Aspera Powered Solutions Showcased by Leading Media Technology Companies at NAB 2015

Aspera’s innovative FASP® platform provides superior high-speed data and video transfer capabilities for media storage, management, processing, workflow, publishing and distribution solutions. 

ARMONK, NY – April 2, 2015: Today IBM announced the availability of new joint solutions powered by Aspera FASP high-speed transport technology on display in the Aspera booth at NAB 2015. Industry leading media technology companies and cloud-service providers have directly integrated the Aspera FASP software platform into their solutions for Digital Asset Management, Content Distribution, Media Management, and Media Processing to achieve fast, distance neutral transfer of digital media content, and will be on hand to demonstrate the joint solutions in the Aspera booth #SL9110 at NAB 2015.

• 5th Kind  has integrated Aspera transfer capability into its CORE secure collaboration, communication, and asset management platform to ensure that its users can quickly and easily submit and transfer digital assets from any network distance into its content workflows.
• Akamai has embedded the FASP transport software directly into its NetStorage cloud  to create Aspera Upload Acceleration, a new offering for ultra fast and efficient bulk data transfer capabilities for Akamai users who need to move large digital libraries, files and other content into its globally-distributed cloud-based storage. This unique integration enables customers to achieve throughput multiple times higher than traditional transfer protocols while virtually eliminating the negative effects of distance, delay and packet loss between the customer’s upload location and the NetStorage location, significantly reducing the time required to make time-sensitive content, high quality video files, and large content libraries available for delivery using the Akamai Intelligent Platform..
• FilmTrack has built upon Aspera’s Direct-to-Cloud storage transfer capability in its cloud-based content and rights management solution suite and powers full-scale delivery of high-bandwidth files such as ProRes screeners, mezzanine files, and even digital master class assets.
• Fortium Technologies has collaborated with Aspera to integrate its MediaSeal encryption directly into the Aspera Faspex solution for collaborative media exchange and distribution to streamline customer workflows that depend on end-to-end content protection. The integration allows content owners to apply Fortium’s unique MediaSeal encryption at the same time they are distributing content via Faspx, removing a step from the process while ensuring essential content security.
• Grass Valley has collaborated with Aspera to integrate Aspera FASP directly into GV Stratus workflows. As a result, the GV STRATUS video production and content management system offers dramatic improvements in how digital media is transferred to and from the GV Stratus-based production platform, with FASP file transfers achieving speeds up to hundreds of times faster than conventional TCP-based technologies, with guaranteed delivery time regardless of file size, transfer distance or network conditions.
• IBM and RAI have integrated Aspera Direct-to-Cloud storage transfer capability and Aspera Orchestrator into Active Media Store, a new resilient, intelligent, and scalable cloud storage solution for media objects with middleware from RAI that adapts the low level APIs of the system to ease the implementation of media workflows.  In Active Media Store, computation units called "storlets" run typical workflow functions, such as transcoding, automated metadata extraction and quality checks, close to the stored data, thereby reducing data transfer bandwidth and latency typically associated with cloud storage. Aspera high-speed file transfer integrated in the RAI middleware ingests media content into Active Media Store backed by SoftLayer Swift cloud storage, and the Aspera Orchestrator invokes a series of storlets to automatically extract metadata from the ingested content, and check and correct its loudness levels.  This work builds on the results of the EU FP7 project VISION Cloud, which won the IBC 2013 Special Award for pioneering work in cloud storage.
• Kaltura  has integrated the Aspera server software and Connect browser client to enable high-speed ingest of large digital media files directly to Kaltura’s video platform, dramatically shortening the time it takes to ingest, transform and publish content to any website or mobile application.
• MediaSilo has made its cloud-based collaboration and asset management platform even more powerful by integrating it with Aspera server software and the Connect browser client for easy, fast, efficient content upload and sharing.
• Primestream has integrated Aspera FASP into its Xchange Suite web-based digital asset management software platform, enabling users to deliver content directly and efficiently to their production and playout environment, and transfer media at high speed between multiple Xchange sites via browser-based downloads. Users see direct benefits through ease of operation, increased quality of service, faster workflows, and added functionality in remotely connected environments.
• SilverTrak Digital has integrated Aspera Connect Server and Aspera Orchestrator into its Media Room media asset management system for all worldwide asset file transfers, enabling users to quickly and securely upload content and send broadcast files globally from its infrastructure in Australia.
• Telestream has collaborated with Aspera to deliver new levels of integration between the Telestream Vantage software-enabled media processing platform and Aspera FASP using the Aspera FASPStream API. The seamless integration provides secure, reliable, bi-directional high-speed transfer of media and metadata files ingested, processed and delivered through any Vantage workflow regardless of size, distance, or network conditions, and enables the Vantage platform to interactively browse, upload, and download media files with any Aspera Server end point.
• Vizrt will present a solution that combines its Viz One media asset management system with Aspera server software running directly on IBM SoftLayer, a high-performance, scalable cloud infrastructure. The new offering will help broadcasters produce and manage assets throughout their content lifecycle, entirely in the cloud. 

Louise Wells, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, louisew@rlyl.com, 44 (0) 207 403 8878

About Aspera

Aspera, an IBM® Company, is the creator of next-generation transport technologies that move the world’s data at maximum speed regardless of file size, transfer distance and network conditions. Based on its patented, Emmy® award-winning FASP protocol, Aspera software fully utilizes existing infrastructures to deliver the fastest, most predictable file-transfer experience. Aspera’s core technology delivers unprecedented control over bandwidth, complete security and uncompromising reliability. Over 2,200 organizations across a variety of industries on six continents rely on Aspera software for the business-critical transport of their digital assets.

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