Gen5
architecture
Faster time to market and
Why It Matters
Since the introduction of cross-platform viewing, video architectures have evolved from monolithic TV Everywhere implementations to hybrid cloud platforms with virtualized infrastructure. Quickplay is spearheading a next-generation architecture – Gen5 – that is designed to build and run scalable applications in the cloud.
Gen5 harnesses the power of cloud-native technologies, including containers, microservices, a service mesh, APIs, and immutable infrastructure. The technology stack provides significantly better performance, a modular approach for feature expansion, continuous delivery for rapid iteration, and built-in scalability, observability and security. Gen5 is a future-proof strategy that meets the demands of high concurrency, low latency, and resiliency expected of OTT video, while optimizing cloud infrastructure spend.
Gen5 delivers 40% + savings over legacy architecture
Development Effort
M/S Library
Quickstarts
Maintenance Effort
Modular
CI/CD
Cloud Speed
10X Faster
Serverless
3rd Party Speed
Open Source
Turnkey
Transformation Speed
Future Proof
Extensible
Gen5 offers breakthrough
benefits in five key areas
High Performance
Maximum operational speed/efficiency, i.e. 10X faster microservices.
Extensible
Ready-made extensions and quick starts for off-the-shelf or custom integrations.
Agile
CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation replace long upgrade cycles with rapid innovation.
Built-in Scalability
Robust, redundant, fail-proof architecture supports live, high-concurrency events.
Lower TCO
Cloud economics reduces costs and effort by 40% or more.
Architected for
Future Success
Gen4 Attributes
Gen5 Attributes
Business Model
Multi-screen D2C IPTV/OTT
Personalized TV, OTT, apps, IoT devices, gaming, etc.
Infrastructure
Multi-screen D2C IPTV/OTT
Serverless, cloud agnostic
Architecture
Microservices (Java)
Cloud-native, microservices, open architecture
Streaming
DASH, HLS & SS
Low-latency LL-DASH, LL-HLS, CMAF
Operating Model
Hybrid, partial automation, agile
Fully-automated DevOps, CI/CD pipeline
Integrations
On-demand custom integrations
Extensible architecture, pre-integrated with best of breed services and infrastructure/CDN