The WFS™ file-based workflow engine from Harmonic delivers powerful, intuitive control of carrier-grade transcoding farms for broadcast and over-the-top video production and delivery.
The software-based WFS system is used to control multiple ProMedia™ Carbon and ProMedia Xpress transcoding nodes. Open and extensible, WFS possesses a distributed nature that grants reliability and scalability while allowing the automated processing of transcoding tasks, failover support, job distribution management, job prioritization, load balancing, file transfer, status monitoring, and job notification. With the addition of the Conditional Workflows (CWF) service module, users can add an automated and scalable condition-check process to their transcoding farm.
- Enterprise-class workflow engine with full visibility into the entire transcoding process
- Controls ProMedia Carbon and ProMedia Xpress transcoding farms
- Enables cloud transcoding via Encoding.com
- Supports failover to a backup system in case of a system outage or physical server failure
- Transfer files over FTP, HTTP, CIFS and Amazon S3
- Monitors FTP, CIFS and Amazon S3 storage locations to trigger new workflow event
- SOAP-based API for easy integration with existing systems
- Integration with Microsoft SQL Server Standard for reporting and statistic gathering beyond the interface and API
