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www.inbroadcast.com | Vol: 6 - Issue 8 | August 2016

InNews
Munson To Receive
Top Industry Award
USA: The Hollywood Professional
Association (HPA) has named
Michelle Munson as the recipient of
its 2016 Charles S. Swartz Award.
Munson, co-founder and CEO
of Aspera, an IBM Company, is
recognised as one of industry's
most accomplished technology
leaders.
The HPA Awards recognise
creative
artistry,
innovation
and engineering excellence in
the professional media content
industry.
The Charles S. Swartz Award
honours the recipient's significant
impact across diverse aspects of
the industry.

GB Labs' Fast NAS
NED: This year at IBC, GB Labs will
be launching a new shared storage
range called Fast NAS which seamlessly combines the benefits of
HDD and SSD in one box.
The Fast NAS range is a turnkey
content creation system offering
ultra high performance combined
with large capacities.
With performance up to 3000MB/s,
1Gb, 10Gb and 40Gb Ethernet options, capacities up to 320TB and
dynamic expansion built in as
standard.

AppCheck Partner Deal
With VCW Security
GBR: AppCheck has announced a
new distribution partnership with
VCW Security. Together the two
companies will address the ever
growing concern for organisations
to be able to identify and manage
web application and infrastructure
risks.
Designed and developed by
experienced penetration testers,
AppCheck allows users to automate
the discovery of security flaws
within their network perimeter,
quicker,
easier
and
more
accurately by offering a unique
scripting solution which maps and
tests user work flows.

Imagine Milestone In
IP-based Deployments

I

magine
Communications
has
completed more than 25 IP-based
customer installations.
"This important milestone marks
how far we have come since unveiling
our vision at IBC2013 for a softwarebased technology transformation
of the media and entertainment
industry," said Charlie Vogt, CEO of
Imagine Communications.
"That vision is now reality. Our
customers are increasingly recognising
that evolving business models,
fuelled by disruptive shifts in the way
video is being consumed, require
transformative change to gain the
benefits of revenue growth, network
flexibly, scale, cost-efficiency and a
future-proof environment."

The milestone, evidence of the longterm and sustainable momentum
behind the shift of media operations
to IP-based computing and networking
platforms,
validates
Imagine
Communications' pioneering advocacy
for the media industry's transition to
a more agile and versatile technology
foundation.

Imagine Communication's
Magellan SDN Orchestrator

Imagine Communications IP-based
solutions stretch across its playout
and networking portfolios and include
the Platinum IP3 router, Selenio MCP,
Versio playout, the recently introduced
EPIC Multiviewer and the Magellan
SDN Orchestrator, the company's
software-defined control system for
hybrid SDI-IP environments.
In total, Imagine Communications
next-gen deployments now account for
more than 50 IP-based channels and
over 3,000 live production streams.
Imagine Communications recently
supplied IP-based solutions for the
launch of an IP live training and
education facility at Sony's Digital
Motion Picture Centre Europe (DMPCE)
at Pinewood Film Studios near London.

VITEC MGW Ace Set
For IBC Debut
M

aking its debut at IBC2016 will be
VITEC's new MGW Ace Decoder.
This professional-grade, compact
HEVC/H.265
decoder
delivers
broadcast-quality decoding of HEVC
streams up to 1080p60 4:2:2 10-bit,
supporting the most demanding and
diverse video streaming use cases. It
offers a robust panel of best-in-class
connectivity options and two pairs of
audio decode capabilities.
When the MGW Ace Decoder is used
with the MGW Ace Encoder, the pair
forms the industry's first entirely
portable, hardware-based end-to-end
4:2:2 10-bit HEVC solution, delivering

reliable, error-free,
low-latency
and
bandwidth-efficient
streams suitable for
IPTV, broadcast, and point-to-point
applications.
At IBC2016, VITEC will be showcasing
its award-winning EZ TV IPTV and
digital signage solution, a broadcastgrade centralised system for delivery
of live streams, on-demand content,
and digital signage campaigns to TVs,
PCs, and mobile devices.
MGW Vision is a new 4K/Ultra HD
(UHD) HEVC real-time hardware-based
encoder for IPTV, broadcast, and

VITEC MGW Ace HEVC/H.265 decoder

point-to-point distribution. With the
MGW Vision, VITEC integrates UHD
resolution with its high-quality, lowlatency hardware-based HEVC/H.265
compression
and
streaming
technology.
PX Media Library is a time-saving
meta-solution for media professionals
to tag, edit, manage, organise, and
share media files. This open system is
easily adaptable to industry-specific
workflows.
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