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Ian Hamilton on Broadcast Bridge: What is UDP acceleration?

August 19, 2015 11:09 am Published by An article on advances in file transfer protocols might not be typical reading for most production and broadcast professionals. However, the Broadcast Bridge website made good on their promise of “Connecting IT to Broadcast” with last week’s post by Signiant CTO Ian Hamilton.
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TV Technology on SaaS and the future of the media facility

August 5, 2015 11:46 am Published by Kovalick points to the time it takes to transfer large files into the cloud as one of the biggest “shortfalls” to SaaS adoption in media. “For media apps, constrained access bandwidth poses the biggest problem (i.e. 4K editing). Usually the media is first uploaded to the server location, which could take days for some workloads,”
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Moving Fast with Media Shuttle Infographic: Looking Back on 3 Years

July 30, 2015 11:58 am Published by It’s hard to believe that it’s already been three years since we released Media Shuttle. It was – and is – a significant product innovation for Signiant as a whole new way for people to take advantage of our file acceleration technology. Not only is it our first SaaS solution, it was also the first SaaS solution on the market for quickly moving large content files. Check out this infographic summing up three years of Media Shuttle.
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Women’s World Cup 2015: Testing ground for the next generation of television

July 1, 2015 2:03 pm Published by Japanese Company NHK has been developing 8K since 1995, including everything from cameras and mics to broadcast systems and receivers. The Women’s World Cup in Canada is one of its first large-scale testing grounds. NHK plans to continue the experiment at next year’s Super Bowl and Summer Olympics in preparation for full broadcast of the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo.
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Fox Sports’ U.S. Open Coverage Uses Drones and Signiant Fast File Transfer

June 24, 2015 10:41 am Published by Fox débuted it’s first coverage of the U.S. Open last weekend. And while they’ve received some mixed reviews, no one is arguing about their innovative technological approach to showcasing the full experience of professional golf, from drones to capture the course’s expansive scenes to hole mics to record the player’s most tense moments.
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Librarians Think Differently: Why we should all thank the Library of Congress

June 19, 2015 4:20 pm Published by Over the years, many of us at Signiant have come to greatly appreciate the work being done at The Library of Congress. With James H. Billington’s recent announcement of his pending retirement after 30 years as the Librarian of Congress, I wanted to express my gratitude for the utterly important and challenging mission they’ve undertaken as historians and librarians over the past several decades. The Library of Congress has the largest archive of knowledge in the world.
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Stargate Studios highlights Media Shuttle on postPerspective

June 2, 2015 4:16 pm Published by Stargate Studios is a really impressive company, continuing to be successful after 25 years and having offices in Los Angeles, Atlanta, Vancouver, Toronto, Mexico City, London, Berlin, Cologne, Malta and Dubai. When asked how they’ve stayed in the game so long, Frankel shared advice about constantly reinventing yourself, your process and the tools you use.

The Biggest Barrier to Big Data Analytics with Hadoop

May 27, 2015 1:59 pm Published by The biggest barrier to big data analysis with Hadoop is often getting data to a place where it’s accessible for analysis in the first place. Last week, our CTO Ian Hamilton addressed the topic in some depth for Data Informed, an online publication covering big data and analytics for business and IT professionals.