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GatesAir Ascent
SRT Gateway

USA: GatesAir has added the Ascent SRT Gateway application to
its Intraplex Ascent transport platform to support reliable and secure
video over IP transport alongside
audio. The application's video support brings Ascent into the television market. Ascent SRT Gateway
will be useful for broadcasters
managing contributed video and/
or audio content for point-to-multipoint distribution. Ascent will
provide transparent support of
any real-time, IP-based broadcast
video protocol, with applicability to
ATSC 3.0 and DVB-T/T2.

ATTO 32Gb HBAs
Cisco Compatible
USA: ATTO Celerity 32Gb Fibre
Channel host bus adapters (HBAs)
have been certified with Cisco
Systems MDS 9000 switches.
ATTO demonstrated high speeds
during NAB 2019 using ATTO 32Gb
Celerity HBAs and a Cisco MDS
9396T Fibre Channel switch.
The combined technology exceeded
the bandwidth necessary to
support multiple streams of 8K,
4K, and HDR video, with ATTO
hailing this as a solution for highperformance, collaborative video
editing environments.
ATTO will demo the solution at
IBC2019.

Bluefish444 Enhances
Ingestore Features
AUS: Bluefish444 has released
IngeSTore version 1.1.2. The
free update adds support for
new codecs, Edit-While-Record
workflows and a REST API.
Expanded codec support adds OP1A
MPEG-2 and DNxHD formats within
the BlueCodecPack licence.
Edit-While-Record workflows are
supported through both industry
standard growing files and through
the BlueRT plug-in for Adobe
Premiere Pro and Avid Media
Composer.
BlueRT allows Adobe and Avid
NLE's to access media files as they
are being recorded by IngeSTore
multi-channel capture software.

Riedel Networks Finalises
Miami Triangle Project

iedel
Networks
has
announced the completion
of its Miami Triangle Project,
entailing the opening of a new
point of presence (PoP) in Miami
and the signing of a bandwidth
update contract with Neutrona
Networks for the Miami - New
York - Sao Paulo circuit.
The ITW show in Atlanta saw
the signing ceremony for the
bandwidth update of Riedel
Networks' circuits connecting
Sao Paulo to New York and
Miami. Michael Martens, CEO,
Riedel Networks, and Mateo
Ward, CEO, Neutrona Networks,
inked the deal.
"This agreement opens a
new chapter in the partnership
between Neutrona and Riedel

Networks in LATAM, delivering
fully diverse and low-latency
connectivity to enable Riedel
to provide a superior level of
customer experience to their end
users," said Ward.
"In conjunction with our newly
formed Miami Triangle, this
bandwidth update will ensure
secure and reliable access for
our customers in the Americas,"
Martens added.
The conclusion of the Miami
Triangle project brings a range
of benefits to Riedel Networks
and its customers.
The company also recently
launched its new SD-WAN
product portfolio, delivering
enhanced security and increased
Michael Martens, CEO, Riedel Networks,
and Mateo Ward, CEO, Neutrona Networks efficiency.

Aperi Secures US$10m Funding

peri has closed a round of funding
of more than US$10 million as it
seeks to scale to meet the growing
demand from customers for its range
of services.
Much of this investment has come
from a group of global industryfocused venture capitalists led by
software and cloud technology
experts Merapar, and including Ocom,
Manuardeo, Innov8on and Malvern
Ventures LLC, which are drawn from
the UK, USA, Europe and Asia.
Aperi CEO Joop Janssen said: "This
demonstration of confidence in Aperi's
revolutionary open and softwaredefined technology will enable us to
further expand our range of innovative
broadcast functions, while continuing

to grow our global presence. It arrives
at a point where we have established
ourselves as the trusted backbone of
many premium sports productions
and it's safe to say that the vision of
Brian Keane, Aperi's co-founder and
lead architect, has well and truly been
realised."
Thousands of Aperi microservers
are used each day to enable service
providers, content owners, rights
holders and broadcasters to work
faster and more efficiently. The
combination of the true virtualisation
that it is able to offer, along with
its V-Stack media hypervisor-based
approach, delivers low-latency media
processing for both centralised and
decentralised media networks.

Joop Janssen, CEO, Aperi

The first of the expanded range of
broadcast functions are set to appear
for the first time at IBC2019.

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