In today’s media networks, a single end-to-end workflow has to orchestrate satellite SCPC, VSAT, fiber SDH, and MPLS transmissions, using a plethora of different technologies and brands of equipment. A single infrastructure is responsible for news gathering, contribution and exchange, data ingest and contribution of local content. It combines legacy compression and video processing with a cloud architecture, allowing a multitude of virtual media processing functions, such as multi-screen transcoding and publishing.