Aspera to showcase digital media workflow and broadcast IT solutions at BroadcastAsia 2013
CEO and co-founder Michelle Munson to share vision for the cloud and its impact on digital entertainment
SINGAPORE—June 4, 2013—Aspera, Inc., creators of next-generation software technologies that move the world’s data at maximum speed, will showcase a complete portfolio of high-speed data transfer software and automation solutions for the broadcast and media industries, and share its expertise in powering digital media workflows across any type of infrastructure at BroadcastAsia (booth #5G2-05). Asia’s largest broadcast industry event takes place on June 18-21 at the Marina Bay Sands in Singapore.
Cloud-based services have the ability to greatly speed production workflows, increase storage and computing capacity, foster collaboration and reduce infrastructure costs. As the leader in next-generation video and data transport technologies, Aspera has implemented advanced transport and workflow solutions for broadcasters and media companies throughout Asia such as, Amana Group, Arirang TV, Australian Broadcasting Company, Cinema Cloud, CJ PowerCast, Dubsat, Encompass Digital Media, Foxtel, MediaCorp, Phoenix TV and SBS. Aspera’s president, CEO and co-founder Michelle Munson, will share how companies are leveraging the cloud’s many benefits while using advanced technology to solve the technical bottlenecks that can slow its adoption.
- Wednesday June 19—Munson will present on sports broadcasting in the cloud, exploring how high-speed transport technologies can enable broadcasters to take advantage of the cloud for ingest, management, storage and distribution of digital content. Munson will also present a case study on the UEFA Euro 2012 soccer tournament, taking a close look at how the LIVEX On Demand service was used for cloud-based content contribution, publishing and distribution.
- Thursday June 20—Munson will participate in a power panel on “Is cloud broadcasting the future?” Alongside fellow panelists from Shanghai Media Group, Alcatel-Lucent and Shemaroo Entertainment, Munson will discuss issues such as the impact of cloud services on digital entertainment, barriers to rolling out cloud services for the broadcast industry, and strategies to enable the cloud for large-scale broadcast workflows.
At booth #5G2-05 Aspera will showcase the latest innovations in its comprehensive portfolio of high-speed file transfer and automation software that enable broadcasters and media enterprises to deploy on-premise, cloud-based or hybrid infrastructures for complex media workflows including:
Aspera Orchestrator – The Aspera file-based workflow automation platform has been enhanced with full failover support, integrated Active Directory and LDAP support, and multi-tenant capabilities. It also offers an expanded plug-in library for a host of leading transcoding, watermarking, quality control, antivirus, ad insertion, asset management and other solutions.
Aspera On Demand – The platform as a service (PaaS) enables media companies and content service providers to use high-speed fasp™ transport to ingest and distribute large files to and from the Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Windows Azure clouds, and integrate their platforms into media services running in the cloud.
Aspera faspex™ and Aspera Shares – Web applications and mobile clients for fast, ad-hoc file exchange enable collaborative, person-to-person workflows spanning on-premise, cloud and hybrid deployments. The faspex and Shares solutions are uniquely designed to allow media files to be securely transferred between any storage locations (on premise or in cloud) on behalf of users or project groups with privacy, security and fine-grained access control. Aspera will demonstrate sending via faspex dropboxes to Aspera Shares destinations by workgroup, full SAML integration for single sign-on, and configurable distribution lists.
Aspera Sync – The high-performance (10-100X rsync), multidirectional file replication and synchronization solution for remote collaboration and disaster recovery scenarios offers full integration with Aspera Console for global visibility and control of sync sessions across the entire network, advanced file handling options such as file-level de-duplication eliminating unnecessary transfers and reducing storage use, and added support for OSX and Solaris in addition to Windows and Linux.
Aspera Drive - Aspera will preview high-speed synchronization from desktop to cloud with Aspera Drive. Completely integrated with the Aspera high-speed transfer platform, Aspera Drive offers integrated desktop and mobile browsing of remote files, drag-and-drop high-speed upload and download from cloud storage, background file synchronization, and sending and receiving of extremely large files and data sets at global distances for the ultimate secure file distribution experience.
faspex 4.0 – Aspera will preview faspex 4.0, a file sharing and package sending web application tier, which powers the Aspera Drive file-sharing ecosystem. A new project-based approach combines users and user groups with file and directory resources (“Shares”) into project collaboration spaces.
Beta versions of Aspera Drive and faspex 4.0 are expected to be available in Summer 2013.
About Aspera
Aspera 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 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. More than 2000 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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