The Civolution NexGuard product line provides anti-piracy and traceability solutions for rich media content in the media and entertainment markets. Using digital watermarking and encryption technologies, NexGuard can be implemented at any point in the content life cycle from production to broadband delivery points. As timelines get shorter and B2B relationships span the globe, the ability to automate the watermarking process as part of a customer's workflow becomes increases efficiency and reduces production costs. With the combination of Signiant's Workflow Modeling Engine and Thomson NexGuard, content production times and costs can be greatly reduced.
Signiant's integration with the Civolution NexGuard platform provides digital watermarking of digital masters, digital dailies, VODs or any other file based content. With the Nexguard Plug-In installed on the Central Media Manager (CMM), customers can tightly integrate forensic watermarking functions into their Signiant environment. Signiant can initiate watermarking jobs within the Nexguard product and move digital packages through the predefined workflow set up in the CMM. Using the Civolution APIs, the Signiant CMM will pass instructions to Nexguard including Customer Name, Description, Recipient, Priority, Stream Processing Instructions, Directory Location, Source and Target Agent, Timeout, Log Details and various other watermarking properties. Additionally, this product extensibility allows the CMM to provide real time status including job progress, percent complete and success or failure notification through email.
Content Distribution Management (CDM) software Capabilities
Centralized Web-based Management
- Business policy based network traffic control and prioritization
- Tracking, scheduling, reporting and auditing
- Data confidentiality and integrity
- Certified delivery
- Multiple operating system support
- Dashboard status views
Security
- Secure file delivery with payload encryption (AES 256/128/64)
- Data confidentiality and integrity
- SSL, TLS Cryptography
- Mutual authentication using x.509
- Certified delivery using Public Key Infrastructure
- Firewall traversal
Automation
- Integration with industry-standard applications including watch folders, encoding, watermarking, transcoding, content play-out etc.
- Flexible building of custom production workflows
- Extensible Web Services SOAP interface
Acceleration
- WAN transport acceleration including protocol failover
- Bandwidth management
- Advanced data differencing techniques, dramatically reducing the amount of data to be transferred
- Carrier grade reliability and resiliency with automatics restarts and file check-pointing
- Minimization of data (compression for some file types) and round-trip delays caused by network latency
Signiant CDM software is the only integrated and open software solution that provides management, security, automation and acceleration in the digital media workflows. Signiant's technology is built upon a heritage of reliability and technical expertise with patented and time tested technology deployed in hundreds of global organizations.
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