X-PLATFORM
January-February 2016
broadcasters
challenges
and stand out from the competition.
“Broadcasters need to look at solutions
that can help them understand the
usage standards across the Internet and
make decisions on-the-fly,” Sampaio
concludes.
Indeed, with live streaming tech-
nologies such as that offered by MOG
becoming more available, broadcasters
are confidently launching streaming
platforms to add on to their traditional
TV offerings.
Another live streaming option
available in the market comes from
Media Excel. The company’s Hero
product line enables live and file
workflows in a single platform and
delivers content to over 300 million
multi-screen subscribers worldwide.
Media Excel says its “five 9s”
reliability powers the 24/7, mission-
critical deployments of Fortune 500
companies and global brands in
broadcast, cable, satellite, IPTV, pay-
TV, over-the-top (OTT), mobile and
government.
One satisfied client is shopping
network channel QVC, which availed
of the Hero live so that its viewers in
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Media Excel’s
Hero live is a
1RU, 8x HD-
SDI channel,
multi-format
encoder that is
now providing
QVC with
high-quality,
low-latency live
streams of up
to 16 channels
from just two
platforms,
plus 1+1
redundancy,
equalling
four Hero live
platforms in
total.
the UK and Germany would be able
to watch any of its channels and VoD
content on any device at any time.
Media Excel’s Hero live is a 1RU,
8x HD-SDI channel, multi-format
encoder that is now providing QVC
with high-quality, low-latency live
streams of up to 16 channels from just
two platforms, plus 1+1 redundancy,
equalling four Hero live platforms in
total. Media Excel’s Hero encoders are
situated on-site at QVC in both the UK
and Germany, with an opportunity to
roll out further units to other territo-
ries, including the US, France and Italy.
According to Media Excel, QVC’s
return on investment has “significantly
increased” by having a single central-
ised system to manage the complex
distribution of multi-format video in
multiple territories, with also the abil-
ity to upscale to add more countries
and transcode for new platforms easily,
as and when desired.
Aspera offers new capabilities
Aspera Files, a SaaS (Software as a
Service) solution for sharing large
files and data sets directly from cloud
and on premises storage — from any-
where to anywhere, with anyone — is
now available.
Aspera Files unifies Aspera’s most
advanced core technologies, features
and capabilities into a simple-to-use
file sharing and exchange SaaS solu-
tion that helps businesses of any size,
from small organisations to global
enterprise, said Aspera.
Using Aspera Files, organisations
can store and readily access large files
and folders in multiple cloud-based
and on-premises storage systems. Re-
gardless of where the files are located,
sharing among users is as easy as
browsing or dragging-and-dropping,
freeing collaboration from traditional
boundaries among colleagues in both
local and remote locations.
Aspera has also released version
3.6 of the Aspera Transfer Platform,
built into the core of all the latest
Aspera products and Aspera On De-
mand offerings. Core products such
as Enterprise Server, Connect Server,
Point-to-Point Client and Desktop
Client have all undergone a “signi
ficant revamping”, and now support
multi-tenancy and many new notable
features.
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These include new multi-tenant
access control and content security,
which enables multiple Aspera appli
cations to securely authenticate to
transfer clusters and individual trans-
fer nodes with no access to underlying
storage credentials, supporting all
local and cloud storage types.
New Direct-to-Cloud storage ad-
vanced transfer capabilities available
for On Demand support all major
cloud storage providers, including
IBM SoftLayer Swift, AWS S3 and Gov-
Cloud, Microsoft Azure Blob, Akamai
NetStorage, Limelight Orchestrate
Cloud Storage, Google Cl