendees can anticipate live product demonstrations of ARKONA’s BLADE//runner core infrastructure solution and manifold CLOUD, a live production cloud solution from manifold technologies.

Erling Hedkvist, responsible for sales & business development at ARKONA, will be in attendance at Magna’s Booths to personally demonstrate BLADE//runner and address any inquiries regarding its benefits and potential to revolutionize live production. Designed for Tier-1 live broadcast operations necessitating agility and scalability, BLADE//runner offers a wide array of tools encompassing audio/video routing, compression, and processing. Its adaptable and modular core enables the creation and removal of resources and functions on-the-fly. Control is facilitated through an open API as well as through NMOS IS-04/-05.

Hedkvist will also showcase manifold CLOUD, an innovative solution from ARKONA’s technology partner, manifold technologies. This powerful platform grants users access to an on-demand pool of configurable live production functionality via a single-sign-on web UI. It is capable of handling demanding live sports, entertainment, and news productions while affording the advantages of scalability, resiliency, swift deployment, and unified control.

“It is essential for us to not only innovate with ground-breaking solutions that propel the broadcast industry forward, but also to be able to demonstrate and share these innovations with our customers globally,” explicates Hedkvist. “We genuinely value our customers in the Australia and Asia Pacific region and believe there is no better approach to demonstrate our support than to spend time with them at Magna’s stand and offer best-of-breed solutions that will save them considerable time and substantial money.”

Furthermore, Hedkvist is scheduled to deliver a paper titled “A Promising Technology Innovation for Tier-1 Live Broadcast Productions” on Thursday, 7 March at 2PM in the Breakout Room. This session will delve into the ascent of Commercially Available Off the Shelf (COTS) FPGA Programmable Acceleration Cards (PACs) and their advantages over traditional GPU and CPU architectures for specialized industries like Tier-1 Live Broadcast Productions.

“I am eager to discuss the benefits of Commercially Available Off the Shelf (COTS) FPGA Programmable Acceleration Cards (PACs) during a special technology presentation,” expresses Hedkvist. “These latest generation compute acceleration cards have already gained immense popularity and are now positioned to revolutionize the Broadcast & Media industry as we know it.”