Aspera to Showcase On Demand Transfer Platform and Deliver Insights into Near-Live Streaming for Second Screens at BVE 2015

ARMONK, NY – February 13, 2015: Aspera, an IBM company and creator of technologies that move the world’s data at maximum speed, will share its expertise in cloud-based workflows at BVE 2015. At booth #J15 Aspera will showcase its complete portfolio of high-speed file transfer software and the Aspera Orchestrator workflow automation solution that supports digital delivery standards including ADI and DPP.

As headline sponsor of the Broadcast, Tech & Workflow Theatre, Aspera and its customers will share their experiences and discuss industry trends. Aspera co-founder and CEO Michelle Munson will share her insights into meeting the increasing demand for coverage of international sporting events, while Aspera customers Channel 4 and Perform will reveal how they're using Aspera high-speed file transfer solutions to speed up and scale their workflows:

Behind the scenes at Channel 4: accelerating content processing & delivery for their video-on-demand services with Aspera high-speed transfer & the cloud

Tuesday February 24, 10.50-11.20am

Simon Christie, Broadcast Systems Engineer, Distribution & Broadcast Technology at Channel 4 Television will discuss how the broadcaster has developed an automated high-speed processing and distribution platform, leveraging high-speed transfer and the scale-out capabilities of the cloud to process and publish to over 22 on demand platforms, to support the fast growth of online viewership of its 4oD video-on-demand services.

End-to-end near live streaming for second screens combining multi-camera capture, high-speed transport, and cloud video processing

Wednesday, February 25, 11.40am-12.10pm

With more viewers turning to the Internet for live match streaming, Munson will present insights into the increasing demand for coverage of international sporting events.  She will address the broadcasting challenge of enabling fast transfer and distribution of match content across smartphones, tablets, laptops and connected TVs.

The next generation of workflow automation: how Perform applies data and logic to automatically select, transcode and produce premium sports highlights

Thursday 26, 1.00pm-1.30pm

Perform operates one of the largest transcoding systems in the industry, managing more than 20,000 diverse media files per day for its customers. In this session, Adam Smith, Senior Workflow Integration Engineer, Perform Media Group and Andrea Di Muzio, Director of Professional Services, EMEA, Aspera will present a detailed overview of the new data-driven workflows implemented using Aspera Orchestrator to fully automate the process of selecting, extracting, processing, and distributing match highlights to editors, producers, and distributors, eliminating all human intervention.

At booth #J15, Aspera will showcase new capabilities to the Aspera Transfer Platform that allow media enterprises to efficiently transfer, synchronize and stream content of any type, resolution and size across cloud and on-premise systems at global distances, enabling them to handle today’s increasingly complex production workflows. These include:

• Aspera On Demand Platform– The latest version of Aspera’s industry-leading high-speed transfer solution supports the transfer and synchronization of the largest ultra HD files or millions of small files direct to cloud storage and seamlessly integrates with every major cloud storage provider.
• Auto-scaling Transfer Platform – Building on the direct-to-cloud storage transfer capabilities, the Auto-scaling Transfer Platform automatically scales and expands transfer capacity of Aspera server software in the cloud, enabling media companies to expand capacity as needed and leverage the most cost-effective infrastructure. Companies can control and predict content ingest, delivery and distribution times, regardless of media volumes, infrastructure distance or network quality.
• Aspera Orchestrator – New plug-ins have been added to the library of over 50 third-party applications that can be invoked within an Aspera Orchestrator workflow, including support for ADI.XML Cablelabs verification, DPP format validation, ISM and M3u8 verification, thePlatform media management, Vidchecker verification, MediaInfo and SNMP monitoring. 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 ScaleDB – All transfer performance statics are captured by a new scale out data store for distributed, high throughput collection, aggregation and reporting that provides key metrics on usage patterns, transfer performance and service levels.
• FASPStream API – The FASPStream API allow media applications to transport live video and data feeds over global Internet WANs in real-time with predictable speeds, enabling live and near-live production on remote cloud systems, such as scale out video processing, transcoding and distribution. 
• Aspera Drive and Aspera Drive for Mobile – Designed for content producers, creative teams and other end users of the Aspera Transfer Platform, Aspera Drive for Windows and Mac, and Drive Mobile allows them to remotely browse, drag-and-drop transfer, sync and exchange person-to-person rich media content and files. Unlike similar applications and services, Aspera Drive supports content sharing of any size from any remote cloud or on premises storage directly in the desktop or mobile devices at speeds many times faster and with greater reliability. 
• Aspera faspex and Shares – New versions of Aspera faspex and Shares apps power the file-sharing ecosystem on the backend. Enterprises can control user access, authentication and sharing privileges, while end users enjoy the easy, ultra-fast and versatile experience of Aspera Drive.
• Aspera App for Microsoft SharePoint – The Aspera App for Microsoft SharePoint seamlessly enables users of the SharePoint document library to transfer any size files and directories quickly and at full available bandwidth regardless of distance. It automatically allows SharePoint content repositories to scale to unlimited sizes with built-in transfer to any cloud or on premises storage.

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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