Signiant Media Exchange

Signiant Media Exchange is a powerful application for companies who need to acquire rich media content and move it quickly into an automated workflow. With a simple web-based upload and a broadband connection, rich media content can be accelerated securely over the Internet into film, production, and news environments.

Get content to where it belongs faster and more easily than ever before. Signiant is the leader in delivering the advanced software technology required to meet today's digital content movement challenges. Signiant Media Exchange replaces legacy FTP, hardware acceleration and inflexible, client-based ingest tools. With Signiant Media Exchange, it is now possible to ingest rich media content over the Internet with no client software.

• Includes a powerful web based interface for broadband users ingesting, publishing or distributing rich media content between organizations across public or private WAN connections.

• Provides Central management, Reporting, Automation and WAN file acceleration to include integration with Signiant's Central Media Manager and Agents products.

• Acquires content from field broadcast operations over the Internet. For example, news crews can accelerate content through the network to multiple destinations, including affiliates, by dynamically assigning the ingested content a higher movement priority.

• Creates a portal on the Internet for the exchange of film dailies or remote news gathering permitting the upload of content and delivery identification to specific users authorized to receive the content.

• Ensures efficient file transfers of rich media even over networks with high latency and guarantees package arrival with certified delivery and file checkpointing features.

• Automatically senses available WAN bandwidth and chooses the optimal protocol to move files in and out of a centrally managed workflow.

Signiant Media Exchange Components:

Signiant Media Exchange is packaged and priced to allow companies to benefit from its advanced content acquisition and management capabilities while protecting their investments in Signiant technology. Signiant Media Exchange contains:

• A single license for a Central Media Manager, delivering the power and intelligence of an enterprise-wide digital media distribution solution. A web-based interface centralizes control, resulting in superior control and management of resources.

• Media Agents are deployed throughout the network and are responsible for the intelligent distribution and collection of data.

In order for companies to compete in this new media world they must be equipped to move large amounts of content - from the creation and ingest side all the way to the multiple distribution outlets. Deploying Media Exchange assists operations personnel and B2B partners to address new business models which include the management, automation, acceleration and security of their valuable media assets.

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. To assist with the challenges associated with migrating to file-based workflows, Signiant delivers a comprehensive solution.

Media Exchange Features:

• Web User Interface - no client software required on user machines, utilizes a Java plug-in

• WAN-accelerated ingest of content from remote and mobile users

• Central Media Manager centralizes media workflows

• Firewall friendly transfers with UDP, TCP, HTTP and FTP transport options

• Resiliency - Automatic retry and file check-pointing

• Authentication, authorization and accounting (AAA)

• Customizable dashboards to monitor all activity through the network

• Email notification informing users when packages are available

• Advanced encryption technologies including AES 256-bit encryption

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