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Appointments
TSL Systems Names
Managing Director
GBR: TSL Systems has appointed
Jeremy Rees as Managing Director.
Commenting Rees said: "TSL has
a long-earned, well-deserved
reputation around the globe for
integrity, quality and customer
focus. I am delighted to be joining
the company and working with
the team in continuing to provide
outstanding solutions to existing
and new customers."
Prior to joining TSL, Rees was a
Vice President at NDS, and Senior
Director at Cisco. A Chartered
Engineer, he has an engineering
degree from the University
of Cambridge. Rees will take
over from outgoing CEO Roger
Henderson, and will have global
oversight of TSL's Life Cycle
Services, Consultancy, Systems
Design, Integration and Fibre and
Structured Cabling services.
Henderson will remain with TSL
Systems as Executive Director
until the end of the year.

Qligent Names Business
Development Manager

USA: Qligent has appointed Robert
"Rob" J. Kakareka as Manager of
Business Development.
A broadcast industry veteran,
Kakareka, who reports directly to
John Shoemaker, Qligent's Director
of Sales is tasked with developing
U.S. sales, customer relationships
and market opportunities.
"I'm excited to be promoting the
value and benefits of Qligent's
flagship product, Vision, at a time
of rapid change in the broadcast
industry," said Kakareka. "Vision
is uniquely positioned to support
mission-critical broadcast distribution in a cost-efficient SaaS model
as the industry expands from traditional over-the-air, cable and satellite channels to new digital, mobile
and over-the-top (OTT) outlets. He
will focus on selling the company's
innovative, Vision cloud-based
monitoring and compliance
platform to U.S. broadcasters,
including major networks
and call-letter stations.

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European Commission
Opts For Telestream
T

elestream has installed its Vantage
Media Processing Platform and
Lightspeed Live Capture system within
the European Commission in Brussels,
Belgium.
Running on Telestream's Lightspeed
K80 GPU accelerated servers, Vantage
provides transcoding facilities to the
Commission's Directorate General
Communications (DG Com), which
is tasked with supporting strategic
internal and external communications
infrastructure
throughout
the
European Commission's network of
committee and meeting facilities.
Telestream worked closely with local
channel partner, Brussels-based VP
Media Solutions.
DG Com provides audio visual

content from all the European
Commission activities - past
and present dating back to 1948
- to broadcasters and other
agencies.
The organisation operates
two contribution satellite TV
channels (EbS & EbS+) as well as
a web portal where clean feed
content is available.
The task of supplying content
appropriate to the broadest range of
media outlets is considerable: each
piece of content is provided as hi-res,
lo-res and audio-only files, together
with thumbnail browsing images and
25 different language tracks.
Pre-recorded content is supplied as
an MXF file from a GV Stratus server.

Vantage for the European Commission

Vantage, working closely with
DG Com's in-house MAM system,
transcodes these into different file
variants for the DG Com distribution
system.
The Vantage system replaced a
Harmonic Carbon Coder transcode
farm which came to the end of its
support life.

Veritone AI For Quantum Xcellis
Q

uantum has announced aiWARE
for Xcellis, an on-premise and
Cloud version of the AI platform from
Veritone.
Bringing Veritone's multi-engine AI
capabilities into a Quantum StorNextmanaged environment, aiWARE for
Xcellis enables users to leverage the

power of Veritone's cognitive services
and applications - such as optical
character recognition, object detection
and speech-to-text transcription - to
extract value from their on-premise
video and audio content.
The platform uses cognitive engines
to delve deeper and faster into their

aiWARE: AI analytics for media content

content, media companies can gain
greater insights and drive increased
business and organisational success.
aiWARE for Xcellis enables users to:
* Create more customised videoon-demand offerings through robust
metadata tagging of existing content;
* Provide better RoI data to
sponsors by identifying where and
how often logos, as well as spoken
and text brand integrations, appear
in broadcast media and redistributed
clips;
* Accelerate post-production work
through enhanced context-based
search and discovery.
The integrated solution also provides
the option to utilise
Veritone's
continuously
evolving array of cognitive
engines.

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