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www.inbroadcast.com | Vol: 5 - Issue 8 | August 2015

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Aspera's World-Class
SaaS & Live Streaming
Product innovations from Aspera allow media enterprises to meet variable
data movement demands in real-time with speed, control, security and ease,
directly to cloud and on-premise storage...

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spera, an IBM company and
creator of technologies that move
the world's data at maximum speed,
will showcase its complete portfolio of
high-speed file transfer software and
automation solutions for the broadcast
and media industries, including the
revolutionary new SaaS platform,
Aspera Files, at IBC 2015.
Built on Aspera's FASP transport
technology, Aspera Files allows
any organisation, small to large,
to establish a branded web-based
presence for the fast, easy and secure
exchange and delivery of any size
file-based media or data between end
users across separate organisations,
combining multiple storage platforms.
Content can be stored and easily
accessed in multiple cloud and
on-premise storage systems, and
sharing between users and trusted

organisations is as easy as drag-anddrop regardless of where the content
is located. The platform breaks all the
enterprise barriers of conventional
file sharing, allowing distance-neutral
exchange of any size data over the
Internet, regardless of network
conditions.
Aspera will also showcase multiple
breakthrough
capabilities
and
advanced features powered by the
next generation of FASP, allowing
media enterprises of all sizes to meet
variable data movement demands in
real time with speed, control, security
and ease, directly to cloud and onpremise storage.
FASPStream transport expands
Aspera's FASP transport technology
for live and near-live data streaming.
FASP's patented transport protocol
achieves highly efficient bulk data

transfer over IP networks, independent
of distance and quality (round-trip
latency and packet loss). FASPStream
expands this capability to provide a
fully reliable streaming protocol for inorder data delivery over Internet WANs
with excellent quality and negligible
start-up delay.
Aspera Orchestrator - The new
release of Aspera's web-based
workflow
automation
platform,
Orchestrator 2.3, has undergone major
optimisations across the core system
engine to improve performance within
high
concurrency
environments,
with performance boosts in some
cases as high as 10x previous
versions. The release also adds native
installers and a number of usability
improvements for large and multitenant environments. New plug-ins
have been added to the library of over

Aspera Orchestrator 2.3 boasts
major optimisations

50 third-party applications that can be
invoked within an Aspera Orchestrator
workflow. New inline file validation
capabilities added to Aspera server
and client software verify incoming
media and metadata formats against
ADI and DPP standards in the most
innovative broadcast, file-based VoD
distribution
and
post-production
workflows.
Aspera Direct-to-Cloud Storage
transfer capability moves even the
largest (4K) media formats from
source directly to object storage
destination with native I/O for all
major cloud storage providers with
support for pause, resume, and serverside encryption at rest in addition to
client side and over the wire.

VITEC's Ace
For IBC 2015
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t IBC 2015, VITEC Video
Innovations is introducing an
innovative portable H.265 encoding
appliance, an H.265 IP decoder,
and showcasing its portfolio of top
products.
The MGW Ace is billed as the
industry's first 100% hardware-based
HEVC (and legacy H.264) portable
device for encoding and streaming
video. Also being shown for the first
time at IBC is the all-new MGW D265
Portable H.265 & H.264 IP Decoder.
Specifically designed to provide
decoding for any IPTV and full-motionvideo application, the device delivers a
compact footprint, various connectivity
options, and ultra-low delay.
VITEC will be showcasing its awardwinning EZ TV IPTV system, which
allows any facility to deliver live, ondemand, or recorded video over their
existing IP infrastructure. Using the
EZ TV Web Portal, administrators can
easily create, manage, and distribute

video assets while the solution's
browser-based EZ TV Player uses a
flexible digital video codec to offer
CPU-efficient quality playback of IPTV
streams across networks. The solution
complements any IPTV deployment
with
quality
and
compliance
dashboards, as well as instant alerts.
VITEC's enhanced MGW Sprint,
hailed as the world's fastest MPEG-4
H.264 HD encoder/decoder appliance,
is an IPTV device that enables
full-HD 1080p60 video and audio
streaming - point-to-point or point-tomultipoint - with less than one video
frame of delay. Also on display will
be VITEC's full line of MGW portable
encoders including Premium, Nano,
Nano TOUGH, and Pico, all of which
now support Zixi error-correction
technology.
Ideal for sporting events, breaking
news, dailies, meeting and training,
surveillance, and online video sharing,
the VITEC Focus FS-H50/60/70 are

versatile, portable H.264 standard
and HD recorders for workflows and
applications requiring superior video
quality and optimised video file size.
With a resolution range up to 1080p30
and bit rates up to 8 Mb/s, the three
models cater for composite and
analogue audio inputs, an HDMI input,
and an HD/SD-SDI input.
The Proxsys PX-Series MAM system
enables organisations to edit, archive,
and share media assets efficiently and
securely, both within an organisation
and with credentialed third parties.
Within a smooth, user-friendly
workflow, the Proxsys PX-Series
provides the functionality and features
required to safeguard high and low-

VITEC's EZ TV IPTV system

resolution video as well as audio,
graphic, and data files. Unveiled at
IBC 2015, Proxsys V.8 will integrate
the full Proxsys MAM functionality
onto a customer's Website, creating a
seamless workflow with a familiar look
and feel.
The Extensor SDI4Mosaic connects
up to four SDI feeds on a single mosaic
display. SDI4Mosaic converts a 4K HDSDI video source to a standard HDMI
monitor. It also allows the comparison
of two video channels and displays
them in various layouts. The OSD
Status gives all status information
super-imposed directly on the video
output signal.
http://www.inbroadcast.com http://asperasoft.com/whats-new-spring-2015/workflow-automation/ http://www.vitec.com/products/video-management/iptv/product/show/EZ-TV-Enterprise-IPTV/
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