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As media organizations increasingly adopt hybrid-cloud workflows that uses a combination of public cloud, private cloud, and on-premises storage and compute resources, moving content has become much more challenging. Files that need to be exchanged are often stored in multiple clouds and on-premises systems. Traditional transfer technologies bridging these environments are slow and unreliable, and physical disk shipments between them are time consuming and expose data to unnecessary security risks.

IBM Aspera on Cloud overcomes the file transfer challenges of the hybrid cloud by allowing media companies to securely and reliably move their content across on-premises and multi-cloud environments anywhere at unrivalled speed.

 

Seamlessly Access and Share Data Stored Anywhere 

Whether content is stored on-premises or in the cloud, Aspera on Cloud offers a simple user interface for accessing any of it. A file-system–like structure allows users to easily move folders across data centers and cloud platforms using drag-and-drop. They can directly send large files from on-premises or cloud storage to clients and partners, and invite them to upload content directly to their storage locations. Access to such transfer functionality and configured content stores is protected by a powerful access control model managed centrally by service administrators.

Aspera on Cloud offers unrivalled performance for transferring large files and large collections of files across any distance regardless of network conditions. By fully utilizing available bandwidth, transmissions achieve substantially higher speeds than traditional network transfer technologies. Aspera’s unique Direct-to-Cloud transport technology moves content from the client directly into cloud object storage layer, ensuring high-speed transfers and immediate data availability.

 

Securely Collaborate with Anyone Around the World 

Enterprise-grade security protects valuable content as it is shared and exchanged with collaborators located anywhere around the world. The service authenticates users upon login, encrypts data in transit and at rest using strong cryptography, and verifies data integrity to protect against man-in-the-middle attacks.

Aspera On Cloud is now more accessible and flexible than ever before. It’s currently available in 28 cloud data centers across the US, Europe, South America and Asia Pacific, and has been translated into several languages. It’s also available to order online either as a pay-as-you-go option or an annual pre-committed volume rate plan.

 

Workflow Automation

Automate file-movement workflows for many common transfer jobs. Custom automation workflows can move files between many Aspera on Cloud transfer endpoints, such as shared folders, transfer nodes, shared-inbox and package deliveries. The workflows can be triggered by a variety of methods, such as API calls, operator manual intervention, file-arrival events and shared-inbox file submissions. The new capability enables you to integrate Aspera Orchestrator and Aspera on Cloud workflows.

 

Intuitive file sharing and content delivery across a hybrid-cloud environment 

Aspera On Cloud’s easy-to-use interface simplifies file uploads, downloads, sharing, distribution, and content management across on-premises and cloud storage. Users can:

• Drag-and-drop files and folders to transfer to any storage location or to share with other users and groups.


• Organize files and users into workspaces, which are secure collaboration areas for groups.


• Use inboxes to represent cloud and on-premises storage and enable users to submit content directly to an inbox or to a shared content submission portal.


• Compile content into a digital package and distribute to one or more recipients using a straightforward, email-like interface.


• Preview media content in thumbnail, keyframe grids and playable media.


• Easily find items in very large files stores with search, filter, and sort.


• Extend Aspera on Cloud access to the desktop, browser and mobile applications.

 

Real-time control over file transfers 

Aspera On Cloud provides complete visibility and control over the Aspera high-speed transfer environment. It enables media organizations to monitor transfer activities in real time while embedding their brand into every communication and web asset. Users can:

• Manage transfer activities, storage usage, and digital packages in real time.


• Monitor user and activity logs and service alerts.


• Manage membership in workspaces, user groups and shared inboxes.


• Generate and export custom usage reports.


• Easily create a uniquely branded web presence & customized email templates.

 

Central administration of hybrid environments 

Aspera On Cloud enables media organizations to connect to all their cloud and on-premises storage and remotely manage their transfer nodes with a single easy-to-use interface. Users can:

• Store and readily access files and folders in multiple cloud-based and on-premises storage systems.


• Configure access to transfer nodes located in their data center or in any market-leading cloud platform: IBM Cloud, AWS, Azure, and Google.


• Establish network policies that govern how transfer nodes interact with each other.


• Embed sending, sharing and delivery functionality into custom applications using the Aspera API.

 

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Aspera Orchestrator is a web-based application and SDK platform that enables precise control over the Aspera high-performance file transfer environment. It allows organizations to build efficient, predictable file processing pipelines that interconnect business units and external partners. With Orchestrator, files can be directed, processed and redirected with easy-to-define rules based on an organization’s workflows and using existing IT infrastructure. Aspera automation streamlines complex workflows and ensures that each processing step is accurately performed.

 

Visually define and automate execution of your existing workflows

Aspera Orchestrator’s interactive graphical designer makes it easy to compose execution streams based on an organization’s existing workflows. Users can use drag-and-drop visual elements to define logical sequences, inputs, action types, outputs and dependencies, and group them into reusable templates. The graphical interface also allows users to monitor active workflows in real time and to drill down into a detailed history of operations.

 

An intelligent decision engine with a rich library of plug-ins

To automate workflows and assure timely delivery of content under fixed schedules, Aspera Orchestrator combines a logical execution engine with third-party plug-ins for asset transformation, quality control and other functions. Its conditional rules engine binds inputs to actions on the fly, allowing results from earlier steps to decide subsequent actions in the pipeline, including prompting for human input if needed. An expanded array of plug-ins covers the leading encoding, transcoding, watermarking, and verification products, in addition to full support of verification of file format standards such as ADI, MXF, AS-11 and DPP file formats, and FIMS.

 

Support high-volume workflows

Workflow orchestration systems depend on predictable delivery of files to feed their processing pipeline. To ensure uninterrupted data flow regardless of system load, Orchestrator relies on FASP®, Aspera’s unique, patented, bulk data transfer technology that enables high-speed data delivery regardless of file size and format, transfer distance, or network conditions.

 

Easy-to-use interfaces for defining and monitoring complex workflows 

• Intuitive drag-and-drop, browser-based interface for fast and efficient graphical workflow composition.


• Reusable workflow and workflow sub-sequence templates make it easy to create repeatable, consistent operations.


• Execution dashboard and notifications enable real-time workflow oversight.

 

Powerful engine for logical, conditional execution 

• Rules engine can make decisions on the fly, based on transfer attributes, extracted metadata, user input, or outputs from preceding steps.


• Automatic restart on transmission failures and support for parallel execution.


• A rich library of plug-ins for leading transcoding, quality control, antivirus, ad insertion, digital fingerprinting and other solutions.


• On-the-fly reordering of job queues enables real-time prioritization of critical items.

 

Integrated with Aspera FASP® for maximum data transfer speeds 

• Scales for the most demanding file-based workflows, processing thousands of files per hour.


• Precise bandwidth control ensures the entire allocated bandwidth is utilized to achieve maximum transfer speeds, while being fair to other traffic.


• 100% reliable data delivery: automatically resumes partial transfers, retries failed transfers and falls back to HTTP for highly restrictive networks.

 

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Industry leaders such as FOX Sports have used the Aspera Streaming technology to disrupt the status quo with its capabilities and advancements.

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.

 

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Designed for pro creative workflows, the Thunderbolt 3 Pro Dock features 10Gb Ethernet, front-side CFast and SD card readers, Thunderbolt 3 device support, and peripheral ports.

Pro-level docking stations should be ready to handle any situation that you encounter in a production workflow. The Thunderbolt 3 Pro Dock is your on-location and post production “mission control” with an unrivaled combination of super-fast 10Gb Ethernet, CFast and SD card readers, two Thunderbolt 3 ports, three USB 3.1 ports, and full support for eSATA devices and drives.

When you’re on location, your cart needs the power of versatility. With conveniently accessible front-side CFast and SD 4.0 card readers, the Thunderbolt 3 Pro Dock helps you manage multiple card uploads efficiently. It’s a huge asset when you’re covering events like conferences, festivals, and concerts where you’re working with multiple videographers and photographers.

Need more work view space? Need to access a large on-location DAS (Direct Attached Storage) drive? No problem. The Thunderbolt 3 Pro Dock offers a DisplayPort for adding another 4K display, plus additional ports including an eSATA port with port multiplier support, so you can access multiple drives within a multi-bay RAID.

Sized similarly to a single external drive enclosure, the Thunderbolt 3 Pro Dock’s aluminum case helps keep cart weight streamlined while easily fitting into a cart drawer or small box during cart breakdown.

With two Thunderbolt 3 (Thunderbolt 2/Thunderbolt backward compatible)1, the Thunderbolt 3 Pro Dock offers incredible potential to connect multiple devices to take on the biggest projects. You can daisy-chain up to 5 additional Thunderbolt devices to the Thunderbolt 3 Pro Dock for studio-level storage, RAID arrays, eGPUs for graphics processing, or all of these combined and connected at 40Gb/s bandwidth.

 

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The days of only working at your desk are gone. We’re always on the move bouncing between our desks, meetings and couches —  often in a hurry. With a single connection to your notebook computer, the OWC Thunderbolt 3 Dock makes coming back to your desk to work and leaving your desk to run to a meeting, a much quicker endeavor.

With its 14 ports of connectivity thoughtfully placed, the OWC Thunderbolt 3 Dock delivers convenience while keeping desktops clutter-free. The dock’s front is designed for the easy connection of your portable devices, headphones and media cards, while the rear features a multitude of ports for your static devices so cables stay out of sight.

Leave your power adapters in your bag! The OWC Thunderbolt 3 Dock provides 85 watts of power to your computer via the Thunderbolt 3 connection and has multiple, high-power USB ports to charge your mobile devices. The days of searching for your power adapter are officially over.

OWC Dock Ejector safely disconnects all connected drives in a single click. Designed by OWC hardware and software engineers, Dock Ejector ensures all data is written before disconnection, saving time and protecting against data loss. Use it to move quickly between workstations and get the most out of your Thunderbolt 3 Dock.

 

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Your office is wherever your work takes you — that day. The USB-C Travel Dock keeps your vital connections on-hand wherever you are: on-set, on location, at the studio, or lounging at a coffee shop. It transfers up to 100W of pass-through charging from your USB-C power adapter, ensuring you're powered up and ready to deliver a client presentation or download the day's last shots.

 

It’s important to make your work – not technical issues — the focus of your meetings. The USB-C Travel Dock features an HDMI port for easy display connections up to 4K resolution, so you can plug in and focus on delivering a memorable presentation.

When you're on the go, having power and charging options can help keep your work flowing. The USB-C Travel Dock can be used via bus power when you don't have access to a power outlet. Or use your notebook USB-C adapter to deliver up to 100W of pass-through power and use the open port on your computer to connect another device.

Whether it’s time-lapse photography, live events, or urban exploring, the USB-C Travel Dock helps lighten your load of adapters and dongles while expanding your connectivity options. With minimal gear, you can find inspiration anywhere, download your SD card quickly, and keep capturing the moment.

• 5 ports of connectivity: (2) USB-A 3.1 Gen 1, (1) HDMI, (1) SD card, (1) USB-C power pass through


• Power options: bus powered or use existing USB-C power adapter


• Charge while working: up to 100W pass-through power for a notebook or other devices1


• Neat and tidy: Built-in cable storage


• Compatibility: notebooks, tablets, Mac, Windows, Linux, iOS, Android, Windows and Chrome

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Strawberry is an award-winning Production Asset Management Suite (PAM), designed to keep productions organized and collaboration flexible. Strawberry solves key storage and workflow management issues that plague every media production house. For a PAM to be effective, it must integrate tightly with key creative applications, accelerate production workflows, and manage the underlying production storage. Strawberry does this and more, so that you can utilize your creative talent more effectively. Its unique approach balances the needs of the technical team and creative team for producing content seamlessly. If you have tired of constantly adding storage and see that a smarter workflow is the solution, have a closer look.

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AirBox provides automated content playout for satellite channels, cable head-ends, over-the-air broadcasters and corporate TV users. It is designed to be extremely robust, in order to meet the highest reliability demands of on-air playout. Due to its unique modular architecture, it is also suitable for webcasters, hotel Pay TV channels, corporate presentations, video wall sourcing and other program distribution systems.

AirBox Multi Parallel Output allows simultaneous running of two or more SDI or IP streaming SD / HD outputs so that broadcasters can easily deliver parallel output in any combination needed to deliver the content.

AirBox supports a wide range of video / audio formats from almost every known platform for production Third-party video server files like Leitch, Seachange, etc. are supported natively.

Any modifications to the playlist can be made during the on-air session. There will be no locked videos in the playlist except the one being played at the moment. They can be changed, edited or substituted.

On-the-fly commands such as skip to next or jump can change the playback order. Such changes in order are carried out seamlessly without stopping the current session. The powerful Live Show Clipboard facilitates live productions, enabling the insertion and/or execution of different events or live streams.

AirBox enables playlist scheduling for weeks ahead for automated playout. The associated gaps and time overlaps are overcome dynamically to ensure smooth service even when timed activities interfere with each other. If content files or even entire schedules are missing and misplaced, special facilities guarantee continuous operation.

MS Windows 10 compatible.

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BitSave v.2 is the next generation AI technology offered by iSIZE Technologies for fast and low complexity precoding with significant bitrate savings. Available both as a SaaS platform at bitsave.tech and for on- premise use as a “bolt-on” solution on top of any standard or proprietary video codec.

LIGHTNING FAST

Precode and Encode videos up to 500% faster than other encoding services. Save time and reduce your cloud energy footprint

CODEC INDEPENDENT

BitSave technology is compatible with any codec, including AVC, HEVC, VP9, AV1, and even the upcoming AV2 and VVC, with increased gains in bitrate and quality offered for newer standards

SUPERIOR QUALITY

Reach ultimate video quality for resolutions up to 8K. Reduce streaming bandwidth by as much as 40%

SUBSTANTIALLY CHEAPER

Less than $5 per hour of content for all resolutions up to 4K – up to 50% cheaper than the most competitive solutions

SUSTAINABLE

BitSave enables sustainability with significant computational and energy efficiency, datacenter cost reduction, prolonging battery life for resource-constrained devices (drones, action-cams, smartphones).

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nxtedition is a complete production solution for video and audio - used by broadcasters, publishers, corporates and other industries to create video channels for broadcast and streaming, as well as audio for radio broadcasting, streaming and podcasting.nxtedition encapsulates all the following activities into a single user interface offering to be first, fast and accurate with the stories people want - be that news, sport, entertainment, or production.• Production Planning• Scriptwriting• Media Asset Management• Metadata Management• Reporting• Graphics• Subtitling• Prompter• Transcoding• Rundown Creation• Studio Automation• Ingest Recording• Channel Playout• Music Rotation• Live Streaming In And Out• Publishing To Web, App And Social Medianxtedition - innovative storytelling grounded in realism.

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Neither cloud nor CDN, the Eluvio Content Fabric allows content publishers to distribute premium video globally including live, video on demand, and linear channels, direct to consumers and to business partners without CDNs, cloud stacks, transcoding services or databases.

The Content Fabric is a single backend source for master asset servicing including media, metadata and code, with inherent linking of components, re-use, rights, and versioning.  Streaming and file based video presentation are delivered just in time, globally, from the source objects to consumer with ultra-low latency. There are no file copies and the content security does not trust the infrastructure (trust less).

An embedded blockchain ledger, contract-backed content, and dynamic composition enable personalization, rights control, monetization, and re-use of media and metadata across properties.

Tier 1 Hollywood Studios, Broadcasters and new mobile streaming platforms use the Fabric for radically simple, fast, and inexpensive supply chains.

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Raysync is a software-based large file transfer solutions provider. Since its establishment, it has always been dedicated to providing large file transfer solutions for global enterprises.

Based on the self-developed high-speed transfer protocol, Raysync breaks through the transfer defects of traditional FTP and HTTP, the transfer rate is increased by 100 times compared with FTP, and the bandwidth utilization rate is over 96%, which can easily meet the extremely fast transfer requirements of TB-level large files and massive small files. Our solutions enable you to send files of any size or format at full line speed, hundreds of times faster than FTP while ensuring secure and reliable delivery.

As the leading brand of enterprise-level large file transfer, Raysync has provided high-performance, stable, and safe file transfer services for 20,000+ enterprises in IT Internet, film and television, biological gene, and many other fields.

Come see why Raysync has become the solution of choice for many famous enterprises like Huawei, Vivo, and etc.

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We’ve seen Aspera transform the practices of our media and entertainment customers, allowing them to move to a stream-based, cloud-first workflow that supports both distributed and remote working. It’s also widely used to enable lightning fast analytics in the financial world, to accelerate research in scientific and industrial fields, and even to improve merchandising in the retail sector.

As a fully accredited IBM Gold Business Partner, we can help you design and implement Aspera's high speed file transfer workflow. Whatever your goals are, we’ll work with you to ensure you have a workable, futureproof solution that integrates with your current infrastructure, and can help your team get up to speed on the new system once it’s installed. Get in touch to arrange a demonstration or a free trial.

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latakoo is a cloud-based platform that is the fastest, easiest and most secure way to get video from anywhere to anywhere, regardless of connectivity or file size.

Using the latakoo Flight mobile or desktop application, broadcasters and post-production companies can select video from editing programs, professional cameras, or phones and send files from anywhere in the world wherever they need to go. Files arrive in the latakoo cloud, for viewing, sharing, and transcription. Depending on the workflow selected, files may be automatically downloaded to the broadcast center, to content management systems, or social media platforms.

latakoo securely complies with corporate firewall and security standards and integrates seamlessly with asset managers such as Avid, Dalet, Grass Valley and bitcentral systems.

Customizable metadata collection and transcription are part of the integrated solution. This means any metadata associated with the file travels with it - to the cloud for sharing and ingested into the asset manager.

Through its flexible and easy-to-use system, latakoo can be configured to meet your unique video workflow. latakoo delivers video wherever it’s needed with seamless integrations to CMS providers, social media platforms and more.

Closed captioning can be implemented for both broadcast and social media workflows.

latakoo is now launching Manifest, which will track an assignments from concept to delivery, with notifications when files are ready to share or send to playout.

latakoo is packed with the most sophisticated technology and supported 24/7 by people who live and breathe on your broadcast deadlines, just like you. latakoo is Avid Platform Certified and an Avid Alliance Partner.

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Raysync SMB subscription including 1 Gbps bandwidth, unlimited transfer volume, and 50 user accounts.

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Cinegy Convert is Cinegy’s server-based transcoding and batch processing service. Designed to function like a network-based print server, it can be used to perform repetitive export and conversion tasks by “printing” material to pre-defined formats and destinations in any Cinegy Desktop through a simple drag-and-drop operation. Processing is performed on a specified Cinegy Convert server that acts as a print queue/spooler, processing tasks in order. By automating repetitive tasks, Cinegy Convert saves time that can be applied to more important activities. It is an ideal tool for exporting material in different formats and for integration with third-party NLE systems. Cinegy Convert can run stand-alone or directly integrate with the Cinegy Archive MAM using the Cinegy MAM Plugin, which can be bought separately. Cinegy Convert is licensed per Convert Agent. Cinegy Convert comes with four Convert Agent and Cinegy Convert PRO with eight. Each Convert Agent handles one Convert job at a time. The more powerful a machine the more Convert jobs it can handle simultaneously.

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Recurring transfers are a key component of many media supply chains, and businesses forced to conduct these manually risk losing productivity or missing essential tasks. Signiant Jet, which debuted in 2019, solves this, providing powerful automation that allows for simple unattended content exchange within and between companies. Undergirded by Signiant’s Software-Defined Content Exchange (SDCX) SaaS platform, boasting the benefit of machine-learning powered intelligent transport technology, and continuing our commitment to storage independence, Jet connects and organizations of any size all around the world.

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Since its debut in 2012, Signiant Media Shuttle has made its mark on the global media industry, proving to be the easiest and most reliable way for organizations to send any size file, anywhere, fast. Leveraging Signiant’s multifaceted Software-Defined Content Exchange (SDCX) SaaS platform and its patented intelligent transport technology, Media Shuttle redefines large file transfer potential, making even the most complex supply chains agile, manageable, flexible, and secure. With advanced metadata capabilities, extensive customizability, enterprise-grade protection, and a commitment to storage independence that ensures your business always controls your content, Media Shuttle brings the full potential of global M&E right to your desktop portal.

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latakoo is a cloud-based platform that is the fastest, easiest and most secure way to get video files from anywhere to anywhere, regardless of connectivity or file size. latakoo services go beyond fast file transfer, providing an end-to-end workflow solution to encode, edit, share, transcribe, transcode and ingest files with metadata. latakoo has integrations with Avid, Dalet and Grass Valley systems. Customers include broadcasters, post-production companies and industry leaders around the globe. latakoo expects to soon launch a novel media codec designed to take full advantage of modern GPU computing, speeding the delivery of both files and live streams.

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WHATS’ON is Europe's most advanced platform for managing and programming radio, TV and online content channels. With modular desktop applications or web-based applications in the cloud that sit at the centre of future-proof media operation ecosystems, MEDIAGENIX help optimise and automate the life cycles of content, and drive efficiencies throughout the content supply chain from acquisition over planning, scheduling and rights management to publication and beyond. The solution supports the entire content workflow, or drives content/rights/media/EPG/finance workflows as a central system complemented with best-of-breed niche applications, to strategically run a mix of OTT, VoD and Linear business.

MEDIAGENIX started out in 1992 helping a commercial channel move away from Excel sheets and handwritten programme schedules. After decades of co-creation with an ever growing international customer community, MEDIAGENIX rank among the top of tech vendors in the international media industry, serving  customers in Europe, the Middle East, the United States, Asia, Latin America and Oceania. Customers include public and commercial radio and TV stations, on-demand platforms, OTT streamers, telcos and their service providers.

Your benefits

Optimally exploit your content on any VOD services Driven by rights. Fully verified. Completely integrated with multiformat workflow management. Catch-up & preview services driven from the linear schedules.

Manage smart linear channels end to end Integrated workflows, from budget plan to fully crafted playlists. Automatically in line with rights,regulations, business rules, branding and marketing targets. Use the same toolset for your VOD operations.

Don’t leave money on the table Exploit your rights to the full. Always know the value of stock and schedule, and your ROI. Manage your commercial inventory.

Streamline the material workflow Manage and monitor the workflows for both VOD and Linear publication.

Integrate, automate & future-proof media operations Integrate with standard interfaces or with the toolkit to create your own REST API calls. Set up workflows across departments and systems.

Hit the targets and report on everything Calculate and report on statistics, quota values, financial information, content and all other kinds of information.

Effortlessly stay within legal boundaries Always be sure your scheduling is in compliance with parental ratings, and observes licence conditions and government regulations.

Build your audience Schedule promotions — automatically, manually or combined — based on ratings and targets.

 

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VIDA is the first content operating system and the next stage in SaaS library management combining the best of cloud-native content operations with predictive, intelligent tools that support today’s media workflows. From clip sales and production collaboration to library management and connected platform distribution, VIDA’s flexible ecosystem supports the scalability and agility required to meet industry demand for library content. With exceptional customer service, best-in-class technology infrastructure and quality-first solutions, VIDA ensures you get the most value out of your library – at every stage.

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MMR 110 & 410Versatile Multi-function RecordersThe MMR 110 and 410 are the most versatile, multi-purpose recording, duplication and steaming systems in the industry. For those that are still making copies of programs onto DVD and SD cards, MMR allows you to retire those legacy devices with a recorder that will copy your programs on up to 10 USB drives in one pass utilizing standardized low bandwidth compression.   That’s just the beginning of what the MMRs can do. You can send programs to your Network Attached Storage or FTP sites at the same time as you are making your dubs. You can even stream directly to web from the MMRs in standard protocols. Like all Simplylive products, the user interface is so easy to operate that anyone can start using MMR within minutes.  Simply plug in a monitor and you are ready to go. All this adds up to your people not wasting their time on duplication and you saving money.

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Limelight provides a proven workflow with high performance and availability for worry-free distribution. Limelight’s solution for File Distribution keeps your customers satisfied with no interruption to their publication, software, gaming, or device-update services. We allow ingest from any location, with automatic replication and global caching. File delivery starts in milliseconds using Limelight’s high-speed global private network. You can customize your interface with open or proprietary download managers.

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Limelight Content Delivery Services ensure your content is optimized and delivered with the lowest latency, best reliability, and highest origin offload. These services are part of the Limelight Orchestrate Platform, which integrates our massive global private infrastructure, advanced content delivery capabilities, and support services.

By positioning website content in edge caches, leveraging last mile acceleration, customizing requests and responses, and ensuring appropriate and secure access, Limelight ensures content can be quickly delivered, anywhere, anytime, with the quality of experience your audience expects.

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The MD8000 media transport system delivers high-performance, professional media signals across IP networks. As the workhorse of the MD Series, the MD8000 packetizes and adapts media signals from their native formats (SDI, compressed, and asynchronous) into IP packet flows that can be routed through high-speed networks.

The latest edition, the MD8000-100G addresses the surging demand for greater bandwidth at the network edge for remote production and other bandwidth intensive transport applications. The MD8000-100G Edition offers a 10X increase in trunk bandwidth from 10 to 100Gbps in order to accommodate today’s surging demand for more remote and distributed production workflows. Each line card in the MD8000-100G chassis effectively now has a clear, wide open 10Gbps path to the network.

Combining a 100Gbps switch along with a 100Gbps network interface, a 10X increase in bandwidth is achieved when compared to standard MD8000 systems. Dual 100Gbps switch/trunk cards are provided for switch and network transport redundancy.

The MD8000-100G edition seamlessly connects to Media Links 100Gb Core and Aggregation Switches with bi-directional 100Gb or 40Gb Ethernet traffic on Trunk interfaces. It is also compatible with existing 4RU MD8000 chassis and line cards.

MD8000-100G is available new or as a premium upgrade for all owners of legacy MD8000 4RU devices.

Applications & Use Cases:

• Tiered high-speed IP transport networking with full protection


• High speed / high reliability file transfers


• Low latency remote / at-home production


• 100GbE switch internet


• Large scale sporting events that require high Quality of Service (QoS) and guaranteed delivery solutions


• Media Applications that have both traditional and IP based requirements that require common platforms and interchange solutions


• Multi-vendor environments with standards based protocols.


• Broadcast studios transitioning from traditional fixed wireline based technologies need to transition to next generation of switched IP solutions to be workflow compliant


• Carrier Class Media Networks


• High Performance Studio Interconnects


• Flawless Contribution Video Transport


• Reliable Content Delivery System


• Integrated Live, Recorded and File-Based Communications


• Multi-point service distribution

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As media organizations increasingly adopt hybrid-cloud workflows that uses a combination of public cloud, private cloud, and on-premises storage and compute resources, moving content has become much more challenging. Files that need to be exchanged are often stored in multiple clouds and on-premises systems. Traditional transfer technologies bridging these environments are slow and unreliable, and physical disk shipments between them are time consuming and expose data to unnecessary security risks.

IBM Aspera on Cloud overcomes the file transfer challenges of the hybrid cloud by allowing media companies to securely and reliably move their content across on-premises and multi-cloud environments anywhere at unrivalled speed.

 

Seamlessly Access and Share Data Stored Anywhere 

Whether content is stored on-premises or in the cloud, Aspera on Cloud offers a simple user interface for accessing any of it. A file-system–like structure allows users to easily move folders across data centers and cloud platforms using drag-and-drop. They can directly send large files from on-premises or cloud storage to clients and partners, and invite them to upload content directly to their storage locations. Access to such transfer functionality and configured content stores is protected by a powerful access control model managed centrally by service administrators.

Aspera on Cloud offers unrivalled performance for transferring large files and large collections of files across any distance regardless of network conditions. By fully utilizing available bandwidth, transmissions achieve substantially higher speeds than traditional network transfer technologies. Aspera’s unique Direct-to-Cloud transport technology moves content from the client directly into cloud object storage layer, ensuring high-speed transfers and immediate data availability.

 

Securely Collaborate with Anyone Around the World 

Enterprise-grade security protects valuable content as it is shared and exchanged with collaborators located anywhere around the world. The service authenticates users upon login, encrypts data in transit and at rest using strong cryptography, and verifies data integrity to protect against man-in-the-middle attacks.

Aspera On Cloud is now more accessible and flexible than ever before. It’s currently available in 28 cloud data centers across the US, Europe, South America and Asia Pacific, and has been translated into several languages. It’s also available to order online either as a pay-as-you-go option or an annual pre-committed volume rate plan.

 

Workflow Automation

Automate file-movement workflows for many common transfer jobs. Custom automation workflows can move files between many Aspera on Cloud transfer endpoints, such as shared folders, transfer nodes, shared-inbox and package deliveries. The workflows can be triggered by a variety of methods, such as API calls, operator manual intervention, file-arrival events and shared-inbox file submissions. The new capability enables you to integrate Aspera Orchestrator and Aspera on Cloud workflows.

 

Intuitive file sharing and content delivery across a hybrid-cloud environment 

Aspera On Cloud’s easy-to-use interface simplifies file uploads, downloads, sharing, distribution, and content management across on-premises and cloud storage. Users can:

• Drag-and-drop files and folders to transfer to any storage location or to share with other users and groups.


• Organize files and users into workspaces, which are secure collaboration areas for groups.


• Use inboxes to represent cloud and on-premises storage and enable users to submit content directly to an inbox or to a shared content submission portal.


• Compile content into a digital package and distribute to one or more recipients using a straightforward, email-like interface.


• Preview media content in thumbnail, keyframe grids and playable media.


• Easily find items in very large files stores with search, filter, and sort.


• Extend Aspera on Cloud access to the desktop, browser and mobile applications.

 

Real-time control over file transfers 

Aspera On Cloud provides complete visibility and control over the Aspera high-speed transfer environment. It enables media organizations to monitor transfer activities in real time while embedding their brand into every communication and web asset. Users can:

• Manage transfer activities, storage usage, and digital packages in real time.


• Monitor user and activity logs and service alerts.


• Manage membership in workspaces, user groups and shared inboxes.


• Generate and export custom usage reports.


• Easily create a uniquely branded web presence & customized email templates.

 

Central administration of hybrid environments 

Aspera On Cloud enables media organizations to connect to all their cloud and on-premises storage and remotely manage their transfer nodes with a single easy-to-use interface. Users can:

• Store and readily access files and folders in multiple cloud-based and on-premises storage systems.


• Configure access to transfer nodes located in their data center or in any market-leading cloud platform: IBM Cloud, AWS, Azure, and Google.


• Establish network policies that govern how transfer nodes interact with each other.


• Embed sending, sharing and delivery functionality into custom applications using the Aspera API.

 

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Overview

How people interact with online content has changed drastically over the last decades. From social media to online shopping, users expect a fast, interactive, and personalized experience everywhere they go and on any device they are using. However, the transformation that makes the content interactive and instant often make the application slower. Industry surveys show that if a page takes more than 3 seconds to load, over 50% of users will terminate the visit. Accelerating dynamically generated content requires an end-to-end solution that overcomes the network congestion delay, cross-country bottlenecks, and packet loss along the way in order to deliver the content to the end-users. BaishanCloud’s Dynamic Acceleration platform is designed to solve this issue by deploying edge servers globally close to the end-users with the advanced TCP optimizations and network optimization allows content owners to focus on creating content for their users and rely on BaishanCloud to guarantee the performance.

Features

Intelligent Route Optimization

BaishanCloud’s intelligent network route optimization technology is based on Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) routing protocol, through multi-tiered delivery architecture, to send the request from end-users to customer’s origin. It detects the health status of routes in real-time to achieve zero delays failover and high availability. It establishes a connection on Layer 2 (Data Link Layer) for better efficiency and utilizes IPSec to authenticate and secure the data in transit.

Intelligent Network Monitoring

BaishanCloud employs comprehensive monitoring on its delivery platform including performance metrics of single-machine bandwidth, data center bandwidth, machine loading, CPU, and I/O. A monitoring agent is deployed on each PoP to route requests between servers based on real-time metrics to achieve high service availability.

Advanced TCP Optimizations 

BaishanCloud’s advanced TCP optimization technology helps avoid Internet congestion, timely and accurately recovers packet loss, and selects optimized paths to deliver dynamic content to users. Its congestion control algorithm adapts to each user to improve download speed and stability. The self-adaptive window adjustment mechanism accurately determines network congestion and packet loss to avoid sharp drops in transmission rate. It is tested to be 10 to 100 times faster than the standard TCP protocol. The technology can be applied to all transport layers that use the TCP protocol including software, kernel, and hardware server.

HTTP/2 and IPv6

BaishanCloud’s dynamic acceleration platform is tailored to serve modern Internet content and devices (such as IoT) and mobile phones. It supports HTTP/1.0, HTTP/1.1, and HTTP/2 with both IPv4 and IPv6 enabled. The platform will serve the compatible protocol and version based on the devices or clients end users are using without the need for customer to modify the origin.

Security

BaishanCloud’s dynamic acceleration platform is built with security in mind. Transport Layer Security (TLS) is 100% enabled and supported with options for customer to either use BaishanCloud’s TLS certificate or bring their own certificates. Customer also has the option to enable BaishanCloud’s Advanced Threat Detection (ATD) with dynamic acceleration. ATD is a highly advanced AI-based cloud security product that utilizes machine learning algorithms to learn behavioral patterns of legitimate users to recognize abnormalities and react in real time.

 

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Overview

Video streaming has been around for a long time, but it has recently gained popularity attributed to the improvement in technology and proliferation of smartphones around the world. The trifecta of technological advancement, improved connectivity, and video maturity makes streaming more accessible than ever. Studies show streaming content was accounted for 75% of all Internet traffic in 2017 and is expected to jump to 82% by 2020. More and more industries are and will be incorporating video content in their services to secure user engagement and brand awareness, which makes superior streaming experience a must-have for any organizations.  Baishan’s globally distributed streaming platform is designed to ingest and accelerate both live streaming and video-on-demand content over common streaming formats (including HLS, HDS, MPEG-DASH, RTMP, and more) in any setting securely and reliably. With advanced streaming engine for transcoding, packaging, and optimizing streams, Baishan enables customers to focus on creating the content and relies on Baishan to deliver the best streaming experience to end-users anywhere and on any device. BaishanCloud specializes in Mainland China and Southeast Asia delivery with ingest points and edge nodes deployed in all major continents.

Live Stream Acceleration

Baishan’s streaming platform supports all common streaming formats including HLS, HDS, MPEG-DASH, and live streaming specific formats such as RTMP, HTTP-FLV, and HTTP-TS. Baishan manages ingest points and edge delivery nodes globally with a tiered architecture to ingest and deliver live streams dynamically depending on the locations of the stream source and end-users with failover capability to guarantee smooth streaming. Baishan’s streaming engine enables real-time transcoding and packaging to multiple codecs and formats to serve end-users on any end device.

Video On Demand Streaming

Baishan’s streaming platform is designed to cache video on demand content closer to the users to facilitate immediate playback while significantly reducing the origin load. Additionally, customers leverage Baishan’s real-time packaging solution to package on-demand content from any supported format to the other while only storing one format on the origin to reduce the origin storage.

Global Scalability

Extensive network coverage always ensures better streaming experience. As a global cloud delivery service provider with extensive network coverage, Baishan has deployed over 450 service PoPs globally, covering China, the Asia-Pacific region, Europe, North America, and South America. The scalability of Baishan's delivery network continues to grow with the increasing streaming demands of our customers.

Mobile Streaming

People are watching an ever-increasing amount of content on mobile devices. In 2018, mobile devices were used for 49 percent of all plays, Internet TVs for 27 percent, and PCs for 24 percent. It is forecasted the trend will continue to grow in this direction. Baishan built our network with mobile-first mindset. We are connected to all major mobile ISPs in Mainland China and everywhere else around the world. Additionally, we supports mobile-specific optimizations including format transformation and adaptive bitrate.

Real-Time Log Analytics

Baishan’s streaming platform provides real-time statistics on the console or via API, allowing customers to visualize user experience and to troubleshoot any issues when it happens. Baishan also provides access logs to customers on customizable frequency for advance analysis.

Closer and Faster

Baishan’s enterprise solutions on web & mobile acceleration, media streaming, and cloud security help enterprises bring their content closer and faster to the end user. For more information, please contact info@us.baishancloud.com.

 

 

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Our media network combines fibre, IP-based and satellite teleport transfer to ensure your audiences never compromise on quality content regardless of platform, device or geography.

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Content Delivery Network, CDN, accelerates delivery of content to users worldwide.

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  • <10 ms latency in major cities
  
  
  • <30 ms latency around the world
  
  
  • Intelligent routing with high network redundancy
  
  
  • Rich API support
  
  
  
  


• Security
  
  
  
  • HTTPS secure cloud acceleration
  
  
  • Back-to-source verification
  
  
  • Referrer anti-theft chain
  
  
  • Support for TLS 1.3, certificates, black and white lists
  
  
  
  


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  • Zero packet loss between nodes
  
  
  • Multi-server and route redundancy for load optimization
  
  
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Overview

Just in the past decade, the median web page size went from less than 0.5 MB to nearly 2 MB - that's a quadruple jump! Modern websites boast rich media content and meticulous designs accomplished with JavaScript and CSS. With this improvement comes headaches like slow page load and network congestion.

BaishanCloud's content acceleration solution helps solve these problems by intelligently routing web traffic to bypass network slowness and by caching digital content like images and scripts on hundreds of server PoPs. Our global delivery network connects content to millions of end-users worldwide with speed and high availability.

Product Highlights

Web Caching and Instant Page Loads

Intelligent Routing and DNS Load Balancing

Scalability and Flexibility for Easy Customization

Fast Whole-Network Content Purge 

Better Performance and Lower Latency

Studies show that faster page loads improve user stickiness. Sluggish page loads can cause users to abandon a page, impact search engine optimization (SEO) ranking, and decrease advertising revenue.

A few factors affecting performance include the distance between the content and end-users and network conditions. BaishanCloud’s content delivery solutions improve a website’s performance by pushing and caching its content to the edge of the Internet so that it’s closer to users worldwide, resulting in significant performance improvements for static content, social-media-integrated sites, and media-heavy web pages.

Intelligent Routing and DNS Load Balancing

Baishan monitors global network conditions to detect and automatically adjust request routing to avoid unfavorable paths. We use a dynamic IP database to balance traffic accurately based on IP addresses. When there’s a server or network issue, the platform will make adjustments within seconds to ensure a high level of performance.

Fast Purge

The freshness and accuracy of a website’s content are crucial to online businesses, which is why Baishan prioritizes our customers’ ability to control and manage cached content quickly. Information such as news headlines, weather forecasts, and airline promotion pricing changes all the time and has to be up-to-date. Baishan’s intelligent purging removes obsolete content across our global network within seconds. Efficiency and flexibility are critical to meeting the demands of enterprise customers, so we make sure our customers’ websites are always current and ready-to-go!

Security

Baishan protects websites and applications with TLS encryption to ensure the privacy and data integrity of our customers and their end-users. We also provide other value-added security products such as Web Application Firewall (WAF) and artificial-intelligence-based Advanced Threat Detection (ATD) to defend our customers from malicious bots and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks.

Connectivity in China, Asia, and Beyond

BaishanCloud has an extensive network in China, with over 600 PoPs located in first, second, and third-tier cities. Directly peering with multiple national ISPs, Baishan keeps a pulse on network status changes to ensure top-notch performance at all times. Our expertise in China's internet ecosystem helps our customers expand their businesses and navigate the market with ease. BaishanCloud also operates numerous PoPs in key countries and cities across Asia and the rest of the world, ensuring superior coverage of each region.

HTTP/2 and IPv6

BaishanCloud’s dynamic acceleration platform is tailored to serve modern Internet content and devices (such as IoT) and mobile phones. It supports HTTP/1.0, HTTP/1.1, and HTTP/2 with both IPv4 and IPv6 enabled. The platform will serve the compatible protocol and version based on the devices or clients end users are using without the need for customers to modify the origin.

API and Automation

Baishan’s API-friendly platform allows our customers to manage their domain settings and automate deployments via APIs around the globe. One can easily create new delivery configurations, purge cache, or upload TLS certificates with pre-programmed API calls. We continue to expand our API library to include new functions or customizations.

Dedication to Innovation

BaishanCloud leads the pack with real-world customer performance data measured by third-party analytic companies. With comprehensive delivery solutions and a robust global platform reaching the corners of the globe, BaishanCloud prides itself on technological innovation and creation of new and customized solutions. We continuously optimize our network and performance to serve our customers and their end-users wherever they may be.

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 Open API for 3rd party system to integrate
 Direct importing and exporting files with 3rd party system by hot folder
 User can choose non-transcoding or transcoding for the importing / exporting policy