MK.IO Beam for contribution

MK.IO Beam for contribution is engineered to meet the demands of modern live content acquisition, delivering pristine video quality with maximum efficiency. Its flexible architecture allows for field reconfiguration for IP or satellite contribution, up to 4:2:2 10-bit UHD targeted at a range of server options. It’s ideally suited to live events, where we can offer the flexibility of paying on a pure consumption basis.

MK.IO Beam connects to the cloud, enabling direct and automated control, monitoring and life cycle management via the MK.IO cloud portal for the ultimate in efficient operations.

Components

Service types

The following service types are typically used for contribution use cases:

Live Encoding

The Live Encoding function takes an SDI/ST2110/TS input and performs encoding of a single program made up of video/audio/data components.

Multiplexing

The Multiplexing function takes in a Multiple Program Transport Stream and recreates an output Transport Stream with a choice of PIDs from the input to achieve the PID filtering and PID remapping function. It also supports re-multiplexing by passing-through a whole input program from the input to the output.

Reliable Transport

The Reliable Transport function takes in UDP packets and outputs them as either SRT (caller or listener), Zixi (feeder) or RIST (listener). It can also take in SRT input (caller or listener), Zixi input (receiver) or RIST (caller) and output the content as UDP or any of the other protocols. The UDP content is processed as a pipe without any modification to the UDP content and is typically used -but not solely- to carry Transport stream encapsulated in UDP or RTP.