Content Point

Accelerate movement of content between two locations or connect to other Signiant enabled partners

Signiant's Content Point provides a single transport node to manage accelerated, secure point-to-point file movement. It is ideal for single location companies that need to connect to other Signiant-enabled organizations. Also, Content Point can be used to exchange content with organizations utilizing Signiant's Content Distribution Management with Manager Peering enabled. 

Content Point Offers:

  • Accelerated Transport: Signiant Acceleration Protocol (SAP) enables the fast, reliable and secure movement of files over the WAN
  • File Movement Management: Control over transfers - both send and receive as well as monitoring, tracking and reporting
  • Hot-folder Automation: All files transfers happen automatically through hot folder triggers based on a number of configurable conditions

 

Applications:

  • Collaborative Creation and Design - Dailies, Editing, Review and Approval, Special Effects, Graphics, Software/Product Development
  • Content Contribution - News, Sports, Events
  • Data Exchange - Movement of Large Data Files - Oil and Gas Exploration, Medical Imaging, Satellite Imagery

Deployment and Packaging

Signiant Content Point Deployment
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Signiant Content Point includes the following bundled functionality operates on a single server:
  • Manager performs all administration, control and reporting of all system activity as well as orchestrating the execution of jobs (e.g. files move, notification). Users interact with the Manager through a Web-based administration interface for configuring the system, setting up jobs and automated tasks, managing current system activity and reporting on system activity. 
  • Media Agents are responsible for execution of jobs including file movement and notifications.
  • MediaDropBox - transfers data between a single source location and destination location. It monitors the specified location and sends any changes detected in the source location to the specified destination locations.
  • Relay Agents (optional) for firewall transversal and isolation of content from external network. Content is not stored on Relay Agents - only used to route packages through firewall.

Features

Signiant Content Point Features 

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

Signiant Content Point Technical Specifications

What our customers are saying...

"Content Point enabled us to solve our immediate goal of exchanging large files between two locations to meet our business deadlines. The fact that Content Point is built on proven Signiant technology at a great price, with a migration path to a full Content Supply Chain Management solution made the choice obvious."