latakoo Expands In Europe, Middle East & Africa

• Vision mix facilities


•  Live encoding hardware


• Satellite and IP stream receivers


• Switch connectivity

The Nextologies fibre network connecting Canada, USA, Eastern Europe and Asia, combined with our fixed satellite network, is the best in our region giving instant access to over 55,000 channels. The Nextologies fibre network is fully protected, geographically diverse and self-healing. Nextologies offers full-time redundant gigabit fibre connectivity to all of the major BDUs in Canada and MSOs in the USA.

Nextologies uses state-of-the-art technology enabling the utmost quality and reliability in broadcast video transmissions. Our network's fibre optic digital circuits are built with redundancy and diverse systems, which minimize latency and jitter characteristics.

Extract frame-accurate clips, edit and adapt them to any destination platform with Advanced Replay’s full-featured web interface.

Every second counts when covering high-profile live events and news stories. This is why we designed Advanced Replay for maximum working speed and efficient collaboration with: Customizable keyboard shortcuts for faster editing. A picture-in-picture preview of the live stream for keeping an eye on the action while working on your clip. To-do sequences list shared with other team members for immediate editing. A natively integrated live logging suite for assigning temporal metadata to key moments within the streaming in real time. A flexible API for seamless workflow integration.

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.

Livelink is a robust IP delivery solution for transporting live linear and OTT content from point to single-point or multi-point. It allows users to self-manage their live content for delivery to any destination worldwide by utilizing cloud environments available in every region. Livelink is cloud agnostic and compatible with any transport protocol including Zixi, RIST, SRT, HLS and RTMP.

Livelink’s expand on demand infrastructure ensures that teams can quickly scale their requirements within minutes. This flexible approach enables stakeholders managing live broadcasts and events to adapt to changing circumstances. Livelink does not rely on traditional infrastructure which makes it extremely cost-effective. Its intuitive self-service interface enables users to easily transport, manage and extract value from live content. The platform integrates rights management, automatic booking updates and customisable monitoring and alerts so that customers retain control of all aspects of delivery.

Livelink offers broadcasters the ability to deploy and deliver live feeds with minimal on-site presence. The platform offers global reach and is the ideal solution to reduce live event overheads and also supports current social distancing measures which the broadcasting industry has implemented. The self-management interface monitors availability, routing and scheduling for all feeds, as well as tracking cloud environment costs. Cerberus Tech can fulfil hardware requirements, direct to the end user if required. However, in many instances no additional hardware is required for set-up, just an internet connection.

Network 1 is a reliable and cost-effective internet-based platform, for the primary distribution of linear content. It offers content owners 24/7/365, point to multi-point channel distribution to global audiences. Network 1 empowers customers to focus on the content, not the distribution.

From public service broadcasters, to global media giants, the UK's oldest commercial network and premier league football teams, Network 1 customers are increasingly utilising global connectivity to transport linear video content.

Network 1 offers significantly quicker implementation than traditional fibre and satellite distribution methods, with set-up normally measured in hours rather than months. Network 1 is multi-cloud compatible, protocol agnostic and delivers over managed or unmanaged networks. Infinite scalability ensures on-boarding new channels is easy and if no hardware is required, customers can deliver to new affiliates or broadcast platform operators straight away.

Network 1 is a fully managed service, with network management and monitoring capabilities, offering complete reliability.

The Signiant Platform is an expanding ecosystem of tools and abilities that go far beyond fast file transport. Building on our foundation of world-class fast file movement, the Signiant Platform offers media-centric services that make people and systems even more efficient.

Our vision for The Signiant Platform includes next-generation workflow capabilities that build on the innovations and deep market knowledge of the Reach Engine team. In keeping with the platform’s unique value proposition, we’ll achieve this by delivering off-the-shelf, multi-tenant building blocks that provide core workflow functionality. We’re aiming for self-service configurability, where customers’ specialized needs can be met via comprehensive APIs and great developer support. This lighter-weight, more productized approach to workflow implementation is just what today’s fast-moving, cost-conscious media businesses demand.

Media companies around the world depend on the current Reach Engine product to optimize their mission-critical, high-volume content operations. Signiant is committed to protecting the investments these customers have made ⎯ Reach Engine remains fully supported in its present form, and we’ll provide a seamless path to the future as our new platform services emerge. The power of Reach Engine, which is summarized below, will live on in a more scalable and readily extensible form within The Signiant Platform.

• Up to 5X Faster Than CPUs


• 6X Lower Cost


• Up to 5X Lower Power

• CMAF Ultra Low Latency (<3 seconds)


• End-to-end: cloud & on-prem encoder, CDN & player


• Optimal quality and scalability, powered by the world’s biggest CDN


• Sync that works end-to-end across all devices or connections (3G-5G, Wifi, …)


• Data efficient, ABR, high quality


• Players and SDKs for iOS, Android & Web with integrated interactive layer


• Integrates in any RTMP or SRT workflow

• Create your a custom interactive layer or use Livery’s standard features at any time:


• Core: Countdown, announcement, rating, vote/poll, trivia, sentiment


• Communication: Chat, Q&A


• E-commerce / shoppable video: Discover, configure, purchase, product rating


• Gamification: Prediction, estimation, quiz game, leaderboard

• Cloud based, turn-key solution


• SDK for iOS, Android & Web


• User authentication


• Powerful analytics


• Presenter view with data visualization and live feedback


• Configurable templates, texts and localization options


• Easy to use, web-based management system (CMS)


• Transparent, usage-based pricing, no upfront costs, cancel any time

• Security
  
  
  
  • Edge computing capability with Lua for customizable security logic
  
  
  • Supports latest security protocols
  
  
  
  


• Performance
  
  
  
  • <10 ms latency in major cities
  
  
  • <30 ms latency around the world
  
  
  • Private links between major PoPs guarantees 0% packet loss for cross-border traffic
  
  
  • NVMe servers for extreme I/O throughput
  
  
  
  


• Insights
  
  
  
  • Real-time metrics to inform decision making
  
  
  • APIs to access advanced analytics on your own platform
  
  
  
  

• Access to world class weather forecasting and data intelligence.


• A cloud and subscription based software built with award-winning graphics from Singular.Live.


• Requires no dedicated hardware or upfront investments.


• Easily integrates into your existing SDI, NDI or streaming media workflows.

• Built on common web standards.


• StormGeo Studio API’s for interaction, templates and rendering capabilities are easily integrated into your workflow.


• StormGeo Studio runs across all bowser enabled devices without the need for 3rd party plugins.

StormGeo Studio opens a lot of possibilities for publishers, such as on-demand weather data for over the top (OTT) playouts, adaptive graphics across different devices and the possibility to offer regionalized weather data to their users and viewers.

Leslie Kajomovitz

Product Manager Consultant for Media Production tools

latakoo Expands In Europe, Middle East & Africa

Ross Video and Avid Veteran Ivo Guilini appointed Sales Director for EMEA Region 

Austin, Texas – 27 April 2020 – latakoo, a leading video transfer and workflow company offering 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, announces the appointment of Ivo Guilini as Sales Director for Europe, Middle East, Africa (EMEA) region.

latakoo is currently expanding its video transfer and workflow product portfolio to support production companies as well as its traditional broadcast production customer base. Ivo Guilini, based in Belgium, will oversee the direction of all sales and marketing activities in the EMEA region.

“We are seeing greater interest in latakoo’s solutions for secure, automated video delivery on a global scale and the European market is the next phase of our expansion”, said Paul Adrian, CEO of latakoo. “With Ivo leading latakoo sales efforts in the EMEA region, we now have an experienced broadcast veteran in a key market and we are thrilled to have him on board”.

Ivo Guilini was previously Director of Sales, Northern Europe for Ross Video coordinating sales and marketing efforts in Northern Europe including the Nordics, Benelux, UK and Ireland. Prior to this, Ivo was a channel manager for Avid Technology handling direct sales and channel sales for non-linear digital media product. Ivo began his career as a manager in the multimedia unit for DM&S. He holds a degree from Artevelde University College in Ghent. 

About latakoo:

latakoo is the fastest, easiest way to transfer video files from anywhere to anywhere. The company enables professional broadcasters and production companies to automate delivery of video content to different asset managers, digital platforms, and ingest or playout servers seamlessly. The latakoo solution is used by some of the world’s leading broadcasters, including the Nexstar Media Group in the U.S. and Euronews in Europe. The company is based in Austin, TX.

Further information can be found at www.latakoo.com

 Contact: Jade Kurian, President & Co-Founder, Email: jade[at]latakoo.com

Wildmoka delivers the cloud-native video platform widely adopted by the leading sport and news broadcasters to: ingest, edit, publish and monetize live streams and short-form content on all digital channels (D2C OTT and Social Media). It is powered by an intuitive web-based edition tool for non-technical-savvy editors to publish in seconds, before anyone. The AI-based automation engine allows to create clips and summaries and to post them through pre-defined templates without any human intervention (in full automation mode). For more information about Wildmoka solutions and services, visit www.wildmoka.com

Setting up a custom video platform is hard

It’s a huge technical headache. Custom builds can take far too long and revenue sharing can devour your profits.

Hive is an affordable white-label video platform that gets you up and running fast

It’s everything you need to launch your own service. It’s highly customisable, but fast to build. Predictable pricing, with no revenue sharing.

Hive can help you take back control of your video content quickly and affordably

Centralise your video content on a custom channel. Maximise your monetisation strategy. Reach new customers fast. Get future-ready with a customisable platform. Find your audience, wherever they are.

MediaPower Next Gen OTT is an end-to-end solution for managing, producing and distributing Live and On Demand Video over the Internet.The platform, extremely flexible and modular, has been designed to meet the needs of the digital content market in which it has become imperative to reduce production costs, optimize distribution to millions of possible users, leverage data and monetize the content either directly, through subscription, or indirectly, through advertising.

NewsAppNewsApp is a technology that assists OTT Media Services to collect the content generated by the users in order to utilize them as part of the client’s editorial stream. It enables two-way communication between publisher and users increasing the involvement and engagement of the latter.

• Receives User-Generated Content (UGC) and related feedback


• Analysis of user experience and user profiling


• Publishing of targeted video and advertising


• Could be used for video contests, marketing campaigns, or crowdfunding

• Ingestion and management of digital content, video and more


• Transcoding and video file modeling


• Addition of descriptive metadata


• Creation of playlists, catalogs, and projects


• Editing and sharing

ASTRO Flexible & Scalable Distribution ModuleMediaPower Astro is the delivery module to distribuite feeds to the Internet.

• Publication of streams in multiple formats


• On-demand and live


• Adaptive bitrate with bandwidth control


• Load balancing and user traffic control


• Integration with proprietary networks or third-party CDNs

• Secure Join-In and Log-In


• Devices registration


• Subscription workflow and integration with the commons payments gateway


• Assets protection through IP GEO-block, User-block e Traffic-shaping


• CRM, ERP and 3rd party software integration via standard API REST

• Real time analysis and capacity auto-scaling


• Traffic monitoring


• Log management


• DNS geo distribution


• Redundant Data centers


• Network quality control and NOC support

LET’S SHOW Discovery EngineLet’s Show! is the powerful discovery engine to deploy contents towards any kind of device and web-browsers. Usable, professional-looking UIs for a variety of screens and devices.

• Compatible with any web-browser and iOS/Android device


• Bandwidth and screen optimization


• Enable the video browsing through categories, galleries and catalogs


• Watch-list and bookmarks per single user


• Recommendation engine and powerful full-text search engine


• Embedded Video Player cross-platform


• Share the VoD to Facebook and Youtube

• Big data analysis (audience/usage metrics) and custom integration with common machine learning systems and business intelligence software


• Users profiling


• Monetization scenarios


• Ad Server and programmatic Ads Engine integration


• External e-commerce and marketplace alliance

With Mobile Viewpoint's webbased live TV clipping application, Clipper, content teams can now use this powerful tool to select key moments as they occur from a live stream, edit and post them within 30 seconds on Social Media platforms or a private CDN.

With Clipper there no need any more complicated editing systems. Just access the Clipper application through the LinkMatrix portal, select your live stream, select highlights, edit them frame accurately and post them instantly.

Real-time, fast and in the highest quality. And no extra hardware needed!

• Real-time


• Web-based


• Integrated part of the Mobile Viewpoint LinkMatrix portal


• Easy to use user interface based on scene recognition and frame accurately editing

• Be the first to share content on social media channels


• Engage bigger and new audiences with your short format content


• Re-use key moments after the actual event

Easel TV OTT delivers a complete streaming media/OTT cloud video service to the world's leading consumer devices.

The Easel TV OTT Dashboard provides a rich set of cloud features in an extensive suite of management tools; a powerful CRM and CMS management system which provides content and user management, promotional tools and reporting, all through a single portal.

Our award-winning template-driven consumer applications provide a feature-rich, intuitive and cohesive user experience across web, TV and mobile devices.

We avoid expensive multi-partner solutions by having a ready-made horizontal systems integrated OTT service. In this way, we look to minimise the risk and increase the return on your investment by using an OTT VOD platform that is already up and running, tried, tested and approved.

Built on Amazon and Microsoft cloud technology, and the world's largest CDNs, Easel TV OTT provides an immediate low-cost route to market, using a stable, scalable cloud service.

The streamGear openGear® IP to SDI card range features powerful quad core processing and superfast graphics capability. This flexible platform can support broadcast, graphics or streaming applications by serving as a hardware engine or a standalone receiver, and can be stacked to provide 20 channels of the same power in just 2U of rack space.

Featuring a comprehensive set of connectivity options including Gigabit Ethernet, CANbus, SDI & HDMI output (3G, HD, SD), USB, LTC and analogue video, these cards have the capability to host applications at the boundary of IP and conventional video. A format/standards converter is included to ensure all video formats from SD PAL/NTSC through to 3G (1920 x 1080p59.94) are supported.

Available in Android Oreo and Yocto/Debian/Ubuntu/Boot2QT Linux distributions, the cards include an intelligently-engineered feature set straight out of the box. The open-architecture platform allows hardware interfaces to be directly customised for maximum security and flexibility. The industry standard iMX6 processor, (available in Dual or Quad core with speeds from 800 MHz to 1.2 GHz) provides unrivalled processing capability in a small and low power form factor. A Vivante GC2000 2D and 3D accelerated graphics processing unit is OpenGL compliant, enabling reliable delivery of rich and complex graphics.

Two versions of the card are launching at IBC: an operator-friendly Android version that allows app developers with no broadcast or video experience to build data-driven and IP streaming applications with broadcast compliant video output, and a Linux variant that provides a platform for a high-performance video and graphics OEM appliance.

Based on an existing, successful field-tested design, these cards allow high density integration and support for the openGear Dashboard management suite. Both Legacy and the latest OG3-FR frames are supported as is SERDES backplane Ethernet, utilising the internal openGear Frame Ethernet switch option. This allows 20 cards to utilise just one Ethernet switch port.

Because of the plethora of camera and smartphone streaming video contribution requirements, the capability to make this an SDI source in conventional video environments has been limited and expensive. With broadcast functionality becoming more and more IP-connected, the need for greater local processing and rendering capability is growing. This efficient, elegant and cost-effective solution serves as a powerful tablet device with SDI output.

Applications include:

·       IP contribution from Smartphone, tablet, streaming camera

·       Video wall and studio backdrop driver

·       Weather maps and other still or animated data driven video application.

 Non-video uses include:

·       In rack monitoring gateway for openGear Dashboard

·       Bi-directional IP to CANbus gateway

·       Linear timecode to IP domain gateway