Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) for the Broadcast Industry

Tutorial for the Broadcast Community

VidTrans Technical Conference

MJ Drouin

10/02/02

Director with 15 years of Media experience, I lead technical teams of up

to 30 people and 3 managers to deliver most aspects of the business -

Operations, Customer Services, Information Technologies, Project

Management, Engineering, and Procurement. I developed expertise in

managing cable, wireless, satellite, transmission, engineering and

software development. I worked at Bell, Teleglobe, Intelsat, CBC and as a

expert consultant.

Professional Engineer, Masters in Technological Management, ITIL

foundation, PMP

I have extensive experience in speaking since the 90's (ouf!), subjects

were always a mix of technologies, commerce and management.

Past engagements included: Pitfalls of SW development: What every executive

should know (2009), 8 weeks on Twitter: I love it! (2009), The Future of

Broadcast Archive Systems (2008), DVB-H: Video over IP goes Wireless (2006),

HDTV distribution (2005), Video over IP (2004) and, Several broadcast technical

training (1994-1998): Video 101, Digital Video and Compression 201, Video

testing techniques 301.

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Introduction: Adoption of SOA

2010 and Beyond !

Broadcast and SOA

SOA description

Conclusions: Issues and benefits

Future development


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ESB (Enterprise Service Bus)


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Codecs

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Service Registry

Composite Service

Service exposes its Service Description (including Non-

Functional Properties) so it can be invoked by another service.

Service A Service B Service D Service EService C

Service HService G Service N

Service X

Service F

Atomic service

Composite serviceService Y

Service Description

Via:



Com

ple

xit

y

Genera

l

WS-*

BPEL


WS

Addressing

HTTPWSDL

SOAPBase Standards

WS-RM

Reg/RepUDDI

WS-SecurityWS-*

Requirements

Guides developments of

SOA-RM

Specific

Architectures

Uses

Input for

BPEL

XML &

SchemaWS-Trust



Web Server

Service

Broker

Service

Requestor

Service

Provider

WSDL in

UDDI

SOAP over

HTTP

WSDL in

UDDI

Service

Description

Service

Service

Description

Registry

UDDI

1. Service Provider “publishes”

its services to a Service Broker

- WSDL describes services and

service definition

- Business publishes service

metadata

3. Service

Requester

“binds” and

interacts with

Service Provider

2. Service

Requester

searches and

“discover” the

service

Service

Owner /

Developer

Web Service

Engine

WSDL

API

Listener

Provider-specific

Technology or

Legacy Systems

SOAP over

HTTP

Search &

Register

Hosting

WSDL in

UDDI

Requestor-specific

Technology or

Legacy Systems

Points to service description

Points to service

Maps Legacy

to XML in

SOAP

message


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Business Benefits Technology Benefits

Technology aligned

with business

Modular, shared

streamlined tools

IT cost reduction and

control

Improved

responsiveness to

changing needs

Customized service

managed centrally

Standardized protocol,

interfaces and

infrastructure

Reduce integration time

and efforts

SOA can be virtualized or

used in a ‘cloud’

Ubiquity


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ScreenScrape

MessageQueue

MessageQueue

MessageQueue

DownloadFile

DownloadFile

DownloadFile

TransactionFile

TransactionFile

TransactionFile

ORB

ORB

CICS Gateway

CICS Gateway

APPC

APPCRPC

RPC

TransactionFile

Sockets

Sockets

Message

Message

Application

Application

Application

Application

Application

Application

Application

Application

Application

Application


SOA Standards development

SOA for telecom

Interoperability

Business models – integration

Governance

Advancement of digitization of Broadcast

All-digital movie production workflow

File-based broadcast

Technology evolution

Cloud computing

Open Source Software (OSS)

Virtualization: Platform-independent

Software as a Service (SAAS)


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