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IBM Aspera® Streaming
IBM Aspera® Streaming
As an example, IBM Aspera Streaming enables customers to centralize remote production of high bit-rate live programming, eliminating the need to co-locate costly production staff at remote venues. It supports in-line transcoding and packaging to accelerate live video delivery and facilitates open file workflows for real-time editing and production. By lowering the production costs for all kinds of events, broadcasters can create and deliver new content targeting new audiences.
Designed to revolutionize the way live and near-live high definition video is delivered, IBM Aspera Streaming software can replace or minimize the use of expensive satellite and dedicated fiber with the timely delivery of any bit rate video over unmanaged public internet. The underlying technology can also be seamlessly embedded via a set of APIs that enable a new, broader set of IP network and cloud-based use cases and workflows. Video can be streamed as a uniform, unaltered, in-order byte stream that equally supports constant bit rate and adaptive bit rate formats. Aspera Streaming-enabled solutions perform exceptionally well over long-haul WANs, with negligible start up delay.
The robust, easy-to-use web application in Aspera Streaming enables:
- Auto-discovery of streaming devices for fast, simple set-up
- Centralized monitoring of networked streaming devices
- Location status (online/offline) and management features
- View devices, streams and connections from any vantage point (both sending and receiving locations)
Innovative streaming technology
IBM Aspera Streaming meets the challenge of today’s live video opportunities with an innovative transport solution that uses commodity Internet (IP) networks in place of costly legacy satellite delivery and dedicated fiber networks. Aspera’s patented FASP transport technology can provide the consistently exceptional broadcast quality and “zero-delay” experience of traditional satellite backhaul and transmission.
Stream provider and receiver interoperability
The software can transport any live video source available on local multicast, unicast UDP, unicast TCP, or growing file source and will output video to the same options. It provides a uniform lossless, in-order byte stream transport that equally supports constant bit rate and adaptive bit rate formats with performance independent of video encoding details.
Reliability and multi-endpoint capability
One stream source can be sent to multiple destinations concurrently and provides built-in path redundancy. Server hosts are natively clustered. Stream sessions failover automatically connect to another host. Aspera management services automatically reconnect and restart failed streams after a network outage.
Aspera product interoperability and management
Streaming sessions are designed for full interoperability with the Aspera file transfer stack. RESTful APIs allow production workflow and broadcast management systems to manage streams and provide status. Stream sources can include cloud and on premises transcoders and encoders that read from stream and file – or provide stream outputs or growing files.
High quality video delivery
One stream source can be sent to multiple destinations concurrently and provides built-in path redundancy. Server hosts are natively clustered. Stream sessions failover automatically connect to another host. Aspera management services automatically reconnect and restart failed streams after a network outage.
Robust security and authentication
All streaming sessions are encrypted in transit and security authenticated using standard public/private key authentication or Aspera’s multi-tenant access key system. Built-in access control policies can be used to restrict stream providers and consumers by stream protocol, IP address and ports.
Occasional Use
Occasional Use
When news and sport need to reach audiences across the world, trust a 24/7 occasional use service to deliver your content on time. Telstra Broadcast Services' Occasional Use has dedicated teams of broadcast specialists who work closely with you to schedule, scope, manage and ensure delivery of your occasional use content, all with 24/7 support. Delivering over 20,000 ad hoc event booking annually, media companies trust out network blend for delivery.
Ideal for producers, broadcasters, and operational teams who book directly with the 24/7 Telstra Broadcast Services Bookings Team and know exactly what they want and when they want. The process is simple to use and very flexible in dealing with last minute needs.
Features
- 24/7 Broadcast Operations
- Occasional Use bookings are managed in Telstra's own and trusted partners' Broadcast Operations Centres and Master Control Rooms in Asia Pacific, Americas and Europe
- Dedicated Bookings Team
- Ensuring your content is delivered cost effectively from the source to destination using industry standard booking systems
- Quickest delivery path
- Deliver content using the best path to meet timely demands
Telstra Global Media Network
Telstra Global Media Network
The Telstra Global Media Network is a purpose-built video contribution and distribution network integrating underlying media fibre networks, satellite capabilities, and partnerships, connecting 2500+ OnNet endpoint, including 1000+ customer sites and more than 1500 venues and stadiums. The addition of a new secure cloud gateway to and from the network will allow high-quality video transport to and from markets with little to no infrastructure, as well as incident prone areas.
Next Generation Linear Distribution
Next Generation Linear Distribution
Platforms
- Customise hybrid networks to meet future possibilities
- Telstra Global Media Network
- Confidently deliver content point-to-point and point-to-multipoint up to 2500+ on-net global endpoints via owned and partnered networks, 1000+ customer sites and 1500+ venues and stadiums across the globe
- GMN Express
- Access content on a secure gateway from on-net media rights holders to off-net media buyers by transporting high-quality linear video using cloud infrastructure in a via contented networks with varied levels of content management and quality assurance
- Media Satellite Networks
- Transport content anywhere in the world through satellite partnerships and Telstra owned and operated teleports strategically positioned to access geostationary satellites (35,000 kms above earth) that reach the entire earth's surface
- Telecommunications Network
- Deliver convergent operations smoothly with proven resiliency and true end-to-end network diversity with no single point of failure via self-healing long-haul fibre networks ensuring fast protection in case of emergencies.
- Telstra Global Media Network
Features and Benefits
- Design a network with the best features to meet business needs
- Tiered SLA
- Scale up and down service assurance and management to meet media buyer's Service Level Agreements
- Advancing networks
- Our network technology continuously advances and new partners join the Telstra Global Media Network Partner Alliance to extend reach
- Premium support
- Around the clock, Level 1 support from broadcast engineers in global Master Control Rooms and Broadcast Operations Centres
- Minimised vendors
- End-to-end service from quote, through provisions to billing
- Co-location
- Host your content in our secure data centres to cross-connect with other hosted providers
- Tiered SLA
LTN Network
LTN Network
LTN Network is a broadcast-quality IP Video transport solution providing an innovative, IP-based live video delivery service that meets or exceeds broadcast- quality standards. It has been widely adopted by major broadcasters, media companies, content creators and owners and is connected to over 3000 sites globally.
LTN's unique and patented technology was designed to combine the reach and flexibility of the internet with the quality and reliability of a private network. The network enables live video delivery with consistent low delay and high quality - with 99.999% reliability - on a global scale.
Major Events and Tours
Major Events and Tours
From Grand Slams to World Cups, to international events that happen every 4 years, major events and tours showcase the world's best athletes competing for personal and team achievement along with the love of the sporting fans.
To deliver a top tier major event, a company must have the right blend of resources that are global, flexible, customisable, readily available, and reliable.
Telstra Broadcast Services' Major Events and Tours managed service offering delivers end to end broadcast media and carriage operation customised with telecommunications, Live OTT, Broadcast and Media services to ensure a timely and premium experience that is sure to be a home run!
Features and Benefits
- 100GBps Media backbone
- Bandwidths up to 100Gbps can simultaneously deliver up to 8 uncompressed ultra-high definition (UHD) 4k video feeds (12Gbps average)
- Customisable network with reach
- Telstra owns and has vested interest in one of the largest subsea fibre networks - 400,000 kms - throughout the Pacific, Indian and Atlantic Oceans
- True convergent expertise and solutions
- Build on Telstra's telco broadcast and internet capabilities to craft viable and economic solutions, including true remote production
- Global Field and Broadcast Operations
- Broadcast experts on the ground, in Master Control Rooms and Broadcast Operation Centres across the globe to manage and monitor delivery to meet SLAs
- Access into China and throughout Asia
- Telstra is the first foreign company licensed to provide connectivity and network services onto mainland China with POPs for media delivery
Solutions
- Hybrid Media
- Allow our experts to curate a solution accessing Telstra's full media network suite, including fibre, satellite, IP, and cloud connectivity
- International Remote Production
- Produce multiple global events simultaneously by delivering content up to 100GBps from source via a high-speed network to centralised locations
- Satellite Only
- Choose a satellite network with strategically placed teleports in Asia Pacific and partnership that can access the entire earth surface
- Telecommunications Network
- Seamlessly integrate between a full range of telecommunication, video, internet and data services bundled together
Limelight Content Delivery Network (CDN)
Limelight Content Delivery Network (CDN)
Our content delivery network features one of the highest cache hit ratios in the industry, solid-state drive (SSD) storage, hundreds of Points of Presence strategically enabled around the world. We provide 70+ Tbps capacity and a 100GbE private fiber backbone that is connected to more than 1,000 ISP and last-mile networks, ensuring a better experience for your customers.
The Switch Transmission
The Switch Transmission
NOCS AND SERVICE LOCATIONS
We get your live content to distribution outlets around the world. Our three 24/7 Network Operation Centers (NOCs) in New York, Los Angeles and London are equipped with network management, video monitoring and powerful conversion capability.
ACCESS AND CONTROL
Wherever you need to be, The Switch can be there. Our network can be accessed from anywhere in the world using a broadband connection. Configurable ports adapt to customer requirements and are monitored and managed from NOCs, whether full-time or for non-recurring and special event applications.
CIRCUITS
The Switch gives you the reach. Our video circuits are located across 45 US states, The District of Columbia and Canada. Globally, our network also spans Europe and Asia Pacific, including the UK, France, Switzerland, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand – with partners around the world extending our reach in other key markets, such as Germany, Italy, Turkey, China and Japan.
FIBER
At the core of The Switch network is our local and long-haul fiber transport service. We provide high-availability, high-capacity first mile connectivity to every professional sports venue, and many special event venues, across the United States and more than 50 points of presence across the globe. Our unparalleled reliability and high network redundancy combine with virtually unlimited bandwidth at the venues and metro markets for outstanding connectivity. Cost predictability is built in with:
- unlimited local switching for a flat fee
- low per-minute transmission rates based on actual usage
- no minimum transmission times
- on-demand and scheduled transmission
- no cancellation penalties
ETHERNET
The Switch keeps you connected. Our high quality, low latency Ethernet circuits are accessible from any event location. We also deliver a full complement of services, from FTP to voice to internet access, freeing customers from relying on the venue for access to the web.
The Switch IP Video Transport
The Switch IP Video Transport
Using Internet Protocols to transport video from stadium to studio is one of the most efficient and cost-effective means of connectivity today. And with The Switch’s global footprint, and quality-first approach, the delivery of your content won’t be compromised.
For the acquisition and contribution of IP video feeds to your production facility, we draw on our first-mile experience and best-in-class IP innovations to give you access no matter what. Our experienced engineers make sure that regardless of where your event takes place, your feed is seamless and surefire. We support all major IP Transport protocols, including SRT, BRT, ZIXI, RTP w/FEC, and others.
Using internet connections and leading IP video protocols, we send high-quality signals from difficult-to-connect venues or remote sites to your control room or cloud destination. We provide the on and off ramps to and from the cloud, from The Switch’s first-in-class closed DTM network – transporting live feeds to broadcasters, streaming services and the cloud from areas with a low fiber footprint.
In an increasingly complex media marketplace, The Switch makes it simple. We enable you to deliver your live content, whether for a TV network, online video platform, social media platform, website, cloud service – or all of the above – offering the know-how, world-class equipment, safe hands, scalability, back-up and great service you need. From the broadcast giant to the online disruptor, we ensure you can switch on your content from anywhere.
The Switch Live Video Streaming
The Switch Live Video Streaming
Whether for real-time or on-demand consumption, streaming your live events to consumer video platforms requires failsafe connectivity and broadcast quality. From major sports fixtures and esports tournaments to red carpet interviews and corporate press events, The Switch is always there to turn on your coverage.
In a multiscreen, internet-enabled entertainment world, video feeds must deliver the same reliability and quality for online streaming and social platforms as they do for traditional linear broadcast. In transporting your produced feed – or multiple feeds from an array of venues – via fiber or satellite, we take the same best-in-class approach that we do with the world’s biggest TV broadcasters. You get the established professionalism and back-up you need to ensure that, whatever the complexities involved in livestreaming an event, you have The Switch’s knowledgeable engineers on hand. Plus, we have you covered on all IP transport formats, whether that’s HLS, DASH, RTMP or an alternative. We also support livestreaming via Akamai, Amazon CloudFront and other CDNs.
Taking your feed from venue to viewer is made easier and safer than ever when you trust The Switch to support your live video streaming. You can depend on The Switch’s longstanding reputation for rock-solid reliability as we work hand-in-hand with you to ensure your streaming concepts become a reality. That’s why we are the delivery partner of choice for many of the world’s leading content platforms.
Videon VersaStreamer Video Streaming/Recording System
Videon VersaStreamer Video Streaming/Recording System
The Videon VersaStreamer all-in-one video streaming and recording system provides unparalleled flexibility in simultaneous streaming to multiple platforms and destinations — social media, video sharing sites, a CDN for streaming via a website, or even a local network or display. With multiple simultaneous RTMP outputs, HEVC/H.264 support, MPEG-TS support, and streaming bit rates up to 30 Mbps, as well as recording to a backup USB, VersaStreamer gives the pro AV and broadcast markets the exceptional versatility, robust feature set, and attractive price point ideal for lower-cost 1080p H.264 streaming or for 4K HEVC streaming.
MAGIC ACX Dante™ WAN Bridge
MAGIC ACX Dante™ WAN Bridge
The audio connection for the audio inputs/outputs is provided by the integrated 32-channel Dante™ interface, which has redundant GbE interfaces and of course also supports AES67.
The comfortable operating software allows the management of up to 10 systems including graphic surveillance and can be operated from up to 5 workplaces simultaneously.
The front display of the system also shows essential information on the status of the transmission.
The coding is done via PCM16 / PCM24 / PCM32.
Since the limited maximum latency of Dante in wide area networks, high jitter and possible clock differences between sender and receiver prevent a reliable transmission, the MAGIC ACX Dante™ Wan Bridge solves these problems with a jitter buffer including automatic mode and intelligent sample rate adaption (SRA).
