Category: Networking & Content Delivery

For decades, C-band satellite has been the backbone of primary distribution of live linear content to distribution partners and affiliates in the United States. The frequency range offered rain-fade resistance, continental reach from a single transponder, and a cost model that scaled to thousands of receive locations. For national networks, regional affiliates, and cable headends alike, C-band simply worked. However, C-band options are rapidly shrinking to make space for next-generation wireless technology. In 2020, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) auctioned 280 MHz of C-band spectrum (3.7–3.98 GHz), forcing satellite providers to compress operations into the upper portion of the band. Now, that spectrum is about to disappear as well because the FCC voted to auction 160 MHz of upper C-band (3.98–4.14 GHz) in July 2027, effectively eliminating C-band as a viable option for broadcasters.

This post is part 2 in a two-part blog post series. Part 1 covers strategy, architecture evaluation, and capacity planning. Part 2 covers content delivery, nonfunctional testing, chaos engineering, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) support models.

This post walks through the architecture and implementation of an event-driven content refresh pipeline for media workflows.

In this post, we extend that foundation by providing a complete reference implementation on GitHub with deployment instructions so you can run the solution with your own content.

In this post, we introduce a sample application that helps you answer that question for AWS Elemental Inference. The sample is a deployable video clipping portal for live sports. You run it in your own AWS account, point it at your own content, and see how automated highlight detection, smart cropping, and smart subtitles behave end to end. We walk through the customer problem, the architecture, the capabilities it demonstrates, and how to deploy it.

In this post, we show how to build SENTINEL, an Amazon Web Services (AWS) pipeline that embeds a cryptographic provenance watermark into AI-generated audio at the point of synthesis and carries a verifiable chain of custody through a live-streaming media pipeline. This post covers the architecture, AWS service implementation, deployment approach, and engineering trade-offs we encountered while building SENTINEL.

Learn more about the new AI-Powered Video Advertising & Operations knowledge badge readiness path, available at no cost on AWS Skill Builder, gives you structured training across the full programmatic advertising stack, from foundational concepts through production-grade architectures.

In this post, you’ll learn how KNFSD File Cache (KNFSD) works and where it fits alongside any NFS-compliant storage (whether that’s an on-premises filer, a third-party, or an AWS service like Amazon FSx). We also cover how to deploy a production-ready, autoscaling cluster using a single Terraform module, delivering aggregate throughput at less than $6 per hour per 100 Gb per second.

In this blog, learn how 5, part of Paramount, migrated from a dual-pipeline packaging architecture to AWS Elemental MediaPackage v2—consolidating infrastructure, eliminating manual failover, and expanding to new platforms across a 12-month collaborative journey with AWS. Discover the key technical enhancements delivered through the partnership, including DVB-DASH accessibility signaling, HLS manifest attributes, SCTE-35 flexibility, and SPEKEv2 DRM integration, and how early engagement with beta features accelerated 5’s modernization.

In this post, we walk through how Sony extended their on-premises video production environment into the cloud, and how AWS Elemental MediaConnect Router solved a key technical constraint that made the hybrid architecture possible.