Overview

Aspera empowers content aggregators and distributors to consolidate their IT investments, while securely delivering high-resolution media worldwide, with the utmost quality of service.

Benefits

• Receive terabytes of file-based content per day, from providers at even global distances with simplicity, high speed and low cost – minimal  investment in hardware and Internet bandwidth and a single transfer stream per provider.

• Eliminate costly re-sending of files when transfers failed with FTP, laborious monitoring, and network collapse caused by data blasters or parallel FTP streams.

• Reduce dependence on third-party distribution networks to cut cost and control quality, while delivering a more personalized viewing experience. With Aspera software, MSOs and service providers can distribute new content on-demand to head ends or edge servers in minutes using existing networks.

• Consolidate the entire network with fewer origin servers, POPs, and edge servers, as content need not be served locally for high throughput.

• Fully automate ingest, transformation and distribution of media files with integrated transport, tracking and management to prevent human error, increase security, accelerate time-to-market and reduce cost.
  
  

Applications

• Online Video and Music Aggregation — Well-known aggregators of online media including Apple’s iTunes Store, Microsoft’s Xbox LIVE Marketplace and Amazon Video On Demand receive the majority of new video content from their providers (several Terabytes per day) via Aspera transfer. The predictable delivery time and highly concurrent transfer throughput are critical to meet to the rapid release cycles for their popular portals.

• Video on Demand (VOD) — Major US cable companies and VOD providers rely extensively on Aspera software for the transport of their VOD assets – including high speed ingest of advertising content for VOD, and full integration into software VOD distribution platforms.  Similarly, major US digital subscription-based TV channels and IPTV companies have fully integrated Aspera software into their VOD asset management systems for high-speed media ingest from providers and automated processing.

• Content Delivery Networks — Service providers are seeking ways to differentiate from their competition while slashing costs. Level 3 and other content delivery networks are utilizing Aspera software to receive and synchronize content at Gigabit-per-second speeds into their networks. Over-the-top Internet TV providers and other new entrants, who do not have an entrenched investment in traditional edge networks are exploring new, consolidated architectures that serve media content at high speed from centralized repositories.

• Video Management and Publishing — Video management, transformation, publishing and monetization platforms such as Move Networks and thePlatform embed Aspera technology as high-efficiency transport to receive, prepare, and distribute media content for their clients.