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Harnessing the power and scalability of the Cloud, M2A CAPTURE creates high quality, frame accurately trimmed digital assets from live HD, SD and 4K video, allowing viewers to access your content on-demand almost immediately after transmission.

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Acquire, distribute and route live B2B video streams via M2A CONNECT and harness the power of the global AWS network.  M2A CONNECT offers point-to-point security, the flexibility of unlimited scale, reduced set up time, global distribution and all of this at a fraction of the cost of satelitte or fibre networks.

Fully integrated with AWS Elemental MediaConnect, MediaLive and MediaPackage, M2A CONNECT delivers the peace of mind that comes with M2A Operations' best-in-class 24/7 support.  Setting up and securing events, enabling last-minute changes and eyes-on-glass monitoring are all covered in the M2A CONNECT managed service, assuring faultless end to end transmission.

We're continually updating useful features to M2A Connect including integrating M2A Capture to output live video streams to AWS S3 storage for VOD, archive or regulatory compliance. Additionally, we've developed Cloud Frame Rate Converter alongside InSync Technology and Hiscale, allowing you to convert live feeds between frame rates using market leading, motion-compensated technology.

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Scalable and smart, M2A LIVE, provides some of the world's largest sports broadcasters with highly reliable, low latency, highest quality live streams across a huge number of devices.

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Powering the distribution of your content to global platforms

M2A VOD simplifies cloud workflows for global broadcasters, offering syndication-as-a-service into third-party platforms, such as Amazon Channels and Apple TV, using multiple output formats and codecs.

M2A VOD is a smart orchestration layer that sits on top of AWS Media Services. We use robust DevOps techniques to deploy the M2A VOD Stack and relevant AWS Infrastructure components on demand at maximum velocity. Key objectives for M2A VOD are accuracy, efficiency, transparency, right-sizing and accelerated client onboarding.

M2A Media promotes the use of AWS Step Functions to capture and orchestrate client business workflows. Top level client-focused Step Functions can be combined with M2A Specific Step Functions from our VOD blueprint catalogue to accelerate client onboarding. M2A VOD customers can also call directly on M2A's APIs to manage their own end-to-end VOD workflow.

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

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  • Zero packet loss between nodes
  
  
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Brightcove Player delivers a rich, cross-platform playback experience and includes built-in support for advertising, analytics, and content protection. It automatically updates players when new fixes are deployed and management APIs make it easy to control configurations and to push updates across online properties and viral embeds. Brightcove Player supports HLS across all major mobile and desktop platforms for a simplified workflow.

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IMF support within CLEAR includes the ability to create deliverables for different platforms (Netflix, iTunes etc.) and specifications (like DPP) from an IMF package. CLEAR also includes the world’s first IMF Player that provides the ability to preview, playback, review and distribute over a streaming proxy a Composition Playlist (CPL) with all its essences including video, audio and captions. This enables collaboration and decision making in the workflow using proxies without having to necessarily access the original IMF package in high-res each time a CPL has to be played back. The IMF support in CLEAR is built using the product’s native Hybrid Cloud architecture that supports distributed workflows, and allows packaging and delivery of IMF packages from remote locations, public cloud infrastructure (Amazon/Azure) and customer premises.

Key Features

Ability to create deliverables for DPP (AS-11) and iTunes from an IMF package
Future-readiness with support for SMPTE’s upcoming Applications (beyond 2 and 2e) based on RDD 44 specification
Supports ingest of Complete IMF packages and Supplemental IMF packages
Provides users the ability to work with IMF Compositions created using any of the desktop CPL edit solutions (Clipster, Color Front, Gray Meta and Netflix CPL Editor, among others) over streaming proxies
Allows users to perform:
Search
Playback
Upload (Complete Packages, Partial/Supplemental Packages, only Updated Essences)
Download (Complete Packages, Partial/Supplemental Packages, only Updated Essences)
Distribution of IMF packages (Complete Packages, Supplemental Packages)
Distribution of Rendered and Transcoded Output (Video Files instead of Packages)

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OpenTV Video Platform is the next level, operator grade, business centric, streaming video solution, that delivers dynamic sports, media & entertainment content, in the home or on the go, returning exceptional ROI through its content & services management console (OpCon). We have created a solution that can be packaged to excite consumers, keep them consuming, thus reducing churn & creating paths for revenue growth opportunity. A cloud-based platform for operational efficiency where disparate services can be merged to streamline operations, get the out of the plumbing and back to the business of keeping and growing subscribers. OpenTV Video Platform allows operator to design out complexity, in order to launchpad future innovation and build new and interesting consumer offers. Under the hood the analytically driven operational & business engines enable fine-tuning of content campaigns, content promotion, targeted advertising and video-commerce to develop the business offers. The (UI-UX) user experience and personalisation elements can be focus group trialled and if this delivers on the intention (e.g. increase VOD, download to go etc.)  and be implemented instantly on the fly. Choose OpenTV Video Platform to usher in the next level of exciting sports, media & entertainment consumer video services with a cost-effective, secure, intelligent, revenue generating, video streaming solution for your future.

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GO Live solution consists of Contego CAS/DRM,  GO Live back-end, pre-integrated partner equipment for encoding and streaming, secure client and apps. The end-to-end solution enables deploying the service within 30 days! The GO Live multiscreen solution will enable you to: • Stream live-TV to iOS and Android devices• Expand TV offerings outside a fixed network footprint• Obtain new customers and create new revenue streams• Retain customers and increase loyalty• Increase revenue of existing customer base• Improve customer satisfaction• Improve understanding of customer viewing habits with our monitoring system

The most important features of GO Live are: • Live-TV, Start-over TV, Pause live-TV, Trick play and Catch-up• TV guide with catch-up support• Personalized channel listing & EPG• Fast channel zapping• Intuitive and user-friendly interface• Support for native language & subtitling• Customizable to fit operator branding• Google Cast and AirPlay support

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VIA Live allows you to manage linear and event based live streams, automating the creation of VOD assets for distribution to OTT platforms and multimedia services. This significantly reduces the amount of manual work, making the process more efficient and cost effective.By combining the broadcasters' channels and electronic program guide (EPG) data, VIA Live is a one stop shop for channel planning and monitoring. Monitor inbound live feeds on a streamlined timeline, and use imported EPGs as a basis for program creation, complete with content ingest and scheduling.

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StormGeo Studio provides a low-cost and flexible solution for media outlets to create custom weather content. Developed with award-winning Singular.Live technology, the platform is cloud and subscription-based.

Key features and benefits:

• 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.

Workflow and easily accessible:

• 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

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Nextologies' customizable turn-key IPTV & OTT solutions enable media companies and service providers to rapidly serve new platforms. This allows you to manage, distribute, syndicate and monetize your content cost-effectively with minimal risk. The result is an improved personalized cross-device TV experience for consumers seeking either VOD, live, or catch-up TV.

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Our playout facility helps with originating and manipulating content to your specific needs. The Nextologies Transmission, Distribution and Content Delivery Network (CDN) for IPTV and linear television broadcasts, gets your channel or content around the world in the shortest amount of time, at the most competitive rates, while assuring the best quality of service. Using our custom solution for automated playout, we have the ability to provide a full 24/7, 365 channel playout from a file based solution.

Nextologies master control and playout operators have the ability to insert commercial spots and programming into any of our content partners live channels ensuring your schedule stays accurate and profitable.

Using our custom designed time shifting module, we can time shift your signal 24+ hours and into multiple time zones.

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Virtual Channel Creation helps broadcasters and content providers to increase relevance and reach both for their viewers and advertisers by creating regionalized and customized online channels in a cost-efficient manner. The solution has proven especially valuable when adding regional news or weather to national channels or to provide regionalized ad insertion.

Virtual Channel Creation is based on a unique technology where content is stitched together from various sources into a channel. Compared to the needs typically posed by other systems, it does not require the significant investments in production, encoding and storage capacity.

Regional channels are often encoded and stored as full channels, meaning the national content is encoded and stored multiple times – once per regional channel. With Virtual Channel Creation, national content only needs to be stored and encoded once. Regional content can then be stitched into the national channel to create each full regional channel. As a result, encoder and storage needs are reduced. If using cloud-based encoders, the cost savings enabled by this is significant. Similarly, the need for NAS storage, which is required to create Live to VoD content, is reduced.

Virtual Channel Creation also provides an option to use lower bitrate options of the regional content, reducing the encoder and storage need even further. Use cases demonstrate a 95% encoder capacity saving for national channels and an 89% encoder saving for regional channels when using the option to use a lower bitrate variant for the regional channels.

It can also be used to insert public safety messages, as well as efficiently manage restrictions in content distribution rights by inserting replacement segments, programs or providing a blackout solution, even for time-shifted content.

Virtual Channel Creation resides within StreamBuilder, providing broadcasters and content providers with segmentation, packaging and subtitling functionality needed for internet-based distribution.

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VIA Orchestrate is a workflow engine to help you manage your video pipeline from ingest through transcoding and DRM encryption, to playout. VIA Orchestrate makes video workflow management simple,  and does not require editorial staff to be video processing experts.  Video can be ingested from live and VOD content and transcoded.

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Vimond VIA is a cloud based , modular and scalable Video Content Management system (Video CMS) that grows with your needs, to serve your OTT audiences wherever they are. Content can be streamed from local or external and remote sources.‍From media ingestion, through asset management, content curation and distribution, VIA ensures a great viewer experience and efficient workflows for your users and editorial teams at a global scale. Vimond VIA scales automatically to accommodate peak viewing volumes, keeping infrastructure costs efficient.

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Edgeware’s StreamBuilder does the preparation of live and VoD content that is necessary for OTT distribution to any device. Accurate segmentation of streams, storing content for time-shift services, just in time ABR packaging to any format and any device (HLS, DASH, MSS) including encryption are all offered in the StreamBuilder product family. Add to this our innovative technology to create tailor made channels and live streams using the Virtual Channel Creation, our Ad Insertion technology, OCR-based transcoding of Subtitles and the possibility to deploy and run the whole lot on a wide range of cloud platforms or on regular COTS machines!

StreamBuilder includes the following products:

• Ingest and Segmentation


• Time-shift TV


• Packager and Protection


• Ad Enabler


• OCR Subtitling

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A cohesive, highly scalable, micro service for delivery focused Media Asset Management. Due to the tight integration with the VIPE publishing platform, it reduces complexity in the infrastructure, resulting in a simple and reliable supply chain.

In the era of multichannel playout, file-based workflows and existing channel management systems, the specific delivery requirements often result in a complex infrastructure. VIPE MAM is designed to offer transparent (automated) workflows, resulting in increased control, reliability and efficiency.

VIPE MAM manages both primary as well as secondary media files. It handles all aspects of the workflow from ingest, QC, Soft parting, subtitles/audio management to enhancing/modifying any asset data. All metadata is fully indexed and searchable. Usability experience is powered by elastic search, particularly useful for large volume databases.

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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.

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Harnessing the power and scalability of the Cloud, M2A CAPTURE creates high quality, frame accurately trimmed digital assets from live HD, SD and 4K video, allowing viewers to access your content on-demand almost immediately after transmission.

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Scalable and smart, M2A LIVE, provides some of the world's largest sports broadcasters with highly reliable, low latency, highest quality live streams across a huge number of devices.

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Easel TV OTT is a multi-tenant streaming media video platform supporting film, TV, lifestyle or Brand entertainment services on the world’s leading consumer devices (PCs, tablets & mobiles, Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, Samsung TVs, Roku, Virgin TiVo etc.).

Easel TV's underlying OTT eco-system includes content upload, encoding, hosting, formatting, content protection and distribution across a multi-CDN architecture to offer the highest possible quality service, globally.

Our suite of editorial, marketing, administrative and analytical management tools support all aspects of an OTT service, from content ingest, product pricing, packaging, promotion, device and consumer entitlements, usage analytics, wholesale billing and more, and are operated through a single intuitive user interface; one supplier solution, one complete administrative dashboard. Making Suggested TV one of the simplest and most comprehensive carrier-grade OTT SaaS services on the market.

We are all about providing affordable, high-quality stable OTT services, fast, with the most complete, easy-to-use, full suite of management and editorial tools on the market.

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Adaptive NightVision enables low-light or dark scenes to display more clearly for a superior viewing experience directly on subscribers’ mobile devices, which fulfills the promise of a high-quality, TV Everywhere viewing experience – on any screen. Adaptive NightVision is built on an advanced algorithm that analyzes the video, in real-time, for contrast, brightness, color saturation and key metrics.

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MultiStream Sync feature can be used to display multiple camera angles all synchronized on a single screen, in which the viewer is able to freely move streams around based on their preferred experience. VisualOn partners with KDDI to stream the FIVB Volleyball World Cup Japan 2019 broadcast by Fuji Television, pioneering the use of ultra-low latency CMAF and multiple camera angles for live sports in Japan. VisualOn supports multi-stream playback; decoding is done via hardware, software or both, depending on device capabilities – on 5G and other high bandwidth networks. South Korea's KT, the world's first commercialized 5G services, also partners with VisualOn on 5G and Multistream playback. KT’s Olleh TV Mobile, powered by VMP, provides low latency, time-synchronized playback supporting multiple streams/camera angles for live streaming, 360-degree, HDR and UHD support, for the best over the top (OTT) video experience.   Besides, VisualOn will present its technology to take advantage of multiple devices. For example how to play one or multiple video streams on multiple devices while keeping frame-accurate synchronization across devices.

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THEOplayer is the Universal Video Player that enables hundreds of leading payTV and OTT service providers, broadcasters, and publishers worldwide including CNN, NBC, Telenet, KPN, and Swisscom. Through its feature-rich SDKs and wide video ecosystem pre-integrations, THEO enables video service providers to quickly bring a consistent video playback experience across any device and platform.

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What is HESP?

HESP is an HTTP Adaptive Streaming (HAS) streaming protocol that enables streaming services to be delivered with sub second latency, with a significantly reduced streaming bandwidth, at scale. An impressive list of improvements, further augmented by significantly reduced zapping times, pushing viewer experience and engagement to the next level.

HESP allows you to stream with, on average, a latency that is 7 times lower than current industry standard low-latency HAS approaches. An end-to-end latency of up to 400ms can be achieved. Low enough to enable new interactive TV formats and services. When using the HESP protocol the average zapping time is 20 times faster than with industry standard low latency streaming approaches. With a zapping time of less than 100ms, the channel change will happen in the blink of an eye.

What is the HESP Alliance?

The HESP Alliance was launched on the 1st July 2020. The HESP Alliance was launched by founding members; THEO Technologies and Synamedia. With the aim to bring together streaming video vendors and media companies to provide superior online video quality of experience at reduced cost through standardising and advancing the High Efficiency Streaming Protocol (HESP) and marketing of HESP solutions.

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Introducing EMSSThe Enriched Media Streaming Solution (EMSS) standardises the interaction between a Server Side Ad Insertion (SSAI) server and the video player.

The exchange of metadata is not standardised, resulting in multiple proprietary systems. This means that custom integrations for SSAI are almost always necessary for each SSAI solution, which then leads to vendor lock-in.

EMSS SpecificationThe specification discusses the standard for metadata, how that metadata is transported in HLS or DASH, and how the metadata should be processed.

This specification touches on announcing and annotating ads to the viewer, modifying UI during ad playback, enforcing business rules for skipping over ads and beaconing.

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Media supply chains have traditionally been built with the focus being on servicing linear content, with digital workflows added after the fact. These dual linear and digital chains create duplication, slow agility and increase OPEX. Fuse Publisher gives broadcasters and content owners the ability to bring these siloed systems and workflows together, delivering a unified, digital first supply chain, lowering latency, duplication, operational costs and TCO, while increasing agility, productivity, speed to market and revenue. This shared infrastructure enables the ability to automatically syndicate content to a defined set of endpoints and distributors, maximizing advertising revenue and delivering content when, where and how end users want it.

Using Fuse Publisher for….

Improving operational efficiency and quality

Fuse Publisher orchestrates and automates asset management workflows so that operational staff can simply manage by exception based on the step validation and alerting Fuse provides. Operational expertise on repetitive tasks is reduced and can be focused on quality enhancements.

Decrease Time to Market

Fuse Publisher's script driven workflows combine with out of the box integrations to major asset processing systems, such transcoding, stitching, QC, encryption, fast file transfer. This combination enables complex workflows orchestrations to be quickly configured thus enabling new business opportunities to be implemented at pace. Fuse open API’s, provide a means to implement integrations with all your existing systems in order to integrate into the data and event driven workflows.

Scale at Speed

Fuse’s Cloud native architecture and auto-scaling delivers the necessary on-demand scaling to meet new business challenges. Fuse seamlessly manages all aspects of scaling thus removing the headache and freeing up cycles from the Operations team.

Timely Delivery

By Integrating Schedule metadata, Fuse can drive workflow automation and enable alerting for management by exception. These aspects help ensure that the necessary asset packages and metadata files are prepared, validated and distributed aligned to the schedule.

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Skype for Content Creators is a feature that is native to the Windows 10 Skype App that allows you to simply turn your group video calls in to content such as live streams, podcasts and video. Any NDI® enabled software such as Wirecast, Xsplit & Vmix will be able to natively see the Skype callers as an audio/ video input. In addition, Skype TX for Broadcasting has become an Emmy® award winner and a staple across Tier 1 news organizations such as ABC, CNN & BBC. In 2018, Skype TX was integrated natively across the Village of Nations at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, establishing itself as a solution that demonstrates scale, affordability and quality at one of the most prominent sporting events in the calendar.

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With Harmonic’s award-winning VOS360 media processing SaaS, content and service providers can move their offerings to the cloud and quickly launch new OTT services, without investing heavily in infrastructure. Harmonic’s solutions support the entire media processing workflow from ingest to distribution, increasing efficiency and cost savings; provide elastic capacity to support new services or peak events; and offer pay-as-you-grow pricing, boosting monetization.

Recently, Harmonic enhanced VOS360 SaaS with channel origination in the cloud capabilities for file-based and live streams. These new functionalities provide operators with support for graphics, branding, and digital video effects (DVE) for both file-based and live workflows in addition to pre-existing capabilities such as encoding, encryption and distribution.

By adding channel origination capabilities to VOS360 SaaS, Harmonic is helping drive the transition to software-based and cloud workflows, allowing video content and service providers to launch OTT offerings faster, increase their operational efficiencies and reduce opex and capex.

Unique playout capabilities and benefits include:

Live and file-based playout: Beyond just processing of live streams in the cloud, VOS360 SaaS allows video content and service providers to deliver file-based content from clips and graphics that augment the live streams. With other key processes (i.e., traffic, billing, asset management) already integrated or present in the cloud storage environment, operators can deliver complete channels that are comprised of live and file-based content all within the cloud infrastructure, without the need for conventional playout solutions. This opens up new monetization opportunities for operators.

Streamlined control: Harmonic offers seamless integration for control systems in the cloud to streamline playout management. An API and user-based controls for the playlist enable users to manage channels, as needed. With the control system present in the cloud environment, users can focus their attention on other important tasks as opposed to continuously checking the playlist status.

Reduced operational costs: Service operators using cloud solutions for OTT delivery would normally perform playout operations on-premises (i.e., playback of video clips, graphics and branding) and send a live stream into the cloud, where they would then apply different delivery platform profiles for broadcast and OTT. Now that VOS360 SaaS includes playout capabilities, operators can run entire channels in the cloud. This dramatically reduces operational costs, because operators no longer need physical infrastructure on-premises. Pay-as-you-go pricing for VOS360 allows operators to realize ROI in the shortest time possible.

Orchestrated management: Playout functionality is built into the VOS360 SaaS solution. There are centralized services for management, profiles, tracking of user accounts, billing, DevOps, interfaces, and more.

Maintenance and monitoring: Harmonic’s VOS360 SaaS is fully maintained and monitored by Harmonic to keep services operational, resulting in better quality of experience for end customers.