About Makalu¶
Makalu is a software-defined playout automation system for broadcasters and content providers. It enables a complete signal workflow from ingest to distribution that covers the following media tasks:
- Storage
- Media management
- Transcoding
- Graphics
- Planning
- Playout
- Streaming
Makalu supports linear content distribution across broadcast, IPTV, OTT, and social media platforms. It runs on most public or hosted private clouds as well as on virtualized environments and on-premises. This also enables hybrid deployments (e.g., cloud-based planning with on-premises playout servers).