Japan Rugby Football Union Chooses M2A Media

M2A MEDIA RECENTLY ANNOUNCED that it has been chosen by the Japan Rugby Football Union (JRFU) to transition its live video workflows to the public cloud.

JRFU is the governing body for rugby union in Japan, organising all domestic and international matches for the Japanese national team. Following a decision to move its media workflows to AWS Cloud, while adopting AWS Media Services, the union sought help from M2A Media to manage and optimise its use of cloud infrastructure. The live capture of video streams was also a priority, in order to service JRFU affiliates with valuable match content rapidly after the events.

M2A Media proposed a combined offering of its live IP transport product, M2A CONNECT, along with live capture feature, M2A LIVE CAPTURE and managed operations service, as a comprehensive solution to JRFU’s requirements.

M2A CONNECT is deployed by JRFU to manage the transport of its live video streams over AWS Cloud. M2A’s live capture feature then automates the capture of the live video feeds from M2A CONNECT, which are exported for ingest by the

JRFU media asset management system and then on to third parties in multiple output formats, as required.

In addition, M2A Operations schedule JRFU events via M2A CONNECT to ensure that AWS Cloud infrastructure is scaled in relation to match times.

M2A LIVE CAPTURE resources are used as and when required based on the event schedule and, on completion of an event, a custom integration invokes the export of the VOD asset to other service providers. M2A Operations also provide JRFU with pre-event infrastructure provision checks, feed QC and real-time alerting of transport issues.

Yutaka Muroguchi, Head of Media Business Division at JRFU, commented, “Our objective