BCE partners with BCNEXXT to integrate Vipe playout solution into Media-as-a-Service platform, enabling faster channel launches, flexible scaling, and cost-efficient playout in a multi-cloud environment.
Broadcasting Center Europe (BCE), a European media technology and services partner, has formed a technology partnership with BCNEXXT, specialists in cloud-native systems for linear, VoD and OTT publishing.
Through this collaboration, BCE has integrated BCNEXXT's Vipe playout solution into its Media-as-a-Service (MaaS) platform where customers can rapidly launch and manage TV channels in a flexible, cost-efficient way.
Media-as-a-Service (MaaS) is a modular, cloud-based approach that media organisations use to access, store, manage, process and distribute content on demand. The platform serves as a unified environment to manage content, workflows and operations across applications and infrastructure, designed to integrate existing systems and support ongoing media operations.
With the integration of Vipe, BCE can extend its MaaS ecosystem with useful playout capabilities that customers can access directly through its platform.
Intelligent Playout
Vipe is an intelligent playout solution for broadcasters and media content distributors. Channels can be launched in just a few days and managed from a single interface. Using adaptive logic and machine learning, it replaces traditional rule-based playout systems with a more intelligent, automated approach. Because users ‘pay only for what they play’, its model breaks the conventional link between channels and dedicated infrastructure, reducing resource consumption significantly and lowering operational costs.
The integration enables broadcasters to launch channels faster, scale services on demand and align costs with actual usage. The pay-as-you-go model particularly suits dynamic channel strategies such as FAST and thematic channels. The use of pre-transcoded content with automated quality control enhances reliability further and ensures on-air broadcast quality.
By combining BCNEXXT's technology with BCE's operational expertise, the solution goes beyond playout software to deliver a fully managed service. It also means BCE can support customers across the entire channel lifecycle, from channel preparation to launch and ongoing operations. This includes content ingestion, playlist creation, graphics insertion, playout management and distribution.
Through its 24/7 Network Operations Centre (NOC), BCE can maintain its service reliability, performance and quality of delivery while reducing operational complexity. Teams can focus on content and audience growth.
Data Sovereignty
Delivered within BCE's Media-as-a-Service platform, the solution supports multi-cloud deployment strategies, allowing customers to deploy on their preferred infrastructure while controlling data sovereignty and maintaining control over their existing and future environments.
"By integrating Vipe into our Media-as-a-Service platform, we enable customers to launch channels faster and operate them more efficiently across complex environments," said Nicolas Serres, Head of Architecture at BCE. "This partnership combines performance, flexibility and a cost-effective approach that meets the evolving needs of broadcasters."
"We are very pleased that after an extensive evaluation, BCE chose Vipe to be part of their MaaS platform," said Graham Sharp, VP of Sales & Marketing, BCNEXXT. "Vipe gives service providers intelligence, flexibility and a fundamentally much more attractive cost model to playout.”
This collaboration reflects BCE's strategy to deliver agile, scalable, and operationally efficient media solutions. By combining cloud-native innovation with strong integration and operational capabilities, BCE and BCNEXXT improve broadcasters’ ability to adapt to evolving market demands while maintaining control over costs, infrastructure and operations. www.bcnexxt.com
