Broadcaster clusters are groups of Zixi Broadcasters that perform one or more tasks. Available task types are:
Ingest – An Ingest cluster is used to configure inputs and make them available as sources in ZEN Master.
Channel Processing – A Channel Processing cluster is used to process sources and/or to send them to specified targets.
Each Broadcaster cluster can be configured to perform one or multiple tasks (i.e. Ingest and/or Channel Processing). This flexibility allows efficient management of resources and ensures performance and availability of resources. For example, if some of the streams require transcoding, while other streams don’t require transcoding, you can set up the clusters in a way that enables the streams that don’t require transcoding to be handled by non-processing clusters, thereby ensuring their performance is not hindered by the need to transcode other streams.
