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InMedia

SGL Unveils Entry-Level
Flashnet Lite Archive

S

GL, a leading provider of content
archive and storage management
software for media and entertainment,
is announcing its new entry-level
archive solution FlashNet Lite on stand
at IBC2016.
Providing media companies with
a highly cost-effective archive that
can expand as their requirements
grow, FlashNet Lite includes SGL's
new elegant user interface FlashNet
Infinity.
FlashNet Lite comes in two
configurations - FL Disk and FL Hybrid
- providing customers with disk only
content storage or a combination of
disk and tape. The FlashNet
Lite software runs on a single
server node, and provides both
the Infinity dashboard and
key FlashNet tools including:
integration with a wide range of
partner solutions and storage
devices; business storage rules,
and partial file restore.
"At SGL we aim to provide

with the capability for automatic failover and for distributed processing
of very high levels of activity, Infinity
archive solutions to fit
is designed for highthe size and budget of
performance
search,
every media company
monitoring and analysis.
worldwide," explained Lee
Infinity is a web-based
Sheppard, SGL's Director
framework
that
runs
of Product Management.
dashboards
containing
"FlashNet is the most
one or more gadgets.
accessible content storage
Each gadget offers a tool,
management
system
which for convenience are
available to the video
grouped into searching,
Sophisticated reporting - FlashNet Infinity
industry, and by launching
monitoring,
analysing
FlashNet Lite with Infinity, we're
FlashNet Infinity, which delivers a and system administration categories
providing a sophisticated entry- sophisticated toolset for archive and by SGL. While some dashboards are
level archive that includes many of restore functionality, system health, pre-configured by SGL as systemFlashNet's important features at a monitoring, analysis and more, will defined, others can be created by the
price point suited to smaller facilities."
also be demonstrated throughout organisation or by the individual user
the show. Available as a free by dragging and dropping gadgets. All
upgrade to all SGL FlashNet dashboards can be modified to fit the
users covered by a current organisation, depending on the access
support contract who are rights of a specific user.
running FlashNet 6.6 or later,
SGL will also have a number of
FlashNet Infinity takes a novel partner demonstrations on its stand
approach to the management throughout the show by Arvato
of archived assets. While Systems, Empress, Glookast, Marquis,
FlashNet Infinity
FlashNet itself is optimised Primestream and VSN, with more to be
on show
for enterprise-level archiving, announced in the run up to the show.

Ericsson Sets Out Its
'TV As A Service' Vision

A

t this year's IBC, Ericsson
will showcase how its
new solutions, launches and
innovation concepts underpin
its 'TV as a Service' vision,
which
creates
opportunity
for customers to continually
transform television and delight
viewers across the continually
evolving and complex media
Ericsson broadcast media
landscape.
services master control room
Ericsson will continue this
fresh thinking approach by making content experiences. At IBC2016,
Ultra HD a reality, simplifying the Ericsson will introduce its vision for
adoption of virtualisation and cloud TV as a service and showcase its
strategies and fulfilling the insatiable latest never-before-seen innovations,
appetite of consumers for content on covering advertisement and analytics,
their terms.
virtual and augmented reality, an
Elisabetta Romano, Head of TV & immersive sports showcase and the
Media Ericsson, comments: "Ericsson's latest developments in video delivery."
focus on continuous innovation is
"As the entire media value chain
enabling our customers to provide undergoes
enormous
change,
consumers with the most cutting-edge Ericsson's transformative solutions
seamless, personalised and immersive and services will enable our customers

to thrive in this new Internet age
of TV," concludes Romano.
Ericsson will show how its
focus on analytics and data
science is opening up a wealth
of personalisation opportunities;
how its mobile-first capabilities
and leadership in 5G is steering
the consumer shift to 360
mobility. The company will
also demonstrate adoption of
modular and micro service-based
software architectures, by creating
dynamic platforms of software-defined
applications for its customers to
deploy and scale for any scenario.
On display on the Ericsson booth
will be a wide array of solutions and
services that include Media Enrichment
to enhance content value:
* Access
services
including
the world's first latency-free live
captioning service;
* Content
Discovery
services

featuring the industry's richest and
deepest datasets;
* Media Processing for high quality
immersive consumption;
* MediaFirst Video Processing -
virtualisation in content exchange,
distribution and software defined live
UHD encoding to the home;
* End-to-end UHD 4K and HDR
ecosystem ready to deploy with live
broadcast demos;
* Media Management Services -
featuring an interactive overview
of Ericsson media management
capabilities and updates to the cloud
media processing platform;
* Targeted Advertising - forward
thinking demonstration showing how
Ericsson sees the transformation in TV
Advertising, with targeted insertion,
personalisation, ad replacement and
programmatic selling.
Ericsson will also show Media
Publishing reliably creating hundreds
of TV channels and serving millions of
subscribers; and Media Delivery that
seamlessly addresses hybrid and all IP
networks.
Ericsson will present thought
leadership on a broad range of
industry topics throughout the IBC
conference.
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