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Edge Data Center Services
Edge Data Center Services
- Consultations & Solutions
- Site selection based on individual needs
- Strategic and regulatory guidance
- Technical advice on hardware specs and optimal configurations
- Proof of concept (POC) testing
- Procurement & Deployment
- Equipment purchasing
- Transportation and delivery
- Customs clearance assistance
- Equipment installation and system/network configuration
- Network provisioning (Zenlayer’s IP transit is a blended network uses best carriers in each region)
- Monitoring and Maintenance
- 24/7 proactive device and network monitoring
- Custom-built tools that utilize best-in-class network monitoring software such as Kentik and Catchpoint to provide real-time network analysis
Tailored Network Design
Tailored Network Design
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?
Pipe|Bridge, Sport|Bridge, Social|Bridge
Pipe|Bridge, Sport|Bridge, Social|Bridge
Consulting and Integration services
Consulting and Integration services
Business Development Support
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.
Human Capital
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.
Projects management and Delivery
Projects management and Delivery
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
Technology Architecture and Solutions Design
Technology Architecture and Solutions Design
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.
Procurement Strategies, Recommendations, & Management
Procurement Strategies, Recommendations, & Management
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.
Business and Commercial planning
Business and Commercial planning
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.
EDGE
EDGE
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
BCi Digital Systems Integration
BCi Digital Systems Integration
Comprehensive Systems Integration Support:
Early Stage Consulting
Vendor RFI and RFP Support
Budgeting and Detailed Project Planning
Vendor Selection and Solution Design
System Integration and Test Planning
End-to-End Platform Testing
Operations Transition and Training
