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CABSAT 2015
Globecast's
Twin Focus
G

lobecast, a leading-edge content
contribution, preparation and
distribution company, has the twin
focus of regionalisation and migration
to high deﬁnition for CABSAT 2015.
Regionalisation:
Increasingly,
broadcasters in the Middle East are
looking for ways to adapt their content
in order to reach the widest possible
audience across multiple regions.
Globecast
offers
a
unique
combination of global resources,
cutting-edge facilities, and expert
staff on ﬁve continents and can assist
Middle East customers with everything
from securing long-term rights
management to delivering content
on multiple pay-TV and free-to-air
platforms.
Globecast offers scalable playout
solutions that help broadcasters
reduce their backend costs, providing

a wide range of bespoke broadcast
management services from its Media
Factories in London, Singapore and
Los Angeles.
Migration to HD: The transition
to HD is something many Globecast
customers in the region are currently
addressing. With its in-house technical
expertise and years of experience in
helping broadcasters expand their
offering to new formats and platforms,
Globecast is well placed to assist
customers with this evolution.
New HD Arabic language channels
are already being delivered to viewers
worldwide, and several of tier one
customers in the region have HD
rollout plans during the course of 2015.
Globecast
is
a
leading-edge
content contribution, preparation
and
distribution
company.
It
brings together bespoke content

Globecast - a combination of global resources, cutting-edge facilities and expert staff

management
and
monetisation
solutions and the most extensive
connectivity mix, ensuring that
broadcasters and media companies
can maximise the value of their
content.
In addition to the most complete mix
of coverage solutions using satellite
capacity, global ﬁbre backbone and
CDN networks, the company's content
preparation expertise ensures its
clients' content is correctly formatted,
packaged and delivered, to any
platform and location. Globecast
provides an efﬁcient and modular one-

stop shop offering, allowing content
providers of all shapes and sizes to
beneﬁt from economies of scale as
well as pay as you go or grow models.
With a global presence and highly
skilled multicultural teams, Globecast
works with content providers to create
simple and ﬂexible solutions that ﬁt
their speciﬁc requirements and help
them to expand and grow audiences in
new territories. The company operates
from facilities in Europe, the Americas,
the Middle East, Asia, Africa and
Australia, and is trusted by the world's
leading content providers.

Pebble Beach
Systems At CABSAT
P

ebble Beach Systems, a leading
supplier of automation, content
management and integrated channel
technology, will be demonstrating
important new enhancements to its
products at CABSAT this year.
The company has a large installed
user base in the Middle East, and
has developed many region-speciﬁc
features for its automation and
channel delivery products, including
an Arabic user interface, dynamic
graphics control with Arabic text, and
a function that enables broadcasters
to easily manage prayer breaks in their
schedules.
Pebble Beach Systems' suite of Web
Client tools offers a range of functions
from straightforward monitoring of a
single playlist, up to highly granular
remote control of multiple Marina
automation systems and Dolphin
integrated channel devices across
geographically dispersed locations.
Developed using HTML5 and the
latest Web Server technology, the Web

Client tools are designed to offer close
to real time access to single or multiple
systems of all sizes and architectures
on PC or tablet devices using Chrome,
Safari, Internet Explorer or Firefox
browsers.
Designed to alert Marina automation
operators clearly and unambiguously
to upcoming problems, Lighthouse
is a new dashboard display tool that
monitors by exception. It aggregates
all lists within the system, displaying a
dashboard of the next problem on any
list, and enabling early intervention
in the case of, for example, validation
errors, timing anomalies or missing
media alerts.
As the trend for more channels to
be controlled by fewer operators
continues, Lighthouse maximises the
opportunity for early error detection
and safeguards the smooth playout of
all channels.
Pebble Beach Systems is also
showing the new ClassX plug-in which
delivers affordable real-time advanced

3D branding. This graphics inserter
is automatically populated from the
Marina playlist, even if late breaking
changes are made close to air.
It will be shown generating Now
Next Later graphics with video, as well
as tickers, bugs and other animated
channel branding devices. ClassX is a
specialist broadcast graphics provider
whose customers include Mediaset,
Italian state broadcaster RAI, and MTV.
The company's Regional Manager
for the Middle East, Samir Isbaih, says:
"Our solutions now control over 300
channels in the Middle East region,
making us the leading provider in this
quality-conscious market. In addition
to demonstrating these enhancements,

Pebble Beach Systems' suite
of Web Client tools

we will be making some major contract
announcements at the show, and we
look forward to making the most of
the excellent networking opportunities
which CABSAT provides."
Managing Director Peter Hajittoﬁ
says: "Pebble Beach Systems focuses
on delivering automation and channel
delivery solutions which enable
customers to exploit legacy and best
of breed technologies whilst offering
a migration path to new technologies.
With the introduction of new features
such as the Web Client and the
ClassX plug-in, we continue to deliver
innovative and adaptable tools which
enable more efﬁcient operations."
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