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Appointments
ATX Networks
Appoints Vogt
CAN: ATX Networks has appointed
Charlie Vogt as President and Chief
Executive Officer.
Vogt joins ATX following four
successful years as President and
CEO of Imagine Communications.
"ATX Networks has a strong
history of innovation and is well
respected by its cable, satellite and
enterprise clients," said Vogt.
"The
cable,
satellite
and
telecommunications
industries
are undergoing transformative
change as the world embraces new
advanced technologies to deliver
services cheaper, faster and better
than before. I am thrilled to join
the company at such an exciting
time in our industry and look
forward to working closely with the
ATX team and its impressive lineup
of customers."
Vogt succeeds Ken
Wildgoose, who will
continue to serve on
the company's Board of
Directors.

Miller Appoints US SE
Regional Sales Manager
USA: Miller Tripods has named
Phillip Kaplan as its new Southeast
Regional Sales Manager for the US.
In his new role, Kaplan will sustain
and grow Miller's distribution
network and customer base within
his territory.
"Phil's extensive experience in
sales and negotiating skills as a
buyer, combine to form a notable
asset to our team," said Gus
Harilaou, President the Americas,
Miller Camera Support.
"We have found a great match for
the company. Phil's knowledge of
the market will help Miller sustain
and build on the successes that
have been previously achieved in
the Southeast region."
With over 34 years of
experience, Kaplan has a
comprehensive
background
in the camera and video
equipment industry.

www.inbroadcast.com | Vol: 8 - Issue 3 | March 2018

Harmonic Announces VOS
Software Cluster Solution
H

armonic has announced
the next evolution of its
award-winning VOS offerings.
VOS
Software
(SW)
Cluster is a comprehensive
software application that
embeds
market-leading
media processing, including
ingest, playout, compression,
encryption,
packaging,
and origin, and supports
both Cloud and bare metal
environments.
The VOS SW Cluster solution can be
used by video content and service
providers of any size and on any
platform for the origination and
delivery of IPTV and OTT services.
The solution has already been
successfully deployed by a leading

Harmonic's VOS Software Cluster

telecommunications service provider
in the Asia-Pacific region.
Tim Warren, Senior Vice President
and CTO, Video Business, at Harmonic,
said: "The VOS SW Cluster offering
expands upon the flexibility and

Anevia & Keepixo UHD
Low-Latency OTT
A

nevia
has
partnered
with
Keepixo to provide operators and
broadcasters with an ultra-low-latency
OTT delivery solution for UHD content.
The joint solution claims to address
the latency issues faced by OTT service
providers.
Anevia CTO Damien Lucas said:
"The issue of latency, specifically in
live OTT environments, can have a
really damaging effect on the overall
user experience. In some cases,
these streams are being delivered to
viewers 30 seconds later than the live
broadcast, which means that someone
watching a football match might see
news about the latest

goal on their smartphone before it
happens on their screen, for example."
He said that the answer to the
latency problem to bringing the
components
including
encoders
together and deliver it to the operator
in a single integrated package.
Anevia and Keepixo's work will
also enable premium UHD content
consumption in response to the
increasing consumer demand for 4K
and HDR content.
Jerome Blanc, Keepixo COO, said
that the solution could "change
OTT streaming as we know it". He
said: "By combining our encoding
technology with Anevia's innovative

agility of our award-winning
VOS Cloud media processing
application,
enabling
operators to be even more
nimble in using datacentre
resources. With the VOS
SW Cluster solution, video
content and service providers
can handle every step of the
media processing chain using
datacentres, the Cloud, or
both to launch services faster
and deliver high-quality IPTV and OTT
content on every screen."
As an infrastructure-independent
media processing application, the
VOS SW Cluster offering makes it easy
for operators to switch between bare
metal datacentre computing, public
Clouds, and private Clouds.

software-based solutions, we will
be able to deliver over OTT a UHD
viewing experience that far surpasses
what consumers are currently used
to, both from a quality and latency
perspective."

Damien Lucas, Anevia CTO
http://www.inbroadcast.com https://twitter.com/i/web/status/967017625409728513 https://www.keepixo.com/2018/02/02/anevia-partners-with-keepixo-to-provide-uhd-ultra-low-latency-end-to-end-ott-solution/ http://www.ihse.com/ http://www.ihse.com/
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