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FOR-A Opens Dubai Ofﬁce
FOR-A Company Limited has opened a new oﬃce in Dubai to better serve customers in the Middle East and Africa (MEA). FOR-A MEA has hired two industry veterans – Sales Manager Khalid Sweidan and Engineering Manager Mohammed Abu Ziyadeh – whose complementary skills and experience make them uniquely qualified to manage the daily operational demands of the new Dubai oﬃce. “While we’ve always provided sales and technical support to the MEA region from our Tokyo world headquarters, it’s become imperative that we maintain an office in the MEA region that can provide timely, personalised service and support to our rapidly expanding MEA customer base,” said Hiroaki Tanoue, Deputy Senior General Manager, Overseas Sales & Marketing division, for FOR-A Company Limited. “This new oﬃce is dedicated to promoting FOR-A products and providing responsive customer and technical support to broadcasters and other A/V professionals in the MEA region.” With over 12 years of experience

Sonnet Ship Qio™ Reader
USA: Sonnet Technologies’ Qio™ MR professional universal media reader for Windows® PCs is now shipping. Qio MR is a compact, mobile rackmounted device to support all major HD video memory card formats, providing a convenient and high-speed alternative to standalone card readers and various adapters for videographers and studios. Sonnet also announced that all Qio models now shipping are both Mac®- and Windows-compatible.

Khalid Sweidan

Abu Ziyadeh

Sky Streamline With Aspera
GER: Pay-TV provider Sky Deutschland has deployed Aspera’s next generation ﬁle sharing, content distribution and automation frameworks. The company’s patented fasp™ transport platform offers high performance automated ingest from global content suppliers, highspeed gathering of breaking news and sports from ﬁeld reporters and complete video-on-demand orchestration. With over 70 channels, Sky is developing and using new technologies to help deliver quality content and a wide selection of digital TV programming.

spanning the broadcasting, A/V, and IT arenas, Khalid Sweidan brings to his new role as FOR-A MEA Sales Manager a proven track record of sales performance and success. Prior to joining the FOR-A MEA oﬃce, Sweidan served in senior regional sales positions with S[quadrat] Video System Integration, Barco nv, and Sony Broadcast and Professional. He successfully built and executed sales strategies and has worked closely with broadcasters, production houses and A/V system integrators across the MEA territory. Prior to joining FOR-A MEA as its engineering manager, Mohammed Abu Ziyadeh gained valuable

experience as a technical solution engineer, and later became a senior broadcast engineer for a leading digital broadcasting equipment and solutions provider. In this capacity, he worked with broadcasters around the world to resolve technical problems, handle installations and maintenance of broadcast and production systems, and manage and train the engineering team. Ziyadeh also served as a broadcast engineer for a television station where his duties encompassed overseeing studio, oﬀ-line, OB vans, transmission and master control operations.

Grass Valley Key Role In Grammy Telecast
Grass Valley™ live production technologies were central to the broadcast of this year’s 54th Annual Grammy® Awards telecast (at the Staples Center in Los Angeles). The show was produced live in the 1080i high-deﬁnition HD format by veteran mobile production company NEP Broadcasting for CBS and the E! Entertainment Television channel. NEP Broadcasting, based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. has used Grass Valley technologies for many years to bring home all of the musical performances and pageantry of the world renowned Grammys. NEP’s Denali Summit High Deﬁnition truck was on-site to handle the main awards broadcast on CBS while its ND4 rig was used to cover the Red Carpet portion of the event for E! Both trucks carry a Grass Valley Kalypso™ HD Video Production Center switcher, a Trinix (192x160 and 160x128, respectively) HD-SDI video router, and a wide variety of signal processing modules from the Grass Valley GeckoFlex™ product line to switch and manage the dozens of camera and other feeds that make up the Grammy telecast. The Grammy Awards telecast is presented by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS).

Private Flexible Cloud Solution
USA: Nativ is providing a new way for North American content owners and creators to buy technology by giving them access to a content management solution. The solution combines worldclass security and connectivity with the ﬂexibility of the cloud, on a transactional ‘on-demand’ basis. Nativ has responded to growing interest in its technologies in the US with the installation of its MioEverywhere media management solution in Las Vegas.

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