HelixCloud delivers managed streaming services, providing scalability and reliability while lowering operational costs and capitalizing on your existing network resources. Deliver the highest possible quality video to any smartphone, tablet, PC or connected TV is becoming key for many application developers, marketers and content owners around the world. HelixCloud has been designed to provide a management framework and an intuitive Web UI on top of Helix Universal Media Server - the streaming media delivery platform developed by RealNetworks. Delivering streaming services over the cloud is now possible simply by adding HelixCloud to your streaming architecture. Sharing resources within the enterprise or providing converged streaming services for your clients means quickly achieving economies of scale and leverage costs for infrastructure and for O&M (operations and management).

1. HelixCloud
Showcase
January 2014

2. Who am I
David Riccitelli
@ziodave
http://www.linkedin.com/in/riccitelli
http://blog.insideout.io/
Co-Founder of Insideout10, holding of
Interact Egypt, with an active presence in
the European, North African and Middle
East markets.
Working with streaming media and
RealNetworks partner since 20 years.
(more on LinkedIn)

3. Mission
"To provide affordable, scalable and
highly reliable video management
and delivery infrastructure
while minimizing operational costs"

4. Real-World Example
Sport Time Live TV on the A1 network

5. Features
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Account and User Management
Quota Limit
Integrated FTP Server
Slick Web UI
Multi-format streaming
Role-based security
Access Control
Real-Time Reporting
Developers API

6. Accounts and Users
System Admins
- perform admin tasks
Accounts
- have a disk quota
- aggregated access reports
Users
- belong to accounts
- have their own credentials
- may upload files
- see reports

7. Account, Quotas, Users
System Admins:
● create accounts and set disk quotas
● then create users inside accounts
● and assign user credentials (username and password)
Users share the parent account disk quota

8. Content Ingestion
Users use their credentials
to logon via FTP and upload
audio/video assets to their
own restricted area.
If disk quota is exceeded, the
account needs upgrade or
contents to be deleted.

9. Content Management
Once ingested, users can manage content
logging into the Web Console
(using the same FTP credentials)
Users can:
● assign titles
● preview content
using the integrated Web player
● define access rules
● add assets to channels

10. Access Rules
Geographic
allow access only to clients
from specific countries
Network
allow access only to clients
from specific networks
Conditional Access
integrate a custom access
workflow (e.g. pay-per-view
or subscriptions)

11. Channels
Users create live channels using the
ingested on-demand clips

12. Geographic Distribution
Helix Cloud can be used to create a CDN
and distribute load across different
geographic locations

13. 3rd Party CDN Integration
In case of
network congestion
Helix Cloud can redirect
clients to a 3rd party CDN

14. API
Helix Cloud API are at the core of the platform,
providing developers access to:
● Accounts and Users
● Authentication
● Authorization
● Content
Reporting ●
Channels ●
Logging ●
and more ●

15. Media Player
Clips are published on
websites, portals and apps
(optionally using the Helix Cloud API)

16. Multi-screen & Multi-device
Clips are delivered to a wide range of devices
(using Helix Server from RealNetworks)

17. Real-Time Reporting
Every access to clips is logged, providing real-time
detailed and aggregated reports of
daily views, unique viewers, play-time,
sent bytes and used quota

18. Thank You!
Grazie!
Merci!
Danke schön!
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