Curator integrates alongside Quantum StorNext Pro and Telestream Vantage to create elegant image capture and distribution workflow Cambridge, UK, 1 August 2016: UK-based media asset management and technology specialist, IPV, has announced the successful integration of its Curator Content Factory Media Asset Management (MAM) system within NASA's Kennedy Space Center. The MAM system is being used within a fully digital solution for launch video capture and delivery systems at the Kennedy Space Center and integrates seamlessly alongside a Quantum StorNext 5 storage system and Telestream Vantage content transcoding. [bctt tweet="There are not very many imaging environments more challenging, or more critical, than the one that supports launches at NASA's Kennedy Space Center - MAM System Revolutionize NASA Kennedy Space Center"] On this project, IPV collaborated with North American channel partner, StorExcel, which worked as a key advisor to the project on content and workflow integration issues. "We wanted to give NASA a state-of-the-art video workflow system based on best-of-breed solutions that we knew would work well together and provide optimal value based on our own experience." said Kurt Clawson, CTO, M&E Technology at StorExcel. There are not very many imaging environments more challenging, or more critical, than the one that...
Volicon to Extend Multiviewer for OTT and Path Monitoring
BURLINGTON, Mass. – May 24, 2016 – Volicon, now part of Verizon Digital Media Services, today announced that it will highlight new OTT and path-monitoring capabilities within the Multiviewer option for the company’s Observer Media Intelligence Platform®. The Multiviewer option unites the platform’s recording capability with multiviewer functionality to give users access to multiple live or recorded programs, complemented by frame-accurate data, on a monitor wall or other display. Using the newly introduced dashboarding traffic-light approach, users can monitor numerous linear and OTT channels, and all their renditions, and quickly identify technical issues. “Today’s broadcaster must manage an increasing number of channels and platforms while simultaneously maintaining the highest levels of service quality,” said Gary Learner, chief technology officer at Volicon. “However, no facility can reasonably monitor all OTT feeds in their many renditions, with various resolutions, bit rates, and formats. Our enhanced Multiviewer option addresses this challenge, enabling users to tailor dashboards to their monitoring roles and responsibilities, with ‘red light’ and ‘green light’ status applied to individual streams or to configurable groups of streams and displayed along with video and metadata windows according to user preferences. With this approach, it’s possible to streamline quality-of-experience OTT monitoring at the...
Successful interoperability test session with Rohde & Schwarz and TeamCast
TeamCast, the world-renowned leader in digital modulation technologies for Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT), Wireless Transmission and Satellite Applications, and Rohde & Schwarz, a leader of broadcasting test and measurement solutions, have successfully completed a DVB-CID interoperability test session between the DVB-CID generator embedded in the R&S BTC Broadcast Test Center and the TeamCast DVB-CID Receiver. Munich, December 19, 2016 – As for every new standard introduced on the market, different interpretations of the mathematical specification can be made. As no interoperability test session was organised so far by the DVB group, the two companies decided to run such tests on their own. "So far, we made several interoperability test sessions with different modulator manufacturers and different satellite monitoring equipment providers with a full success. However as the R&S BTC is one of the first reference test tool on the market, it was important for us to organize this test session. Now we can claim that TeamCast's satellite transmission products (the VYPER Modulator and the DVB-CID Receiver Demodulator) are fully compliant with the ETSI 103 129 DVB-CID standard", says Philippe Hostiou, Satellite Product Line Manager at TeamCast. As a leading supplier of broadcast T&M solutions, Rohde & Schwarz attaches great importance...
