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www.inbroadcast.com | IBC2016 InShow Guide | 9-13 September

Aspera Showcases
Ground Breaking SaaS and
Live Streaming Solutions
Aspera is highlighting a number of key technologies that move data faster and enable live video
streams over commodity Internet connections...

A

t IBC, Aspera, an IBM company
and creator of technologies that
move the world's data at maximum
speed, is showcasing its complete
portfolio of high-speed file transfer
software and automation solutions for
the broadcast and media industries,
including the revolutionary new SaaS
platform, Aspera Files.
Aspera Files
Built on Aspera FASP® technology,
Aspera Files transforms cloud-based
content sharing and collaboration by
eliminating the problems of sharing
large files and large directories with
fast and secure transfer of even
the largest content and associated
metadata directly from its native
storage environment (on premises or
in cloud). A multi-tenant SaaS solution
running on IBM Cloud, Files is easy to
use and instantly available, transfers
at maximum speed in predictable time,
and offers a rich set of capabilities for
sharing, distributing and managing
large content.
New Aspera Files clients include
MLBAM, Digital Media Services, BASE
Media Cloud and over 550 other
activations that are leveraging the
SaaS platform's high-speed large data
exchange capabilities to accelerate
and simplify their digital media
workflows.
FASP® Boost
Aspera is also showing multiple
breakthrough
capabilities
and
advanced features powered by the
next generation of its patented FASP®
transport technology. These allow
media enterprises of all sizes to meet
variable data movement demands in
real-time with speed, control, security
and ease, directly to cloud and onpremise storage.
This
includes
Aspera's
new
FASPStream transport technology
which expands it's technology for
live and near-live data streaming.
Aspera FASPStream is a new turnkey

application software line designed to
enable live streaming of broadcastquality video globally over commodity
Internet networks, with glitch-free
playout and negligible start-up time
- reducing the need for expensive
and limited satellite-based backhaul,
transport and distribution.
Aspera's
FASPStream
software
line represents the first open video
transport solution that is capable
of high-quality, live streaming over
commodity Internet WANs. Built from
the ground up by Aspera, the software
utilises the FASP® bulk data protocol
to transport any live video source
(local multicast, unicast UDP, TCP,
or growing file source) and provides
timely arrival of live video and data
independent of network round-trip
delay and packet loss. Less than five
seconds of start-up delay is required
for 50 Mbps video streams transported
over 250 milliseconds round-trip
latency and three percent packet loss,
sufficient for 4K streaming between
continents.
The FASPStream software includes
Server and Peer offerings with the
following key features:
* Exceptional
Video
Delivery
Quality over Commodity Internet
-Glitch-free playout with negligible
start-up delay at any Internet distance,
i.e. less than two seconds of delay from
live for 50 Mbps video sources over
global Internet networks;
* Interoperability
with
All
Common Stream Providers and

Aspera Files offers fast and secure transfers

Stream Receivers - Will transport
any live video source available on
local multicast, unicast UDP, unicast
TCP, or as growing files. Provides
uniform, lossless, in-order byte
stream transport that equally supports
constant bit rate and adaptive bit rate
formats;
* Reliability and Multi-endpoint
Capability - One stream source can
be sent to multiple destinations
concurrently and provides built-in
path redundancy. Stream sessions
will be able to automatically failover
to another host, and reconnect and
restart on network failure;
* Security - FASPStreams are
encrypted in transit and security
authenticated. Built-in access control
policies can be used to restrict stream
providers and consumers by stream

protocol, IP address, and ports for
maximum security;
* Interoperability and Management
with File-based Workflows including
on Cloud -Designed to interoperate
with the Aspera file transfer stack,
FASPStream sessions support streamto-file workflows including writing to
cloud "object" storage. Built-in RESTful
APIs allow production workflow and
broadcast
management
systems
to manage streams and provide
status reporting. Stream sources
and providers can include cloud
transcoders/encoders that read from
stream and file.
Orchestrator 2.5
Also on show is Aspera Orchestrator
2.5. Now with over 150 third-party
plug-ins, Orchestrator 2.5, Aspera's
comprehensive workflow orchestration
platform, adds new plugins for Dalet,
Xytech, SGL FlashNet, Marquis,
Emotion, ShowMgr, ARRIS CMM,
DATDV, Snell, Fortium, Ateme,
Minnetonka, MOG, and Baton.
Many exciting new features enhance
the Designer, provide step-wise
versioning, and yield faster execution,
and new Activity and Statistics
screens show visual progress of every
executing workflow and historical
analytics.
www.asperasoft.com

FASPStream for live and near-live data streaming
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