Capella’s cloud-hosted encoder, Cambria Stream, is now available on high-performance GPUs on the Akamai Connected Cloud. Akamai Connected Cloud is a massively distributed edge and cloud platform that has become the leading environment for Capella users.
Capella’s Cambria Stream handles live encoding, ad insertion, encryption and packaging for the most demanding live events. Capella’s products can deploy and scale using Akamai’s cloud computing services, all controlled by Cambria Cluster – Capella’s service for managing multiple Cambria Stream encoders.
Akamai recently added a new media-optimized offering based on NVIDIA GPUs to its growing cloud portfolio. With the NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation GPU, companies in the media and entertainment industry can process video content faster and more efficiently.
Using Akamai’s new NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation Dual GPU, a single Cambria Stream can process up to 25 channels of multi-layer encoding at once, reducing the total computing cost significantly compared to CPU-based encoding.
“Using Akamai’s GPU offering, our customers are able to build a scalable, stable, cost-effective media workflow that yields the maximum throughput. Akamai’s competitive cloud GPU offerings, combined with significantly discounted egress rates compared to other providers, offer a major advantage for many of our customers.” said Ikuyo Yamada, CEO of Capella Systems.
“Media companies want more control over their workflows,” said Dan Lawrence, Vice President, Cloud Computing, Akamai. “By running its Cambria Stream encoder on Akamai, Capella can offer media customers its range of workflow capabilities in an environment that’s optimized for and proven to meet their particular demands at the scale that they need.”
Capella is an independent software vendor as part of the Akamai Qualified Compute Partner (QCP) Program, making its capabilities interoperable with Akamai cloud computing services and easily accessible by Akamai customers.
