In Broadcast - February 2016 - 8


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www.inbroadcast.com | Vol: 6 - Issue 2 | February 2016

InNews
Telestream
At BVE 2016
USA: Telestream will use BVE
2016 to provide worldwide debuts
for significant new functionality
within its enterprise-class software
products.
Forming the centrepiece of its
technology showcase, Telestream's
Vantage
media
processing
platform is the foundation for
a broad range of enterpriseclass transcoding and workflow
automation software products.
Telestream will demonstrate new
adaptive bitrate optimisation,
closed captioning and subtitling
services within Vantage.

Zappware And
ALi Partner
TWN / BEL: Zappware and ALi have
announced a strategic partnership
in which Zappware solution is preintegrated onto ALi's platform.
The partnership will enable Pay-TV
providers and telecom operators to
deliver feature-rich IPTV or hybrid
services with a responsive and
personalised user experience.
The joint solution supports full
HD1080p60, MVC video decoding
and multi-stream, as well as the
Zappware user interface.
It enables remote control of
the STB via smartphones and
smartwatches.

IBC Innovation
Awards Entries
GBR: Nominations are being
sought for the 2016 IBC Innovation
Awards in the broadcast industry.
"What makes the IBC Innovation
Awards so sought-after is what
makes them unique," said Michael
Lumley, Chair of the judging panel.
"They celebrate co-operation
and teamwork, to get the latest
technology from the drawing board
into the real world."
Judged by an independent panel,
the three awards are for: content
creation; content management;
and content delivery.

Imagine Communications
Team With HPE

I

magine
Communications
has
expanded its relationship with
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE.)
The deal will see HPE resell Imagine
Communications'
entire
product
portfolio virtually worldwide.
"Two of the most influential
technology innovators in their
respective industries are teaming
up to provide service providers, TV
networks, broadcasters, new media
and enterprise companies with exactly
what they need to meet today's, as
well as tomorrow's, challenges,"
said Charlie Vogt, CEO, Imagine
Communications.
Vogt said that the two companies'
expanded relationship would help to
"accelerate the transition to IP-based,

software-defined virtualised facilities
that are the future of the media and
entertainment industry".
HPE will resell products from
Imagine Communications' playout,
networking, distribution and ad
management solutions portfolios,
as well as products and intellectual
property from HPE Software and
Communications & Media Solutions
businesses.
"Media companies and service
providers recognise the urgency to
modernise operations to meet the
needs of a new generation of video
consumers and withstand competitive
challenges resulting from disruption to
traditional supply chains and business
models," said Antonio Neri, Executive

Charlie Vogt, CEO, Imagine
Communications

Vice President and General Manager,
Enterprise Group, HPE.
Imagine
Communications'
core
products will migrate to HPE hardware
platforms.

Hostworks & PacTV Symbiosis
A

ustralian digital media solutions
provider Hostworks has announced
a global collaboration agreement with
Pacific Television Center (PacTV.)
"This partnership is about taking
Hostworks' software infrastructure and

PacTV Master control room

utilising the skills of our in-house team
in collaboration with PacTV's global
service offering and international
reputation to become the one stop
shop for content acquisition - across
all channels of consumption, especially
mobile," said Will
Berryman, CEO at
Hostworks.
As part of the
agreement, Hostworks
will station highdefinition
video
source encoders on
site at two key PacTV
facilities in London
and Los Angeles.
Nick
Castaneda,
VP of Development
Pacific
Television

Center, said: "PacTV has maintained
its excellent reputation on managing
broadcast content. The challenge has
been extending our content to mobile
devices or tablets, while retaining the
high quality our clients demand.
"Partnering with Hostworks allows us
to unify our two independent offerings
and deliver customers a solid, qualitycontrolled, defined solution for
broadcasting to both TV and mobile."
This infrastructure will enable
transmission signals to be ingested
and encoded through Hostworks' own
CDN.
Customers of Hostworks in Australia,
and beyond, will receive access to
PacTV's international video network.
Hostworks' Foundry provides a wide
range of content streaming services.
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