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It can be difficult to put together a new network. Even adding extra features to your existing one can prove a challenge. So that’s where our Bespoke Broadcast Network Design solution comes in.

With decades of experience behind them, our network design team excels in bringing broadcast networks to life. So if you need to design and launch one that meets your need, we can help.

Broadcast networks don’t benefit from a one-size-fits-all solution. That’s why we can create a bespoke one for you bespoke, to meet your requirements for now and the future. We’re already the network provider for some of the UK’s major broadcasters, maybe we can help you too?

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Our team of experienced consultants have a strong comprehension of the historical requirements of broadcasters coupled with the knowledge of how this can be implemented using the very latest IT and telecommunications technologies. MultiCast helps our clients maximise the power of media using innovative techniques and advice to transform their business to manage future trends and the demands of the market. If necessary, we’ll question our clients’ thinking, as well as testing our own. By doing so we can start to develop a strategy – simplifying matters, making sense of the issues and defining the optimal direction to take. We will always offer solutions that are pragmatic and suit your needs and budget, while suggesting innovative answers wherever possible

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With a deep expertise, understanding, and network within the Middle East’s Media industry, Master Media provides Strategic Advice and Business Development Support to companies interested in or planning to enter the Middle East market. We have supported a number of international players in successfully building their presence in the region.

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Master Media provides a varied blend of expertise relating to Administrative, Operational, Technical, and Creative people in Broadcasting and Media:

Specialist Skill-set:  We bring our decades of experience in global Broadcast & Media and deploy similar skills and expertise from our network of specialist professionals.

Recruitment Services: Master Media’s management has recruited hundreds of highly regarded Media & Broadcasting professionals in various disciplines. Our range of recruitment services includes Search & Selection of middle and senior management, both permanent and interim, and the recruitment of complete teams for start-up and established organizations.

Training: In addition to partnerships with renowned international training providers, Master Media develops training programmes customized to its clients’ needs. This includes Technical, Editorial, Production, and Operational Training.

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Master Media supplies a full and comprehensive range of Program and Project Management services in setting up, launching, and relaunching media and broadcasting projects. We could help you manage the entire project life cycle, and our involvement could be as little or as much as you desire: from part time assistance, to full project ownership:

Professional Programme/ Project Management

Coordination & Communication Focal Point

Schedule Development and Tracking

Cost Control & Resource Allocation

Quality Control and Status reporting

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Technology Infrastructure Consulting: Facility Planning and Analysis; Budget Preparation; Architectural and Electro-Mechanical Systems Review.

Auditing and Analysis: Technology and Operational Audits; Site Survey and Analysis; Technology & Systems Analysis.

Systems Design:  Production and Post-production systems; Media Asset Management Systems; Networking Systems; Distribution and Delivery platforms, Satellite & Communication Systems.

Documentation: Workflow & Schematic Diagrams; Operation Manuals; CAD Drawings; Floor Plans.

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RFP/ Tender Process Management: Our vast expertise in this area could help you produce concise documents that yield minimum ambiguity and provide total protection of your investment, starting with requirements specifications taking into account the possibilities offered by new technologies and operating models, and the evolving business drivers in the broadcast and media industries.

Having both written and responded to countless RFPs and Tenders over the years, Master Media’s team advises organizations on how to express their requirements where vendors, contractors, and service providers will know precisely what is required. We manage RFPs through vendor selection to completion and delivery.

Contract Review and Supplier Management: Whether you are buying a product, a system or a managed service, value for money, support, Service Level Agreements, and interoperability are just some of the complex contractual issues that Master Media’s professionals can help you with, either directly with your Suppliers or in support to your own procurement team.

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For new projects or expansions to exiting operations, Master Media offers:

Feasibility Studies and Business Plan Development: Design and conduct market research and feasibility studies; Create and deliver detailed strategies, technical and business plans, and corresponding financial projections; Market and Situational Analysis, including Potential Opportunities and Challenges; Competitive Analysis.

 

CAPEX and OPEX Budgeting.

 

Commercial modelling and revenue forecasting.

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Benchmark Broadcast Systems is a consultant and technology partner for media and broadcast companies in Asia. Headquartered in Singapore, we have offices in Chennai, Delhi, Dhaka, Kuala Lumpur and Manila. We have over fifty engineers employed full time by us across these locations. Our systems integration experience spans twenty years and a collective 500+ person-years. We are focused on providing cutting edge technologies for digital media creation, management and distribution to our customers. We do this through our Consultancy, Systems Integration and Managed Services offerings as well as through software development, data integration and solutions for news, business and sports channels. We also implement and deploy Business Process Modules for enterprise MAM systems.

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Edge, is available as a lightweight functional block on a VM, container in-line with other software or on bare metal which is specified according to the required throughput.

It can either be used standalone through a web interface or in most cases connects over websockets to our control and monitoring platform called CORE (deployed on prem or in the cloud).

Typical use-cases are secure and reliable Internet transit, a monitoring probe, 2022-7 protection, Input protection and (De)Scrambling.

 

Functions that set itself apart from a native SRT implementation are:

•    SMPTE 2022-7 seamless input with per path statistics

•    SRT RTP header passthrough allowing 1+1 paths followed by downstream 2022-7 seamless protection

•    BISS-2 scrambling and descrambling with seamless odd/even key transition

•    Thumbnailing (based on ffmpeg library)

•    ETR290 Priority 1, Priority 2 & Priority 3 (fully written in house)

•    UDP and RTP output with packet pacing and launch delay offset

•    Threshold based input redundancy with support passive or active backup sources

•    CORE (CORE is the name of our control platform) - Centralised control and monitoring capable of controlling and monitoring through firewalls and presenting a northbound REST control and monitoring API

•    CORE - High availability horizontally scalable cluster based control and monitoring capable of managing tens of thousands of EDGEs.

•    CORE has a REST API with existing integrations with ATOS BNCS and Skyline Dataminer.

•    CORE supports local, LDAP, SAML and Azure AD authentication.

•    CORE - Grafana native driver for correlated monitoring of all software components

•    Floating centralised license model with both OPEX and CAPEX options

•    EDGE Debugging tools - top talkers & PCAP

•    HLS input and output

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We work closely with our clients to provide expert media technology consulting to areas such as platform architecture, linear and on-demand media processing workflows, quality of service and product development.

Our heritage is unrivalled, and over the last 15 years, our staff have served time on both sides of the fence - as engineers and evangelists developing products and solutions, and as architects in broadcasters and media organisations integrating and innovating to provide robust and reliable platforms direct to consumers.

We know that no one country or territory adopts the same approach - and operating with this knowledge has helped us grow and understand how to solve problems in many ways.

Over the years we've helped worldwide brands build class-leading video aggregation, transformation and delivery ecosystems, and developed optimal media delivery strategies designed to reduce the amount of transformation, encapsulation and encryption to best service a vast number of consumer endpoints securely and with the very best video quality.

We live and breath this world, and we'd love to help you work through your technology challenges through our relaxed and friendly approach to technology consulting.

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Media Asset Capital is a full service technology, strategy & M&A consultancy. We assist customers decide on insourcing vs. outsourcing of technical operations, to create RFPs and assess the responses, to respond to external RFPs, and to design technical implementations and efficient workflows.

We have worked with broadcasters and media companies across the world for over 15 years, with many successful projects.

In addition, MAC provides strategic consultancy around M&A activities, assisting companies to buy and sell businesses, and offers support for due diligence processes.