About Makalu¶

Makalu is a software-defined playout automation, suitable for broadcasters and content providers of any kind and size. It enables a full-featured end-to-end signal workflow – from ingest to distribution – and covers further media tasks like storage, media management, transcoding, graphics, planning, playout, and streaming. It is designed for managing and distributing linear content to social media, broadcast, IPTV, and OTT platforms.

The system is based on a manufacturer-independent, microservice-oriented architecture to achieve a maximum level of flexibility and scalability. It runs on most public or hosted private clouds as well as on virtualized environments and on-premises. This enables a wide range of applications, including hybrid broadcast concepts (for example, cloud-based planning and physical playout servers).