Omneon and Aspera Partner to Deliver Content Distribution Solutions
Omneon Inc. and Aspera Inc. announced at NAB the terms of a broad partnership in which Aspera will acquire the Omneon Castify content distribution business unit and the two companies will collaborate on making CDN solutions more widely available to broadcast and technology markets. Omneon will continue to market the ProCast CDN product, with Aspera assuming ongoing development, engineering and operational responsibility for the technology, with the goal of creating a more powerful and complete content distribution platform for customers. Aspera expects to integrate its fasp transport technology with ProCast and the Omneon APIs to create a highly manageable and high performance solution for moving content between Omneon systems.
The agreement will expand Aspera’s reach in supplying market-leading content delivery solutions and will allow Omneon to continue to focus on providing best-of-breed video servers and media storage platforms. The deal will ensure seamless integration of Aspera and Omneon technology and will also enhance new solutions to support distributed workflows that were not possible before.
“With the growth of file-based workflows, the demand for a tightly integrated solution for producing, storing and delivering content across geographically distributed locations will continue to increase. Aspera’s acquisition of Castify combined with our partnership with Omneon will enable both companies to deliver the kind of high performance, tightly integrated solutions that customers demand,” said Michelle Munson, president and co-founder of Aspera. “The team and product line match up very well with our area of expertise, and we look forward to leveraging our partnership with Omneon to make the platform’s unique content distribution capabilities available to an even broader user base.”
Based on its patent-pending fasp protocol, only Aspera software fully utilizes existing infrastructures to deliver the fastest, most predictable file transfer experience. Aspera provides innovative, high-performance and secure data transfer software that eliminates the fundamental transport bottlenecks facing today’s file-based workflows and delivery applications.
Unlike conventional file transfer technologies that perform very poorly over the WAN, only Aspera fasp technology fully utilizes existing network infrastructures to deliver the fastest, most predictable file transfer experience with maximum end-to-end transfer speeds, regardless of the distance of the endpoints. These gains are maintained across the dynamic conditions of the network and for even the most difficult satellite, wireless, and unreliable international links. Users have extra-ordinary control over transfer rates and bandwidth sharing, and full visibility into utilization.
The Castify team has created a portfolio of products and technologies providing an end-to-end software solution that enables enterprises and service providers to build scalable, easily managed, and cost-efficient service acceleration and content delivery platforms over the Internet and on Intranets. Taking advantage of advanced reliable IP Multicast, WAN acceleration technology, network management, and bandwidth control, Castify enables organizations to initiate, monitor, and manage the delivery of content either as file transfers, progressive downloads or real-time streams.
Enabling the Castify product line with Aspera technology will result in a portfolio of software solutions that work across existing network infrastructure and enable the easy deployment of a wide variety of mission-critical applications including Portal Acceleration, eLearning, Wide Area File Delivery, Business TV, IPTV, Push VOD, Hotel VOD and Digital Cinema.
Source: SYS-CON
