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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 (for example, cloud-based planning with on-premises playout servers).

Makalu can run in one of two operation modes:

  • Regular mode (application: 24/7 playout for TV stations)
  • LED wall mode (application: playout for any type of display medium, for example, LED walls or ribbon displays in stadiums)

For more information, see the section Operation modes.